“Chance favors the connected mind.” – Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From I’ve been wondering about connectivity. Steven Johnson stumbled upon some fascinating insights regarding connectivity while investigating just what his new book’s title says – where good ideas…
Crafting an authentic, creative life is challenging. But that is just what you choose to do – you who refuse to make a cookie-cutter family or live in a predictable relationship or function like an automaton at your job or…
Note: On April 8, 1973, artist Pablo Picasso died at his home near Mougins, France, at age 91. Did you ever love an artist when you were a girl or boy? I mean, really adore and idolize him or her…
One of my favorite creativity blogs is Mark McGuinness’s Lateral Action. Based in London, Mark is a poet who consults with entrepreneurs, creatives, and businesses. Sound familiar? He’s on the board of a literary magazine – one I published in…
Tracking Wonder Here you are on the first day of spring ready to track wonder. You stand at the door of the house of your world holding your field guides a compass a map and instruments to make marks across…
Curious about Tracking Wonder events? Each one’s unique. The one in Taos, New Mexico kicks off this evening (Read here to learn more about Mabel Dodge, her house that we rent, and her role in creative collaboration with O’Keeffe, SH…
Questions in the Hut Today: Are creatives just born with the ‘persistence gene’ and the ‘discipline gene’? If not, how do you cultivate persistence? What’s the physiology of creative persistence? As a creative, you’re familiar with these two problems. #…
Note: We’re hungry to master our craft. At least judging from the questions readers and clients have sent me, we are. And judging from the research about what motivates us, we are. The following is the third in a series…
No doubt innovative solutions often burst out of two or more creatives’ rapping, dancing, and collaborating together. Steven Johnson makes the case in Where Good Ideas Come From. Social psychologists make the case. Joshua Wolf Shenk makes the case in…
Note: Many of my clients (writers, freelancers, web-reneurs, entrepreneurs) and workshop participants struggle with this thing called “voice.” We all do. It’s elusive. Professional writer or not, you likely rely on words to cast a portrait of who you are…
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