The holiday season is upon us. That means the New Year (and the resolutions that come with it) are right around the corner. While we make our resolutions with the best of intentions, too often December arrives and we find…
Here’s the thing: We spend most of our hours working, and nearly half of us don’t enjoy our work. Is that lack of joy emblematic of the work or is it indicative of how we approach the work at hand?…
Embrace Your Young Genius and Enjoy More Meaningful Work We live in a new world of work, one in which we yearn to bring more meaning and purpose to our offices (or remote work spaces). A 2013 Philips Work/Life Survey…
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will. Charles Baudelaire When it comes to the idea of the Young Genius, it can be easy to dismiss as an ethereal, intangible idea. But the most influential and the…
Take a little Bucky Fuller’s visionary views of the planet and architecture and technology, throw in Terrence McKenna’s views of the mind and evolution, and mix it with a Richard Branson-like optimism and an impassioned artist’s fervor and sensibility for imagination…
A key talent to tracking wonder relates to openness, and it very well may be the talent that every creative professional – especially the experienced ones, the experts, the accomplished ones – needs to practice every day.
Cultivating wonder renews how we create, relate to each other, and experience every day. Maybe it is our adult responsibility not to abdicate wonder to children. Maybe it is our responsibility to co-make an adult world infused with wonder so that children cannot wait to become grown ups and make more of it.
In 2005, where was wonder, this emotional state at the core of creativity, story, innovation, and wisdom? Newly divorced and fresh off a book tour, I hovered that year in a precarious in-between state. So what did I do? I started…
Time & wonder are partners at this blog and in our Outpost Shoppe. In fact, the Mind Rooms Guide came out of my own experience coupled with my research into time, creative minds, and wonder. As the video below explains, a…
Do you not have enough time to execute all of the brilliant projects you’re dreaming up? Then, create time. That’s the artful response that artist and coach Marney Makridakis offers in her tip-laden, picture-rich book Creating Time: Using Creativity to…
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