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…
You yearn to rise each morning brimming with purpose of your own making. For 45 minutes or three hours, you desire to hold yourself captive in that creative space defined only by you. But what happens?
1. To Stand & Stare What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare? – W. H. Davies (from Good Poems, Selected by Garrison Keillor) That’s one question I’m living in these days. …
REST MATTERS. Creative work consumes a lot of energy. Blood sugar burns as you take problem-solving risks and inhibit distracting impulses.
Note: Jen Louden, Susannah Conway, and Marianne Elliott requested I and others riff on what brings us each creative joy. This guide is my reply. It started as a personal riff to my self about what’s important and how Thoreau’s…
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