I just started reading Where Good Ideas Come From, by Steven Johnson, and I like his interdisciplinary perspective. (It’s #1 today on Amazon by the way in 3 categories) Here’s a taste of his thinking: From Riverhead: One of our most innovative, popular thinkers takes on-in exhilarating style-one of our key questions: Where do good [...]
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Replenish your creative stock In the The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron contends that, “In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well-stocked fishpond… If we don’t give some attention to upkeep, our well is apt to become depleted, stagnant, or blocked… As artists, [...]
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This post is part of the Blogging Marathon: 24 Hours of Innovation: We are living in the midst of a seismic shift that calls for us to redefine the way we live and work. This is not a time to hunker down and wait for the turbulence to subside. This is the time to mitigate [...]
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My wish for the New Year is for all of you dear subscribers to find the time for contemplation and creative expression. I know some of you are closet artists too busy being captains of industry to take the time to paint, but as the Talmud asks, “If not now, when? My second wish is [...]
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I was asked this question recently by a neuroscientist who is interested in conducting a study on creativity from a multi-disciplinary perspective. I spent a week contemplating the answer and this is what I came up with: Creativity involves two processes: imaginative thinking, then producing or implementing that which you conceive. If you have ideas, [...]

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