Today we find ourselves in a noisy world where attention is our most precious commodity. We’re all seeking it, but we find it difficult to give for more than a few seconds at a time. What is this costing us? We who create long to express ourselves, and to have our creative work acknowledged. We want to be seen and heard, witnessed, received. But if all we’re doing is expressing ourselves, who is listening?
Four Common Denominators of the Innovator’s Attitude #3: To Be Disruptive, Steer by your Inner Compass.
The only way to create something that has never been done before is to think what people have never thought before; creating new solutions requires you to see old problems in new ways. But to see what no one else can see is a lonely place to be. So you need an inner compass – […]
Creativity Q&A: Does Your Vision Always Come True?
I love to get questions from the Wheel of Creativity community, and whenever it seems they’d be useful for all of you, I like to post them here. This week’s question comes from Barbara Basalgète, who has been part of the Wheel of Creativity in Nice for several years now. She continues to touch my […]
Creativity, Productivity & The Sands of Time
Technology has made us more productive, and it has given us more to do. Because we can have more, we want more. We want more living, but we must cram this living into the same number of hours in every day. This means we have to make choices… often between one wonderful thing and another.
How to Put Pleasure Back in Productivity
Life is distracting, today more than ever. A highly efficient society assumes that every distraction deserves to have the word evil before it. Structuring distractions allows what you love to inspire your work.
Vision, Creativity & Productivity
What is this thing we call a ‘vision’? Every explorer – whether geographical, scientific or entrepreneurial – starts with a theory, an expectation or an idea. But the way you envision an outcome is not always the way things turn out in the end.