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This Maverick Creative Believes an Amazing Childhood is About Creating the...
This is an interview with Jonathan Thomas, a 3D Designer and Founder of Maker. He accidentally won one of the world’s most respected awards for creativity — D&AD Black Pencil — and set up the...
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You Better Watch Out, You Better Not Cry
Focus on The Positive Behave. Behave. Behave. With our children, it’s always about their behavior. Especially this month. “If you want Santa to visit and bring you something for Christmas, you better...
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Gender Fluid
— I’ve been teaching writing for the last ten years or so. I like to teach the craft of writing, but I also teach something called Fearless Writing, which addresses the many emotional challenges people...
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The Most Creative Man I Know: My Dad
My father isn’t a “guy’s guy.” He’s not a hunter, sports-fanatic, beer-drinker, or back-slapper. But, he can grill things and fix other things. He can build decks, waterfalls, and walls. When my dad...
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Guardians of the Galaxy: The Art of the Creative Blockbuster
We look at why Guardians has been so successfully, both financially and artistically — how can a blockbuster deliver what we want and also achieve creative originality? . . Transcript provided by...
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Authentic Creativity & Making Money
An audience member wrote the following to me, and maybe some of you can relate… “I long for the ability to create without any thoughts of money…to create because I love it… to take real time off...
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We Ask the Wrong Question First
In general, in my creative practice (and life), I tend not to blanket things as “right” and “wrong”. Things can only be right or wrong for you in this moment, and even the wrong things can turn out...
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Teams That Get on Well Together Are Less Creative
If you ask hiring managers what they are looking for in a candidate they will often say, ‘ I want someone who will get on well with the team.’ They want someone who will fit in and reinforce the team...
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Seven Things I’ve Learned About Life During Lockdown
Before all the enforced ‘me-time’ that’s been one of the biggest changes to my life during the Covid-19 lockdown, I was often running around, being so busy that I never really had time to think much...
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How To Help Shift Your Mind From Crisis to Creative Mode
An hourglass is a good metaphor for this thought experiment. The sand shifts from one section to the other based on its gravitational pull. It’s a bit like our mind. We operate in two basic modes....
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The Predicament of Parenting as a Creative Type
I can confidently describe myself as a creative type. I can also definitively call myself a stay-at-home mom. These two roles, I’ve discovered, can often be at tormenting odds. When thinking about...
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What Your Brain Really Wants
Your life depends on your brain. To be the ethical, engaged, creative, successful, and lively human being you intend to be, you need your brain. You need your brain and you also need to use your brain....
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More Like This Please! The Movember Rooted & Rising Collective First Social...
Movember is the leading charity changing the face of men’s health, focusing on mental health and suicide prevention, prostate cancer and testicular cancer. #Movember is coming soon! To sign up to...
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How To Be Innovative When Your Boss Isn’t
A common complaint that I hear when I run innovation workshops is this, ‘I have plenty of really creative ideas but my boss just isn’t interested in trying anything new. What can I do?’ Let’s leave...
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How To Become a Creative Genius
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” — Maya Angelou You may be convinced that brilliant creative ideas only come from creative geniuses like Plato, da Vinci, Dante,...
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Finding Out That I May Not Like Being Creative
I’ve always known that I don’t love the arts and/or creative activities. From my kindergarten days, I remember just getting irritated by our teachers having to make us sing the “Summer Kindergarten...
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Look for the Solution Inside the Problem
Two prisoners dug a tunnel from their cell 80 feet to escape from prison. Where did they hide the dirt? I heard this story from Roni Horowitz of the consultancy group SIT who uses it to show the...
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Life-Changing Leadership Quotes
I routinely conducted professional development and training sessions when I was a school administrator. When I did, I often incorporated relevant quotes to emphasize specific concepts and to...
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Bailing at the First Sign of Difficulty
[This post is excerpted from Why Smart Teens Hurt. To learn more, please take a look!] As a therapist and creativity coach, I’ve worked with countless smart, talented, creative adults who had very...
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The Devil’s in the Details
Details, details, details. Some people are not wired to see or care about details. They think in wholes, not in parts. They only see the big picture, the finished project, and they go from capital A...
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