It’s a process you learn to develop over time. This distinction is important, particularly if you’re coming at creativity from…
Why starting helps get us unstuck
The hardest thing about writing a draft is starting. Looking at a blank page can leave you feeling as though…
What we give up by being creative
here’s a high cost to being a maker or creative. Of course I’m talking about the cost of diving into…
Creativity often comes from discomfort
Creativity comes to those who want or need it. Those who are hungry for change, something different, a shake up.…
Lessons on creativity from my parents
Growing up, I don’t think there was anything my parents did—or didn’t do—to impact my creativity. At-least not directly. In-fact:…
The role we play in being inspired
We’re most inspired when something fills the gap between what we know and what we don’t. Too often we lie…
Fewer expectations can lead to more ideas
If you’re at a restaurant and you put a child down in front of a table with a big white…
The role isolation plays in the creative process
Is isolation a necessary component of creative thinking? If we want to have a truly unique idea, the theory goes,…
Overcoming the factors that often keep us from being creative
Ultimately we are the thing which keeps us from being creative. We, ourselves, are only to blame. Though excuses are…
How to properly incubate your ideas
I’ve long been a proponent for action as a crucial part of the creative process. Action, I’ve often exclaimed, is…