Author Robert Greene once said to me, “The more species you have in an ecosystem, the more diverse and rich it will be.” By diversifying your inputs, you build a rich creative ecosystem.

For those of us struggling and aching to say something different, to be distinctly our own, to reject the stifling rationality of the world around us in favor of the symbolic, the creative, and the divine, creating a world is our path.

9. Welcoming the unpredictable. For curious minds, the fact that the world keeps on changing is a feature, not a bug. They believe that their response determines how much disruptions affect them, and they choose to respond with curiosity.

To take it a bit further, he teased out those traits saying that both artists and entrepreneurs...

“...Want to express themselves.

Want to do something differently.

Want to create something better than what’s ever been done before.

They are disruptive.

They live in the theater of risk.

They want to change the world...”

To make something good, just do it. To make something great, just redo it, redo it, redo it. The secret to making fine things is in remaking them.

May we all aspire to be as observant and confident to notice root stairs and call them root stairs, so others could then use the phrase “root stairs.”

Attention + Novelty + Creative Exposition = Insight

most importantly: labor is not renewable. once you spend labor, you cannot get it back. energy, when given in alignment, can be generative. energy invested in the right places can create more energy.

The key to creating unique, targeted design solutions is found in the gap between the verbal and the visual. Therein lies the gold. It is about linking strategy and design, and transforming insight, goals and strategy into visual images, identities and experiences, which together with slogans and other communication will help to build the desired b... See more