Creativity

Each of us has our own way of seeing this world. And this can lead to feelings of isolation. Art has an ability to connect us beyond the limitations of language.

The more ideas you have in your toolkit, the easier it is to choose one to turn into your perfect story. Start with the prompts to build a list for your toolkit. Then regularly dedicate time to add to it. Capture any article or a conversation that leaves you inspired.

Russell writes that “for hundreds of years, and on many matters of supreme importance, art had the edge over all other sources.” It gave out the truth about this world and the next one. It encapsulated history. It told us what people wiser than ourselves were thinking. It told the stories that everyone wanted to hear…answered the great riddles,

Reaching our boundaries is not the same as limiting our growth. Sometimes we find our edges and an amazing thing happens; capacity is rebuilt, old wounds are healed and we grow further and more beautifully than before. The process is analogous to mineral growth in rock. Without a surface and a set of containing edges, minerals that we prize for

By using some of these collected phenomena bubbling in your head, you will have a book that has your stamp on it and is unlike any other. When I’m working with clients, I tell them to temporarily put aside considerations of others and of worldly success, and I ask that they make a list. What kind of list? It’s an inventory of everything that

Curiosity comes in waves—mutating, agglomerating, washing ashore, and washing back out again. Each wave breaks by spilling, plunging, surging, or collapsing. Curiosity is as much the brisk steps in search of a new vantage point as it is the silent daydreaming by a river’s edge.