Tracking Wonder

Between bolstering up and ranting, there might be a middle way when responding to criticism: the 48-hour sulk rule. Find out how. Read More

We’re in an age of disruption. We’re in a state of wonder. No surprise. With quick perspective on our own times of radical change, we also can consider what to do creatively. Read More

Five thinkers pave the way to understanding how the body helps us learn and create. Read More

Wonder has many more faces and varieties than the wide-eyed one. If we want to tell, design, and live out enduring stories that matter - about ourselves, the adult world, the future, or fictional places - we would do well to track wonder in all of its forms. Story strategist and creativity consultant Jeffrey Davis gives a tour. Read More

Awe expands time, and busy people can actually gain time by priming their creative mind. Read More

A first draft is a place to explore ideas, images, and premonitions. Later, you can go back to revision, revise, rewrite. Draft to discover. Craft to design. Read More

We know taking breaks optimizes work-and-create flow. But what are the best practices? And does your creativity benefit from a full nap or not? Read More

The right-brained creativity myth isn't the only limited notion of what creativity is, what it requires, and how it happens. Again, let me be audacious enough to mention another one: the creative thinking myth. And you tell me what you think. Read More

Is there a science or an art to manifesting our dreams and achieving our goals? Is there something beyond wishful thinking and empty truisms that will up the chances that our wondrous best self will flourish in 2012? Yes. No. Sort of. Not exactly. Apparently. Possibly. Read More

Creatives age. Even by your late twenties if not sooner, the body creaks and falters. The mind's microprocessor slows down. And the physical energy that propels your sheer will and volition gets sapped. So you push through your work, knowing that you're not creating at your best but "good enough" and that faking it really well will have to suffice. What to do? Read More

Instead of managing time like some begrudged worker, we can shape it. Think of yourself as a potter more than a manager. To show up and shape time as a creative has less to do with calendars and more to do with loving the mind. And the body. Read More

Maybe a fresh look at what "the muse" is and isn't can help us creatives know what it takes to court it and keep it. Read More

Are some successful people innately or genetically disposed to "lean into uncertainty" and its three hobgoblins of fear, doubt, and anxiety? The just-released book by Jonathan Fields, Uncertainty pursues that question and offers grounded insight. Read More

What if in putting together a book no one intends to profit financially from the book's proceeds? Even though the book might sell a million copies? And over 80% of the proceeds go to save lives? Welcome to a new way of thinking about editing and publishing a book. It’s the brilliant concept behind the book released today called End Malaria. Read More