Tracking Wonder

How to cultivate this elusive emotion

Jeffrey Davis M.A.

The Bias Against Difference

How can we be more mindful of our unconscious biases and crack ourselves open to the unfamiliar? By living life on the edge.

How Creativity Builds Resilience in Times of Crisis

How can we learn to bounce back from our hardships? Creativity may be the key.

Creativity in Quarantine

Quarantine and the resulting boredom we face have proven to be profound catalysts for innovation, revealing how creativity thrives even under the constraints of crisis.

Finding Perspective in the Pause

Research shows that mindfulness can help us gain perspective to overcome our cognitive biases and become better teachers, mentors, colleagues, and confidants.

4 Tips to Effectively Ask for Help—and Get a Yes

In an era of self-help and individualism, learning how to ask for help is a valuable skill. Luckily, new research shows that it’s easier than you think.

How Openness to Experience Boosts Creativity and Well-Being

How open to new experiences are you? If you ever feel as if you're in a cognitive rut, consider how open (or not) you are.

The Practice and Habit of Happiness

If you want to form new desirable habits this year, you’d do well to foreground your happiness, your desire for delight, and your capacity for wonder.

In Praise of the Idle Mind

Strategic idleness and our inclination toward ease may actually be powerful tools and great assets for innovation.

How Brain Fog Can Boost Creativity and Spark Innovation

We tend to think of brain fog as a bad thing, but what if we could use this fogginess to our creative advantage?

Creative Ways to Override Anxiety During Radical Change

Wonder is a quiet disruptor of our own biased ways of seeing ourselves and our world. So rather than succumb to the anxiety and pessimism of our time, get curious.

Owning Your Authority in a Permission Culture

In a permission culture, how do you embrace innovation and find your true purpose and voice?

Finding Purpose in Work and Life Through Fertile Confusion

By cultivating a state of fertile confusion, you can shed your habitual biases, foster divergent and cross-disciplinary problem-solving, and pave the way for professional growth.

The Paradox of Expertise

10,000 hours of practice doesn't ensure success. Studies indicate that generalists tend to be more creative, perceptive, and better at problem-solving than specialists.

How to Advance Your Deep Work in a Noisy World

In this age of distraction, possibly the most important move for you to take as a thought leader or creative professional is to carve out time alone with your thoughts.

Incentives + Incubation = Better Insights

There’s no direct path to bringing an idea to fruition. However, new studies corroborate that one key factor of the creative process boosts the capacity to gain insights.

You Are Not Your Work

Often, we identify ourselves based on our work, believing our work title is our identity. You are not your work. Your work is simply a part of you.

Adjusting Your Mindset When Facing the Unknown

You have a vision. You have an idea. You have a business plan. You have an opportunity sitting in your inbox, waiting to be answered. All you have to do is adjust your mindset.

A Mindful Approach to Decision-Making

Do you struggle with decision-making? Are you expected to make consequential decisions on a daily basis? It’s not always as simple as saying, “yes” or “no."

How to Stoke Creative Momentum for the New Year

Do you think you lack the time to advance a creative project this year? A few new mindsets and daily adjustments could give you time.

Surprising Benefits of Taking Your Creative Mind for a Walk

If sitting at your desk is your go-to posture for work, this one simple shift could make a huge difference in your creative thinking.

Is Empathy Redundant for Successful Leadership?

Empathy is vital, but it is a skill that requires careful honing.

How to Be Smarter About Your SMART Goals

It is possible to apply goal-setting skills to creativity in order to induce innovation while still accomplishing your goals.

Why What You Know About Being Distracted Is Wrong

These simple steps can change distractions from a productivity killer to a creativity booster.

3 Psychological Barriers to Creative Collaboration

Are you feeling blocked and troubled when it comes to cultivating successful creative collaboration? Here are some tips to help beat the barriers.

Why You Should Try Working-Through-Play

Growing research is showing that playing while you work can improve your performance, as well as increasing creativity and lowering stress.

3 Ways to Overcome Resistance to Personal Branding

If you thought that personal branding was all about letting people into every part of your life, here are 3 ways you can engage with branding without oversharing.

How To Successfully Fail In Business

Is a fear of failure an excuse that you're using in order to stop yourself from doing anything at all? What if you took a minute to explore failure, and recalibrated your thinking?

The Motivation Behind Mission-Driven Brands

Mission-centered brands are improving their bottom line, gaining a more genuine community loyalty, shifting our attitude about what branding is, and improving employee retention.

Finding Optimal Solitude in an Age of Collaboration

How do you pursue optimal collaboration? How do you shape time for productive solitude? Research shows that both are needed to advance our best ideas.

How to Seek Purpose with Less Anxiety

As the New Year approaches, to live a life of purpose may be on your list of goals for the new year. But do we find purpose? For many of us purpose is more illusive.

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