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[VIDEO] Creativity and Bay Area Innovation, Part III: The Weather Factor
If you are able to sit down at a restaurant with your friends and loved ones, order seasonal foods reverently prepared and sip, perhaps, a few lovely, mind-lubricating wines, if you are able to do all that, you may be unable to control yourself; you may be absolutely and completely unable to keep your creative […]
[VIDEO] Creativity and Bay Area Innovation, Part II: The Great Cultural Mashup
The Bay Area sits at the westernmost edge of Western culture and the easternmost edge of Eastern culture, setting up a cultural edge condition that fosters creativity and innovation. Culture and Creativity Last time in the “Creativity and Bay Area Innovation” series, I talked about the influence of the Asian system of Feng Shui on […]
[VIDEO] Creativity and Bay Area Innovation, Part I: The Feng Shui Factor
The Bay Area is hands down the single most creative and innovative region in the United States, receiving a whopping 32 percent of all the venture capital invested in the United States. Introduction to the “Creativity and Bay Area Innovation” series The Bay Area is hands down the single most creative and innovative region in the […]
[VIDEO] Want the best year ever? Focus on your three core needs
What are your three core needs? Happy New Year! As we all know, the beginning of the New Year is a reset button of sorts, a time to shed outdated or self-defeating patterns and bring in new and empowering ones. In my experience as a student of creativity, and in my understanding of creativity as […]
[VIDEO] The two most important questions for the New Year
The New Year is almost here. What are the two most important questions? Let’s cut to the chase. As a human being you are both perfectly whole and in need of re-establishing wholeness. Seems paradoxical but it not. The perfect wholeness is what allows you to experience creative insights. The need of re-establishing wholeness motivates […]