Creativity Matters
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore…while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
Sir Isaac Newton, Physicist and Mathematician
Wisdom and Creativity in Business: I’m Enjoying Being the Speaker Liaison at the Wisdom 2.0 Business Conference Today I have the honor of being the Speaker Liaison at the first Wisdom 2.0 Business conference at the historic Palace Hotel in downtown San Francisco. The Wisdom 2.0 Tech Conference is well known in the region as […]
In this clip, filmed on an upwards sloping incline towards an unnamed summit above San Francisco’s Noe Valley, a sunny afternoon succumbs to the cloud bearing onshore winds, winds that are so typical for the region. The swiftly moving heavens contrasted against the neighborhood mooring itself to the hillside, and the sunshine after a long […]
Last Tuesday, the day before my 42nd birthday, Maurice Sendak, author and illustrator of the hugely popular children’s book, Where the Wild Things Are, died. He was 83 years old. He was a very creative man, prolific in both his writing and illustrations. And though he had no children himself, and didn’t claim to even […]
Last time we came up with a working definition of creativity as 1) connecting with the world and 2) affecting it in a meaningful way. We also looked at the various ways in which we engage the world through 1) our senses 2) our thoughts (including thoughts about how we perceive ourselves) and 3) our […]
One of the main tenants of creativity and leading a creative life is experiencing the interdependence of all things everywhere. Nothing could be more telling of this truth than the myth of “pure” races. The curiously creative human organism first arose in Africa, some 150,000 years ago, then migrated north, south, east, and westwards, developing […]
