In this clip, filmed at the Albany Bowling alley on Mother’s Day, my wife, Epiphany, helps our two-year-old daughter, Sierra Lucia, position and roll her bowling ball towards the unseen pins. This is her first time ever in a bowling alley and she loves it! In under a minute, two balls are rolled, the score […]
Creativity and Innovation: “How Outsiders Solve Problems that Stump Experts”
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.” –Suzuki Roshi Here is a wonderful article that addresses the shadow side of being an expert. Since experts are those who have accumulated a body of knowledge around a given subject, that same knowledge can create filters and blind spots […]
Embrace the Spiraling Nature of Creativity
Do you ever find yourself circling back around to a familiar place every so often—a certain part of town, a grove in the woods, the home where you grew up? Do you keep coming back to landscape photography over other subjects you might explore with the precision of celestial bodies? Do you notice how that […]
Creativity Expert, Sir Ken Robinson, says: “We Don’t Grow Into Creativity, We Grow Out of It”
Here is a short but powerful video on the creative mindset of children versus adults. Children are willing to take risks, make mistakes, and fail, which allows them to explore freely and creatively. Adults, however, bound my social norms and how they think they should appear, are uncomfortable making mistakes and failing. The result: creativity […]
Chipotle, Willie Nelson, & Coldplay: An Unexpected Creative Trio Gets to the Heart (and Horrors) of Factory Farming
In order to live a creative life, it is important to have a felt sense of our interdependence with the world around us. As living organisms we depend upon other living organisms to fuel our own metabolic functions and, by extension, our creativity. In this video from Chipotle restaurants, a chain that began in my […]
Life Before Death: Creativity and Impermanence
“People living deeply have no fear of death.” -Anaïs Nin This last weekend, I had the pleasure of working at the Wisdom 2.0 Business Conference in San Francisco, California. One of my speaker liaison team members was Alison Raby, founder of “Life Before Death,” an organization dedicated to teaching others to embrace the finality of […]
The Prolific Creativity of the Lightning in a Bottle Festival
Next week, my wife, daughter, and I will be heading down to enjoy and participate in the Lightning in a Bottle Festival, a remarkable spin off of the great mother of all festivals, Burning Man. There, I will be leading a workshop called, “Five Essentials of Designing and Building Sacred Space,” a workshop that I’ve […]
Wisdom and Creativity in Business: I’m Enjoying Being the Speaker Liaison at the Wisdom 2.0 Business Conference
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 […]
Slivers of Eternity: One Minute Meditations On The Ground of Creativity, #15
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 […]
A Lifetime of Creativity: Where the Wild Things Are Author, Maurice Sendak, Interviews
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 […]