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 […]
Creativity, Burning Man, and the Evolution of Consciousness
Here is a short video directed by Ian MacKenzie http://ianmack.com looking at the significance of Burning Man and the evolution of consciousness. You can also catch glimpses of the unyielding and prolific creativity for which the festival is famous. The Burning Man festival in Black Rock City, Nevada began in the 1980s on Baker Beach […]
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 […]
Understanding Creativity Across Art, Science, and Religion Part II
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 […]
Are You Black, White, Red, or Yellow? Creativity and The Truth about Racial Interdependence
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 […]
Creativity and Precious Human Birth
There is a saying in Buddhism which goes as follows: “Contemplate the preciousness of being born free and well favored. This is difficult to gain and easy to lose. Now I must do something meaningful.” This saying is know as “Precious Human Birth” and is the first saying of what is known as The Four […]
Five Star Rating for My New eBook on Creativity
I am proud to say that I have received my first customer review on Amazon. It appears that my ebook, Between the Bridge and The Water: Death, Rebirth, and Creative Awakening is starting to have an impact on the way people think about creativity. Here’s the review: Insightful, Graphic, Intense, Thought-provoking April 23, 2012 By […]