It is my belief that true creativity, creativity that enlivens, inspires, and enriches the lives of everyone around them, most especially the person(s) willing to undertake the creative offering, is based on living from a place of authenticity. In this vein, I love this talk by Dr. Brené Brown as it gets to the core […]
Take The Childish Approach: Too Much Of An Adult Mindset Stymies Creativity
According to this article by Sam McNerney our natural ability to daydream and wonder drops precipitously for most of us around the fourth grade. Those who maintain their creative capacities throughout their lifetime, however, are those who can suspend reason and tap into their childlike selves. What happens to our innate creativity when we age? […]
Creativity and Awareness: A Nondual Perspective on the Nature of Creativity
Author, poet, and potter, Colin Drake muses on the nature of creativity as it relates to awareness. Like the simple act of walking across a room, creativity bubbles up from stillness, moves in relation to stillness, and, in the end, returns again to stillness. “Awareness,” Drake reminds us, “is endlessly creative.” The universe is the […]
How Has Our Perception Of Creativity Changed Over Time?
According to Haydn Shaughnessy, a writer on the emerging economy, creativity has gone through several stages throughout history, including 1) an association with religion 2) romantic concept, 3) a discipline taught in art and architecture 4) as a method related to science and technology 5) as an expression of human potential. Interesting charts on page […]
An Amazingly Informative Animation On Creativity and Education
In this amazing animation, Sir Ken Robinson, international leader in creativity, innovation, and education, illustrates the lack of creativity in education based on the lingering paradigm of the Industrial Revolution. Sir Ken Robinson is a gifted speaker and brings to light the creativity crisis through the lens of history, and posits solutions as to what […]
Slivers of Eternity: One Minute Meditations on the Ground of Creativity, #8
In this clip, taken in a Chinese Dim Sum restaurant in San Leandro, California, the creative interior design sensibilities of yesterday clash with the trends of today. Overstated air circulation vents with brass chandelier “landing gear” float overhead like alien space craft and seem ready posed to drop the tractor beam at any moment from […]
Do You Think Creativity Is Challenging In Three Dimensions? Imagine Ten!
Being creative, feeling the Ground of Creativity moving through us, is a celebrated activity that can be both rewarding and challenging. From conceiving an idea to seeing it through to a form that can be shared with others, creativity calls upon all our faculties as human beings. When we create, we have a sense of […]
Creativity and Destruction Always Travel Together
The birth of the fire is the death of the log. The planting of crops marks the end of the meadow. The invention of the automobile marked the decline of the horse-drawn carriage. Creativity and innovation not only brings new products, services, and methodologies into the world, it also ushers out the old and outdated, […]
Slivers of Eternity: One Minute Meditations on the Ground of Creativity, #7
The creative universe that has given rise to the world as we know it is dynamic, interdependent, and deeply mysterious. In this series of one minute videos, I invite you to slow down and return for a moment to the Ground of Creativity, the Ground of Creativity that supports the world we experience, the Ground […]
The Relationship Between Art, Creativity, and Meditation
“Creativity isn’t necessarily an obstacle to meditation but, rather, its fruit.” –Amanda Palmer quoting an unnamed friend. Let me begin by thanking my friend, Adam Gyokazan Coutts–a brilliant and irreverent man, Zen practitioner, dedicated meditator, and one who teaches others the view and techniques of meditation–for sending me the following illuminating article. You can find […]