“The true work of the mind is to reconnect us with that which would otherwise be out of reach.” ~ Parker Palmer
In other words, our knowledge and expertise are not meant to lead us to an END POINT.
They’re meant to be CATALYSTS for more learning.
Otherwise we’re simply holding inert ideas.
1. Be Authentic. Where are you out of integrity with yourself? Our creativity flourishes when we’re in alignment with our loves, passions and true desires. 2. Make Connections. At its most basic, creativity is about making connections between things…connections that no one else has yet seen. 3. Be Something Else for a Moment. What does…
Perhaps the reason why creativity is given short shrift in academia is because it has a light, playful energy, rather than the heavy, dense energy of facts, charts, research….and heavy books that have been sitting in dusty corners of the library for a hundred years. I got my Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and…
After I finished my Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, I tried very hard to do what I was ‘supposed’ to do—interview for an academic teaching position at some sort of prestigious university. But I couldn’t do it. Instead, I moved to the wilderness of northwest Montana. Here’s what happened instead: I developed self-reliance. In…
A bubble has space inside it. The bubble is a container—it contains space. A photograph is also a container—it contains an image, a moment in time. A sentence is a container — it contains a thought. If we don’t have a way to contain something, it doesn’t exist. Magic potions are only potions because they’ve…
“Not fitting in” is a good thing. It might feel painful, but it means that you’re creating something bigger. A visionary path is invisible to ordinary eyesight. We can only see it with our inner eyes. Without a vision, it’s easy to spend all our time reacting to and attempting to solve an endless array…
