Perhaps it is beauty that will save us in the end.
Back in the early 2000s, before social media was an industry, I knew a woman named Carol who maintained a huge social network. And much like today’s social media, it involved constantly relaying her sexy vacations and all the fun she was having in her life. I was in a group with Carol and one…
Love is at the heart of genius. When I was studying adult learning in the PhD program at the University of Chicago, I was fascinated by the lack of heart and soul in the research literature. It was as if love had been divorced from learning. Perhaps it was too mushy? Are the head and…
All of us hold a vast reservoir of non-verbal, non-rational, non-cognitive wisdom. When we loosen our fixation on what we think, this other reservoir of wisdom has a chance to present itself. Truly innovative solutions require that we explore beyond what we logically know. Because breakthroughs arrive in non-rational ways. If you want to understand…
I got asked an impossible question a couple months ago. Nicolae Tanase, founder of the well-known “Meaning of Life” e-publication, has interviewed over 900 leaders, thinkers, writers, researchers, elders, artists, CEOs, laymen, etc. on the meaning of life, and she sent that question to me. Honestly, it seemed like too big of a question. But when…
The thing about art is that it brings us into the exact present moment of our life…and captures that moment. Attached is a little watercolor I did recently.
