I recently met someone who has spent years studying social change movements around the world. He shared a powerful insight: successful social protests open up space in places where we thought there wasn’t any. For example, before the Occupy movement began in 2011, economic inequality was often accepted as “just the way it is.” But…
The purpose of a tree is to be fruitful, not to grow straight like a telephone pole. So too, the purpose of a human is not to be perfect. The purpose of human life is to be fruitful—to bring forth ideas, creations, and actions that contribute to the world in unique and meaningful ways. Try…
Playing the bass guitar changed my life. I’ve always had a yearning around music that I couldn’t quite identify. There was something I wanted to get to, but I had no idea what it was. Then one day, I picked up a bass guitar and started plunking around. It rocked my world. I’m not sure…
Images are the psyche’s preferred way of operating. Whether we’re aware of it or not, our brains don’t think without images. The original and basic unit of mental activity is the image. Long before we develop language, we rely on images to make sense of the world. Images are our native language. Clients often come…
Creativity thrives in the unknown. I once heard filmmaker David Lynch interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air. When host Terry Gross asked him about his process for making movies, Lynch replied that he “doesn’t really know” what he’s doing when he makes a film. That admission struck me. Here’s David Lynch—one of the most visionary directors…
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