“Try as we may, we cannot make insights with reason or will, ‘something imaginative is needed.’” —James Hillman, The Myth of Analysis Hillman’s words are so true to me. My biggest breakthroughs haven’t come from planning or thinking harder—they’ve come in those quiet, unexpected moments when my imagination had space to take over. Whether it’s…
Exploring the Psychology of Creativity: Art, Freedom, and Transformation “For this is quite the final goal of art: to recover this world by giving it not to be seen as it is, but as if it had its source in human freedom.” —Jean-Paul Sartre Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you’re enjoying these bright, sunlit…
A fun bookstore in my hometown now has Getting Messy in stock. River Lights Bookstore in Dubuque, Iowa is a charming bookstore in a charming old town on the Mississippi River… and they deliver books for free by bicycle anywhere downtown. (And they’re pet friendly too!)
I’ve always been fascinated by how adults learn in life. Even before earning my Ph.D. in Adult Learning from the University of Chicago, I spent years working in Artificial Intelligence, studying how experts learned so I could program computers to do the same. But no matter where my research has taken me, I’ve always returned…
I wanted to share an inspiring email I received from an amazing woman who heard me on the radio last fall. Her metaphoric imagery is so vivid and full of life, and her description of our culture being in the “neti-neti” stage of childbirth deeply resonated with me: “We are ‘not here nor there’ but…
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