Newsweek recently published a cover story highlighting creativity as the most vital skill for the future, based on a poll of 1,500 CEOs. Authors Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman wrote, “The necessity of human ingenuity is undisputed.” Yet, the article lamented a troubling reality: creativity scores are declining, and schools aren’t teaching it. This prompted…
A fellow in Spain has started a blog about my book Getting Messy. Here’s the link: http://bm31-liburuak.blogspot.com/2010/07/getting-messy.html. He’s from the Basque region of Spain, so if you happen to read Basque, I’d love your help understanding what it says! It’s incredible to see Getting Messy inspiring conversations across borders. A New Amazon Review for Getting…
A man from Wisconsin recently reached out after reading my post about Martin Foss. This sculptor shared his deeply personal connection with Foss’s philosophy. He even corresponded with Foss in the 1960s before Foss passed away in 1968. Here’s an excerpt from his email: “I have been studying [Foss’s] works for over forty years and…
“It has been said that love does not want to destroy, but to preserve. Quietistic love has been praised, [yet]…mere passivity is surely no true love. The process of love is a creative drive, a force which, in spite of its tranquility of the present, lives a life of active realization.” This beautiful sentiment opens…
“…the surreal nature of physics is precisely why it needs the help of artists. Science has progressed beyond our ability to understand it, at least in any literal sense…It’s a brute fact of psychology that the human mind cannot comprehend the double-digit dimensions of string theory or the possibility of parallel universes. Our mind evolved…
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