Many years ago during the summer after I received my PhD, I stood on the mountain overlooking Berkeley and the bay. It was late at night, with a brilliant, star-filled sky. I gazed out over the city and Bay and committed to myself that I was going to live a creative life. Creativity was going…
Creative people aren’t fundamentally different from those who don’t see themselves as creative. The difference lies in a simple yet profound choice: creative people say “yes” to their heart’s longing to express itself. They answer the call, often with trembling hands, and allow themselves to bring forth something new, something authentic. Creativity isn’t reserved for…
Picasso famously said that every act of creation begins with an act of destruction. We live within a creative process…a creative process that is continually destroying and transforming our man-made things, relationships, and institutions. It’s as if the Universe is in a continual process of “making” and we are its ingredients. We’re part of the…
My very first teaching gig was in the Adult and Vocational Ed teacher credentialing program at UC Berkeley. I taught there for two years, before moving on to other things. Those classes were so inspirational for me… my students were working teachers of all ages who taught all over the Bay Area. They taught in…
In the physical sciences, we operate within a framework of measurements, data, and quantifiable truths. We assume that what can be measured is the only world we know. But creativity belongs to a different domain altogether—a realm beyond numbers and tangible proof. This ‘Other World’ is not governed by logic or measurement. Instead, it flows…
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