Great work happens when our hearts are moved and inspired. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry said, “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” When we’re driven by that kind of yearning, the…
I see so many of my clients spend tens of thousands of dollars on trainings, certifications, and degrees. They think that they just need the proper credential and then they can finally do the work that’s been calling them. They feel that what they DO know isn’t “good enough” and so they seek the outside…
Why does an artist’s way of looking at the world have any meaning for us? Why does it give us pleasure? Because…a way of looking at the world implies a certain relationship with the world…the work need not be optimistic to achieve this; indeed, its subject may be tragic. For it is not the subject…
I have a new article on Medium True creativity is confronting, confusing, unacceptable, and childlike. And nearly impossible to measure, contain or define. Creativity lives in the unknown…in a fairy-tale place that’s beyond how we are currently “looking.” While businesses purport to be all about creativity, in truth, it’s a problematic relationship. Here are five…
At no point in her life did my mother ever ask me about my work, nor, to my knowledge, did she ever read any of my three books. But in her final hours, something changed. It was the height of the pandemic and I was teaching an online course at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Sitting next…
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