Museums have a unique power to ignite curiosity and shape our paths in profound ways. As Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and I wrote, “One often meets successful adults, professionals, or scientists who recall that their lifelong vocational interest was first sparked by a visit to a museum. In these accounts, the encounter—with a real, concrete object from…
My mentor, advisor, and the father figure in my life, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, passed away this week on Wednesday, October 20th. I met Mihaly (Mike) soon after my father died unexpectedly at the age of 57. I asked him to be my academic advisor and he took me under his wing. He was only a year…
Organizational research has found that procrastinators tend to be more creative than those who don’t procrastinate. The results even show a bell curve: a healthy amount of procrastination facilitates creative insights, while too much or too little can stifle them. When I was studying at the University of Chicago under the mentorship of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi…
My journey into the world of metaphor was entirely unplanned. It wasn’t a choice I made, but rather a path that unfolded for me through a series of profound, mystical, and even harrowing experiences. I became an advocate for a realm of non-ordinary beauty that urgently wants to be known—a realm accessible through the power…
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