I have studied learning and creativity for thirty years. We humans think from our egos and we create from our egos. It’s all about “me me me.” Even people who are social activists often come from a place of “what can I do? I need to do more. I need to help.” Because of this…
When I spent 7 years getting a PhD at the University of Chicago, I over-used the analytical part of my thinking brain. The sight of words on a page made me nauseous. Our heart learns in a much different way. Our heart doesn’t learning by stuffing information. Heart learning isn’t about quantity. It’s about quality….
Years ago, I was listening to a radio program where a climate scientist was being interviewed, and the show was taking questions from the audience. The first caller said adamantly, “No way. It doesn’t matter how much data you have. Climate change is not real.” It was immediately clear that no amount of data was…
When Logic Fails: How Metaphor Unlocks Creative Solutions Recently, a new client, Alice (not her real name), came to me in a state of financial desperation. The book editing work she had relied on for years had dried up, and she needed to pivot quickly. Her plan? Apply for a project manager position at a…
“In the case of every historic scientific discovery and invention that is researched carefully enough, we find that it was imagery, either in dreams or in a waking state, which produced the breakthrough.” —John Curtis Gowan Humans have four ways of knowing: thinking, feeling, physical sensing, and imagination. Yet, in our modern world, we tend…
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