How to Generate A Lot of Ideas
If you are afraid that you’ll run out of ideas, then the obvious solution is to come up with a lot of them regularly. Serial entrepreneur James Altucher calls this regular practice to keep the idea muscle of your brain from atrophying “idea therapy.” Don’t let your brain get flabby – exercise your “idea muscle.” […]
Change Your Mind By Hand: Swipe Left
“Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.” — Carl Jung, psychologist As we increase awareness of our thoughts to gain better control of them, we’ll invariably notice more negative ones and greater amounts of self-criticism. In addition to relying upon mindfulness to notice them and self-compassion to […]
Stop Killing Your Ideas
“You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over your shoulder, you’ll never write.” — Nikki Giovanni, poet Some of our most precious time is during the moments of ideation, brainstorming, musing, and contemplation. These are times when we are playing with ideas and seeing how they connect […]
A Brand New Banish Your Inner Critic Keynote and Workshops!
To support the concepts and develop the exercises in my latest book, Banish Your Inner Critic, I did a ton of research. That’s been one of the best parts of writing this book: all of the great new information I’ve learned. But, while I love research, in my heart of hearts, I’m a teacher and […]
Fear: The Kryptonite of Creativity
The majority of us know that fear is not helpful in general, but here’s why it’s particularly is bad for a creative from a neuroscience perspective: fear actually suppresses generative impulses in your brain. Deep inside, I believe we’d all like to express some level of design superpower. We’d like to be known to be […]
