The Art of Plussing People’s Ideas By Using “Yes, And”
“None of us is as smart as all of us.” — Kenneth H. Blanchard, author and management expert Feelings of deficiency can foster competitiveness and jealousy, which tend to shut down your creativity. When we are overcome with feeling like we don’t know enough and that we’ll never be able to keep up with our […]
Video: The Collaborative Age with Randy Nelson
I love this video as much today as I did when I first watched it several years back. The principles that Randy teaches are not only the foundations of improv, but also are the secret to ANY successful creative collaboration endeavor. The practice of not judging something that comes to you to work with is […]
Hack Confirmation Bias: Keep a Kudos File
“The problem with worry is that we attract the very thing we are trying to avoid. We live a self-fulfilling prophecy. Life keeps its agreement with us through our beliefs, because whatever we think about, we bring about. Life is like a mirror. It reflects back whatever image we present to it.” — Dr. Robert […]
How to Transform Your Inner Critic Into an Inner Evaluator
“Change is the end result of all true learning.” — Leo Buscaglia, author Much of what people think of as the Inner Critic is precisely what we are dealing with in this book: the voice of self-criticizing, self-doubt, and self-berating. However, there is another part of our psyche I think of more as “the Inner […]
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.” […]
