Ideas Are Like Dreams, Unless…

Taking Mr. Sinek’s advice, here are some of the creative projects I’m working on… The “Ten Commandments for Creatives” is coming along nicely. See that little book over in the right hand corner of the sidebar? Yup!  (click here if you want free previews of the book as they’re available) Filming a project at my day… Continue reading Ideas Are Like Dreams, Unless…

The Age of Interesting

[box options]Two million blog posts are written and introduced to the world every single day.*[/box] That statistic may haunt us. We ask ourselves “how will my voice be heard?” What’s a creative to do? Be louder? Work harder? Stop sleeping and start tweeting? There’s a silver lining. The beauty of the voluminous amount of new content available… Continue reading The Age of Interesting

Five Winning Mistakes

[box options]“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” ― Albert Einstein[/box] 1. Fall Down Remember the first time you rode a bike? You fell, right? How did you learn to ride? By falling. How do we learn to get better? By getting back up… and falling again. 2. Quit Sometimes you have to… Continue reading Five Winning Mistakes

The Forgotten Core of the Creative Process

[box options]This is a guest post from Jared Latigo. Jared is a writer, husband, father and stellar designer. After reading his post, head on over to his site www.JaredLatigo.com and follow him on Twitter. You’ll be glad you did.[/box] When we think of the creative process, we tend to lean toward a list of things… Continue reading The Forgotten Core of the Creative Process

Creative Passion: The Antonym of Apathy

[box options]Earlier Letters: Read these letters (here’s Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, and Day 4 if you need to backtrack) as if you wrote them. You are the author. You wrote what you are about to read. You wrote it with your life. Sounds a bit dramatic, eh? It kinda is. Live accordingly.[/box] Dear Me,… Continue reading Creative Passion: The Antonym of Apathy

Stealing Ideas: Burgers on English Muffins

I was reading a few other creativity blogs recently and thought that others may be stealing ideas. “Hmmm. That looks familiar.” Then, as I kept reading, some of the content felt as if I’d written it. “I think they took that off my blog and rewrote it. Rude.” I started to get a wee bit jealous that… Continue reading Stealing Ideas: Burgers on English Muffins

Your Creativity Belief System

I found this infographic quite revealing. 5,000 surveyed 1,000 in each in the US, UK, Germany, France, and Japan Originally posted here (downloadable) Our creativity belief system always dictates our level of creativity. It’s most surprising that only 39% of respondents believe they are creative.