Top 5 and Why: Jack Black
Thomas Jacob “Jack” Black is where it’s at. He’s funny, a better singer than you might think, and has morphed into a gifted character-actor as well. He has…
Memo to the Future: 3 Mind-Bending Publishing Books
So is print really dead? Is it going to die anytime soon? 1. Post-digital Print: The Mutation of Publishing Since 1894 In this post-digital age, digital technology…
Tina Seelig: Leveraging What You Know to Innovate
It is important to remember that we’ve been born to be creative. Literally. The brain is a creativity machine and there’s increasing empirical data that demonstrates…
Bonobos Really Know How To Do It: Isabel Izquierdo on Play and Creativity
“Play is our adaptive wildcard. Play is essential. Play is the glue that binds us together.” Humans share a common ancestor with chimpanzees and bonobos from about…
Ken Robinson: How Schools Kill the Creativity We Need Now More Than Ever
“Creativity is as important as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.” Ken Robinson, author of the insightful, Finding Your Element: How to Discover…
0 Complete Answers, 1 Hidden Muse: Amy Tan on Creativity and Imagination
“The value of nothing? Out of nothing comes something.” How do you create something out of nothing? How do you create a life–an identity–out of that…
Steven Johnson: 2 Things Every Innovator Needs
“Chance favors the connected mind.” How does groundbreaking innovation happen? Steven Johnson’s fascinating tour takes us from the “liquid networks” of London’s coffee houses to Charles…
Elizabeth Gilbert: 3 Ways to Face Creative Productivity Fears
Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert discusses the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses–and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person “being”…
Creative Process: Know When to Stop!
Where does it come from? Where does it go? You hear a lot of talk about how to “turn on the creative juices,” but what about…
Gary Vaynerchuck Crushes It
“You gotta find the DNA of your message.” However our own approach to our message and product ends up translating, there’s something infectious about the way…
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