What do the life cycle of a stars have to do with creative thinking?
One of my most precious memories is from 1999 when I was hiking the Illampu circuit in the Bolivian Andes with a group of friends. …
Creativity
The art of powerful questions
“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the …
10 ways to choose hope and what creativity has to do with it
Over the years of tracking social, environmental and economic change, I have felt like I am on a roller coaster ride of optimism and despair. …
8 ways personal creativity can inspire and activate your work
“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.” George …
Embrace your dark side….
Some days are just shit. Everything that can go wrong seems to go wrong. It feels like nothing is creative and nothing changes. It appears …
What if I do this every day?
At the time I wrote this piece I was living out on Dursey island for a few months. It was around the time of the …
When the creative process is excruciating
For my previous post I experienced a real challenge in writing about Redefining success and it got me thinking about when the creative process is excruciating: how …
10 Ways nature can enrich your creativity
Most people would agree that time in nature is good for us: we associate it with fresh air, exercise, health and wellbeing, and maybe also with …
Befriending your creative process
Francis Bacon’s iconic studio, preserved in the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin, the paintings of Jackson Pollock, Vincent Van Gogh’s manic episodes and the idea …
Why do we create?
In deciding to write a weekly article I have come back to some simple questions about creativity. This week the (apparently simple) question is: Why do …