So many of us know we're creative... but then why can't we always find our way to that well of ideas and images? We know we're good at one part of the creative ... Read More...
The human brain is not wired to praise first. It is wired to criticize first. Thinking critically, finding fault is hardwired in order to protect our chances of... Read More...
Doesn't matter if you're published, produced or award-winning, creativity comes with a side order of doubt.
Bono of U2 fame had written an intensely person... Read More...
Oprah Winfrey can solve all our problems. And if not her, then maybe Donald Glover, or Helen Mirren. The point is to adopt different points of view to generate ... Read More...
Book Review: The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield (Black Irish Entertainment, 2002)
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If you've seen the new season debut of Survivor Worlds Apart, you know this season has tribes separated by "collar." There are three tribes - white collar, blue... Read More...
I've always been a bit uneasy around the great late comedian Robin Williams - even though there was always a screen and hundreds of miles, and sometimes decades... Read More...
That might be a difficult, even embarrassing question to ask yourself (or even more so, someone else.) I happen to know just how masculine and feminine I am, ac... Read More...