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The Creative Secret of Jazz Musicians

Jazz legends like Miles Davis and Charlie Parker are known for their stunning solos, which appear to be individual acts ...

The Next 20 Feet

Driving your car through a dense morning fog, your visibility is about the same as trying to read a textbook ...

The One Year Test

In stressful times, it’s easy to get derailed by matters that might be viewed as trivial under ordinary circumstances. A ...

You Can’t Cut Your Own Hair

Scott Cunha, the celebrity stylist for Kendall Jenner and Nicole Richie, doesn’t cut his own hair. Neither does Kiyah Wright, ...

Instead of your glass half-full, try it completely empty

“If you view the glass as half-full, you’re an optimist,” the old saying goes. “But if you see it half-empty, ...

Where’s Your What-If?

Spending a good chunk of my days researching human creativity, I landed on a strange phenomenon. What-if questions, one of the ...

The Often-Overlooked Step That Can Boost the Quality of Your Work

We generally think that a great work product - especially an artistic effort - is imagined, conceived, and launched simultaneously. But ...

Random Acts of Creativity

It turns out, this past Saturday was National Creativity Day. Who knew? While I think it’s terrific that we have ...

In Case of Emergency, Break Glass

As each day of economic free fall continues, many of us are struggling to figure out what to do next. ...