Tag: creativity
The creative process — divergent thinking, creative confidence, the 650 exercises, and what happens when you stop managing your own output.
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The Creativity Priming Problem: Why Your Best Ideas Come When You Are Not Working
Your best ideas don’t come when you’re trying. The creativity priming problem and how to solve it.
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Half the Jobs Haven’t Been Invented Yet
We’re training students for jobs that are disappearing while the jobs that will matter in ten years haven’t…
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Meet Me Where You Are
My entire teaching philosophy fits in one question: where are you, and how can I lead you to…
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Playing With Purpose: The Eye Sees First
Playing With Purpose Exercise 5: Notice where your eye actually goes before your brain tries to compose. The…
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She Had the Baby on Friday and Was Back in Class on Monday
A student had her baby on Friday and was back in class on Monday. After 25 years of…
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Why Everyone Should Study Graphic Design (Even If You Never Design Anything)
Everyone should study graphic design, even if they never create graphics. How design teaches fundamental thinking.
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Playing With Purpose: Clear the Pipeline
Playing With Purpose Exercise 4: Clear the creative pipeline. Ten minutes, every idea in your head on paper.…
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When You Stop Learning, You Start Dying
My Aunt Georgie lived sharp until the very end, and watching her taught me that staying mentally active…
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Playing With Purpose: What Doesn’t Feel Like Work?
Playing With Purpose Exercise 3: Find the activity where time disappears — not distraction, but genuine absorption. That’s…
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Playing With Purpose: Audit the Scaffolding
Playing With Purpose Exercise 2: Audit the scaffolding in your creative process — identify which steps still serve…