Carl Nordgren

Families that share more stories have children and young adults who have more self-esteem, a higher sense of meaning and purpose, and lower anxiety.

For this column I’m not going to revisit this radio show. It’s a show about how important it is to allow folks to use their preferred behaviors when working on a project, by the way.

In last week’s show I shared thoughts about the concept of common wealth as the most effective way to maximize our return on resources to benefit each of us and all of us.

Regardless of what challenges you face as you make your way in the unknowable future the best preparation you can invest in, so you can create advantage for you, your family, your business, is to develop your most creative and entrepreneurial self.

In this show, I shared a series quotes from artists and thinkers that related to being creative, then added some of my thoughts. Here are a couple more. The first was too long for the radio format.

Last week’s show explored the brain and how it achieves a creative state. One point made and developed more fully here is that our brains are most creative when both hemispheres are working together.

This week’s guest was Juliet Gordy. We learned about her brand new company named Scivora. Scivora is an emotionally intelligent AI app that helps actors and teachers and professionals improve their presentations or performances.

I am finding it useful to think about today, the here and now, as the future that is present. It’s a notion that comes from my days teaching Creativity at Duke, 2002 to 2016. Early on I started asking students to think about their futures 20 years hence.

During the last radio show with Charles Johnson, founder of The Bump Serum, I asked him to find his creative and entrepreneurial types using this framework.