Exploring Your Creative Genius

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.

The past couple of shows I’ve been challenging my joyful and deeply held optimistic view of the natural human condition with research that reveals how we all quickly become blind to and blinded by our privileges—existing in a state of privilege inevitably distorts our views of how we got there and how we act, often radically. 

Last week’s show introduced the challenges of Privilege.  I am an ‘of the people, for the people, by the people’ populist in my heart and soul.

Fables are stories that distill complex truths into simple, memorable narratives. By using animals or everyday objects as characters, they bypass moralizing and allow listeners or readers to uncover lessons organically.

There’s something electric about entrepreneurs who build businesses born from personal struggle. They don’t just understand the problem — they’ve lived it, cursed it, and finally cracked it.

In our last show Beth Yerxa, founder and executive direction of Triangle Art Works, shared the important ways her organization helps artists commercialize their work — increasingly throughout the region.

Last week’s show was a bit of an amalgam. Adam Kershner was the guest for the first segment, introducing Oasis, a cool new product radically simplifying your organization of content you are using to get your work done.

Exploring Your Creative Genius: Episode 123...

Last week’s show was another visit with John Swansey with more of his insights on creative organizations and work environments designed to help nurture the creativity of folks who work in them.