Exploring Your Creative Genius

In this week’s show I repeat an offer I’ve made before: I would love to do a free creativity workshop for your non-profit—your community organization, your book club or church group.

In this week’s show my guest, the entrepreneur Nick Sih, talked about the ventures he’s successfully started and grown, and also talked about the business soon to launch.

This week’s show was a conversation with Judith Pacht, an award-winning poet who has become one of my favorites. I offer you here some quotes from poets about poetry.

In this week’s show, amongst the ideas I shared, I talked about the research into Privilege. Three research projects all point to the same conclusion: once we are in a privileged position, even if we didn’t ‘earn’ it, we quickly become blind to that privilege

Last week was the 150th episode of ‘Exploring your Creative Genius’ so I gave myself permission to do something completely different.

One of the reasons Story is so important is the way our brains respond when we are being told a story.  When information is shared with you, you are a passive listener.

Two ideas that were least popular with my students over the 14 years I taught creativity and entrepreneurship to Duke undergrads were Humility and Making your Way vs Finding your Path.

This week’s episode of Exploring your Creative Genius had Dr. Raymond Moody as our guest. Dr. Moody is the pioneer in the field of near-death experience (NDE). In fact, he coined the phrase in his ground breaking book, published in 1975, ‘Life after Life.’

A few years back I stumbled upon a story about the technique the artist Salvador Dali used to capture the benefits, at the beginning of sleep, of the liminal mind, when the woke mind is drifting into a new and imaginative world.

The past two weeks my radio shows have begun outlining the ways political leaders will serve us better when they integrate into their governance and policy making the creative and entrepreneurial ideas and concepts I have collected in my new book ‘Common Ground for US’, due out in early June.