Exploring Your Creative Genius

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.

I was considering writing a book that would take on the ambitiously important challenge of offering political and community leadership new ways to serve us, a book acknowledging that current political language has been so weaponized as to be useless.

Exploring Your Creative Genius: Episode 143...

I interviewed Connie Jones and Melanie Davis-Jones, the authors of the new book ‘Green Glitter Girl’, a compelling, thoughtful, often sad but ultimately hopeful story about how to overcome childhood trauma.