Exploring Your Creative Genius: Episode 131
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. Then two or three times over the course of the semester I’d set aside time for them to share their thoughts and imaginings about what life could be like. It wasn’t a graded assignment but a prompt to help them look at a far horizon and listen to others talk about what they see.
Here’s my bet. That when I offered this challenge in 2005 no one imagined two ground shifting changes in 2025: That a play-filled childhood would have long been a victim to smartphones and social media and that our defining democratic principles and practices and stories and traditions would be attacked and in many instances crumble.
So I live now in that future no one predicted, this future that is present. From this vantage point I consider the unknowable future and make the case time and again that the single most important thing any of us can do is become our most creative and entrepreneurial selves so we are best prepared to create advantages as we make our way.
“Exploring Your Creative Genius” takes an expansive view on what it means to be creative and entrepreneurial in an ongoing conversation led by Carl Nordgren — entrepreneur, novelist, and lifelong student with decades of experience growing his own creative capacity and assisting others to do the same in exciting new ways!
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