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We humans are blessed with the ability to imagine a world beyond the ordinary
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We humans are blessed with the ability to imagine a world beyond the ordinary

There was a particular moment in my teaching career when I asked a room full of graduate students to imagine a world beyond what they saw around them.  We were discussing creativity, and I could sense their hesitation—they were accustomed to relying on facts, on what was tangible and “real.” I shared that Einstein once…

5 reasons why creativity and business have a problematic relationship

5 reasons why creativity and business have a problematic relationship

I have a new article on Medium: Five Reasons why Creativity and Business have a Problematic Relationship… Creativity lives in the unknown…in a fairy-tale place that’s beyond how we are currently “looking.” True creativity is confronting, confusing, unacceptable, and childlike. And nearly impossible to measure, contain or define. Both Carl Jung and Albert Einstein said…

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We need schools for the imagination.

Einstein famously said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” It’s one of those quotes we nod along to, appreciating its brilliance. But here’s a question: if imagination is…

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The genius of metaphor: Bridging the unknown

This is true for all of us. We valiantly search for the explanation, the description, the words. But when those words aren’t there, we unconsciously drop into another part of our brain–the part of our brain that works in metaphor. Metaphor allows us to understand and speak about things that are unknown, vague, or abstract….

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