There is a Buddhist proverb–when a student is ready, the teacher will appear. I must be ready when I spotted Austin Kleon’s book How to Steal Like an Artist in a newsletter from a bookstore. Out of a list of one hundred, […]
Below are ten things I find worth sharing this week. Decades before the advent of social media as we know it, Gilles Deleuze observed it was “a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is […]
Lately, I have been lamenting that I do not have time for creativity. My excuses are: it is winter, it is too cold, days are shorter, I am too tired, and I need to wind down after coming back from work. […]
Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th US President, had hopelessly scattered attention. He had what his friends called an “amazing array of interests” — a list that contained boxing, wrestling, bodybuilding, dance lessons, poetry readings, and a lifelong obsession with naturalism. While studying at […]
English socialist and social psychologist Graham Wallas proposed four stages of the creative process in his book The Art of Thought, published in 1926. These stages are: The preparation is the feeding stage. Your brain is hungry for knowledge, so you got […]
Canberra has some weird public art pieces dispersed throughout the territory. But there are a few I like a lot. This sheep on a chair is a satirical salute to one of Canberra’s early pastoralists—James Ainslie, who came to the region in […]