I’m a big believer in finding scary monsters to slay. The most dangerous dragons guard the greatest treasure (the dragons are there to helps us see how much we really want the treasure), but sometimes the big scary monsters are really just cuddly little cutie-pies — and the dangerous dragon might just turn out to […]
Take a look at the photo accompanying this article. There is an incredible amount of detail and nuance to the image. Is it an aerial photo zooming out from the earth and showing roadways cutting through lush rural woodlands of some exotic location? If you look closer, you’ll see that it’s not a photo zoomed […]
Ever wonder why you can give a dozen different people the same tools, technology, time limit, and problem to solve and isolate them from each other for a couple hours and every single one of them will come up with a different solution to the problem? Sure, some ideas may be slightly more similar than […]
For reason my ears have been assaulted recently by people using the wrong words in their conversations. Mark Twain said it best: The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter — it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning. My wife and I started noticing […]
I think it’s better to attract inspiration, but sometimes you have no other option than chasing inspiration down in order to catch some creative ideas. There are mythological forest spirits made of light called Will O’ The Wisps that lure unsuspecting mortals into the woods in order to drive them mad or have them wander […]
Your idea doesn’t need to be new in order to be successful. If I asked you to think about the movie Cinderella, what image springs to mind? Is it the classic Disney animated version from 1950? Perhaps the 1997 Rogers and Hammerstein Cinderella musical is what you thought of. I imagine a few of you […]
The world can seem pretty dark and dismal at times. When things start going wrong it can feel like everything is going wrong — but it’s not. Don’t buy into the B.S. The world is still filled with interesting people, awesome ideas, and incredible opportunity. But you can’t get to those opportunities by being negative, […]