If you’ve been tuning in to the podcast for a while, you probably remember the one thing I always say: creativity is a skill that anyone can learn. Just like any other skill, creativity can be taught and it can be learned. This may be hard to believe for those of you...
“Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam, where the deer and the antelope play!” You probably recognize that lyric from the very popular song, Home on the Range. That song is top of mind right now because my wife and I just returned from Yellowstone National Park....
We all want to improve the quality of our ideas. If you didn’t, you wouldn’t be here. So let me give you one quick tip that will help you improve all of your ideas: forecast that idea’s future. Taking an idea and thinking about how it will play out far into the future...
Creativity is nothing more than the collision of two previously unrelated things. To be creative, you simply have to take two things that don’t belong together, mash them up, and figure out what they make. However, the key here is that the end result must be useful....
Do you remember being told as a kid that elephants are afraid of mice? Well, I hate to break it to you, but that’s not true. Despite what we saw in the cartoons, scientists have said that elephants are not, in fact, afraid of mice. However, want to guess what...
Today, I’ve got some bad news and some good news. Good news first: you’re probably more creative than you think you are! So what’s the bad news? We all tend to give up right at that point when we’re starting to become really creative. Studies have shown that when...
