How I Learned to Think Like a Kid for 2 Hours
My parents (or rather, the Easter Bunny, I think), gave me my first journal when I was almost 12 (the top one in the photo). I wrote whenever I felt…
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Tag: creativity
Review: The Artist’s Way for Parents
I would argue that most parents in North America gain most of their parenting skills from “I’m not doing what my parents did” and parenting books. Whether Dr. Spock or…
Your Creative Self vs. Your Ruling Self: Who Wins?
Rules are a common language in whatever medium you’re expressing your creative self with. Nothing emphasizes this more than a young child learning to tell jokes. Once they’ve learned the…
2 of 2 Questions Any Creative Person Should Ask Themselves
Last week I looked at one question any creative person (which is really anybody) should ask themselves when they get down on their work: Can it get any better? The…
1 of 2 Questions Any Creative Person Should Ask Themselves
There are two questions that you need to memorize and train so they become reflexes. I’ll cover the first one today: Can It Get Any Better? We often use the…
Practicing Your Creativity
Ever practiced your creativity? If you’re like me, probably never. So when I read Daphne Gray-Grant’s three blog posts on deliberate practice, I was intrigued. I thought you had to…
Assumptions You Hold About Yourself May Affect Your Creativity
I once did a few comedy improv workshops once for troubled teens in a local high school. Most of the scenes were about sex, so I urged the students to…