Archive for January, 2007

Change is good – and messy and challenging

There is no option to change, of course, as philosophers – and life itself – keep reminding us. “All is flux, nothing stays still.” That’s Heraclitus (540 BC – 480 BC). Our lives will change, and we will change despite our at times misguided, fear-based or obsessive intentions to keep the same.
Penélope Cruz acknowledges that [...]

Stifling ourselves with the need to be right

“It’s not what you know that hurts you, it’s what you know that just ain’t so.”
- pitcher Satchel Paige
Wired magazine [Feb 2007] has an enticing section titled “What We Don’t Know” – including writing “From the desk of John Hodgman.” He is the author of The Areas of My Expertise, and the photo is from [...]

Guillermo del Toro on the power of fairytales

Guillermo del Toro on the power of fairytales

“When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.”
Guillermo del Toro – Director and Screenwriter of “Pan’s Labyrinth” [quote from imdb.com]
On a recent Tavis Smiley Show, he elaborated on developing [...]

The pluses and not so pluses of hypomania

In developing his book The Hypomanic Edge : The Link Between (A Little) Craziness and (A Lot of) Success in America, John D. Gartner, Ph.D. [of Johns Hopkins University Medical School] created a list of hypomanic traits he had synthesized from the psychiatric literature, as typical of an entrepreneur:
“..filled with energy… flooded with ideas… driven, [...]

Making your life a creative endeavor

Much of this site is about personal growth and achievement, especially for gifted and talented people. It can be a simulating frame of reference to view our inner development and our lives overall as creative endeavors.
In his article Life is Art, Jim Rohn articulates this idea:
Life isn’t made up of just wealth-building. Wealth-building should serve [...]

George Lucas: "You have to find something that you love enough."

“You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don’t have that kind of feeling for what it is you are doing, you’ll stop at the [...]