“I hope I’m becoming more eccentric.
More room in the brain.”
Musician Tom Waits
Being eccentric can help our creative thinking and courage.
In his article The Entrepreneurial Spirit, management expert Tom Peters asks, “Feeling a little weird lately? Take time to see where your passion and entrepreneurial spirit is calling you. Even in corporate America, the entrepreneurial spirit [...]

Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor just won the 2007 Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries About Spiritual Realities.
Taylor is to receive the award [$1.5 million] from Prince Philip in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace on May 2.
A new Los Angeles Times article [March 15, 2007] reports that Taylor said the prevailing emphasis on the [...]

Patti Smith was called the “high priestess of punk” in the 70s, but in a recent interview she admits, “I didn’t feel that I was growing as an artist at that point. All of my energy was being put into peripheral things - interviews and getting my picture taken. Constantly. And concerts and touring and [...]

In George Bernard Shaw’s play “Pygmalion” [and the musical “My Fair Lady”] Professor Henry Higgins claims he can transform Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a duchess.
Eliza realizes “the difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves but how she’s treated.” [From article The Pygmalion Effect by Eric Garner.]
Dr. Robert [...]

Honestly looking at what we are on the inside, in our souls, is necessary for substantial personal growth and creative excellence. It is a hero’s journey and heroine’s journey, not to be undertaken without courage. What lies within us can be chaotic and threatening, at least until we know ourselves enough to embrace who we [...]

School can incubate our passions to achieve. Like these valedictorians. But it can also instill self-limiting patterns of thinking and behavior.
Robert Kiyosaki recalls his early school years: “Today I don’t use much of what I learned after the fifth grade. But that’s not to say school didn’t leave its permanent mark on me. The fact [...]