Ideas and resources for understanding and increasing creativity
“Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone’s task is unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.” ~ Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (Update September 20, 2013: …
It’s time to wrap up the short series of posts I’d begun about found “Artist Dates” in New York City. Julia Cameron describes Artist Dates as “assigned play,” and while she provides specific guidelines, I use the idea in a looser way. What is important is finding time and opportunities for—or just noticing—creative inspiration in …
While sketching out upcoming posts for “Creative Synthesis” at Psychology Today, I decided to see what readers seem to like and whether there is a pattern. The top post there in terms of views is “What Does It All Mean?” (about existential bibliotherapy): “The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya shows how easily bright and creative young …
Be sure to head on over to friend and colleague Katherine Wikoff’s blog to read her latest post, “Hawks Do Not Share”: Re-considering Zelda Fitzgerald: “In creative fields, it’s all about the work. One of the first things we learned in graduate school, in fact, was: You’ve got to protect the work. You need to …
My family and I traveled to New York this past weekend for an impromptu Spring Break vacation—the last before our son graduates from college—and, for me, it also was a much needed extended Artist’s Date. Julia Cameron, author of the highly influential The Artist’s Way and several other titles, describes an Artist’s Date as time to …