Where observation is concerned, chance favours only the prepared mind —Louis Pasteur. The Art of Creative Thinking can lead you into new paths of creative activity. It can enrich your life—though not always in the way you expect. Use the stepping stones of analogy: Thinking by analogy, or analogizing, plays a key part in imaginative thinking. This is especially so when… View Post
Ira Glass is an American public radio personality and the host and producer of the radio and television show This American Life . Watch this video on storytelling: Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap…. View Post
Quote of the day We pay for our sins, to be sure. But even for our virtues there is sometimes a price. I think that everyone who has learned courage from football has got to recognize what it may cost, no matter what the coaches and the boosters say. Character costs something; courage can come with a price. ~MARK EDMUNDSON,… View Post
On Love is the debut novel of best selling author Alain de Botton, filled with profound observations about love. He is also the author of The Architecture of Happiness, How Proust Can Change Your Life, The Art of Travel. The story: Chloe and Alain meet in a plane flying from Paris to London and fall in love. Their romance lasts only about a… View Post
Gretchen Rubin is an American author, blogger and speaker. She is author of the best selling The Happiness Project, Happier at Home, and Better Than Before. In this 99U talk, bestselling author Gretchen Rubin shares the four personality types when it comes to adopting new habits or “rules.” Knowing your personality type and its pros and cons are instrumental to adopting new… View Post