In Cirque du Soleil: The Spark, Lyn Heward, former President of Cirque du Soleil, tells the story of an ordinary man searching for meaning in his life and work. Here are 5 tips to ignite the creative fire that lives within us all: 1. Creativity means courage: Creativity is first and foremost all about courage—a willigness to take risks, to try… View Post
Quote of the day Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. ~Viktor Frankl, author of Man’s Search for Meaning HEALTH If you keep texting, your head will fall off, The Atlantic BOOKS The Pages Project brings the beauty of physical books online, Mashable CREATIVITY Inside the box,… View Post
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. ~SHAKESPEARE How Can Humans Find Happiness? Jonathan Haidt, social psychologist and teacher, presents different hypothesis: 1.- It comes from getting what you want but it’s short-lived; 2.- It comes from within and cannot be obtained by making the world conform to your desires; 3.- He concludes it… View Post
Quote of the day Productive writers read a lot, and widely. ~RACHEL TOOR THE MIND How humans learn to communicate with their eyes, WSJ BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS When to book your plane ticket: a guide, The Atlantic LIFESTYLE The first site to exchange homes for vacations only for designers and visual artists (sorry, no writers), Behomm BOOKS How the Strand… View Post
What aspect of the world do you want to disclose? What change do you want to bring into the world by this disclosure? In What is Literature? Jean-Paul Sartre, a French existentialist philosopher, novelist and playwright, challenges us, the writers, to formulate some questions: ‘What is writing?’ ‘Why write?’ ‘For whom does one write?’ and ultimately ‘What is Literature?’ The writer… View Post
Quote of the day You may know how to use fancy design tools, but if there isn’t that leap that leads to connection, it doesn’t matter….you’re not making art. We didn’t build stuff because we need more beautifully laid out menus. We did it because people want to be touched, noticed, and connected. ~SETH GODIN, author of The Dip CREATIVITY… View Post
And men should know that from nothing else but from the brain come joys, laughter and jests, and sorrows, griefs, despondency and lamentations. And by this… we acquire wisdom and knowledge, and we see and hear and know what are foul and what are fair, what sweet and what unsavory… and by the same organ we become mad and delirious… View Post