Category Archives: Creativity

Good In A Room

Sometimes it’s harder to blog once a week than everyday. So, I’m going to start blogging as much as possible to get out of the funk I’ve been in. Should make things a bit more organic and not so planned. Just read a Tom Peters “Cool Friends” interview from a few weeks ago with Stephanie …

June 18, 2008 – 10:20 am | By DUST!N | Posted in books, Ideas, Persuasion, Tom Peters! | Comments (0)

Creativity Unleashed!

I recently read a fascinating article on unleashing creativity from Scientific America. Executive editor Mariette DiChristina conducted a roundtable discussion involving three experts on creativity: John Houtz is a psychologist and professor at Fordham University. His most recent book is The Educational Psychology of Creativity (Hamptom Press, 2002). Julia Cameron is an award-winning poet, playwright …

May 30, 2008 – 7:36 am | By DUST!N | Posted in Creativity, Ideas | Comments (0)

Reclaiming Your Orphans

I got some correspondence on The Idea Orphanage that encouraged me to share advise on reclaiming your idea orphans. I guess it would be rather cruel to raise awareness of the lost and abandoned without giving a way for you to help. So, here are a few ways to get the adoption process started: 1. …

May 9, 2008 – 11:14 am | By DUST!N | Posted in Creativity, Ideas | Comments (2)

Death of a Moleskine

I was plugging away on my computer when I heard the cry from upstairs.  “Oh no!”  I asked my wife what was wrong.  “You’re going to hate me.”  She said. I climbed up the stairs and found her in the laundry room.  She began to pull out pieces of paper and show them to me.  …

May 9, 2008 – 9:44 am | By DUST!N | Posted in Ideas, Personal/Family | Comments (4)

Building on Bad Ideas

“There are no such things as bad ideas.” Whoever invented that statement has never watched an infomercial. There are plenty of bad ideas. The essence of this statement is that bad ideas can lead to good ones. Unfortunately, we either disregard someone’s bad idea altogether or we embrace it, because we’re stupid and don’t realize …

May 3, 2008 – 4:57 pm | By DUST!N | Posted in Creativity, Ideas | Comments (0)

The Idea Orphanage

I don’t know how many there are. Millions? Billions? I do know they’re alone and wandering. They have been abandoned and forgotten. How did they get here? Fear. Not their fear. Ours. They are idea orphans. Former hopes, dreams and aspirations who have no guardians. They were once filled with energy and hope. Now they …

April 25, 2008 – 6:00 am | By DUST!N | Posted in Creativity, Ideas | Comments (5)

The Art of Finding Beauty

Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees, takes off his shoes, The rest sit round it, and pluck blackberries… Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh A friend shared the poem above with me recently. I had heard it before. In fact, I had memorized it. Still, I …

March 28, 2008 – 1:45 pm | By DUST!N | Posted in Creativity, Society, Spirituality | Comments (4)