The blank page -- the beginning of any creative project -- tends to usher forth dark thoughts about our abilities, our talent, our vision, and our inventiveness. Even though we may have started and completed hundreds and hundreds of projects, or written thousands and thousands of words, the panicky challenge of getting going remains as fresh as ...
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Mine Your Innards For Clues {Aesthete Aperture}
Hey, Everybody! This is Susie deVille, Founder & CEO of the Innovation & Creativity Institute. In today's episode of the Aesthete Aperture, we are going to Mirror Lake, on a foggy day in Highlands, North Carolina. The path forward on a creative project sometimes is shrouded in mental fog. Don't rush too fast to lift it -- let the murkiness ...
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Searching For Your Voice {Aesthete Aperture}
Hey, Everybody! This is Susie deVille, Founder & CEO of the Innovation & Creativity Institute. In today's episode of the Aesthete Aperture, we are going to the Botanical Gardens at the Nature Center, located in Highlands, NC. In our area of the Blue Ridge Mountains, we are a temperate rainforest. Our unique climate, soil acidity, annual ...
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Voice & Vulnerability
"[S]hame is really easily understood as the fear of disconnection: Is there something about me that, if other people know it or see it, that I won't be worthy of connection? The things I can tell you about it: It's universal; we all have it. The only people who don't experience shame have no capacity for human empathy or connection. No one wants to ...
