Creative genius isn’t what we think it is. After watching a decade of intimate footage following Hayao Miyazaki, I discovered that our greatest creators aren’t fearless visionaries—they’re doubt-ridden artists who break past despair to create anyway. “The creation of a single world comes froma huge number of fragments and chaos.”―Hayao Miyazaki I played hooky on…
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Make a Decision: Find the Courage to Reveal Your Path
How 7 minutes of uncensored truth can give you the courage to make a decision. Everything is waiting for you. –David Whyte In August of 2018, a group of global leaders from all walks of life trekked through the ancient, limestone landscape on Ireland’s misty and rugged western coast. There were 28 of us beckoned…
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Tired Brains Panic
Consider that your tired brain needs the fuel of calm to reset—not the fire of overwork, which spirals into panic. If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.—Banksy The moment Elise popped onto my Zoom screen, I could see and feel her fear. The light in her design studio was dim, but I…
Excavate Your Sense of Wonder with a 20-Minute Beauty Walk
Your sense of wonder—and your mind itself—is there to lead you to your most creative way of being, if you give it space. It is urgent to live enchanted.—Valter Hugo Mãe I know I’ll find what I’m looking for. What I believe to be true. My brain looks for evidence with me. In partnership. The…
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How to Listen to Your Scattered Mind: 3 Prompts to Clarity
A scattered mind is intuition in overdrive—take a moment to sit and listen to it, and you may find your focus is right there waiting for you. I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticismgo down the same drain and I am quite free. —Georgia O’Keeffe Some days, our minds are a…
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How to Slow Down: Take Courageous Steps Toward “You”
Learning how to slow down doesn’t just help us avoid the worst—burnout and fog—instead, it guides us to the best—the work that is truest to us. Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast. —Mark Divine When It All Feels Too Fast Every entrepreneur and creator faces a moment, usually when the noise gets too loud and…
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