“An understandable hunger for potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or sentimentality, sometimes imply that all of their students could one day produce worthwhile literature, rather than frankly acknowledging the troubling truth, anathema to a democratic society, that the great writer, like the contented worker, remains an erratic and anomalous event, immune to the methods of factory farming.” WritingSometimesLiteratureCareersCreativeTeacherEventsStudentsProduceOne DayMethodRemainsDemocraticWorkersGreedHungerFactoriesWorthwhileClientsCreative WritingFarmingImmuneTherapistsGreat WritersSentimentalityCounselingDemocratic SocietyFactory FarmingErraticAnathema Author:Alain de Botton
“The brilliant creative core of capitalism ... is the story the entrepreneurs and capital investors tell themselves about the future. How they intend to alter it, what they expect to gain in return, where they will raise the capital to accomplish their vision. Many of their stories turn out to be flawed or mistaken, of course, but the capacity to envision a set of future events and then act to fulfill them is a central source of capitalism's strength and its dominance of society.” StoriesTurnsCoursesVisionCreativeEventsSourceReturnCapitalismGainsCapacityRaisesEntrepreneurAccomplishBrilliantCoreInvestorsMistakenFlawedDominanceFuture Events Book:The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy Source: The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy
“When you awaken to what I call the Authentic Self, which is the spiritual or evolutionary impulse, what begins to emerge is the dawning recognition of the fact that each one of us, at our highest level, is that Authentic Self, which is actually the same energy and intelligence that originally inspired the entire creative process. You begin to intuit and feel directly connected to the very impulse that initiated the whole event fourteen billion years ago and is driving it right now.” FeelsYearsSelfWholeFactsSpiritualEnergyProcessLevelsCreativeEventsRight NowHighestYears AgoInspiredConnectedBillionsDrivingAuthenticityRecognitionImpulseCreative ProcessFourteenAuthentic Self Author:Andrew Cohen
“My creative is curiosity conversations...All conversations reveal some inner truth, and the information we get from a computer is different than something that becomes a biochemical event, like a real conversation.” DifferentRealCreativeEventsInformationConversationComputerCuriosityReal Conversation Author:Brian Grazer
“American Made is not just an event. It's a movement to spotlight and support the next generation of creative entrepreneurs who are turning their passion for making into thriving small businesses.” MadePassionNextSupportCreativeGenerationsEventsMovementEntrepreneurSmall BusinessNext GenerationSpotlight Author:Martha Stewart
“Rather than managing by clarifying events, the creative process may require raising the level of uncertainty. Sometimes this can be done by issuing a creative challenge that has resonance in that it inspires the team to activity.” MaySometimesDoneProcessChallengesLevelsCreativeTeamEventsInspireActivityUncertaintyCreative ProcessResonanceClarifying Author:John Kao