creativity

Grow up, kid – there’s no Santa. And Mickey and Bugs, they aren’t real either. In doing so we become big fat liars and kids know it. If we lie about Santa, why would they believe anything we say - ever?

Beliefs are realities. Beliefs predispose and organize the body and mind in predictable ways.

Parents must reinvent themselves, in different ways, right along with their children. But they don’t.

We are either growing or dying. There is no middle ground.

This is about media and the so called ‘digital culture’ or as Mark Bauerlein, English Professor Emory University describes in his new book: The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes our Future.

TTF board member, Andrew Papageorge, a world leader in large system innovation, recently interviewed Michael. Together they explored what it means to be creative and innovative, both critical topics in our brave new world of accelerating challenges and change.

How storytelling develops imagination. Imagination goes much deeper than make-believe play and storytelling. Imagination is a mental field, a swirling flood of impressions, a movement of the immediate present blending seamlessly with the distant past.

Words are symbols or triggers that stimulate a subtle replica of the original experience within the brain.

If much of what we think and do this moment is not intelligent, what action can take place right here, right now, that will break the pattern that keep creating the problems that are crushing us? How do we access and gather the energy and attention necessary to transcend and transform the normal states in which we live?

To learn the mind must be free. It is only the free mind that can hold or perceive something new, while the mind that is full sloughs around and usually ends up making a mess.