And what does this have to do with using mind mapping tools effectively? Imagine if you learned how to drive a car on your own. You figured out the basics pretty quickly. But the rest is a bit of a mystery. You can’t figure out how to: Drive on expressways: You’re able to get from one city to another on smaller, slower roads…

How to get beyond the internet’s latest “shiny object” obsession and understand how to really use AI for creative problem solving During the last six months that ChatGPT has been in the wild, I’ve listened to a variety of fanboys and critics of it, each proclaiming what it means to the future of creativity. It seems like everyone is writing about it — but their advice is overwhelmingly focused on how…

Tools and strategies to help you navigate an unprecedented, pervasive “phase change” Have you noticed that the forces affecting your industry, profession and the world are more unpredictable lately? It’s not your imagination. Conditions aren’t just unstable, they’re chaotic. Events aren’t just ambiguous, they’re incomprehensible. Outcomes aren’t just hard to foresee, they’re completely unpredictable.

Don’t let these habits drain the life force from your muse Are you killing your curiosity? If you engage in these activities, you may be undermining your curiosity without even realizing that you’re doing so: Conducting Google searches and only consuming the concise summaries at the top of its search results. Using AI tools to create content for you. Filling the…

Why this life-changing mindset may soon become a matter of survival! For entrepreneurs and creators, being indispensable isn’t just a nice to have, it’s essential to your success. But how can you cultivate this quality? Before I share some awesome strategies you can use to become truly irreplaceable, let’s have a level set on what being indispensable means. …

Focus on these muse-magnifying strategies instead. 80% of what you’re doing to generate valuable ideas is wasted. That’s right — the popular Pareto Principle doesn’t just apply to productivity, but also to creativity. Who taught you how to brainstorm? Most people are never taught brainstorming best practices in school or at work. In the latter case, you learn by doing. As part…

Most entrepreneurs love to brainstorm ideas. But only the top 5% realize there’s a better way that produces radically higher-value ideas. Albert Einstein was once asked, “If you knew the world was going to end in one hour, how would you divide up your use of that hour come up with a solution for the problem?” Einstein answered that he would spend 55 minutes thoroughly exploring, researching and defining the problem…

Here’s how it can help you research, organize, distill and share your stories — faster Today, writers have access to a dizzying array of tools to help them capture, shape and publish their ideas in writing. One of the newest and most exciting categories is visual note-taking tools. They enable writers to capture, organize and connect their ideas using digital notecards on an infinite canvas. …

Astounding insights from turning a popular parable on its head Most people are familiar with the story of the six blind men and the elephant. If you’ve never heard of it before, here’s a summary of it: Six blind men are walking in a field, when they encounter a creature. They aren’t sure what it is, so they start touching…