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…

Did you know that the online information feeds you consume are killing your creativity? Unbeknownst to you, the algorithmic recommendation engines that select what you see in your social media feeds aren’t challenging your thinking. Quite the opposite. The stories they’re curating tend to be a dull pablum of information that’s focused in a handful of narrow topics that they have determined may be…

Here’s one way to reignite your growth! Are you feeling stuck? Do you yearn for something more? Do you sense there’s something bigger out there for you, but you’re not sure where to start? Are you looking for ways to make a bigger impact in your world? These are all signs that your thinking may need a…

Are you a t-shaped thinker? If so, you may want to reconsider that! For years, leading companies have sought people with t-shaped skills to join their world-class teams. However, in times of rapid change, like what we’re facing today, a pi-shaped skillset may be significantly more valuable, according to one futurist. People with t-shaped skills have been in demand for decades because they…