Ten months ago, Kaarlo Maki lost his job managing a quality assurance team for a Boston financial institution. For Maki, 43, who lives in Quincy and i...
Jerri Chou | Posted 12.18.2009 | Impact
Our world is a series of stories and beliefs that we told and convinced ourselves of. This world continues to exist this way because we continue to believe the stories. We can believe in something better.
Anthea Raymond | Posted 12.15.2009 | Los Angeles
Does LA's creative community really need another awards show? The surprising answer, based on what I saw at the inaugural Los Angeles Real Creativity awards, is a resounding "yes."
Tamsin Rothschild | Posted 12.14.2009 | Living
Who would not want a little more poetry in their life? And I am not talking about drama, I am talking about poetry. And not necessarily Keats either.
Robert Rosenthal | Posted 12.09.2009 | Books
John Hunt's new book, The Art of the Idea, is an inspiring collection of astute observations culled from years of cultivating and nurturing ideas around the world. It is unassuming, yet powerful.
Tamsin Rothschild | Posted 12.02.2009 | Living
It took me months and years before I finally gathered enough courage to print off a bunch of my poems, and plonk them furtively on the table of a trusted friend.
Jerri Chou | Posted 12.01.2009 | Impact
Social entrepreneurs will lead the future of business. That's a bold claim. Why do I think this? Because it's already happening, and has been happening for the past decade.
Dana Joy Altman | Posted 11.30.2009 | Style
The last two years have been soul-searching times. Throw in the recession and the holidays, and that's a lot of pressure. But there's one thing I've learned in my attempts at self-preservation: it's crucial to seek out inspiration.
Dave Howe | Posted 11.24.2009 | Entertainment
Syfy, for the first time ever, has become a patron of the arts and is thrilled to sponsor the Tim Burton retrospective that just opened at MoMA.
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 11.24.2009 | Books
When you're in a room with Twyla Tharp, it's hard to notice anything else. As her dancers know, a "very nice" from Tharp is a bit more meaningful than it is from almost anyone else.
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living
Doing these types of games can boost happiness -- even for people who don't consider themselves to be particularly "creative."
Psychology Today | Posted 11.19.2009 | Living
We all marvel at other people's artistic achievements. But most of us fail to nurture our inner innovator. Start living creatively and reap the benefi...
Anne Hill | Posted 11.11.2009 | Entertainment
Big dreams still come when we are at the top of our game, but sometimes the most influential ones come to us on the way up.
Nick Rabkin | Posted 10.26.2009 | Chicago
The divisive and bitter culture war conflicts about race, sexuality, expressive freedom and the role of government in the arts continue to chill the politics of culture, even in the Obama era.
Carl Honore | Posted 10.23.2009 | Books
Slow Thinking is intuitive, woolly and creative. It is what we do when the pressure is off, and there is time to let ideas simmer on the back burner. It yields rich, nuanced insights and sometimes surprising breakthroughs.
Sharon Glassman | Posted 10.23.2009 | Local
While many of us believe that more money is a motivator, it's actually a stressor that inhibits performance.
Alanna Zabel | Posted 10.22.2009 | Living
Mantra: I Am Creative, Posture/Exercise: The Butterfly Hip Opener Pose
Dana Joy Altman | Posted 10.21.2009 | Books
This book is the kitchen improviser's bible because it lists all the matching flavor affinities for each ingredient! So say you have beets in your fridge and you're not sure what to do with them.
Sarah O'Leary | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business
A unique marketing idea is like a rock on the side of a riverbank. It has flat spots and rough spots and points and dips and crags and a host of things that make it different from the rest.
Erica Heinz | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living
Once I started listening, I found answers everywhere. Some were quiet, some were loud. Here are five flags I learned to trust.
Sharon Glassman | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living
Assume no one will make your dream job happen -- or should. And then get out there, identify what it is -- and make it happen.
Matt Weinstein | Posted 10.14.2009 | Books
Wake up! Pay attention! Come alive in this moment!
Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living
It is an interesting dichotomy - one group seems to open with age, the other seems to close. With openness, it seems that death is much less frightening as if it is merely another viewpoint of sorts.
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 10.11.2009 | Living
When you feel trapped in a negative, ask yourself the positive question, and maybe that will shed light on how to change it or at least change your mind.
Dan Persons | Posted 11.30.2009 | Entertainment
A TV writer tries his hand at a feature film. His friend reads the script, thinks it's an ungodly mess of muddled symbolism and Freud 101 anxieties. "Be honest," the writer says.
Posted 12.18.2009 | Impact