On International Coaching Week, Think Into the Box!

𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸, 𝗜 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗢 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝘅. 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗳𝘂𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲…

How to Escape a Lion: Why Children are More Creative than Adults

The study of NASA psychologist George Land that he began in 1968 changed the way I understood creativity and how to teach it more than…

In the Beginning - the Origin Story of the Innotivity Institute

ORIGIN STORY OF CREATE YOUR CREATIVITY AND THE INNOVATION EXPLOSION When we created the Academy of Television (ATV) in Johannesburg in 2010 (www.screenarts.tv), I knew…

The Creativity Lie For Which You Will Fight To the Death (The Deadline Lie)

You are not more creative at the last minute. It may seem like you are, but that’s a cognitive distortion brought on by no sleep, too much caffeine, hyperfocus, or some other direct effect of your all-nighter.

The Hardest Creativity Lie to Believe (The Abundance Lie)

Everyone loves Abundance. Yet Scarcity seems to be better for Creativity. Maybe a lot better.

The Most Popular Creativity Lie (The Originality Lie)

Stop bleeding from the brain trying to be original, it’s a hopeless task. Nobody is going to applaud you for it, because you will never do it.

The Most Damaging Creativity Lie (The Artistry Lie)

In the previous blog, I labelled the Genetics Lie of Creativity the most “important” lie about creativity, putting it at #1. And yet now I…

The Most Important Creativity Lie (The Genetics Lie) Part 2

The lesson is straightforward. Stop saying you just aren’t creative, or creative enough. Get off your ass and start working on your creativity the same way you would study for exams or go to the gym.

The Most Important Creativity Lie (The Genetics Lie) Part 1

Evidence seems to clearly show is that creativity is not gained as we grow up, but lost. Picasso said that all children are artists, with the trick being to remain an artist once we grow up. A seminal study by…

Rotten Lemons

When life gives you lemons, you can’t always make lemonade and you must not blame yourself for this.

The Millionaire Truth

Have you met Anthony Brown (virtually)? Dont you get such great joy and pleasure of visits from Anthony and his purportedly Millionaire pals almost every time that you try to click on anything?

The Trash Animals of Yola

Standing in the middle of this burning trash, and eating it, stand a wide variety of animals. Perhaps it could be expected to find trash pigs – but here, trash pigs are a relatively rare sight, which we only saw i…

I Love Abuja

In the aftermath of the Nigerian-Biafra War, the Nigerian government sought to locate its capital in a location not predominated by any one ethnic group.…

On On

There are more than 200 of us. A handful are separate from us, running at speed on a different, longer, unmarked path around the back…

Harmattan

The harmattan is still hovering, and Lionel might not make it home. Wikipedia defines harmattan as “a cold-dry and dusty trade wind, blowing over the…

The Only White Man in Mubi, Part 3

Eventually morning comes, and if the streets were quiet for elections, they are even quieter today. The fact that it is Sunday has no real…

The Only White Man in Mubi, Part 2

After the voting patrols are finished, around 2 PM, we attend the Saturday ”peace prayer” in which over two thousand men – yes entirely men…

The Only White Man in Mubi, Part 1

I don’t much like the title of this post, but if I wrote “The Only Bature in Mubi” you wouldn’t understand what I was talking…

Rumors and Surprises in DR Congo

Yesterday was quiet in Kinshasa, that is to say, an ordinary Sunday. Public taxis ran, and people walked in the streets holding their childrens’ hands. It was a relief from a different sort of quiet that d…