Bed, Bath & Beyond: Ideas for Ideation
You know the feeling. You’ve been there. Many times, I’m guessing.
You’ve been racking your brains about a problem, likely, a business problem. A question that demands a creative solution that you know exists, elusive as it seems. You can feel it in the force.
Years of workshops and mountains (or gigabytes) of books have told you that creativity is a process: a process that needs some catalysts and some sherpas. But a process, still.
“That’s a great question” is not a great answer
Imagine you’re meeting a friend. She’s an old friend, and it’s been a while since you last caught up. She asks you how you’ve been and what’s been happening. You relate some of the things that have happened since your last interaction. When you finish, she says, “That’s a great opening statement.”
If you don’t find that weird, you need more friends. Or, you’re a lawyer.
“That’s a great question (from now on, TAGQ)” is similar. It’s not something you’d say in conversation, and hence it is incongruous when told at a business conversation.
Cats, musicians & bookcases. And what traditional colleges can learn from them.
A sucker for punishment
I met 1,428 new people in July of 2020. Cumulatively, they were my new classmates over four fascinating online courses that I had over-ambitiously enrolled for. All at the same time.
Improv your Life
I rarely buy clothes online. Call me old school but, to me, apparel is a visceral and sensory purchase. There’s only one time I broke my self-imposed rule - when I maniacally sought out a printed T-Shirt on Amazon. After finding and ordering it, I counted down the hours to its scheduled delivery. Thank god for Amazon Prime. Rather, thank Bezos. I opened the package with the giddy excitement of a child anticipating a new toy. I held my beautiful grey T-shirt. With just two bold and brief words on the front:
Writing non fiction. Through fiction.
The idea for my book started as an itch. On stage. An itch that started in early 2018 on a cold winter evening at Jaipur, India. Commonly called the “pink city” due to the liberal use of the color across the majestic architecture that dots its landscape, Jaipur was the venue for an unconference I was attending at that time.