John Muir And The Stoics Take A Nature Walk
Few men have captured the magnificence of nature through the written word like explorer and preservationist, John Muir. It was during his first trip to Alaska in 1879 that he stumbled upon Glacier Bay and was [...]
Thomas Edison’s Imagination Superhighway
There’s little irony that the man who forever disrupted our internal clocks wasn’t a fan of going to sleep. In 1922, Thomas Edison wrote in his diary: “The man who sleeps eight or ten hours a [...]
Why It Took James Cameron 50 Years To Make Avatar
We’ve talked before about taking action with our ideas right away. But it’s worth mentioning that the other side of inspiration is patience. Just ask world renown director, James Cameron (Titanic, Terminator, Aliens, Avatar). After being sued [...]
What Do You Do When Inspiration Strikes?
Henry David Thoreau once wrote, perhaps to himself, “Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He [...]
What The Moon Landing And Wheeled Suitcase Can Teach Us About Innovation
There are six thousand years of history between the invention of the wheel and the wheeled suitcase. Billions of people spent billions of hours driving wheeled vehicles to the airport where they lugged heavy luggage [...]
How To Forget Heroics And Stay Consistent
John Grisham wrote his first novel in the late 80’s while working full-time as a lawyer with a couple of kids at home. To find time, Grisham woke up at 5 am every day and wrote [...]