You may have heard the story about how the Chinese word for “crisis” can be represented as “opportunity.” As it turns out, that’s not quite accurate. ...

One cause of writer’s block isn’t that we run out of ideas, it’s a fear that the ideas we do have are bad ones. We don’t want to keep writing, keep pa...

We don’t like to talk about disappointment in the creative field is. Creativity is a risk and risks, by their very nature, have a pretty high rate of ...

Something you hear our last year described as a lot is a “dark time” or a “dark season.” Getting to the end of all that was described as a “new day” o...

I think all of us can feel tempted towards cynicism these days. However we need to remember that change is possible, and we need to help inspire other...

There are two kinds of marketers out there. The first are the Don Drapers—the guys who know how to package lies to turn profits. Certainly an easy wa...

Finding your purpose is a huge deal — for everyone, obviously, but younger generations are especially pursuing purpose-driven work. A Society for Huma...

I think most of us are aware of the idea of story as a passion, a skill, and maybe a career. But what about story as survival? What about story as a w...

Some stories are a way of making sense of the world. Life can seem confusing or random, so we fit all the details into a story to help us figure out ...

There’s still this idea that we’re living in an extra dark time, that things are bad, worst year ever...that sort of thing. That’s because stories — e...