Posts Tagged ‘Creative Thinking’
Slow Down to Boost Creativity
Some years ago I learned from my ultrarunning coach, Scott Jurek, bestselling author of Eat and Run, that to boost your endurance and ultrarunning performance, you have to slow down. You can’t go out every day and run your hardest. In fact, your body needs you to slow down and work other systems that support speed. Going slow on a lot of training days allows your body to recover and perform at a higher level, giving you more energy to … Read more
Is failure a state of mind?
When something fails, it is done, finished, the end. There is no energy or passion for failure. Hide the failed idea in the closet and forget about it because it is (whisper) a failure. We say with a somber tone, “The product failed in market.” “Martha failed to meet expectations for her job.” “John failed his science test.” Yet embedded in each of those statements is an untold story, a journey, something to learn, or to do differently the next … Read more
