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BOTW #5: The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
This weeks Book of the Week is The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk. From the Author The Body Keeps the Score is the inspiring story of how a group of therapists and scientists— together with their courageous and memorable patients—has struggled to integrate recent advances in brain science, attachment research, and…
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Read These Books This Weekend
Hope you all are enjoying your weekend so far! Last night, my wife and I found out that we’re going to be grandparents, so the Fortune family is excited and grateful to be adding limbs to our family tree. For my fellow bibliophiles, I wanted to share some books that have greatly impacted my life.…
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MOTW #1: Collateral Beauty Starring Will Smith
For this week’s Watch This: Movie of the Week, I’m encouraging all my fellow creatives to watch the movie Collateral Beauty starring Will Smith. This is a great movie! In a post earlier this week, I talked about the power of literary abstraction to deal with complex emotions. In the movie, Will Smith’s character is…
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Inversion Thinking (Part 2): How Not to Live a Miserable Life by Learning To Drive Your Brain in Reverse
In Part 1 of our series on inversion thinking, we learned how positive thinking alone isn’t suffiecient for us to meet the many challenges we may face in life. Here in Part 2 of our series, I would like to share a couple great examples of how inversion thinking has/can be applied to help solve…
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QOTD #1: When Things Get Messy… Try This!
When I sit down at the blank page, some times it’s intimidating. Then, there are other times, it’s nothing short of triage because I need a safe place to bleed, and these blank pages become my “paper” towels and wound dressings. On those days, and there have been MANY of them, my mess truly is…
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Creativity on Demand (Part 1): Not What, Not How, But When!
Nothing stiffles creative flow more than getting tangled up in the weeds of magical notions about HOW we think creativity is supposed to happen. When we do, we’re operating more like Key & Peele in their hilarious “Lightning in a bottle” skit than the consistent creatives we long to be. For years, I’ve stuggled to…
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I Think, Therefore I Write. You Read, Therefore I Think.
I’m a bi-polar creative in storybook fashion; with far too many ideas for one head. When I’m manic, you may encounter a creative genius who helps you stretch the horizons of what’s possible by expanding the boundaries of what’s known. When I’m depressed, you may encounter a broken man helplessly bleeding on this keyboard just…
Daniel Fortune 