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Category Archives: Creativity

Creatives are prone to loneliness. We spend time inside our own head thinking and making, and it’s hard to remember sometimes that there’s a whole world out there. Out there, with people who need help. With people who need what you’re making. Also, because we work alone, we’re prone to fear. It’s easy to hide […]

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I want to challenge you to be intentional today. Wake up, drink your coffee, eat your bacon… Then do something with the intent of fueling your mind. Watch a video on TED.com Read a blog post from Seth Godin or someone else’s blog you read. Listen to a podcast. Read a book. Write 500 words. […]

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Back To The Future is an awesome movie. Anything that has hoverboards, time travel, and stainless steel cars in it, is obviously a win. There is an unrealized story of work in this movie as well: Dr. Emmett Brown has an idea. A crazy idea. He works quietly on it for 20 years until he […]

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As I’m sitting here this morning pondering my goals and things I want to accomplish this year, I’m struck by this overwhelming feeling of “I’m not good enough.” That somehow there is a perfect example of what “good enough Chris Creed” looks like and that I’m definitely not that. Who drew this picture of the […]

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Apple’s new iPad Air commercial is perfect. It’s about passion, contribution, and creativity. It’s about humanity. It contains one of my favorite poems: O Me! O Life! by Walt Whitman. As Robin Williams recites this (Along with a quote from Dead Poet’s Society) what unfolds, what transcends in this ad, is more than just a […]

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