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Creative Destruction: Painting Over the Underpainting
This is a guest post from my friend and client Cathy Ann Connelly, who recently completed the “Trickster Makes the World” module of the Create Your Own Story course. Definition: In painting, an...
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Suspend Disbelief and Commit to the Process (Part 1)
Disbelief: an inability to believe that something is true. As a lifelong reader and writer, I’m on familiar terms with the concept of willing suspension of disbelief. The ability to suspend disbelief...
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Conspiracy Theories and the Storytelling Mind (Conspiracy Part 3)
The most important thing about conspiracy theories isn’t that they aren’t true. They’re stories; of course they aren’t true. There’s no such thing as a “true story.” We see, understand, and explain the...
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Hunting for Foxhogs, I Find a Foxcat Instead
In the last chapter of Curious, Ian Leslie lays out “seven ways to stay curious.” Item number three on the list is “forage like a foxhog.” The foraging he refers to is for information. The question...
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Randomness Does Not Compute
Have you noticed that the brain has an answer for almost everything? Not only does it work overtime to predict what’s going to happen next, it works nearly as hard to explain what happened after the...
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Only Trouble Is Interesting
If you write fiction, read fiction, or read books about how to write fiction, you know the one thing a story absolutely, positively must include is trouble and plenty of it. If you don’t have...
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Books to Change Your Mind, Your Brain, and Your Self
Here are brief summaries of a dozen books I consider foundational for understanding brain, mind, and behavior. Most of them were published between 2010 and 2012. There are plenty of books that have...
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She Changes: Janet Echelman’s Lacenet
Janet Echelman spent seven years as an Artist-in-Residence at Harvard. She left Harvard to go to India on a Fulbright lectureship with the intention of giving painting exhibitions around the country....
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Is Empathy Even a Thing?
My post on theory of mind last week elicited several comments and some good discussions about empathy. What do you think empathy is? How would you define it? Do you consider yourself to be empathetic?...
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You Feel Me?
In my previous post on the subject, I sided with a secondary definition of the word empathy, which is: the projection of one’s own feelings or thoughts onto something else, such as an object in a work...
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