“Never let go of the fiery sadness called: desire.” (Matsuo Basho) What does “desire” mean to you? How does it interplay with creativity and your marketing efforts? Can you have one with out the other? Does one destroy or overshadow the other? Share your thoughts and reflections by clicking the speak link below… Tweet this!
Posts Tagged ‘creative’
Desire
Posted in inner marketing, tagged creative, creativity, desire, marketing, sadness on May 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Map is not the Territory
Posted in inner marketing, management, marketing, performance, tagged brain, Cognition, creative, creativity, map, marketing, Neuro-linguistic programming, territory, Wendell Johnson on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Image via Wikipedia I saw this expression of the “map is not the territory” in some online article, the origin of which I can’t remember but it stuck in my mind for several hours anyway. It is a term was originally put in print by Alfred Korzybski at a meeting of the American Mathematical Society [...]
Your art and your ego
Posted in inner marketing, tagged art, creative, creativity, ego, identity, marketing on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.” – Konstantin Stanislavsky I see too many artists identify themselves by what they produce. I know the feeling well. If you produce crap, you feel like crap. You believe the lie that you can’t be a real artist if what you produce isn’t perfect. This [...]
The Choke Factor
Posted in inner marketing, marketing, performance, tagged appreciation, choke factor, creative, creative energy, psychotherapy on May 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Have you ever been faced with a stressful situation where it is crucial how you perform, only to choke just when you need to be at your best? We all have! An article, by Scientific American journal, studied this experience and found some interesting insights. The researchers found that negatively stereotyped social groups are some [...]
Gratitude: The Secret Behind Creativity
Posted in inner marketing, tagged conscious, consciousness, creative, creativity, gratitude, inner marketing, marketing, misery on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Was someone rude to you today? If so, it can really rob you of your joy and turn your creative energies off. This is because they are drained into negative feelings of anger and resentment. I was doing a little googling on “gratitude” and come up with a dozen different sites all sporting the same [...]
Good Marketers have Clinical Diagnoses
Posted in marketing, tagged brain, clinical, creative, diagnosis, logical, marketer, marketing, stigma on May 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I often joke that clinical people are more in their “right brains” (creative, spatial, nonverbal) than their “left brains” (logical, linear, verbal). I can joke as I am a clinician and I speak from experience. However, when I go to hire a new clinician for my clinic, I look for moderate traits of OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive [...]




