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Creative Genius

Oct 26, 2018
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by Carl Nordgren
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Becoming a Creative Genius (again): Great News for folks 60+

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source you will truly have defeated age.  Sophia Loren After a decades long career as an entrepreneur I have spent the past twenty years helping folks of all sorts—college students and entrepreneurs, creative professionals and military leaders, artists and parents and business managers—grow their creative capacities and develop their entrepreneurial instincts and behaviors. For the past ten years I have understood this work to be helping folks reclaim their natural born creative genius. It is only recently that I am coming to appreciate how and why it’s folks entering their 60’s...

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Jul 27, 2018
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by Carl Nordgren
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Creativity class offered at Durham Tech for first time

Becoming a Creative Genius (again) Offered this Fall for the first time at Durham Tech Community College Did you know that research NASA participated in determined that 98% of us are born with creative abilities the space agency labeled ‘creative genius’ but only 2% perform at that level at age 25? I have spent nearly 20 years developing and testing content and designing classroom experiences that are proven to help you grow your creative capacity and develop your entrepreneurial instincts to help you restore your natural born creative genius. There’s nothing more important to living a fulfilling personal life and achieving success in your business and professional career than being the most creative, entrepreneurial, and generative version of yourself you can be, and this...

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Mar 22, 2018
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by Carl Nordgren
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How I got Coach K to leave the locker room at half time of a Duke v UNC basketball game

In the late winter 1986 I was fortunate to be standing in the right spot when two events crossed and offered an opportunity to leverage the power of story for my company's business advantage. Our team of corporate backed entrepreneurs was approaching a half year since we launched Cellular One of the Triangle, the first cellular telephone company in Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill. (A quick historical note for those too young to know: cellular service was rolled out by the FCC as a local market business, with two licenses for each MSA. Our team, as Providence Journal Cellular, went on to build over 20 local cellular companies.) And over at Duke University in Durham Coach Mike Krzyzewski was in the middle of an extraordinary...

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Nov 07, 2017
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by Carl Nordgren
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‘Becoming a Creative Genius (again)’ Free Workshops coming to Asheville. 

  On December 4th I will lead two 90 minute workshops at the Mindspring Consulting facility in Asheville. We’ll have a lunch session at 12, and then do it again at 6 for your scheduling convenience. Each workshop is designed to help you grow your creative capacity and develop your entrepreneurial instincts, to help you on your way to restoring your natural born creative genius. We’ll have lots of active fun accomplishing that.   It’s exciting to put this on at Mindspring Consulting. The Leadership development programs Haydn and Terry Hasty have designed and offered over the years have consistently delivered extraordinary results for corporate and government clients nationally. Plus they have really cool space on the west side of town, co'located with...

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Jun 30, 2017
in Creative Genius, Creative populism
by Carl Nordgren
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What’s your favorite creativity lesson that you learned from nature?

The natural forces of healthy and sustainable growth are on display all around us—in forests and fields, in barnyards and backyards. I am just starting a second book on creativity titled Becoming a Creative Genius (naturally).  It follows my first, Becoming a Creative Genius (again), overlapping the first and extending it as good creative growth is wont to do. The book will present generative concepts and creative and entrepreneurial strategies that I first discovered while observing and participating in natural forces of growth and basic human nature shaped by those forces; the concepts and strategies were then refined as I applied them over a series of start-ups and other creative work; and they weren’t fully understood until I shared these...

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Jun 09, 2017
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by Carl Nordgren
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The easiest immediately effective creative hack, supported by research

I've shared this research with you time and again, but it's too important to let you forget. Researchers at the University of Munich found that staring at the color Green for 30 seconds dramatically improves subsequent creative performance.You'll find more information about the research on my site; there is a PDF of a creative green card for you to print out and keep close at hand--you'll find it by simply scrolling down on the home page at www.creativegenius.carlnordgren.com I stare at mine throughout the day. I also painted my office walls green.  ...

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Jun 04, 2017
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by Carl Nordgren
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Remember your natural born Creative Genius, part 1

And please remember this always: When we were four 98% of us scored as creative genius on an assessment NASA had developed to identify the most innovative scientists and engineers.  http://creativegenius.carlnordgren.com/research/ Once upon a time, when we were four, we had a bias for action. Our bias for action was so powerful teachers and parents would often tell us to stop, to please stop, and sit still or come to the table or go to bed. Our bias for action was informed by our knowing—without knowing we knew?—that it was through our bias for action that we learned the most important stuff we had to learn. When we faced a new challenge or opportunity we didn’t stand there and figure out the best...

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Apr 25, 2017
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by Carl Nordgren
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Free Creativity Workshop on May 5th in Durham

Did you know that 98% of us are born with a creative genius? And that the World Economic Forum recently determined creativity will drive our future successes? I am hosting a fun and action-packed workshop on May 4th from 6:30 to 7:30 pm at the Southern Regional branch of the Durham Public Library. This workshop will help you grow your creative capacity and develop your entrepreneurial instincts; you’ll develop skills that will serve you in all aspects of your life...

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Mar 22, 2017
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by Carl Nordgren
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Creative value found in Humility

Relying on 30+ years of experiences as an entrepreneur followed by 14 years designing courses in creativity and entrepreneurship for Duke Students, I’ve identified 4 Generative Behaviors that serve our creative and entrepreneurial growth and performance most effectively. When you practice these four behaviors intentionally as you navigate your daily life they will help you steadily grow your creative capacity and develop your entrepreneurial instincts. And when you are focused on a creative or entrepreneurial project, applying these behaviors will improve your outcomes. Folks easily embrace Being Generous as Being Generative as one of the behaviors even before they learn that generous and generative come from the same Latin word generos, to produce. They have fun with Being Playful—it makes intuitive...

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