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Welcome to the 150th issue of The Groove.

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August is a good month to ignite your creativity because you have more time to think, read and be. I will be slowing down a bit this month, to rest and recharge.

While I’m taking a break from giving you new content I did want to share some of the best stories on creativity that I’ve read this year, plus a couple of bonuses from my own archives.

These will remind you that creativity is the driving force behind progress in life.

If you want to find solutions to problems, start a new business, change careers, or paint a masterpiece, prompting your own creative thinking is where it is at.

Creativity is inexhaustible. It’s simply a muscle that grows or atrophies depending on how much you use it. The more you know about how to engage your creative thinking and the more you act on those prompts, the better the results.

1. This is a good summary of the points I consistently make about creativity in my book and in The Groove.

2. An interview with the founder of The Onion on writing, overcoming creative blocks, and more.

3. I found this both weird and fascinating: Later this year, the Lunar Codex — a digitized (or miniaturized) collection of contemporary art, poetry, magazines, music, film, podcasts and books by 30,000 artists, writers, musicians and filmmakers in 157 countries— will start heading for permanent installation on the moon aboard a series of unmanned rockets.

4. According a group of Business School professors and entrepreneurs, AI offers businesses and governments a boost in human creativity and a path for democratizing innovation.

5. As a mom of two teenagers, it’s always a good refresher to read advice from the queen of vulnerability, Brené Brown, on the topic of how to help kids be more creative.

6. If you are stuck on a problem, take a very short nap and you may find your solution.

7. An excellent question to ask when pushing the creative wheel forward.

8. Contrary to popular belief, drugs and alcohol do not make you more creative, research finds.

9. Have you ever been intrigued by that phase in people’s careers where they seem to produce one hit after another? Here’s a brief take of how that happens.

10. Perfect read for summer: why playing games boost your creativity.

JUMPSTART: IGNITE YOUR CREATIVITY FOR PROFIT, INNOVATION, AND REINVENTION

I’ve put together a free webinar for those of you who are not members of my online course and inner circle.

In the course, there are dozens of hours of transformative content for you to watch or listen at your own pace plus access to live groundbreaking monthly calls. These handful of testimonials say it all.

If you’d like to watch it, please register here (it’s on auto-repeat every 15 minutes once you have registered).

But if you are ready to enroll now, you can do so here.

HOW CREATIVITY RULES THE WORLD

If you enjoy The Groove, you will love my book.

How Creativity Rules The World is filled with practical tools that will propel and guide you to get any project from an idea to a concrete reality.

Have you gotten yours yet?

It’s in three formats: hardcover, eBook and audiobook.

TEDX TALK

Have you already watched my TEDx Talk: “NFTs, Graffiti and Sedition: How Artists Invent The Future”?

I share three lessons I have learned from artists that always work for anyone in their careers. Watch it here.

Thank you for reading this far. Looking forward to hearing from you anytime.

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