Creativity isn’t a talent granted to a privileged few — it’s innate in all humans. And the ebb and flow of personal creativity helps determine whether or lives — and our work — are bright or bleak, eye-opening or

Roaming about the Cooper Hewitt museum in New York City, I ran across this insight from legendary industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss: “For research, I once got behind the counter in the clock section of a store. My first customer

New Yorker writer Andrew Marantz says “additive tourism” is travel to embellish the self — seeing new art, tasting new foods, hearing new music. “Subtractive tourism,” he explains, is travel taken to remove distractions keeping you from  yourself —

“Gathering string” is jargon sometimes used by newspaper and television reporters to describe their process of seeking out facts, quotes and other tidbits while developing stories. A reporter’s “string” might be a photo hanging on someone’s wall, a nervous

In the United States, most of us are already war-weary from all the badmouthing and mudslinging that’s happening in the presidential campaigns. Listen to this negative drumbeat for too long, and you’re bound to be downcast, because most talk