More and more evidence is showing the benefits of mindfulness practice; however, the media portrayal of mindfulness is misleading and has me feeling conflicted.
“In the beginning nothing comes, in the middle nothing stays, in the end nothing goes.”
It’s 8am. You’re in the back of a 6th grade science classroom. The students are sitting up tall in their chairs, their eyes gently closed.
Success first, then happiness, we tell ourselves. But perhaps we’ve got it backwards.
In their new book, Wired to Create, psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman and author Carolyn Gregoire explore the contradictions of creativity. Creativity is never one thing or another, they find. It isn’t clean, it’s messy.
