How can we balance our creative ambition with the important people in our life who deserve our love and attention?

Have you ever felt like your dreams are bigger than you are? Like wanting to travel to exotic places or become a millionaire or write a best-selling book? Dreams so grand, so distant, they seem like stars glittering and unreachable in the night.

Nissan claims the batteries in its Leaf electric cars will last 22 years, an estimated 10-12 years longer than the average life of the car itself.

Failure is inevitable. We have to work hard at our art. We have to keep developing our unique voice and we do this by continually producing work even when our work isn’t received in the way we would like. Imagine if David Bowie had given up after hi ...

Everybody wants to be funny. Humor puts people at ease and makes them more receptive—exactly the place you want your reader to be. But how do we write it without it sounding forced or, as my kids would say, cringey?

There is that wonderful scene in Field of Dreams where Kevin Costner is urged to “build it and they will come”. What if you do that, and they don't come?

Why is it that fear and doubt accompany creativity? Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could just get on and paint or write or act without self-sabotage?

At least one of the students whose parents stand accused of fraud doesn’t appear to have been very interested in higher education in the first place.

Every fringe theorist needs an amplifier—used to be the penny press; today it's the Web.

The people of Rue Crémieux say they need gates to lock out Instagrammers.

I’ve observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount of money or to create something important. Usually, people start off wanting the former and end up wanting the latter.

By a 5 to 4 vote, justices temporarily stayed trial court decisions blocking the policy while litigation in the lower courts moves forward.

Stress reduction, insomnia prevention, emotion control, improved attention—certain breathing techniques can make life better. But where do you start?

"Promising not to write about her anymore would mean shutting down a vital part of myself, which isn’t necessarily good for me or her."

I really recommend reading The Artist’s Journey. It will help you understand why you are a creative person and why it is worth summoning up the courage to meet this challenge. It has led to a profound self-acceptance that the person I am, and the str ...

It is so exciting when you start a new creative project. You can’t wait to get going on it. But after you begin the work some of the initial enthusiasm starts to wear off off.

The earliest known painting of an animal has been identified in a cave on the island of Borneo.

You could make something right now. If you wanted to stop reading, grab a sheet of butcher’s paper and brainstorm ideas, you could probably come up with half a dozen ideas for apps, books or products. Ideas aren’t the hard part, after all — just ask ...