I just finished Creative Confidence - Unleashing the Creative Potential Within All of Us. Written by Dave and Tom Kelley, founders of IDEO, it represents a critical bit of thinking on creativity. Here's what you get: The authors demystify the creative process, represent it as a critical skill for working professionals, and then offer granular steps to achieving ... Continue Reading about Creative Confidence – How to Unleash Creative Potential
Doctors and Secondhand Stress
This WSJ piece on Secondhand Stress is worth a peek. It profiles those fast talking, multitasking employees who pass their stress to those around them. Of course, I see the world through my own lens and all I could think of was doctors. The busy doctor is almost cliche. And patients are at risk for secondhand stress. "Rushing blocks thoughtful communication and ... Continue Reading about Doctors and Secondhand Stress
Walk, Talk, Write
Every morning I take my dog Molly for a walk. The birds sing, Molly poops, and I think (Not necessarily in that order). And for many years I wrote things down when I arrived home after my walks. Very recently I decided to flirt with voice recognition to capture ideas. The results have been remarkable. The technology has become so good that I can talk freely into ... Continue Reading about Walk, Talk, Write
Do You Initiate or Respond?
Several years ago Seth Godin wrote about our modes of daily operation which center around response and initiation. It’s interesting to look at medicine from this perspective. In medicine we are all about about response. At our core, we respond to disease. On a more granular level we respond to pages, abnormal lab results, and new symptoms in our patients. We do ... Continue Reading about Do You Initiate or Respond?
Capture
Information is becoming a huge part of my world. All day it comes at me like a stream through a growing number of channels. Scraps, stories, bits of language, quotes, weird angles, pictures, unique human tensions, links and concepts. These can be virtual, IRL, or in my mind. Perhaps the most important things are the ideas that come to me by way of the things I ... Continue Reading about Capture
Clinical Sketchnotes
I just read The Sketchnote Handbook - The Illustrated Guide to Visual Note Taking, a new book released by Mike Rohde. It details a method of note taking that I've been witnessing at major meetings over the last couple of years. For the uninformed, sketchnotes are rich visual notes created from a mix of handwriting, drawings, hand-drawn typography, shapes and visual ... Continue Reading about Clinical Sketchnotes