Category Creativity

Genius Bumble Bee

According to the laws of aerodynamics, the bumble bee has too small a wingspan for the big body that it has, and can’t fly. But the bumble bee doesn’t know the laws of aerodynamics and it flies. Probably, this phenomenon…

Unreasonable Reason

Being reasonable is standard operating wisdom, which has its place in our lives. However, for High Achievement centric thinking, the opposite seems to work. High achievement or anything out of the ordinary requires you to extend yourself outside your comfort…

3 years at WTC Abu Dhabi

For those three years that I hung around at my exhibition at the World Trade Center, I was in love with the lovely ambience and the feeling that that architecture created.  I couldn’t stop wandering around admiring the nooks and…

Design is Everywhere

Design can be good, bad, or dysfunctional. There is nothing like No design.   Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” — Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, Inc. Nature designs everything beautifully,…

Being the Brush & Paint

“On the path of Love, we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of Master Painter.” I love this verse by Maulana Rumi because it beautifully clarifies the ultimate source…

Is Nature Like Art?

“Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art, and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.” Immanuel Kant, In THE CRITIQUE OF JUDGMENT (1790). He establishes the a…

Art is Happiness?

I came across this quote about Art and Happiness “Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers,…

Chasing that Big Idea?

All ideas are born small. There is nothing like BIG IDEA. They become big, by building on the small idea that just happened to have popped in from anywhere. It is said about Federal Express Courier Company that it was…

The Power of ICOM

Over the years, I have met many people with loads of talent, who shared with me the secrets of their inner call. Some wanted to make movies while others wanted to write books or become artists. They couldn’t because of…