1: We come home from work tired.  We’ve struggled to solve a problem.  We decide to take a shower.  To wash away all our frustrations. 

Standing there, we feel the water beating against our bodies.  We relax.  Our mind wanders.

Boom.  An idea hits us like a flash of lightning. 

What just happened?  We’ve moved through three of the four stages of the flow cycle: from “struggle” to … continue reading

1: Remember the 1980s TV show MacGyver or the hilarious Saturday Night Live send-up of it?

The show’s central theme involved MacGyver’s creative ability to solve complex problems.

Turns out MacGyver’s creator Lee Zlotoff was also an excellent solver of problems himself. 

“To write episodic TV,” Lee explains, “I had to produce an enormous amount of creative material under very tight deadlines.  There was no time to get stuck.” 

Lee … continue reading