Author: JD Stewart

1. Read more stuff Magazines, books, blogs, food labels… it doesn’t really matter — just read. The more you know the more you have to be creative with. 2. Listen to Music The type of music you listen to can help you generate different types of ideas. It has been repeatedly demonstrated that the IQ…

Do you want to make a difference? You can’t do that by being one of the masses. If you are in the middle, main stream, or moderate the one thing you cannot do is make a difference. The reason is simple your ideas, are just like every one else’s . If you are trying to…

I was listening to a gentleman yesterday talk about goal setting. He was big into goal setting and set big goals for himself. And he almost always achieves them. He was not always like that. He use to set goals and then may or may not achieve them. He response to missing the goal was,…

There has been a lot written lately about the poor job schools are doing in teaching innovation. What they teach is compliance and conformity.  I agree that school can and should do a better job of teaching student to think and not just mechanically follow a set of rules. However, the unstated assumption of these…

I recently attended a clinic on using magic in presentations and training presented by Ken Jones an army officer, PhD candidate and dang good magician. He opened the class with a presentation of  a magic effect performed 4 different ways. It was the classic effect of picking a card and then it is identified by…