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We
were recently featured on Good
Morning America
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Lessons On Entrepreneurship From the
Picasso Museum
by Michael Haaren
When I lived in Paris
as a “starving writer” back in the 1980s (in a houseful of aspiring
French actors and actresses, but that’s another story), I used to visit
the Picasso Museum in Le Marais for inspiration and creative
relaxation.
What always struck me
about Picasso was his willingness to pour his creativity into
ever-changing forms, like Edison performing “10,296 experiments” in his
quest for one of his inventions. Both Picasso and Edison are of a type
with the “serial entrepreneurs” we occasionally meet or read of, who
are driven to launch businesses, again and again.
But my point isn’t to
emphasize these folks’ drive (which can mislead us into holding them in
awe), but rather to underline how we, too, can channel our own
creativity into refashioning our lives toward a better “artwork,
business, or nickel / iron storage battery” (the goal of Edison’s 10K
experiments).
Our creative urge is
always alive – even after death, many would say – and the same force
that enables us to play imaginatively on the rug with our children or
to dream simple dreams at night can be harnessed to conceive and
fashion “new and better forms” for ourselves and our loved ones. These
“forms” can range from the literal (losing a few pounds to feel better
about yourself, for example) to the vocational (defining a new niche
for yourself, or figuring out new ways to market your expertise) to the
spiritual (going more often to your place of worship, wherever it might
be, or being there more profoundly after you arrive).
The trick, it seems
to me, is not just to “think outside the box” (my cat does that, every
time he scatters kitty litter on the floor), but to avoid the “other
boxes” that are sitting on either side of the one you just thought out
of!
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Rat Race Factoids
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Work
From Home Scams
There
is a 42-to-1 scam ratio among "work from home" ads on the Internet, and
that is not counting the ones that arrive as spam in your inbox. [Read
our press release on this statistic.]
Average
Annual Vacation Days by Country:
United
States...........13
Japan...............25
Canada...............26
Great
Britain............28
Brazil..............34
Germany...............35
France................37
Italy.................42
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