The official letter from The Innovation Doctor. Your weekly prescription of practical creativity to get your ideas unstuck.
🎙️ The Doctor Is In: What if our hands know more than our brains do?
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Hey Reader, Happy Solstice! With the official start of summer, I'm feeling a pull towards a different kind of creative play—the kind you can touch. More on that in this week's letter. Dear Creativity, Summer is here. It’s the season to play, test, and expand. While my business is built around play, I’m feeling a call to return to a different kind, the kind where my hands are moving, where I can feel you through touch. I want to feel my fingers rolling hot glue, to see what happens when paint hits paper, or I feel the unexpected poke of wire on my fingertip. I want to remember what it feels like to be a maker, a tinkerer. To build and create just for the joy of it. This is how we first met, isn't it? As kids, before the overthinking started. When we trusted our hands to lead the way. I think we have it backwards sometimes. We try to think our way into new ideas when maybe we should be making our way into them hand-in-hand with you, Creativity. What could we all build this summer if we just let our hands do the talking? Innovatively yours, “The Doctor Is In” is the official weekly broadcast of The Innovation Doctor. The call-in lines are always open. If you have a question or a story for the Doctor, you can leave a message for her right here. |
The Doctor Is in // From the Studio
The official letter from The Innovation Doctor. Your weekly prescription of practical creativity to get your ideas unstuck.
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