Orna Ross

Here's how to put yourself on your holiday gift list this year. However much or little time you're taking off, use it to really take off. Aim to spend as much of the holiday season as possible doing things that inspire you. And in the company of friends who inspire you -- which, of course, incl...

We should all make more art and we should all bring a more artful, creative approach to our life decisions around everything from family to money.Why?  Igniting our creative intelligence means instant access tofun and gamespeace and joybalance and harmonymeaning and purposedeeper connection to ev...

I can't tell you how many times I've sat backstage with a line of novelists at some festival, all of us with red pens in hand, frantically editing our published novels into fit form so that we might go onstage and read from them. It's an unfortuante thing, but it turns out that the perfect state...

Creative balance has two key traits. It is individual. What is perfectly poised for one person is utter boredom for another, crazily driven to a third. And balance is dynamic. You don’t wake up one day and say: “Ah! Here I am at last, finally balanced!” It is constantly being renegotiated - ...

A little over year ago, when physical weakness from illness and treatment, took me away from my normal writing activities, I began this blog. It took me a while to hit on the topic of Creative Intelligence and I still have a lot of improvements I want to make. I'm no pro-blogger, I'm a writer, ...

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The mystique of rock climbing is climbing; you get to the top of a rock glad it's over but really wishing it would go on forever. The justification of climbing is climbing, like the justification of poetry is writing; you don't conquer anything except things in yourself... The act of writing ju...