We're literally in the middle of what I'm calling The Great Adult Creativity Recession, and its impact runs deeper than what you see at the surface level.

Here's what's really happening: Society, and the demands of adulting, has convinced us to trade our creative power for predictable productivity.

We've replaced "what if?" with "what's the ROI?"

We've swapped innovation for imitation.

The result? An actual ideas desert where genuine breakthroughs have been replaced by an endless stream of safe, recycled concepts.

But the truly devastating part: Those transformational ideas you've been keeping hoarding to yourself? The ones you've dismissed as too bold, too different, too risky? They might hold the exact solutions our world desperately needs right now.

We have to execute our ideas.

I've written an unflinching analysis of how we landed in this creativity crisis and mapped out a clear path forward. This isn't just another think piece – it's a wake-up call and a practical roadmap for rediscovering your creative potential.

​Read the full essay here.

We have to give ourselves the permission, and have the audacity, to never stop dreaming, ideating and executing our ideas until the world in front of us is our vision, actualized.

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If we get straight to the heart of it: most of us don't have an ideas problem.

We have hundreds of them. Brilliant ones. World-changing ones. The kind that keep us up at night with their potential.

What we have is a permission problem.

We're waiting for permission. Permission we're never going to get.

Permission to be imperfect.

Permission to not know everything.

Permission to make something that might actually not work.

Permission to take up space with our half-formed ideas and messy first attempts.

Permission to make something that's not revolutionary – yet.

And here's the irony – we're waiting for this permission from ourselves.

Here's the truth: The world doesn't need more idea collectors. It needs you – the real you, the messy you, the you that's willing to start before you're ready.

Take the first step and do the 10-minute terrible first try.

To further build out your idea after you take this first step, join me and other idea partners for the next ​Concept Catalyst Idea Development Sprint.

We have to give ourselves the permission, and have the audacity, to never stop dreaming, ideating and executing our ideas until the world in front of us is our vision, actualized.

Explore your ideas with me.

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