Here’s a simple tip if you want to be more creative. Stop being so damn cool.
You know who you are. Yeah, you. The one who wears those smashingly sexy skinny jeans and that not quite perfectly fitted t-shirt with the obscurely fabulous design? You sir, (or ma’am) are the coolest person on the face of the earth.
You’re also incredibly boring.
Despite what you may have learned in art school or the local speakeasy you love to frequent, being cool does not make you more creative or interesting. It makes you inhibited …

If ten people, who can each pull a rope attached to a strain gauge with 200 pounds of force, were to combine their efforts, they would not be capable of pulling with 2,000 pounds of force.
The group result will be much less than the sum of individual efforts.
This counterintuitive phenomenon was identified by Maximilien Ringelmann, a French agricultural engineer, and has come to refer to the concepts of coordination losses and social loafing.
Basically, there are two reasons for this effect. The more people you have, the less likely it becomes …

Your family and friends are assholes when it comes to achieving your goals. Most great ideas usually sound kind of crazy or stupid at first. While not meaning to do so, friends and family can be the most discouraging when great ideas are at their most vulnerable.
“You want to start a what?”
“You want to go to where?”
“Goooood luck!”
“Seriously, what do you want to do?”
I’m sure your friends and family are nice people. But, when it comes to your goals, they’re assholes. Do not talk to them about your plans. Talk …

(The record is 50, but actress Cameron Diaz briefly held the record with 48 bunnies)
Check out this great idea, friends of mine have started, a site where you can upload your own world record.
They are holding fun live shows in New York and have become a regular guest on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
Universal Record Database (Click on the Pic to go to the site)

When I watch 20-year-old artists like Taylor Swift on the Grammy’s, I feel old. When I watch 60-year-old artists like The Who perform during the Super Bowl halftime show, I feel young.
You know what song I haven’t heard in a while? Had a Bad Day by the guy who’s name I can’t remember.
The reactions from the guys at the bar down the street is a more accurate Super Bowl commercial ad meter than the USA Today.
The Super Bowl commercials were just fine.
The new Facebook layout is just fine.
- John Huggins

You never know where creative inspiration can come from.  Then again, sometimes you do.
See the inspiration here.
- Chris Soskin

You go into Best Buy of some store like that. You look at a TV or major appliance. A sales associate comes over and explains all the benefits of the item in a friendly and convincing way. You like the item. But, you don’t buy it. You leave the store. That night you think about it and decide to buy it. The next day, you go in and look at it again. Another sales associate comes buy and asks if you need any help and you just say, “Yeah, I’d …

Literally. Coming up with ideas is like taking a crap. You get one good one a day. Two if you’re lucky and sometimes you’re blessed with three or four. If you try to push your idea out into the world before it’s ready, it might not work and it can be pretty painful. Sometimes the best thing you can do is relax and drink lots of coffee. I still remember being in school and seeing a copywriting student staring at
a blank word document on his mac. I asked if he …

If you were a dentist, you would probably know everything about your job: the new techniques, the newest equipments and the coming seminars.
If you were a mechanic, you would have to know how the new engines or gears are and why they are different.
As a shoe seller, you would have to know everything about the Nike models, the Adidas designs and the differences between them.
Information and experience: that’s what makes you survive as a regular dentist, an average mechanic, a nice cook or a tattoo artist.
But, apparently, you don’t need …

Start with a long set up. Assume people need an introduction because that’s what everybody else does and who the hell are you to change it? Now, this intro could end now, but 3 sentences rounds out your OCD and clinches that last spike of boredom.

Go ahead and tell them shit they already know. Here would be a good place to put something like “Know your audience.” Or, “Never give up.” Feel free to elaborate on shit people already know and it never hurts to assume they’re going to read …