I’ve been having more thoughts about how to best approach the Immersion Composition Society’s 20-Song-Game on Friday.   Here’s a few more ideas I’ve come up with. Create Templates For Each Genre When you startup garageband, you can choose from a few templates:  That “test template” (t...

This Friday I’m going to participate in the Immersion Composition Society’s “20-Song Game”. The idea of the game is to write a lot of songs quickly with the hope that good stuff and inspiration for future works will come out of it. The Game gives you a 24 hour window of time to write as many songs a...

Here's the full brainstorm of sessions ideas for Happiness Interactive Lab from around 2016. I'll leave the details of what I meant up to your imagination. My friends Kate Nichols, Andy Miller, Wendy Mitchell, and Steve Geiser contributed ideas to this list as well but I can't remember which ones. T...

The Origins Of HI Lab At some point after the failure of the “black plastic” version of the Eureka Room, I was meeting with a coach trying to decide what was next for my work. We determined that I really enjoyed the forced time off from Big Weekend Calendars. For a few months out of the year, there’...

I'm camping today and am thinking about how when you book a place online the photos create expectations. As a creator of experiences showing photos can work for you against you. If you give people the impression that certain things are oriented certain ways and then they get there and they're not qu...

I was camping this weekend so this post will be short. Being Bored Camping allows you to be bored. If you don’t have cell service or internet, if like us, you don't have radio or any kind of entertainment then it’s just sitting there talking and sitting there not talking. I'm not a fan of sitting an...

I’ve been playing guitar for more than 25 years. I’ve taken lessons with multiple teachers, read books, studied flashcards, played in bands, and jammed with friends. But I think if you took all the skills and knowledge I had about playing guitar you could teach it to someone in maybe 6 months or les...

Title: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being and Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life Author: Martin E. P. Seligman (Bio) Note: I find these books so are so related that I am putting them together as one post. Some of these ideas have made a huge difference in...

Note: This post was drafted on 2/18 Warning: Spoilers. If you are planning on visiting the Eureka Room, you may want to wait to read this until afterward. However you if you like to give feedback, by all means read ahead. I’ve been re-working the “Face it til you make it” mindfultainment program. Or...

I’ve practiced guitar every day for the last 50 days. The guitar is a tricky beast. There’s a lot of ways to approach learning and progress is often slow. For example, I was doing speed drills for a month before I saw any progress at all. I wanted to give the other parts of my routine enough time to...