Exploring Your Creative Genius: Episode 144
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Times of fierce cynicism call for a radical naïveté.
I was considering writing a book that would take on the ambitiously important challenge of offering political and community leadership new ways to serve us, a book acknowledging that current political language has been so weaponized as to be useless. It seemed like a monumental challenge and I doubted that I was the person to take it on so while the need for it was always on my mind, and I kept finding examples of how great that need was, my self-doubt was too much of a hurdle and I couldn’t get started; for a couple of years at least I did a really good job of talking myself out of it.
Then this phrase came to me — was it formed in my subconscious or did I read it somewhere, I confess I am not sure — but when it emerged or I found it, it emboldened me to claim my naïveté and take this on.
The book is written, it is on a schedule to be published in early June under that title ‘Common Ground for US.’ It re-purposes the creative and entrepreneurial concepts and practices I have been sharing with folks for nearly 25 years.
This week’s show, the first of 2026, shared the foundational ideas behind this book and I will return to the topic—helping political and community leadership serve us—a half dozen times over the next six months.
That foundation is the discovery of common ground as attractive to the left as it is to the right, as useful to those who have as it is for those who don’t have yet, of service to folks in small towns and rural places as well as those living in suburban and urban worlds, and as important to older folk like me as it is to younger people… no, it’s even more important to those of you who will live deep into this century.
On this common ground I discovered the most rational and the most optimistic ways for us to prepare and for political leadership to help us prepare for a future of unknowable unknowns.
And it offers new language, perspectives, and behaviors for productive governance—perhaps showing us how we can create a sustainable abundance for all.
The book carries a ‘Warning, this book makes folks optimistic.’
As I said I will be unfolding this topic and examining it’s concepts and practices over the next few months. I’d love to hear your thoughts and ideas and if you have a group of folks you think would benefit from a creativity workshop that also offers the message of hopefulness for the future, please contact me.
You can reach me at [email protected]
And for the new year let me share an Irish blessing I used the two times I was the best man at a wedding: May the most that you desire be the least that you receive.
“Exploring Your Creative Genius” takes an expansive view on what it means to be creative and entrepreneurial in an ongoing conversation led by Carl Nordgren — entrepreneur, novelist, and lifelong student with decades of experience growing his own creative capacity and assisting others to do the same in exciting new ways!
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