The Resilient Creative

The Resilient Creative

Alternate worlds for creative problem-solving

What Prince, a roofer, a scientist, or a chef might teach use about being creatively stuck

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Jen Knox
Aug 02, 2026
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How do you handle creative stuckness?

The character is lacking agency, the narrative is flat, the ideas feel stale. Worse: you don’t even know what’s wrong. Things just feel off.

I had professional development funds to use or lose at work, so I asked to be signed up for a Design Thinking course at Harvard. I thought it’d be super easy and intuitive. I’m …

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