My interest in creative intelligence was ignited one day when I read a passing comment in an old magazine interview with the great psychologist, Abraham Maslow.

“The key question,” Maslow said, “isn’t ‘What fosters creativity?’ But it is ‘Why in God’s name isn’t everyone creative?’ Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody creates anything.”

This jumped off the page at me, as if it were written in flashing neon.

At that time, my day job was running a literary agency and writing school in Dublin but as I went about the work I had previously loved, I found Maslow’s words kept flaring in my mind.  At the same time, a flurry of unexpected events came whirling into my life — and I wound up in London, where I now live and write.

And work at spreading the understanding that imagination is not some sort of icing on the cake of life, but the very oven in which it’s baked. If that makes sense to you, you might like to connect and join in.

That is, if you don’t mind becoming the sort of person who makes life-changing decisions on the basis of passing comments in an old magazine.

“‘Visions don’t come when you ask them to but they do come by asking.’ EM Forster.