Introduction for My 9th Act
Introduction for My 9th Act A variety of biographies, autobiographies and memoir articles I have read or tv shows focused on people starting their 2nd or 3rd Acts in their lives. In 2006 I read two books: The Element by Sir Ken Robinson of TED Talk fame and Van Gogh Blues by Dr. Eric Maisel, creator of the professional organization for Creativity Coaches or psychotherapists that work with creative people not simply mental ill people in general. Reading them impacted my thinking about my life and my professional work that I had been doing since 1984 full time and part time since 1976. I had been working as a professional speaker, trainer, college professor and a consultant trying to help managers and company owners or CEOs to develop their supervisors to their upper managers in knowledge, skills and styles of Leading Communicating Teaming Creative Thinking and Creative Problem Solving and some topics that fit those categories that were popular from 1980 to 2006. After do the work for s...