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The founder of the international Transition Towns movement asks why true creative, positive thinking is in decline, asserts that it's more important now than ever, and suggests ways our communities can revive and reclaim it.

Shira Erlichman is an expert at finding inspiration in the world and turning it into beautiful art.

Too often, the stories we tell about the world's most celebrated innovators leave out people from varied backgrounds, identities, experiences, and geographies. Innovation Currency challenges that narrative. Innovation is not exclusive to Silicon Valley founders or corporate strategists. It's a natural human practice that unfolds in classrooms, barbershops, community centers, and corner offices alike.

The world is flooded with information, but starving for wisdom. Many feel a sense of overload, anxiety, and a general state of restlessness. Eastern cultures refer to the monkey mind and respond with yoga and meditation. Western civilization has identified a series of disorders and related prescription drugs. All of this can help, but what is the complete and balanced solution? How do we get grounded, despite all the confusion? How do we build a solid foundation that assures solid, authentic growth?

THE IDEA The idea is that what you have inside of you is what the world needs more of. You have the transformer, the nuclear reactor, the raw power, the Tony Stark/Ironman heart thing, the Holy Grail, inside of you. We all do. Each one of us has a 50-carat diamond waiting to be unearthed and the world needs it, YOU need it. It is you, your Authentic Self. Your pure essence is everything. It’s what you’ve been looking for, it’s what we’ve been looking for. This is the truth and I want you to know it; I want you to experience it and I want the world to have it.

In my journey to do better in life and take care of my family, I've compiled a lot of helpful information. Here is what I've digested and used to fight the dreaded "self-sabotage" issue most creatives and entrepreneurs have.

The science fiction writer Damon Knight wrote once that writers were basically toads in childhood. They were the introverts, the loners, the less-than-handsome or beautiful children in school. Many of those toads gravitated to literature to read about better times and better worlds, he noted.

Influence, power, victory, confidence, and charisma: all these traits are associated with successful people, those whose presences are immediately noticed as they walk in any room. Those are the ones who inspire others around them and leave legacies through what they say, do, and achieve.