The Good Life w/ Eric Liu (IMAGINATION FIRST)

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February 17
Eric Liu
IMAGINATION FIRST: Unlocking the Power of Possibility

Time: 6:30 pm
Cost: $35/person (includes all appetizers
and a copy of the featured book)

Location: Hotel Andra
2000 4th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98121

The best companies know that innovative thinking is the only competitive advantage that can’t be outsourced, and the best schools are those with deep cultures of creative problem solving.  But both innovation and creativity depend on imagination first: the ability and willingness to conceive of what is not.  Fortunately, it is something we can all cultivate—with practice.

	Eric Liu

This books shows us how, with 28 (and a half) universal practices for opening minds at work, home and play. All of them are designed to enable anyone-from corporate executive to preschool teacher-to get unstuck, to reframe challenges and to help others do the same.

Eric Liu is the founder of the Guiding Lights Network, dedicated to mindful and imaginative mentorship.  His previous books include Guiding Lights: How to Mentor and Find Life’s Purpose, The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speakerand the national bestseller The True Patriot. Liu is a former White House speechwriter and senior advisor to President Bill Clinton, and is now an educator ad entrepreneur living in Seattle.

The Good Life: books for better living events are interactive evenings of conversation with authors on tools for creating “the good life.” These events will take place at either Tom Douglas’ Palace Ballroom or the Hotel Andra Ballroom, where we will gather together to enjoy appetizers and beverages and an onstage interview of the author by Warren Etheredge of The Warren Report.

Read what Danielle Greger-Babbit says at examiner.com

A copy of each author’s new book is included in the ticket price as are appetizers and bites of Theo Chocolate that evening. There will be a cash bar available.