How do you harness the power of your own creativity to change your work, your business, and your life?

Maria Brito, an art advisor, curator, and consultant burst onto the art scene by questioning

why the art world operated as it did, and in the process, she built an impressive

roster of celebrity clients who wanted something that only she could offer.

She's put her wisdom on creativity,

which she argues is just a series of habits,

actions, and attitudes that anyone can develop

into her new book,

How Creativity Rules the World,

the art and business of turning your ideas into gold.

Maria, thank you so much for doing this.

Thank you, Alicia.

Actually, I'm a fan.

I love when fandom goes in both directions.

One of the things I was struck by reading your new book is that it's all about creativity.

And yet in an earlier part of your career, you had told a reporter that when you were growing up in Caracas with your mom, she was very big on this idea of a woman being self-sufficient.

And she says to you, only creative people starve.

Yes.

And it seems to me, given the trajectory of your own career,

where you go to college in Venezuela, you go to Harvard for law school,

that you kind of bought into that idea.

Absolutely.

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