Creating the Creative License Hi Reader: It’s been twenty years since I wrote one of my favorite books, The Creative License: Giving yourself permission to be the artist you truly are. Perhaps you’ve read it. I wrote the book at a transitional point in my life: I had recently been fired for the first time, from a job I’d hated — as the Chief Creative Officer of an ad agency — but which was, to that point, the peak of my advertising career. Despite this indignity, I had a nice contract to...