NICK LORE

In my distant past I was a corporate CEO, entrepreneur, plant manager, researcher in psychology, blues musician, well driller and paperboy. Now I live by a lake in the midst of woods, fields, and flower gardens with my wonderful wife, Mitra.

When I was a boy, I would watch the men in dark suits walking reluctantly toward the train into Philadelphia —and work. They seemed to drag enormous weights behind them, zombies being sucked to the city by the call of their voodoo master. They had lost the joy of living.

My great passion became inquiring into unexplored possibilities of how to be creative, fulfilled and self-expressed, without giving up a sense of wonder and play. I studied psychology, Eastern philosophy. anthropology and literature while my friends became rock stars, painters, writers, and scientists who had found their niche. As the years went by and they grew in mastery and renown, I still had no idea what to do with my life. Work was just a way to make a living.

At 27, I thought I should settle down and act like a responsible adult. My best and final management job was running a solar energy and conservation firm--I became restless and bored with it just as I had with every other job. Many of my friends’ working lives had not lived up to their dreams, either. While searching for a career expert to guide me, I was appalled to find methods that were the technological equivalent of 16th century surgery. So, with the support of R. Buckminster Fuller, I founded Rockport Institute in 1981 and dedicated my life to creating powerful, effective career-coaching methods that would allow everyone to wake up in the morning with enthusiasm for the workday ahead.