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Stop romanticizing creativity…please
A short video pleading for some honesty about the creative process…
When I am gazing out the window…
One evening, when I was about 16, we were playing a family game of cards and my mind must have wandered off as I was …
Being inside the chrysalis, amongst the creative gloop
Last year, I needed to really focus, really hide myself away and immerse myself in a new project – a big one. I started to …
The Dark Side of creativity – Episode 2
If you haven’t read Episode 1, you can see it here, but I finished it off with the grand statement “next time we will examine the role …
Another Dark Side to Creativity: effort embarrassment and guilt!
I was up early this morning – I have a 3 day conference to go to this afternoon, but that wasn’t the reason for rising …
The Dark Side of creativity – episode one
I have been thinking about the dark side of creativity a lot lately. The public face of creativity is usually one of beautiful paintings, meaningful …
Rocks, driftwood and seeking flow
The word “flow” frequently features in my discussions with people. Like many language short cuts, people immediately understand when we say “things are flowing really …
Vulnerability welcome here!
It keeps coming up, this vulnerability thing. From the day I watched Brene Brown’s amazing TED talk, very few days have passed where I haven’t …
Pulling it together? More like pulling teeth…
For someone like me, spending a prolonged period completing and finishing is like pulling teeth. And when I say “prolonged” I mean, more than a …
Day 1 and a bit
So here we are. They tell me its November, but I am not convinced. I am fairly sure its around the end of June – …
The joys and pains of finishing
I am sitting here, working on a chapter for a book I am co-authoring. I have been writing the chapter for months and I …