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Stop romanticizing creativity…please

A short video pleading for some honesty about the creative process…

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Struggles

Understanding our personal patterns helps us in many ways….

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 – …

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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 …

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