Productivity, there’s a challenge. And yet the world is full of people who claim to be experts in it. If you google it you will find countless pieces of advice, many of them conflicting each other. And that’s because each of us is unique. We each need our own approach, our own systems to make … Read more
There is so much to write about. Like the crazy life – things coming at me from all sides. Ideas that I could harvest. Stuff that I should remember. And in the midst of all this chaos, there is a still and quiet voice reminding me what is important. That voice says – what is … Read more
So, my last blog post was called “Emulating Young” and was about the inspiration I draw from the work of Neil Young. Anyone who knows me will also know that I have been massively influenced by the work of psychologist Carl Jung. Jung was one of the three pioneers of early psychology (alongside Freud and … Read more
There seems to be a general agreement that 2016 was an awful year for the planet and for the people in it. That doesn’t, of course, mean that it was bad for you and I – although some of the big national and global things that happened probably impacted how it turned out for each … Read more
We can read, we can watch and listen to the world outside us. We can spend time in nature looking for inspiration. We may look for guidance from others, looking for truths as we go. We may find answers in the music that we listen to late into the night. None of this has the … Read more
Earlier today, I gave a talk at the annual conference which my team holds each September. It’s a two-day conference called “Let’s Talk Research“, and this year the theme was “Edge Walking”. This talk is my contribution to the conference: In the film, “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner” from 1962 based on a … Read more
It’s an exercise I attempted a while back. Probably six months ago. I sat with a blank piece of paper and set out to write a list of 100 things that I am good at. It was hard, really difficult. Modesty kept kicking in. A voice inside me kept saying, well yes you’re quite good … Read more
It began with sharing TED Talks with the team. We all watched Brene Brown and Benjamin Zander. It was inspiring. Then there was Susan Cain – on introversion, and it made the team think differently about how we spend time together. Then we began to explore the ideas in the Academy of Creative Minds – … Read more
So… a couple of weeks has passed since I returned from the Social Age Safari in Bristol. The last three posts have some details about the three day event and if you want to see more you can look at the website and the twitter feed at #socialagesafari. I thought I would wait a little … Read more
Day Two of the Social Age Safari took place yesterday. 40 people in the room and over 100 people online. Using iPhones and iPads, the wider community had the opportunity to listen in to sessions and also to have their say through video links and Twitter. The connectivity, curation and hosting has been incredibly well … Read more