What's the source of a joyful life? A creative life? Does it come from the amount of ‘stuff’ the shiny colourful objects we house around us, and in us in the form of ideas? What if we go back to first principles of where joy comes from and how we can have more of it? What does that tell us?
Read MoreWe often think the solution to procrastination is to fit more things into the time we have available. But what if we have something else at our disposal? What if we have access to a ‘magic’ resource and a whole team of invisible helpers who can do all the ‘doing’ while you’re not thinking about it…? Would that be cool?
Read MoreHow do we get to optimal creativity? How do we encourage innovation? Turns out we can learn a lot from puppies!
Read MoreIt’s our nature to create, and yet the world is defined by change — impermanence. How do creativity and legacy relate to each other against a backdrop of the destruction and re-growth? It’s natural to grieve the loss of something, or someone, and it’s natural to create and re-create. It’s the very nature of life itself.
Read MoreI seem to have a lot of ideas and I sometimes wonder how I know which idea I want to capture in words (for writing), or in some other form, and which to let go. As I was musing, I was suddenly taken back to a Mozambique campfire and the fireflies…
Read MoreWhat’s the difference between a simple question that we google or that we ask a friend and move on, and those thorny questions that we chew around in our head for a long time, ask people for advice on, and yet never move forward? Let’s look at a practical solution…
Read MoreHow house-hunting and making up stories about ‘louche Louis’ is a metaphor for life. And how to have fun doing both!
Read MoreWe’re so used to being bombarded with the ‘right’ way to do things (eat, sleep, exercise, work, parent, teach…) that we think the solution is always to look for more information. What if there was an easier way? And a more effective way…?
Read MoreWhat does it take to live life happy? It takes seeing where problems are coming from and going upstream—dissolving them before they turn into something toxic. Let’s see how…
Read MoreIt looks like much of development and innovation is to find a great solution and then scale it, roll it out to other areas, other countries, other contexts. But what if we’re missing something in this model? What if we’re missing the very thing that makes that first solution so brilliant?
Read MoreWhen we think we need to figure out a solution to a problem, it looks like there’s a lot on ‘us’. But when we see that there are infinite levels of solutions and we simply need to widen our vision, we see problems in an entirely different way…
Read MoreI was at a debate on Universal Basic Income. As I listened to the panel and we talked around the table, I realised all of us were operating from one huge misunderstanding….
Read MoreMy gardening-savvy friends know something about planting daffodils that applies to life in a million different ways. Get it right and they will bloom year after year, get it wrong and this happens….
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