How do you choose a wine if you’re not into wine? Standing in front of a shelf of over 1200 wine bottles, all of varying prices, designs, flavour profiles or sizes, the choice is overwhelming. If you know nothing about wine, awards help. If something is awarded, and something isn’t, perhaps the awarded one is… Continue reading Safe bets
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Someone else is better than you
What if we forgot about our weaknesses and focussed on our strengths? What if we teamed up with people who had strengths that complemented our weaknesses?
It’ll be slower than you think
Success isn’t slow, we just imagine it to be fast.
A new table
Changing me is hard. It’s far easier to change my environment, and then watch it change me in return.
Draw everyday. Or don’t.
Some advice is good, and some is bad. What’s most important about any advice, is that it’s just advice. What works for some, doesn’t work for others.
First, we make the clay
First drafts aren’t final drafts. They aren’t even close. The first draft for a writer is nothing but a big hunk of clay, waiting to be shaped, the only problem is, writers have to do the digging.
Fill the cutting room floor
Could writers and illustrators take a lesson from filmmakers who shoot much more footage than they need so that only the best bits will make it?
Pictures are for kids, right?
In an increasingly visual, connected world, why does visual literacy play second fiddle to words? Why is the path to literacy paved in language?
Optimising your life to encourage boredom
‘Avoiding boredom’ is something that we’re trained to achieve in a bid to be ‘more productive’. But it’s not until you permit yourself to be bored again that you truly see the power of it in helping you make more lateral and inventive connections, more often.
Prove them wrong
Being the underdog might just be the thing you need to make the work you want to make.