Don’t fret while the story’s being written
My mother took me to watch Harry Potter at the cinema for the first time. Though I enjoyed the film, I already knew what happened, having previously enjoyed the books. When Harry and his friends are confronted by devil's snare, a three-headed dog, or a double-headed murderous villain, I don't despair or worry for them. I know how the story goes. Though there are dips along the way, the story is just being written. The same is true in life. The story is just being written. That's not to say that there is not stress — as Sir Winston Churchill once said, 'you can't
I have bad news… the excuses are gone
I have bad news. The excuses are gone. It used to be
Unforgetting – because people have forgotten how to draw
“When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told here I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. Share stared back at me, incredulous, and said, ‘You mean they forget?" - Howard Ikemoto. Unforgetting. When you’re ready to unforget, I’ll be right here. I want to ask you two very personal questions today. The first, what are you afraid of doing? The second is, what don’t you know how to do? There are many answers. But I’m curious if there are things we never learned to do, or if we
The Slingshot Principle – why the worst-case scenario is the best-case scenario
The Slingshot Principle. Steve Jobs is famous for telling us that we ‘can’t connect the dots going forward’. The Co-Founder of Apple was dropping out of college but took a course in calligraphy when exploring things. He later reflected how valuable that class was in shaping the creative fonts that would go on to distinguish Apple’s typefaces going forward. The funny thing is, no entrepreneurship or business course will ever teach or emphasise the importance of calligraphy. When Jobs was later ousted from Apple, he went on to create another incredible company - Pixar, which was responsible for timeless classic films like Toy