I went to Beatrix Potter’s house ‘Hill Top’ in the tiny village of Hawkshead in the Lake District last week. She incorporated lots of real-world objects such as walls and gates (and the pub) from the village into her illustrations in the books I’d read as a child. Books which had some great characters in wonderfully […]
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Fear. I battle with it every day: am I doing all this right? Should I have made a different decision just now? Am I messing it all up? (Even now, I’m analyzing the tone of this piece.) A few minutes every day (and quite a few minutes when I’m asleep) are spent in this state of mind. Like a
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Watch It Here’s a great TED talk by Adam Savage all about ‘cosplay’, which is where people visit conventions dressed as their favourite character from a book, TV show, movie or comic. The way he feels transformed by being particular characters is fascinating. Get It On However, the key idea I want to get across here is not
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“I’ll never be any good at that.” “I’m rubbish at this.” “I always mess it up.” Lots of people tell themselves this kind of damaging, destructive nonsense every day (British people in particular, it seems, although I have precisely no data to back that up. It seems to be true, though). Resilience Well, giving up’s easy;
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Are you scared of speaking in public? Of course you are, you’re a human being. No-one in their right mind enjoys it (well, I enjoy it, but that proves my point). Think it’s going to be really difficult to become confident? Well, it’s not. Hard work perhaps, but with the right guidance (mine, obviously) it can actually
