Have you noticed there's an epidemic sweeping the globe? I'm not talking about swine flu. I'm talking about the wrong kind of ideavirus. The kind of negative thinking that's highly contagious - and …
Dan Pink on Why Rewards Don’t Work
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrkrvAUbU9Y Business is rewarding itself to death, according to Dan Pink. He's not just talking about 'fat cat' pay and bonuses. He's talking about something much …
The Secret of Johnny Depp’s Success
Photo by nicogenin Did you realise you probably know Johnny Depp's films better than he does? That's if we can take this interview at face value, where he claims not to have seen his latest …
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How to Succeed in Hollywood
Sometimes surfing the web leads to buried treasure. That's how I felt when I found Lateral Action. The tag-line said it all... creativity + productivity = success It Just Adds Up My wife and I …
Are You Fit Enough to Sit in Front of a Computer All Day?
Photo by ChrisL AK There's an old saying that "the pen's lighter than the spade". Back when going to school was a novelty for families used to toiling on the land, adults said it to children, to …
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Why Solving Other People’s Problems Is Easy
Photo by amandabhslater You love your friend, I know that. But it doesn't disguise the fact he's getting on your nerves. Once again, you're sat listening to the same old complaints about the …
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Is Your Phone Killing Your Creativity?
Photo by inottawa Once upon a time, a creativity researcher asked a group of schoolchildren to write her some stories. She encouraged them to write about whatever they liked and let their …
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“Don’t Try” – Charles Bukowski’s Advice to Creators
German-American poet, novelist and short story writer Charles Bukowski consciously absorbed the world around him as he inhabited the bars and rooming houses in the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles. It …
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Mervyn Peake: How to Build a Castle in the Air
Image copyright The Mervyn Peake Estate. Please do not reproduce without permission. You know that dream you've had, at the back of your mind, forever? The one you've been promising yourself …
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