When we look to someone remarkable (and remarkable comes in a million different colours), why do we spend so much time studying where they put their feet instead of following their gaze to the wide-open sky? …inspiration only dies down because the theoreticians… begin to dissect, analyze and then codify into rules what yesterday’s [...]
Who the hell do you think you are? And what makes you think you have anything worthwhile to say? Who the hell do I think I am? I’m a life unravelling. Alongside 6 billion others. I don’t know exactly what I am, but I know I’m a complex thing. I’m conscious. I’m aware. I can [...]
. Go, in the name of imagination, of wonder and curiosity, of the spirit of inquiry, of critical engagement, of the ethic of the producer and of enterprise, and see what you can make of them. ~ Donald Horne, Graduation Ceremony Address at University of Sydney, 2005 Donald Horne was an Australian journalist, social critic, [...]
Last weekend I watched The King’s Speech—the movie about King George VI (Colin Firth), his stutter, and his speech therapist Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush). What stayed with me, was the gently drawn portrait of Lionel Logue as a man with a sincere vocation. He approached his work, whether with children or kings, with deep dignity [...]
In the world of marketing and copywriting, ‘What’s the benefit?’ is a mantra. It’s the question every service or product has to answer, in one way or another, to convince us to hand over the cash – What’s this going to do for me? Why should I care? Naomi Dunford of ittybiz.com gives a quick [...]
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