I’ve worked in the construction industry for most of my adult life, since I was 15 actually. And for a long time, it put money in my pocket. I’m grateful for that. I’m also grateful for what working in this business has taught me, and it has taught me plenty. But it’s a toxic game to operate in and everyone I speak to in the construction industry agrees with me.
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The Artist's Manifesto
The Artist's Manifesto is for storymakers, artists and creative people. If you desire the freedom to follow your creative urge, then this is for you. It is your call to return to the passion of your art, your craft, to create beautiful and unique things purely for the sake of it. It asks you to disregard the need for recognition and applause, and instead embrace your true creative spirit. Enter your details to download your free copy.
How To Improve Creativity: A Single Simple Solution
If you want to know how to improve creativity in your work, you’ll be glad to know there are literally an infinity of ways you can do it. I think it’s better to consider the process as allowing creativity to do its work, rather that finding a way to improve creativity. Creativity is not something you can improve, it simply is.
What Is Creativity?
Asking what is creativity is like asking how big is the sky. It’s a bit of a non-question. Some would say creativity is the degree of inventiveness we have, and I wouldn’t disagree. However, that doesn’t quite hit it for me, creativity is a little more subtle yet more complex than that.
Go With The Flow Vs. Make It Happen, Which Is It?
They say you’re supposed to plan, to set goals, not simply go with the flow of things. Go after what you want relentlessly until you make it yours. Step out your process and know exactly where you are at every moment. Anything less is to be flakey and unreliable, or at best mediocre.
Why Hard Selling Is Bad Business & What To Do Instead
Hard selling is difficult to take, isn’t it? Businesses incapable of reading what it is you need trying to sell you shit you don’t want. Insurance salesmen do it, banks do it, supermarkets do it, for Christ’s sake even veterinarians do it! Well, all selling is not made equal, you don’t have to do it like this.
Physicist Julian Barbour: “We’ve Reached The End of Time”
In his book The End of Time, Julian Barbour puts forward the proposition that what we perceive as the passage of time is an illusion. He says, if we could stand outside the universe and ‘see it like it really is’, it would appear to be static. I’m on board with this idea. Here I introduce you to his book and a new idea of time and space.
Janey Mack
Janey Mack is the heartbreaking story of the tragic life of Dublin prostitute and drug addict Mary Jane McCarthy. Follow Janey as she struggles to cope with the horror of her early childhood to find peace, love and her true place in the world. Discover how when all seems lost for Janey she realises at […]
The Illusion of Time
What if everything you thought you knew about reality was merely a figment of your imagination? My investigations into science and philosophy and the nature of time and space suggests that might well be the case.