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Welcome to the article archive. Here's everything I've written here on the site [almost]. Articles over the years have covered an array of topics, but more recently are related to the psychology of performance and creative expertise. Articles are grouped under these categories.

☕️ So pull up a seat, pour yourself a coffee or two and enjoy a read.

2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015

2022 (2)
  • 17/08/22 - 219 Dr Jonathan Murphy on Free Speech, Psychology, Future of Work, AI, & Identity
  • 14/08/22 - Sunday Letters: A Re-introduction
2021 (7)
  • 05/12/21 - Annie Dillard on Time, Structure, Coffee, & Learning A Trade
  • 28/11/21 - How To Be An Optimist
  • 21/11/21 - Bertrand Russell on Happiness & Unhappiness
  • 31/10/21 - Oíche Shamhna
  • 24/10/21 - Longtermism: Something You Should Know About
  • 03/10/21 - How To Turn Off A Humming Fridge
  • 21/02/21 - Cyclical Time
2020 (64)
  • 14/12/20 - Making For Its Own Sake Versus Making For Success
  • 05/11/20 - Business or Vocation?
  • 18/10/20 - The Pursuit of Happiness Part 3: Nine Factors That Impact Your Happiness
  • 13/10/20 - More Time For What?
  • 04/10/20 - The Pursuit of Happiness Part 2: The Focusing Illusion
  • 01/10/20 - On Mortality
  • 28/09/20 - The Fool
  • 27/09/20 - The Pursuit of Happiness Part 1
  • 20/09/20 - Have We Mistaken A Shiny Penny For The Sun?
  • 13/09/20 - Scepticism: An Antidote To The Dangers of Groupthink
  • 11/09/20 - How To Be Resilient
  • 09/09/20 - Bide Your Time
  • 06/09/20 - On Becoming The Performatist
  • 04/09/20 - On The Edge of The World
  • 27/08/20 - The More Real
  • 24/08/20 - Too Much of A Good Thing
  • 23/08/20 - Carl Rogers on The Resolution of Internal Conflict
  • 16/08/20 - Whitehead: The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness
  • 09/08/20 - Taking Score Too Soon
  • 26/07/20 - On The Merits of Introversion
  • 12/07/20 - On The Slavery of Work
  • 07/06/20 - Building Resilience In Turbulent Times
  • 01/06/20 - The Hidden Benefit In Boring
  • 29/05/20 - Momentum: Help Or Hindrance?
  • 24/05/20 - Creative Polymathy In The Life of The Everyday Genius
  • 21/05/20 - What Is Randomness?
  • 17/05/20 - A Word On Performance
  • 15/05/20 - Be A Light Unto Oneself
  • 12/05/20 - Work For Yourself
  • 10/05/20 - The 7 Properties of Play
  • 08/05/20 - It's Not Such A Big Deal
  • 07/05/20 - When Sitting With A Problem…
  • 05/05/20 - The Sword Upon Which You'll Fall
  • 04/05/20 - There Is No Point In Work, Unless…
  • 03/05/20 - Maslow: How To Resolve The Creative Dichotomy
  • 29/04/20 - Move Closer To The Centre
  • 27/04/20 - Try Many Things
  • 26/04/20 - Is It Any of My Business?
  • 24/04/20 - Build A New Skill
  • 23/04/20 - A Return to Craft Based Work
  • 22/04/20 - All of A Sudden You're There
  • 19/04/20 - 7 Life Lessons From The Diary of a Stoic Philosopher
  • 16/04/20 - Chomsky on Controlling Your Own Work
  • 15/04/20 - How Quiet It Has Become
  • 13/04/20 - Enjoying Work For Its Own Sake
  • 12/04/20 - The Anti-Business Model
  • 10/04/20 - The Making of Machines
  • 09/04/20 - A Time To Fight
  • 08/04/20 - To Be A Mule
  • 07/04/20 - The Pursuit of The Eternally Elusive
  • 06/04/20 - Hyper-Positivity And The Flourishing of Naivety
  • 05/04/20 - What's The Future of Work?
  • 03/04/20 - There Are No Shortcuts
  • 02/04/20 - A Monday to Friday Sort of Dying
  • 01/04/20 - The Arrogance of Fools
  • 31/03/20 - Knuckle Down
  • 30/03/20 - Leave The Door Open…
  • 29/03/20 - Georgia O'Keeffe on Daily Work, Happiness & Success
  • 27/03/20 - The Value In Doing Nothing
  • 26/03/20 - It Gets Better
  • 22/03/20 - Coronavirus: The Human Game Has Irrevocably Changed
  • 18/03/20 - Things You Can Do In A Crisis
  • 14/03/20 - How To Create A Genius
  • 12/03/20 - How Do You Really Feel About Work?
2019 (14)
  • 19/10/19 - Darkness Descends
  • 08/09/19 - The Courage To Go Where There Is No One
  • 14/07/19 - Maslow's 16 Aspects of Peak Experience
  • 04/07/19 - The Illusion of Free Will
  • 23/06/19 - Why Do We Work Jobs We Hate?
  • 02/06/19 - What's The Meaning Of Life?
  • 19/05/19 - How To Make Rational Decisions
  • 13/05/19 - Analogical Thinking: A Method For Solving Problems
  • 06/05/19 - The 22 Self Disciplines of Buckminster Fuller
  • 03/02/19 - Going Narrow And Deep
  • 30/01/19 - Creativity Happens When…
  • 27/01/19 - Sunday Letters: New Format
  • 13/01/19 - Letting It Happen
  • 07/01/19 - Too Much Data
2018 (51)
  • 24/12/18 - Creative Isolation
  • 07/10/18 - What Is An Artist?
  • 30/09/18 - How To Create Order From Chaos
  • 23/09/18 - The Creative Self: Who Is Doing The Making?
  • 16/09/18 - The Paradox of Work: Introduction To The Artist's Manifesto
  • 09/09/18 - The Artist's Manifesto Book Launch Date
  • 02/09/18 - Time To Quit
  • 26/08/18 - Saying Sorry: When Nothing Is Gained From Apologies
  • 19/08/18 - Artistic Temperament And The Challenge Working With Others
  • 12/08/18 - Does It Make You Happy?
  • 30/07/18 - Eddie Doherty, Handweaver
  • 22/07/18 - Success Hacks: The Folly In Following Shortcuts
  • 15/07/18 - What To Do When Creative Ideas Overwhelm
  • 08/07/18 - Engineering Consent, Eating Paleo & The New Studio
  • 24/06/18 - State of Flow & Expert Performance
  • 17/06/18 - The Timeless Creative Mind
  • 27/05/18 - Fuck: Linguistic Taboo Or Legitimate Expression?
  • 20/05/18 - The Power Of Deliberate Practice
  • 07/05/18 - The Writer's Giveaway: Over $1,900 In Prizes To Be Won
  • 15/04/18 - Spontaneous Laughter
  • 14/04/18 - The Hello Tree
  • 08/04/18 - Finding Time For Self In The Elaborate Game
  • 01/04/18 - Get On The Daily Larb Podcast
  • 25/03/18 - In Defense Of The Unambitious
  • 18/03/18 - Effects Of Stress On Creativity
  • 04/03/18 - Are You Doing It For The Money?
  • 25/02/18 - Challenging Authority: The Creative Imperative
  • 24/02/18 - The New Religion & The Righteous Menace
  • 23/02/18 - The Mere Exposure Effect: How You Are Being Manipulated
  • 22/02/18 - 100 Episodes Of The Daily Larb
  • 21/02/18 - Mentorship And Advice: Is there A Difference?
  • 20/02/18 - Reversing The Momentum
  • 19/02/18 - The Artist's Duty
  • 18/02/18 - The Merit In Playing The Long Game
  • 17/02/18 - How To Be More Productive: Stuff I'm Testing
  • 16/02/18 - Why The Butcher Shop Closed
  • 15/02/18 - How To Boost Creativity: 10 Creativity Books You Should Read
  • 14/02/18 - The Inadequacy Of The Words
  • 13/02/18 - How Much Should I Charge For My Creative Work?
  • 12/02/18 - Exchanging Art For Cash
  • 11/02/18 - The Wisdom Of A Practical Man
  • 10/02/18 - Creatures Of Habit
  • 09/02/18 - How To Launch A Book: Fucked If I Know…
  • 08/02/18 - Is It Worth The Sacrifice?
  • 07/02/18 - My Biggest Challenge
  • 04/02/18 - LinkedIn Book Marketing Overview
  • 28/01/18 - Preface: The Artist's Manifesto
  • 21/01/18 - Why I'm Writing Sunday Letters
  • 14/01/18 - The Legend of The Altar Stone [Audio]
  • 08/01/18 - January Book News For Patrons
  • 07/01/18 - Imelda May Portrait: An Inside Look
2017 (117)
  • 24/12/17 - Sunday Letters Christmas Eve
  • 17/12/17 - Twelve Months Writing: A 2017 Review
  • 10/12/17 - Parent Child Relationship: What Is Its True Purpose?
  • 03/12/17 - Have You Ever Failed?
  • 01/12/17 - There Is No Time
  • 30/11/17 - EP013 The Homeless Guy
  • 26/11/17 - The Death Of The Local Shopkeeper
  • 19/11/17 - What Are You Making?
  • 12/11/17 - The Daily Podcast Experiment
  • 09/11/17 - EP012 Joanna Jast On Motivation
  • 05/11/17 - Lazy Sunday Morning Thoughts On Slow Paced Life
  • 02/11/17 - EP011 The Purposeful Accident
  • 29/10/17 - What Happens When We Die?
  • 26/10/17 - EP010 How To Build An Audience For Your Art
  • 21/10/17 - The Art Of Playing The Game
  • 19/10/17 - EP009 Why Good Coffee Matters
  • 15/10/17 - Work & The Advance Of Artificial Intelligence
  • 12/10/17 - EP008 When Did Work Become A Curse?
  • 08/10/17 - The Wu Wei Principle Of Mastery
  • 05/10/17 - EP007 The Great Existential Crisis
  • 28/09/17 - EP006 Does The Secret To Success Lie In Books?
  • 25/09/17 - Welcome To Patron Only Content
  • 24/09/17 - Kill Your Fucking Heroes!
  • 19/09/17 - EP005 Keeping Your Art Real With Harry Hoban
  • 19/09/17 - EP004 Why The Standard Working Model Is Broken
  • 19/09/17 - EP003 Music, Solitude & Prison With Ray Heffernan
  • 19/09/17 - EP002 The Artist's Manifesto Episode
  • 19/09/17 - EP001 Introduction To The Larb Podcast
  • 17/09/17 - Still Striving For Success? Consider This Instead
  • 10/09/17 - Where Do Thoughts Come From?
  • 04/09/17 - Conor McGregor Photorealistic Charcoal Drawing
  • 03/09/17 - Patterns Of Behaviour: Why We Do What We Do
  • 27/08/17 - You're Wasting Your Time, Why Don't You Just Give Up
  • 24/08/17 - The Larb: New Podcast Launching Soon
  • 20/08/17 - How To Ensure Our Children's Success
  • 15/08/17 - Nobody Listening? Here's What You Need To Do
  • 13/08/17 - When To Give Up: Winners Never Quit, Or Do They?
  • 10/08/17 - Psychology Of Habit: 3 Maxims Of Habit Formation From William James
  • 09/08/17 - Voices In Your Head: Is There A Link Between Creativity & Mental Illness?
  • 06/08/17 - Everyone Is An Artist: The Dumb Facebook Comment Got Me Fired Up!
  • 03/08/17 - Creative Play: It's Not Just About Fun You Know!
  • 30/07/17 - The Creative Process: Together We Create
  • 25/07/17 - What Is Self Efficacy? (& Why It's Vital To Creative Success)
  • 23/07/17 - What Do You Really Want?
  • 19/07/17 - How To Overcome Writer's Block: 52 Ways To Access Creativity
  • 18/07/17 - Know Your Audience: Why You Need To Give People What They Want
  • 17/07/17 - SEO For Artists: How To Use On Page SEO To Get Found Online
  • 16/07/17 - The Beauty In Old Things
  • 15/07/17 - Why Guinness Doesn't Travel
  • 14/07/17 - The Flaw With Bigger Is Better Mentality
  • 11/07/17 - The Power Of Rhythm And Momentum
  • 09/07/17 - Purposeful Accident: The Benefits In Planning Nothing
  • 03/07/17 - How To Develop The Creative Mindset
  • 01/07/17 - Creativity And Business: Can They Coexist?
  • 25/06/17 - Anything Worth Doing Is Worth Doing Right
  • 18/06/17 - Why The Construction Industry Is A Toxic Place To Work
  • 17/06/17 - How To Improve Creativity: A Single Simple Solution
  • 16/06/17 - What Is Creativity?
  • 15/06/17 - Go With The Flow Vs. Make It Happen, Which Is It?
  • 13/06/17 - Why Hard Selling Is Bad Business & What To Do Instead
  • 11/06/17 - Physicist Julian Barbour: “We've Reached The End of Time”
  • 10/06/17 - The Complexity In Simple Tasks
  • 09/06/17 - A Writing Daily Routine
  • 05/06/17 - Why You Need To Quit Your Job And Grow Tomatoes Instead
  • 04/06/17 - When Death Comes
  • 04/06/17 - The Washerwoman
  • 03/06/17 - The Solopreneur: 16 Reasons Why You Need To Do Your Own Thing
  • 01/06/17 - The Sky Is On Fire
  • 31/05/17 - The Joy of Having Nothing To Do
  • 30/05/17 - The Unemployable Generation
  • 29/05/17 - Storymaker: A New Medium Publication For Creatives
  • 28/05/17 - Are You Killing Your Children's Creativity?
  • 26/05/17 - Mick's Small Business Is Failing, Here's What I Told Him
  • 25/05/17 - When Irrational Fear Of Things Stops The Creative Dead
  • 23/05/17 - Is A Round Of Applause & A Cheque Selling Out?
  • 22/05/17 - How Did I End Up Here?
  • 21/05/17 - Reaction To The Artist's Manifesto Plus All The Juice From Last Week
  • 20/05/17 - What Is The Key To Happiness?
  • 19/05/17 - Do We Have Free Will?
  • 18/05/17 - 3 Cornerstone Traits Of The Successful Full Time Writer
  • 17/05/17 - Becoming An Expert: The Greatest Challenge To Creativity
  • 16/05/17 - Self Identity: The Inner Conflict Of I Versus Me
  • 15/05/17 - The Secret To Mastery: It's Simpler Than You Think
  • 14/05/17 - The Artist's Manifesto
  • 12/05/17 - May Recommended Reading: The Alchemist, Upstream, Omen II
  • 11/05/17 - The Story Of Anne Doyle's House
  • 09/05/17 - Did They Say You're Daydreaming Too Much? Read This
  • 08/05/17 - Are You Feeling A Lack Of Time? Here's Why
  • 07/05/17 - Stupid Economics! Plus All The Juice From Last Week
  • 06/05/17 - There Are No Mistakes In Creative Endeavour, Here's Why
  • 05/05/17 - Where Do We Come From? Chapter 1: The Illusion of Time
  • 04/05/17 - Is Time Real? A Foreword: The Illusion Of Time Book
  • 03/05/17 - Memory Blocking: Why You Can't Find Shit You Lost
  • 01/05/17 - The Artist Inside And Our Inherent Need To Create
  • 01/05/17 - Does Time Exist?
  • 30/04/17 - The Challenge Of Making Commitments & Keeping Them
  • 29/04/17 - How To Spread Ideas That Matter: Edictum Personalem Mei
  • 28/04/17 - Daily Ritual & The Art Of Getting Your Shit Together
  • 27/04/17 - Testicular Fortitude: 7 Ways To Develop Mental Strength
  • 26/04/17 - How To Beat Your Competition: What Creative People Need To Know
  • 25/04/17 - Why It's Better To Stay In Bed
  • 24/04/17 - 50 Examples Of Ordinary Everyday Madness
  • 23/04/17 - We Are On A Rock Spinning Silently
  • 22/04/17 - Where Are Memories Stored?
  • 21/04/17 - Why Men Grow Beards And Women Don't Understand
  • 20/04/17 - The Importance Of Making Stuff
  • 19/04/17 - Why People Who Make Stuff Are Great
  • 18/04/17 - Why Do I Procrastinate?
  • 17/04/17 - Day 1: The 365 Day Writing Challenge
  • 16/04/17 - The Page 3 Girl & The Child of Prague
  • 08/04/17 - Setting Goals Is Bollocks To Me
  • 18/03/17 - Why The Standard Working Model Sucks & How To Get Free
  • 14/03/17 - CrossFit, A Clean Diet & Recovery From Cancer, with Jason O'Hanlon
  • 02/03/17 - People & The Problem Knowing Stuff
  • 20/02/17 - Attachment Theory: How We Form Stable Relationships In Childhood
  • 11/02/17 - The Dishwasher: A Metaphor For Life
  • 21/01/17 - Why I'm Done With Time Management Advice & Dumb Life Hacking Articles
2016 (29)
  • 17/12/16 - How To Be Creative In A World Of Mechanised Convenience
  • 23/09/16 - Bernie, you’re on the ball of course.
  • 15/09/16 - What To Eat Before A Marathon: Here’s What You Need To Know
  • 25/07/16 - Paleo For Endurance Athletes: Everything You Need To Know [Experiment]
  • 18/07/16 - How To Fix Runner’s Knee & Other Nasty Running Knee Injuries
  • 05/07/16 - Why You Should Give Away What You Know For Free
  • 30/06/16 - How To Calculate An Hourly Rate For Your Services
  • 20/04/16 - Why Organised Networking Events Are A Waste Of Your Time
  • 24/03/16 - The sense of time is a psychological disorder in humans.
  • 17/03/16 - Mastery: Joel Bukiewicz The Knife Maker
  • 05/03/16 - #McGregor Photorealistic Drawing
  • 05/03/16 - I like your analogy.
  • 04/03/16 - The Preposterousness Of The Leap Year
  • 02/03/16 - The irony is that we need to now what it means to own all this stuff in order to realise we don’t…
  • 02/03/16 - I’ll take your word for it when you say they are….
  • 02/03/16 - Awesome! Really good Sarah.
  • 01/03/16 - Well stated.
  • 29/02/16 - A textbook narcissist by all accounts.
  • 28/02/16 - You know I have the same issue with most of the content that’s produced internet wide.
  • 28/02/16 - My father introduced me to that line from the poem.
  • 27/02/16 - Amen
  • 24/02/16 - Maybe you guys have heard AW before… This vid has been pretty widely seen.
  • 24/02/16 - Don’t do it! 😉
  • 23/02/16 - Foreword From The Book: The Illusion Of Time
  • 17/02/16 - How To Be Creative In A World Of Mechanised Convenience
  • 16/02/16 - I don’t believe in a thing called luck.
  • 14/02/16 - Enjoying The Silence; Diary Of An Introverted Antisocial
  • 14/02/16 - Enjoy The Silence; Diary Of An Introverted Antisocial
  • 03/02/16 - Relate. I’ve been left wondering this also lately… Start a revolution, reverse what everyone else…
2015 (17)
  • 03/12/15 - How To Overcome The Quieting Echoes Of Self Doubt
  • 01/12/15 - Thanks for your comments Dave.
  • 01/12/15 - An awesome example!
  • 26/11/15 - When The Dream Is Lost Between Two Bar Stools
  • 24/11/15 - So what brought me to your article?….I’ve
  • 19/11/15 - Why I’m Done With Time Management Advice & Dumb As Fuck Life Hacking Articles
  • 17/11/15 - Agreed. I’m done with hacks also
  • 16/11/15 - EP002 CrossFit, A Clean Diet & Recovery From Cancer, with Jason O’Hanlon
  • 08/11/15 - Fear Of Failure; What To Do When You Fail
  • 08/11/15 - How To Be Happy In Life; Three Fundamental Rules
  • 08/11/15 - How To Get Happy: The Three Fundamental Rules
  • 07/11/15 - Thanks for the compliment Amber. I’ll check out your stuff.
  • 07/11/15 - Does Quantum “Theory” Prove That Time Does Not Exist?
  • 18/10/15 - Why The Standard Working Model Sucks Big Time & What You Can Do About It.
  • 14/10/15 - Why You Need To Do Epic Shit (And Nothing Else)
  • 11/10/15 - Fear Of Failure; What To Do When You Fail
  • 04/10/15 - Why You Need To Do Epic Shit (And Nothing Else)

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