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WHY IT’S HARD TO CHANGE - AND HOW YOU CAN
This guy is fantastic: I thought you might like to take a look. In this short and entertaining video he explains why we all find it hard to change, even when we know we should. I’m off to practice on … Continue reading
FAILURE, SUCCESS AND THE WRITING LIFE
I found some great quotes about writing recently on a great little blog called Bang2Write. Here are some of them - and my own thoughts on how they apply to the writing life. ON STARTING OUT “You don’t start out … Continue reading
The Irrawaddy Literary Festival - a Miracle in Mandalay
A few weeks ago I had the great fortune to be invited to the Irrawaddy Literary Festival in Mandalay. Let’s be clear: this is Burma so the Festival is a highly political event. Its patron is Aung San Suu Kyi, … Continue reading
HOW TO MAKE MONEY FROM SHAME
I thought long and hard about posting this video - it’s about shame and it’s quite confronting. If you were alive in the late nineties you have probably heard of someone called Monica Lewinsky. She worked for a former US … Continue reading
8½ quotes about failure that may lead you to success
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IT IS NOT THE CRITIC WHO COUNTS
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the … Continue reading
STAY WEIRD
Stay weird. That was the message from Graham Moore when he won the little bald naked man for his screen adaption of The Imitation Game. It’s the story of Alan Turing, the man credited for inventing the first analogue computer … Continue reading
NEVER GIVE UP
Never give up. It’s so easy to say, isn’t it? But what if doctors told you that you would never walk unassisted ever again? What if you then fell into depression and watched your weight balloon out to nearly three … Continue reading
WHERE TO MEET GOD
God has been in the news a lot lately, the little rascal. Pardon me for breathing, but I reckon there’s too many saviors on his cross, or his Koran. A few years ago, me and a good mate of mine, … Continue reading
WHERE TO, AMERICA?
There have been difficult times for America lately. The deaths of two young black men in Ferguson and in Staten Island was followed by the revenge murder of two NYPD policemen in Brooklyn. But there have been difficult times in … Continue reading
