October 14, 2018

10 Things Remote Working Has Taught Me About Learning and the Future of Work

Nursery. Primary school. Middle school. Secondary school. Undergraduate degree. Masters degree. Post-graduate Certificate in Education. Teaching. For thirty years (almost consecutively) I’ve been a cog in the state education machine.

by gareth

Odd socks say more about you than you may think.

Creativity

Success

May 14, 2018

There’s More To Wearing Odd Socks Than You Think

Recently I put on a pair of odd socks by mistake. They’d accidentally been coupled together in the wash. I didn’t realise until it was too late, and they were

April 30, 2018

Don’t Obsess Over The Answer. Obsess Over The Question.

We want results. And we want them yesterday! Give me answers. I want solutions. Not problems. It’s often the case that we obsess over the answer, the final outcome, the end result. But

April 23, 2018

Sharing Is Caring And Nothing Beats Retweets. How One Minute Briefs Adds Value To Content.

Sharing interesting articles, videos, photos, designs even memes is a fundamental digital content transaction we participate in daily. Just scroll through your Facebook news feed. Or Twitter. LinkedIn. But why bother

April 16, 2018

Dink Thifferently: Rules are only the limit of someone else’s imagination.

There’s a lot we can learn about creative problem solving from pioneers like Carol Dweck, Henry Ford, Steve Jobs and Avis. They know how to push beyond the limits of

April 9, 2018

The Alphabet Writing Challenge (It’s Not As Easy As It Sounds!)

A while back I started setting myself short writing challenges. By doing so, I hoped to inject some fun into my blog whilst also providing ideas for anyone whose writing

March 19, 2018

Slow Down! Why busy people need to stop and disconnect.

Have you noticed how push notifications actually SHOVE their way loudly into your day? How instant messaging requires INSTANT REPLIES? Otherwise, you end up having to scroll through a whole

by gareth

Creativity

Writing

February 26, 2018

Get your writing into shape. Quick creative writing tasks to experiment with every day.

Writing should be fun. It should be a source of creative enjoyment. But sometimes you can hit a rut. Writer's block. Stagnation. So it’s important to have a few tools

February 19, 2018

3 Creative Tasks To Help You Break Free From Your Fear Of Failure

Fear of failure is the reason you’re not succeeding. Whether you think so or not, you are afraid to fail. Now’s the time to break free of the psychological preconditioning

February 12, 2018

I stopped using ‘e’ and it was hard!

Look! It’s a lipogram minus that fifth symbol in our Anglo-Saxon syllabary! My last post about not using ‘a’ in my writing was fairly fruitful. But now a similar trial has

by gareth

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