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The War of Art – Conversations with Steven Pressfield

If you only read one book about creativity, I tell my clients, make it The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. It contains the distilled wisdom of a bestselling novelist and Hollywood screenwriter, who has both the scars and trophies of a life spent wrestling with creative challenges. This book has been an inspiration to [...]

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Here’s Where You Can Find My Guest Articles

I’ve just added a Guest Articles page to Wishful Thinking, where you can find all the guest articles I write on other blogs and websites. I’ll keep updating it as I publish new articles. One piece I’d particularly encourage you to read if you are a freelancer is Build a Business, Not Just a Client [...]

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Workshops for Creative People – Now Booking for July

Following the success of my Creative Momentum workshops last summer, I’m pleased to announce two more public workshops in central London this July: Time Management for Creative People — 7 July Manage the mundane – create the extraordinary. Essential skills to maximise your creativity and minimise your stress levels at work! From people who attended [...]

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How to Be Interesting

Drawing by Leonard da Vinci, via Wikimedia Commons Nobody wants to be boring. It’s not exactly the done thing to say “I want to be interesting”, but the enthusiastic response to Russell Davies’ article How to Be Interesting suggests that it’s something we aspire to. And with good reason. Over three years before Seth Godin [...]

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What Difference Can Artists Make to a Business?

Power of culture – how to inject culture into business strategy from Arts & Business on Vimeo. Supposing you sent a group of artists, actors, musicians and poets into a corporate business – on a mission to entertain, provoke, inspire, teach and challenge people to experiment with new ways of thinking, acting and communicating. How [...]

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What The Clangers Really Said (And How It Can Make Your Work Better)

(Click here if you can’t see the Clangers video.) If you grew up in the UK from the late 60s onwards, The Clangers will need no introduction. These charming knitted creatures who lived on the moon, in caves covered by saucepan lids, were probably some of your most beloved childhood companions. Even now, I bet [...]

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Guest Articles for The 99% and MyCake

I’ve recently written a couple of guest articles on other blogs that you might enjoy. RSS Creativity – Routines, Systems, Spontaneity A summary of my recent thinking about how to manage creative workflow without stifling your inspiration. The 99% is an online magazine for creative professsionals – if you like Wishful Thinking you should feel [...]

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The Lateral Action Creative Entrepreneur Course Is Now Live

Image by Hugh MacLeod UPDATE: We’ve now sold out. Thank you and welcome to all our charter members! If you’d like to be first to hear when we open up again, you can sign up on this page to join the e-mail notification list. We’ve now started taking enrolments for the Lateral Action Creative Entrepreneur [...]

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Free Report: How to Become a Creative Entrepreneur

EDIT: The report is offline for now. If you’d like to be first to read my new report on creative entrepreneurship (and first to know when the Lateral Action Entrepreneur Roadmap is open for students again), you can sign up for the advance notification list. If you’re remotely interested in making a living from your [...]

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Are You Ready for Sixth Sense Technology?

Photo by Broma Imagine walking down the street and seeing a poster for a new film at your local cinema. It looks interesting, so you stop. With a wave of your hand, you conjure an image of a web browser, projected onto the poster from a camera you’re wearing as an earpiece. You snap your [...]

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