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6 lessons borrowed from Improv Artists to help us face our challenges creatively
21st April is the UN International Creativity and Innovation day. It’s a challenging time in the world – on a global scale, and, if you’re like most people, you are facing constant stress and challenge in your individual, personal or professional life too. We need to be at our most creative, innovative, flexible selves if we are going to respond and adapt to challenge, and make change happen. What can we learn from Improv artists - masters of adaptability and innovation?
Big Adventures On Average Talent: having a growth mindset super power
How can you have an adventurous life if you are simply average? Mark Gillett, adventure runner, shares some of the highs and lows of his adventures and explains how he even has the audacity to try. Keen on challenge, failure, risk, and problems? If the answer is yes, read on. If it’s no, definitely read on!
When bad feelings do good: Part 3, Fear
Many of us have experienced fear ‘holding us back’. It can be a horrible feeling and it would be great to have a magic pill to make it go away. Or would it? It turns out that there is so much more to fear: humans are often drawn to it, and when we learn to walk (perhaps cautiously) alongside it, we can discover and achieve amazing things. Perhpas we should be less afraid of fear.