by Sarah Jane Vickery | Jun 7, 2018 | Cartoon Club, Get Creative, Popular Posts
I love this quote from Ai Weiwei. It sticks in my head because my friend Veronica had it up on her fridge. Whenever I’d be feeling overwhelmed by another big creative project I would look at that fridge magnet and remind myself to just start with one little thing. I...
by Sarah Jane Vickery | May 31, 2018 | Cartoon Club, Get Creative
One of my professors from design school said this during a lecture, “Your head is a terrible place for ideas”. At first it struck me as the oddest concept. But after a while I understood more what he meant. He kept telling us to write, sketch, brainstorm… do whatever...
by Sarah Jane Vickery | May 25, 2018 | Book Reviews, Get Creative
My friend Rose very kindly sent me the book “Solve for Happy“. It’s about engineering your path to joy written by Mo Gawdat, the the chief business officer at Google X. He is an engineer so he approaches the problem with the engineering methodology of breaking down...
by Sarah Jane Vickery | May 24, 2018 | Get Creative, Popular Posts
I was learning today from Simon Sinek. One of the things he talks about is how we, in our ongoing quest to improve ourselves, fail to celebrate our successes. I’m very bad at this. I rarely look at what I’ve achieved. Instead I’m always looking at my to-do list. The...
by Sarah Jane Vickery | May 15, 2018 | Get Creative
This is an amazing question. Tim Ferriss said that a friend asked this at the start of a small dinner party and it (not surprisingly) opened up the conversation in a whole new direction. Tim interviews Aubrey Marcus who says that it happens to him quite regularly...
by Sarah Jane Vickery | May 9, 2018 | Cartoon Club, Get Creative
Who needs motivation when there’s this simple idea. Speaker and author Mel Robbins was explaining how she was able to get herself to make decisions and actually take action before her brain got in the way to stop her. For her it started with the bad habit of hitting...
