I’ve been following Chris Guillebeau’s blog for years now, I’ve read his books and I often recommend people to check his website for various ideas and inspiration. I often think of Chris when I travel, I’ve twitted him (and got a reply) to ask for best things to do in a destination or airport and I am hoping that when […]
I’ve always liked stories so I wasn’t surprised to discover that some of my favourite classes when I was studying for my Sociology degree were anthropology and ethnography, nor that later on my surveys required collecting qualitative rather than quantitative data. So I was obviously entranced when I received an adults’ book full of stories. Why read Women Who Run […]
Last week I looked at two quotes from Liz Gilbert’s book, Big Magic. Now I’m looking at a third quote and definitely my favourite one! “We all have a bit of trickster in us, and we all have a bit of martyr in us, but at some point in your creative journey you will have to make a decision about […]
A wave of inspiration hit me while listening to this interview of Liz Gilbert, in much a similar way to how inspiration comes to Ruth Stone, an American poet Gilbert mentions in the book. My inspiration though didn’t come as a galloping horse, it turned up on the windowsill more like a warm, autumn wind coming from the West. Of […]
I loved, loved, loved the Virgin Way! In The Virgin Way, Branson shares stories and anecdotes about his various companies in order to prove his points. Humorously, he touches on both serious and fun topics and gives the reader an idea about how he lives, how he runs his companies, how he grew to be where he is and how […]
