Coming into a world with an open mind and a blank sheet of paper allows you to question fundamental norms. You're not being held back by convention; you never have to say "but it's the way we've always done it".
Getting excited about new worlds is infectious.
5 key questions to help you minimise risk and maximise outcomes
I've always felt like a risk-averse person. But when I tell friends this, they laugh. Many of them tell me I'm a huge risk taker.
So I thought I might share twelve of the biggest career decisions I've taken so far
I don't know a single successful person that worked hard who didn't end up in a bad way at some point.
But I've learned that the most successful people are careful with their time, and often do less hours that their peers.
I spent so many years in the creative peloton.
Unsurprisingly, this didn't win me any medals. It was when I started new things that bucked convention that the world started to show interest.
A few times during my life, I've felt that things couldn’t be fixed, that I was doomed to failure. I was a regular passenger on the downward-spiral helter-skelter.
And now I've learned that with practice, it's possible to quickly reverse that feeling.
