Tag: mindset

Drawing #mindset #grit #resilience #flow #learning

Posted by | Published on February 4, 2017

I cannot draw. This has been my mindset since about 8 years of age. Aged 48, I now understand how it came to be that […] 

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My #reading December 2016

Posted by | Published on December 30, 2016

Why shouldn’t we separate children as young as seven or eight into two groups: those few children who are “gifted and talented” and the many, […] 

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“As a child I lived in a home that was full of books … Rare works and first editions were kept under lock and key, and it took all my […] 

My #reading April 2016  →

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Every day I work on the edit of my book. I slog away, shifting chunks of material and moving them back, eating my salad in a daze, wondering if the […] 

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