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5 Creativity Lessons from the Bronte Sisters

December 12, 2013 by Steven Sparling 2 Comments

I am currently on tour with a musical version of Dicken’s Christmas Carol. We’ve just completed three weeks in Leeds. One day we had the afternoon free so we jumped in the car to take a road trip to Howarth where the Bronte sisters lived and wrote in the heart of the Yorkshire countryside. Having […]

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Wise words from George Bernard Shaw

May 19, 2013 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing George Bernard Shaw Do you think it’s a coincidence that Shaw wasn’t frightened about making mistakes and also managed, in his lifetime, to write more than 60 plays, 5 novels, reams of music and literary […]

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Hot Desk – for days when you need to get out of the house.

April 4, 2011 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

Most days I work from the kitchen table. There’s a lot of advantages to this: I have good coffee, no one to bug me, no commute, a well-stocked fridge, as many/as few distractions as I could want and the ability to multi-task in life chores like laundry or repair man visits. Most of the time […]

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