What do you wish you could do more every day? Picture this – a rustic villa in the Provençal hills, gravel underfoot and a vine covered pergola overhead. Party lights loop between olive trees and above table laid with white linen and wine glasses, flowers and baskets of bread. Cicadas trill. It’s sunset and people […]
You’re going on a cross-country trip. Airplane, train, bus, car, or bike? We will be flying from Amsterdam to Budapest in August as that’s a long trip by train but the reverse journey will be the slow and scenic way. Travel then from Budapest to Paris will be done in daytime train trips with two […]
What activities do you lose yourself in? Writing. Always writing. I need to set alarms when I’m writing because I can easily lose all sense of time and place. I use specific music to send me into a deeply focused state and this allows me to get plenty of work done. The only trouble is […]
Are you superstitious? I’m not embarrassed to admit it either. Some things are practical. I won’t walk under a ladder mainly because something might fall on my head. Oh and don’t even get me started about people who put shoes on the table. It’s just yuck. But then things take a more esoteric turn. I […]
Where would you go on a shopping spree? I would start with Shakespeare and Co, the famous English language bookshop on the left bank of the River Seine. Then I would move to Sennelier, the famous art supply store a little further up the river. To finish my spree, rather than go to Chanel or […]
How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Over my business, work, and writing careers, I have failed plenty of times. These failures have led me to today, writing a book on the place of apparent failure and feedback in helping us create our best work and by extension our […]
What are three objects you couldn’t live without? Do you remember the concept of desert island discs? I’m not sure which newspaper started it, but in the 90s every paper send to have a column dedicated to asking celebrities, major and minor, for their list of must have music to take to a deserted island. […]
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