You’re walking down the street at 10:30pm, and bump into a man who politely introduces himself. In a deep voice, he asks you if you’d like a free watch… He explains that it’s in fact a real Rolex, and has the papers to prove it. He’s dressed well, and, you can see the watch is...

On Sunday we walked into a favourite café down the road. The place is humming, almost every table is full and I could see from the notebook by the door they had a waitlist earlier on… I scanned the room to see if the owner was in, who I’ve gotten to know in the last...

Yesterday I ran a small workshop for business owners here in Newcastle in an Art Gallery. Before the workshop started, we all met, introduced ourselves and talked about our work and what has been happening. When we meet someone new, we have a situation – a new interaction – and the new interaction usually “cues”...

When we specialise for a specific task, we narrow our focus. We create a specific lens that allows us to excel in one area. So, what of dreaming? What of breaking the path? What of throwing out the wheel so that we have to reinvent it? Following “best practice” isn’t always the best idea… Diversity,...

When I was around 13, once a year or so we would go to a restaurant called Sizzler. It was an “all you can eat” place. I’ve always been a big eater, so as you can imagine, I was in heaven. I’d go plate after plate on all the foods we never normally had, until...

In 1997 I had just started at a new school and a few months in, we left on a boat for Fiji. My Dad had designed and built this boat in the previous 4 years or so, and this was the first trip of many around the South Pacific. When we’d go away, we would...

When we watch a handbalancer kick into a handstand, we see someone balancing upside down, on their hands. When we start to practice however, our wrists need to adapt, we need to build strength in shoulder “elevation.” We need to learn this “kick up.” We need to learn where the weight distribution works best across...

When I was about 16, we sailed the boat from Australia back to New Zealand. On this one trip, my Grandma decided to join us. She flew down, and we soon jumped on to cross the Tasman. Now this trip was pretty rough. Soon after we left the harbour, Grandma went below to lie down…...