You’re allowed to have a tea break. In fact, you should have a tea break. And better yet, take that tea outside. Go for a walk. Forget about it. Call your mum. When you go back to whatever you were working on, you’ll make it better.

‘Windows have a way of limiting what one sees and, at the same time, intensifying the vision.’

Focus on something in the room you’re in. Just for a minute. Notice the patterns and the lack of patterns.

Ideas slip from one project to another and the cross-pollination makes everything richer and punchier. And, importantly, most ideas come to people when they’re not trying to have them.

Stay Curious How we created a world class event in a cowshed Clare Hieatt

The human brain is so desperate to find meaning in things that it will make a story out of any two random things put together.

The French have a term: déformation professionnelle. It’s the way your profession influences the way you see the world.

Research is formalised curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. Zora Neale Hurston

Count something. Every day for a month. Visualise it.