JOHN WILLIAMS’ PERSONAL BLOG ON CREATIVE LIVING
So does the previous post (There is no plan) mean we should go do whatever we feel like doing? Is it true that you can “do what you love and the money will follow”?
There is a second point from Daniel Pink’s “Last career guide you’ll ever need” that’s important to introduce here.
The main character [...]
Daniel Pink is definitely a Creative Maverick. His new book “The adventures of Johnny Bunko (the last career guide you’ll ever need)” is a careers book in the form of a Manga (Japanese comic) novel.
In it, he covers “6 career secrets no one ever told you”. A couple of these really struck me. The first [...]
Many years back when I had my last job as a computer programmer, I knew I wanted something else but couldn’t work out what it was.
I realised the only way I was really going to work out what I wanted to do was to imagine that I could have anything I wanted in the world [...]
How would you like to take a year off? Let’s say the whole of 2009.
Sound appealing?
OK, I hereby give you my permission. Done.
Now, what is it you’re going to do in this precious year of total freedom?
Spend a year sitting on the beach, doing nothing? Or do you know that after the first couple of [...]
This is the personal blog of John Williams, author of "Screw work, let's play: How to do what you love & get paid for it" to be published by Pearson in June 2010.
Join my mission to play all day and get paid - to do whatever creative, fun stuff we feel like doing and make a good living out of it.