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Lovely video demonstrating the importance of having enough “time” to explore an idea.

I saw this and just had to share it. A really lovely piece of work that was inspired by Google Street View.

This is an old video, but still and absolutely great watch/reference! Tim Brown makes some great points about the “fear of failure” that most adults have. This apparent fear isn’t there in children, but it’s something that we lose as we get older (only if you let it though!). Great ideas comes from taking risks. Enjoy!

My friend Rob Rohan shared this great video by the amazing designer, Milton Glaser. Here he speaks about the importance in learning about the fear of failure, and how it can effect the creative process. It echoes one of my favourite quotes, by Sam Beckett “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”

Milton Glaser – on the fear of failure. from Berghs' Exhibition '11 on Vimeo.

Love it!

Many people over the last few years have mentioned John Wooden as being a truly inspirational leader. For anyone who doesn’t know who he was (I didn’t), he was the coach of UCLA in the ’30′s. “The practice is the journey, and the game is the end”. So true. This is a 17minute video, but definitely one to watch and savour. If I’m one quarter as sharp as this gentleman at 90, I’ll be extremely happy.

I recently saw this amazing video interview with John Jay (Creative Director of the great Wieden + Kennedy). The quote that resonated most with me, was the emphasis on the importance of “listening”. “The greatest thing we do and offer is be great listeners”.

It’s an inspiring 3 minutes. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have done over the last week or two.

This is another excellent Sir Ken Robinson talk that was given in May 2010. Here he follows up, and further develops on his initial talk that he gave a few years ago.

Note: This video is 20 minutes long. But it is well worth it.

Sorry I haven’t blogged in a while. Life has been manic. My album is done and dusted, and I’ve been working solidly on some amazing projects both for my own clients and also for Fairfax Digital.

Here’s an excellent speech by Elizabeth Gilbert. Author of “Deep, Pray, Love”. She may have written one of the most popular chick-lit books in the last 5 years (which my other-half read and spoke about for 6-whole weeks), then dragged me to the movie.

Here’s she speaks about creativity and creative ventures and also about having her “success” more than likely behind her. Very inspiring and interesting.

I’m proud to say that as a student in 2002, I won a joint Student Design Award by the RSA in London. They just released this wonderful video by the wonderful Ken Robinson.

They also have an official RSA iPhone application coming out very shortly with excellent content related to education, creativity, technology etc.

As a child I was Lego crazy, and used to build up a storm with it. Each piece of Lego was a tool to shape and mould my imagination.

I stumbled across this wonderful LEGO video and thought I would share it with you!

There’s only a few great thinkers in our midst today, and Edward de Bono is defintely one of them. He is entirely captivating. In this video he speaks about “thinking outside the box” and the value of making “mistakes”.

I remember someone saying to me as I graduated many years ago, that schools and universities “suck the creativity out of students minds and bodies”. I don’t think this is true for everyone, but there’s no doubting that we could be encouraging creativity alot more in schools. Picasso once said “All children are born artists. The problem is to remain artist as we grow up”.

Sir Ken Robinson spoke at TED a few years ago about this very topic. It’s a wonderful 20minute long video about embracing creativity, and points out the need to nurture creative “thinking” in schools. Go grab a coffee, this is one of the best TED talks ever.

Everyone seems to pretty glad to see the back of 2009, but for me personally it was a pretty good year. I like to think I’m a guy with the glass half full, rather than half empty. What good can come out of seeing a half empty glass?! Here’s a list of my personal achievements that I’m pretty happy with:

-  I moved jobs, taking up a position within MySpace – who would have been one of maybe 3 dream jobs I would have wished for.

- I created Band Templates for MySpace Music Support - and thousands of bands have used them! “Powderfinger” – one of the biggest bands in Australia even downloaded one of them and used it!

- I completed a 4-part web broadcast with my MySpace buddy Alex Wain. My first time doing live internet stuff and LOVED it!

- I got 90% of my Minus Circus album done. This is a massive milestone, as I’m an independent musician, it was partially funded from sales from my previous EP, but mostly from my personal savings.

- I came in the top 6 out of a songwriting competition of over 800 songwriters in Sydney

- I visited Fiji and drank some awesome Kava

- I went home and celebrated my 30th birthday with the most amazing people on earth and had an amazing turn out for a show in Whelans, Dublin

- I supported Mundy as part of his Australian tour

- I’m still with my perfect lady

- I formed a charity called musicboxforlife.com for Crumlins Children Hospital with two incredible people, Ciara O’Gorman and Noel Taylor in Ireland. The project aims to go live on Feb 1st 2010, where 40 of Irelands biggest artists will have music for sale – and 100% of the proceeds go to the hospital that I was in as a child!

All in all – a good year was had. I know it wasn’t great for everyone, and I’m sure if i looked again in a different light I would find many things that I would not be happy about. But as I said before – I’d rather see the achievements than’s failures!

Happy Christmas everyone! Have a great new year! Here’s to 2010!