by Nicky Tillyer | Jun 2018 | Books, brain behaviour, Brain Science, thinking differently
A few years back I read the fabulous book Mindset by Dr Carol Dweck. I had always thought of myself as an open-minded learning kind of girl. I love to learn. However, through reading the book, I realised that – yes I do love to learn – but I also love to...
by Nicky Tillyer | Feb 2018 | Creativity, Curious, PauseFest
The last day for general ticket holders and another full schedule for me. Starting in the IBM Lab with Leon Gouletsas’ talk “Cognitive Chatbots – Building a Conversational Robot”. Lots of notes, lots more questions and considerations before...
by Nicky Tillyer | Feb 2018 | Creativity, Curious, PauseFest
Day 2 was one of those days for me that was not pages of ideas and scrawled notes like yesterday, but more nuggets of inspiration. Pockets of thoughts amongst the noise. Might have been my lack of sleep due to the heat or the fact that I had to get up super early this...
by Nicky Tillyer | Feb 2018 | Creativity, Curious, PauseFest
Such excitement! I bought my ticket on the earliest early bird pricing that’s how keen I was. Having missed out in 2017 due to another awesome adventure I was having, I was not going to miss this one. Day 1 did not disappoint. After the usual welcome...
by Nicky Tillyer | May 2016 | Curious
I have been playing around in my head with the concept of curiosity being the foundation for a life of excitement, and joy, and adventure, and creativity, and discovery. A life well lived is one founded in exploration and following where your curiosity may lead. My...
by Nicky Tillyer | Jul 2015 | Curious
Having a curious mind has its benefits – and its drawbacks. You see with a curious mind and the need to know how things happen, you spend an awful amount of time investigating, trying, playing, testing, failing, researching, sometimes succeeding and always...
