Charles Leon
The Transformative Power of Sketching & ...

Sketching has enormous benefits for mental health and for problem solving.

The Transformative Power of Sketching & Creative Pursuits
Charles Leon
How Picasso Helped me publish my Book

There is a very famous film of Picasso painting live. About halfway through creating an effortless masterpiece he says “ Ca va tres mal” (it’s going very badly). Even someone like Picasso struggled to get a painting to go where he wanted it to go. It’s his self-belief, confidence and self-trust that allows him to work through the “bad” stage and experience that tells him that he can make it right. I’m certainly not in that league, but that helped me to understand that I should push through (although sometime you can try too hard and take a sketch too far) and trust my instinct.

How Picasso Helped me publish my Book
Charles Leon
A Cotswold Recce

I don't think many places in the UK have so much condensed beauty in such a relatively small area as the Cotswolds.

A Cotswold Recce
Charles Leon
What you “See” is what you "Get".

Learning to see clearly through daily sketching

What you “See” is what you "Get".
Passion, Design Thinking
Charles Leon
PASSION

You have to go full throttle; passion will pull you through. It's a virtuous circle; the more passion you have, the more you get.

Thinking creatively and passionately drives motivation, and your motivation drives creative thinking.

PASSION

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The Four Laws of Habit Change

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The Four Laws of Habit Change

In his remarkable book “Atomic Habits” James Clear suggests that the solution doesn’t lie in trying harder, but instead trying smarter and working with how our brains work. Working in small, simple, and achievable steps is the way to achieve successful and lasting habit change.

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How Creative Thinking Happens.

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How Creative Thinking Happens.

Creative thinking involves risk and uncertainty, but it is how we grow as individuals, as communities and as societies. We share information and then step up on the knowledge ladder and add a further step for those following in our footsteps.

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The 5 Stages of a Design Thinking process.

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The 5 Stages of a Design Thinking process.

Design thinking is a structured process for creatively approaching complex problem solving and product development by understanding, deconstructing, reasoning and reconstructing the problem. There are 5 basic stages: Analysis, problem framing and defining, ideation and creative thinking, modelling and prototyping, and testing and evaluating.

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Will the Sun Rise Tomorrow? Critical Thinking.

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Will the Sun Rise Tomorrow? Critical Thinking.

If the sun rises on the eastern horizon every morning, are we right to expect it to do so tomorrow?

Philosopher, David Hume says our expectation is irrational, and, as I’ve mentioned before, irrationality is what we do best and goes to the heart of how we think we think.

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