The Art of Brilliance Blog

A number of years ago, I was working as a full-time teacher and I was given THAT class. You know the kind I mean, the class everyone talks about for the wrong reasons. (more…)

We all enjoy writing lists: shopping lists, birthday lists, to-do lists… (more…)

A few weeks ago, I took part in a half marathon. As I arrived at the event, it began to rain, and I mean really rain. (more…)

We can all be guilty of reading books on self-improvement, listening to podcasts and watching TED Talks, thinking this will help us become ‘enlightened.’ But how much of what we learn actually gets put into practice? (more…)

It’s exam time – the silly season – when stress levels rise, and things can get a little fraught. (more…)

According to Lucy Hone, an expert in resilience, one of the keys to highly resilient people is that they accept that bad stuff will happen to them. (more…)

It’s no secret that I LOVE singing! The benefits are also wonderful… (more…)

I’m a big fan of doing nothing! Why? Because in the same way our bodies need breaks from exercise, our minds need downtime too. (more…)

The Art of Brilliance team is lucky. We get to visit all sorts of different workplaces – the good, the bad, the ugly and, just occasionally, the absolutely stunningly amazing! (more…)

Illustrator Amy here. I’m usually nice and quiet behind the scenes, but sometimes I can’t help myself, and this is one of those shouty moments. True story… (more…)

In recent years, we’ve invented new foods that don’t seem to contain what you think they should. (more…)

Yin and yang, light and dark, good and evil, water and fire, even sweet and savoury. Many important thinkers have obsessed over the idea of opposites for centuries. (more…)