Find A Spark | Ideas to inspire

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Yellow Brick Cinema

The cover of the book The Age of Consent of George Monbiot

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The Age of Consent

A screengrab from the "True Size of" website, showing the real sizes of land masses

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The true size of…

Max Strom presenting his TED talk on how there is no app for happiness — the effect of technology on happiness and relationships

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There is No App for Happiness

The cover of The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan

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The Silk Roads

The cover of the book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

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Outliers

Josh Foer presenting his TED talk on feats of memory anyone can do

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Feats of memory anyone can do

A title image for the This Is Water video from David Foster Wallace's Kenyon College commencement speech

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This is Water

The cover of the DVD for The Fountain, a film by Darren Aronofsky

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The Fountain

Two old books, side by side - one of 'my memories' and the other of family photos

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How to remember like Sherlock Holmes

The cover of the DVD of Alamar, the story of a boy visiting his father on the Banco Chinchorro, the biggest coral reef in Mexico

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Alamar

The cover of the DVD of The Orphanage, the horror film from J. A. Bayona

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The Orphanage

The cover of the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

ShaoLan Hsueh presenting her TED talk on learning to read Chinese

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Learn to read Chinese… with ease!

A train track, with trees and sunset in the background - a possible inspiration location

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My Inspiration Location

A desk, pictured from above, with typewriter and other items for work

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4 work lessons from leaving my job

A screen capture from Adam Curtis' documentary HyperNormalisation

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HyperNormalisation

Amy Cuddy presenting her TED talk on how your body language may shape who you are

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Your body language may shape who you are

The cover of the book One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

Two Rubik's Cubes, one unsolved and one solved, representing a changed mindset

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Overcoming my problems – changing my mindset