Find A Spark | Ideas to inspire

A leaf, lying on the grass

Blog Post

4 health and wellbeing lessons from leaving my job

The cover of the DVD for The Animatrix, a set of short films detailing the back story to The Matrix

Film

The Animatrix

A person passing a flower to someone else, representing sharing

Blog Post

Sharing, not imposing

A man wearing a virtual reality headset — an example of a recent gadget.

Blog Post

Own your gadgets — don’t let them own you.

Daniel Kahneman presenting his TED talk on experience vs. memory

Video

The riddle of experience vs. memory

An interactive page from The Guardian showing all the flights worldwide in a 24-hour period

Website

All the world’s connections

Sandrine Thuret presenting her TED talk on we can grow new neurons (brain cells)

Video

You can grow new brain cells. Here’s how.

The cover of the DVD of One More Time with Feeling, the documentary tracking the creation of the Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds album Skeleton Cave

Film

One More Time with Feeling

A still from the video Philosophical Meditation from the School of Life YouTube channel

Video

Philosophical Meditation

Blog Post

Meditation and Self-Discipline

App

Evernote

A book, magnifying glass and pen with a globe in the background - tools for language learning

Guide

Language learning: Quick start guide

An image from the article 'Why time management is ruining our lives' by Oliver Burkeman

Article

Why time management is ruining our lives

A family tree showing how closely related George V, Wilhelm II and Nicholas II were.

Blog Post

World War One — a family affair.

The cover of the book You Can Learn to Remember by Dominic O’Brien

Book

You Can Learn to Remember

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

Video

Feats of memory anyone can do

How to remember any name — a Find A Spark memory hack resource

Hack

How to remember any item

The legs of runners as they cross a finish line

Blog Post

End each day on a high

The title for the Crash Course video on how we make memories

Video

Crash Course: How We Make Memories

The cover of the book The Prophet by Khalil Gibran

Book

The Prophet