Secret three

How to get started right now

There are no rules or formulas for success. You just have to live it and do it. Knowing this gives us enormous freedom to experiment toward what we want. Believe me, it’s a crazy, complicated journey. It’s trial and error. It’s opportunism. It’s quite literally, ‘Let’s try lots of this stuff and see how it works.’

Dame Anita Roddick 1942–2007, founder of The Body Shop

You should now have some idea of the talents you have to offer and a shortlist of options of how to put them to use. In this chapter we’ll look at how to put it all into action right away and launch your journey to get paid to play. In order to do that, you’ll need to embrace a new, more playful way of approaching work that does away ...

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