Podcasts about sane new world taming

Episode 20 — How Can I Be More Productive?THE WRITERS' ROOM - How Can I Be More Productive?In the Writers' Room this week, Pete and Laura chat about productivity. How can you achieve more in less time? This is often a question we find ourselves asking.  But what does productivity mean for writers, and what systems ideas and methods can help? During the conversation, Laura mentions - The Checklist Manifesto and Pete Talks about - ‘Sane New World: Taming the Mind' by Ruby Wax.OUR CURRENT PROJECT UPDATES - What writing projects are we working on & what's happened this week?Laura is on the last stretch before publishing her Wedding Planning Book. Pete gets his latest work in progress - Rose-buds in Kerela - back from his editor, Alex Davis.LESSONS WE'VE LEARNED THIS WEEK - What have we learned about writing & publishing this week?Reminding Pete this week is the power that comes from words. How words can help and heal. Laura has been researching Nielsen the ISBN database.Recommended Product of the Week - AudibleLaura and Pete have benefited from having an audiobook subscription with Audible.  Have you tried ‘reading' the latest books while out walking or doing a job around the house? Why not try Audible for FREE for 30 days by using our affiliate link - Audible - Derbyshire Writing School. Not only will you have time to hear a book for free but using our link, helps support the work of Derbyshire Writing School. BOOKS WE ARE READING AND RECOMMEND - What books are we reading this week?Pete surprises Laura with his reading of ‘The Corfu Trilogy' by Gerald Durrell - remembering one of his all-time favourite books by the same author - ‘Rosy Is My Relative.' Laura is excited before reading ‘The Thursday Murder Club,' by Richard Osman.WHAT'S HAPPENING AT DERBYSHIRE WRITING SCHOOL THIS WEEK? Laura tells a little of two new projects she is working on - The 3% Club and The Prompt Box - creative writing prompt subscription. Send us a voice message - through Speakpipe.

Mental illness comes with a big pricetag. The OECD estimates the total cost of mental disorders in the EU to be more than 4% of GDP--over €600 billion. But no price can be put on the cost of mental illness for the person suffering from it. “It’s okay to not be okay,” is comedian and mental health activist Ruby Wax’s message. To the one in four people in the world who suffer from mental disorders at some time in their life (World Health Organization, 2018), these are words from someone who understands, and the first step to coping with the disease. Ruby Wax was awarded an OBE in 2015 for her services to mental health and holds a Master’s degree in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy at University of Oxford. She is the president of Relate, a charity that’s pushing for more government financial support for relationship counselling. Ruby is also the author of Sane New World: Taming the Mind and How to be Human. Host: Clara Young Producer: Robin Allison Davis

Ruby Wax joins Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir to talk about how she brings her knowledge of neuroscience, spiked with comedy, to her one woman show. David Reynolds explains how his grandfather's letters, and enthralling childhood stories of the Wild West, inspired him to embark on a road trip along Highway 83 from Canada to the Mexican border. He describes some of the local characters he met, the three different types of cowboys that still exist today and why he thinks Sacagawea should be on US bank notes. Pete Ross meets some of the visitors to the Dragon Café in Borough, London - the UK's first 'mental health café' and creative space. We hear why dancing science teacher Dr. Richard Spencer choreographs his college biology lessons to music, and how this has led to him becoming a top 10 finalist for the $1m (£650,000) Global Teaching Prize. The singer Ray Quinn chooses his Inheritance Tracks: My Special Angel by Malcolm Vaughan and Eye of the Tiger by Survivor. And Josh Carrott - aka 'The Korean Englishman' - tells us why he is on a mission to bring Korean culture to the UK through his YouTube Channel. Sane New World: Taming the Mind - runs at St James Theatre, London from 2-14 March 2015. Slow Road to Brownsville by David Reynolds is published by Greystone Books. 'They Say Love' - the first single from Ray Quinn's new album - is released on Monday 23 February.

Hear Ruby Wax Comedienne, Writer and Mental Health Campaigner discuss her new book ‘Sane New World: Taming the Mind’ with Jemima Khan, film producer, editor and activist. Among one of the 1 in 4 who has ‘mentally unravelled’, Ruby shares how her personal experiences with depression led her to pursue a masters in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy at Oxford University and to publish ‘a manual for 21st living’.  In the age of overload, she explains why we sabotage our sanity and how mindfulness and rewiring our brain, is the answer to saner and happier living. Recorded live at editorial intelligence’s annual ideas festival Names Not Numbers.

Mariella Frostrup meets Ruby Wax; mathematician Marcus du Sautoy; writer Wendy Law-Yone and Ian Martin of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. Marcus du Sautoy is the Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. He presents a new series on BBC4, Precision: The Measure of All Things, which explores the history of numerical exactness in our world and how precision has come to rule our lives. Precision: The Measure of All Things is on BBC4 at 9pm. Ruby Wax is a comedian, actress and mental health campaigner. In her book, Sane New World: Taming the Mind, she demonstrates how our minds can send us mad and how we can rewire our thinking to cope with a frenetic world. Sane New World: Taming the Mind is published by Hodder & Stoughton. Author Wendy Law-Yone was born and brought up in Burma before fleeing the country at the age of twenty. Her book Golden Parasol: A Daughter's Memoir Of Burma tells the story of her father, the proprietor of The Nation newspaper, who spent five years as a political prisoner. Golden Parasol: A Daughter's Memoir of Burma is published by Chatto & Windus. Ian Martin is general manager of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. D'Oyly Carte has returned to the stage after lack of funds forced it to stop performances in 2003. Following a rebate from the taxman, the company has made its triumphant return with Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta, The Pirates of Penzance. The show, produced in association with Scottish Opera, is on tour. Producer: Paula McGinley.