In 'Your Head Is a Houseboat,' Campbell Walker demystifies complex concepts in psychology and mental health through bizarre metaphors and illustrations. The book uses the houseboat as a metaphor for the mind, highlighting the need for maintenance and cleaning to avoid being weighed down by unwanted thoughts and opinions. It includes journal exercises and features characters like the Sea Captain and animalistic desires to help readers understand and manage their mental landscape. The book is praised for its funny, warm, and helpful approach to mental wellness and personal development.
This book, co-created by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, is a graphical and creative representation of McLuhan's 'medium is the message' theory. It features an experimental collage style with text and images, including photographs and historic visuals. The title, which was originally a typo ('The Medium is the Message'), was retained by McLuhan as it aptly describes how media 'massage' or influence human perception and society. The book argues that media are extensions of human senses, shaping our personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social lives. It also discusses the concept of the 'global village' and how new media technologies reshape social and personal interactions[1][3][5].
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Do you think of yourself as a creative person? How does being creative make you feel?
Today we welcome into the Academy of Imperfection (reluctant) expert Campbell Walker, better known by his online moniker, Struthless.
Drawing on his hypothesis that creativity is the antithesis of destruction, Struthless discusses how to train yourself in creativity, the 70% rule in completing a creative pursuit, and, thankfully for Hugh, how to recognise and celebrate your creative brain in everyday tasks.
Struthless opens up about the moment he realised drugs had stopped becoming fun, going deeper into his struggles with addiction and how he reframed one of his most shameful moment by asking “how could this be the best thing that has ever happened to me”?
Ryan and Struthless chat about the mental health benefits, and absolute joy, of journalling (just ask anyone who’s bought My Imperfect Life), and how to make sure that the pain doesn’t win.
Figuratively, illustratively and literally, we loved hanging out with you, Struthless.
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