The Possibility To Change Stubborn Behaviours

Future You

Katie Elliott

Founder of Little Challenges

“I have had a reoccurring tendency to get through 80% of what I was doing and then stop just at the point where I thought it was getting promising, or I'd fall apart and give up. The only thing I’ve done consistently in my life has been to crumble, and I don't want to inspire anyone to do that.”

This is a talk on how to make the business of being human just a little bit easier.

Katie is one of the very few author-illustrators to have sold over 100,000 copies of a book featuring cartoon slugs (Fun Factory series, Boosey & Hawkes). She has also worked as a freelance puzzle designer for the RSPCA, performed in theatres all over the UK in an unflattering pastel catsuit, co-founded a social enterprise and home educated two sons.

But until very recently, no matter what Katie Elliot did, it was a struggle. In 2016 her life changed in a dramatic way. And she now runs Little Challenges, a project inspired by all she had to learn to stop struggling and start enjoying life.

The talks that changed us

Each year at the DO Lectures we are changed by the talks. Sometimes a little, and sometimes in a big way. We asked the founding partners of DO to tell us the talks that changed them.

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