Hi, it's Helen from the Squiggly Careers podcast. And before the episode starts, I just wanted to let you know about something that Sarah and I are so happy about and so grateful for. And that is that our new book, Learn Like a Lobster, which came out in the UK on the 5th of February, is now, I wish I could do a drum roll, but it's now a Sunday Times number one bestselling book. We're so proud. And we know that lots of the listeners to this podcast are part of what's made that possible. So it is a huge, huge thank you from us. The book actually comes out in the US on the 24th of February. So please keep sharing. Please let anyone know in the US that the book is coming very, very soon.

But most of all, we just wanted to say a huge thank you for you. And now, let's of course get on with

learning. Hi, I'm Helen. And I'm Sarah. And this is the Squiggly Careers podcast, a weekly podcast where

we talk about work and borrow some brilliance from things that we've been

seeing, listening to, reading and try to connect that to your careers in hopefully interesting

and useful ways. And all of our episodes, if you are new to the Skrug of Queers podcast,

all of our episodes come with a one-page summary which we call a pod sheet. It has all of the

ideas that we talk about.

It has some coaching questions. It has some links if you want to learn a bit more.

You can always find that on our website, which is amazingif.com. So Sarah is leading the show

today and she has borrowed some brilliance and she's going to tell us more about it. And I'm going to

learn as we go, I think, in the conversation. Okay okay so a bit of a different one today because we're always trying to try different things out and I couldn't resist partly because this is actually called deck of brilliance so I'm like well if you can't borrow brilliance from a deck of brilliance someone's going wrong where either going wrong or the deck has failed but you'll be you be glad to know. It's anything but a failure. And actually, Helen asked me before this, she was like, how did you first hear about it? And I actually don't know. You know, like, I can't remember whether it was someone recommending it to me or whether it popped up on LinkedIn or something. But I just remember, you know, when you start to have a play with something

and then you're like, wow, this is really good and really interesting and really useful.

What is it?

So the deck of brilliance is, so it's a guy who's put this together.

It's a website, I guess, but it's a very beautiful looking website.

And the guy's name is Jumjee Ramkishnan,

and apologies to him if I've not pronounced that right. And what he has done is he has put

together a number of decks of brilliance based on a kind of overall theme. So one of them might be

generating ideas. So like if you need to generate

ideas, here is a deck that shows you 15 different ways to generate ideas. And then it will give

you an example. So it might show you like an advert or a product that like brings that to life.

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