Other Work
In his classes at The School of Life Flintoff frequently emphasizes the importance of recognising that we all capable of much more than whatever it happens to say on our business cards. In Sew Your Own, he claimed to have worked as, among other things, a bin man, executive PA, scuba diver, poet, taxi driver, tailor, gardener, ice-cream salesman, film-maker, assistant undertaker, bit-part player in pantomime, waiter, illustrator, high-wire window cleaner, photographer, very amateur boxer, karaoke singer and rat catcher.
Along with Alexis Rowell, Flintoff was a founder of Transition Belsize, one of the earliest examples of the Transition Movement in big cities. Flintoff has said he was inspired to set it up after meeting Duncan Law of Transition Brixton.
Read more about this topic: John-Paul Flintoff
Famous quotes containing the word work:
“An ordinary man will work every day for a year at shoveling dirt to support his body, or a family of bodies; but he is an extraordinary man who will work a whole day in a year for the support of his soul. Even the priests, men of God, so called, for the most part confess that they work for the support of the body.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)