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.
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“Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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