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Tony Page

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Psychology, Memoir, Business

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August 2016

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Tony grew up in Kent, lives in South West London and has travelled widely. He is married with grown-up children. He and his wife Helen spent time last year volunteering in Myanmar and Nepal for VSO.

His new book, "Secret Box, Searching for Dad in a Century of Self" , was released in 2018 by Telling Stories Press. It's gained a 5* approval by Readers' Favorite and around 25 reviews at 4 and 5* on Amazon (in the UK, US and Canada) and Goodreads.

The author seeks to solve a mystery about human potential that arose in his family and has bugged him throughout his life. He draws on a range of methods (coaching, facilitation, narrative, theatrical, developmental) he learned during a career as a psychologist working with senior executives.

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How do you get inspired to write?

Tony Page There's an inner voice that's easy to ignore. I wake up dreamily many mornings with half-formed ideas that I feel compelled to write down and in some …moreThere's an inner voice that's easy to ignore. I wake up dreamily many mornings with half-formed ideas that I feel compelled to write down and in some cases to take further. Secret Box is about a quest that arose first in this way as a vague feeling that I needed to break a silence and to answer some nagging questions which until then had been rather convenient to ignore.(less)

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Tony Page I find this a very interesting question as I never suffered from writer's block while writing previous books and articles, until recently while I was …moreI find this a very interesting question as I never suffered from writer's block while writing previous books and articles, until recently while I was writing Secret Box.

Chapter 10 of the book is called Taboo, and this word gives a clue to what I was up against. This chapter describes my experience of writer's block and how I overcame it. I went through many drafts, figuring which feedback I would and wouldn't listen to, self-authorising myself while also experimenting wildly with changing the structure, the tense and the voice.

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Average rating: 4.26 · 19 ratings · 10 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Secret Box: Searching for Dad in a Century of Self 4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Diary of a Change Agent 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From Hippos to Gazelles by Philip Goodwin, Tony Page (Goodreads Author) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Creating Leadership : How to Change Hippos Into Gazelles 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Things My Mother Never Told Me by Blake Morrison

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Immediately and throughout, Blake Morrison conveys a mother’s courage, silence and love and I'm immersed in a life uncannily like my own.

Mothers often fail to mention the parts they play, leaving their children to piece together the truth. Letters from Morrison’s father (a Medical Officer stationed in Iceland and The Azore Read more of this blog post »

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“Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

tags: books, stories

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“Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

tags: memory

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“The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.”
― Katharine Graham

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“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
― Anne Frank

tags: writing

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“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
― Gilda Radner

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