Once you get past your ten years of daily writing your hands (and your brain) simply fly, according to Howard Gardner and Malcom Gladwell's theory of ten years or ten thousand hours. When in 2010 I wrote a book for children in just one week I realised I had reached the point of no return: speed + creativity = productivity close to genius (not my equation). So what makes me different from the rest now is my ability to respond to any creative challenge in 24 hours or fewer. Urgency motivates me, it stimulates and excites me. I have been called a "machine of creativity" (I'm adding the quote marks) because I have made a multi-faceted approach into a sort of "concentrated" life. I prefer to say I have a privileged brain that I have forged. Or that character is the fate of each of us.