Rediscovering my creativity with LEGO

LEGO fans sometimes refer to their ‘dark ages’, the time period between when they stopped playing with LEGO as a kid and when they started again as an adult. I didn’t have LEGO as a kid, so I can’t claim to have had ‘dark ages’, but it sure is helping me reclaim my creativity now.

My work environment has been stifling of late. The government is strangling our universities and my positions have been subject to multiple overlapping change processes and other ‘optimisations’. Over 250 full time staff have left my organisation, along with countless casual staff whose…