00:00I'm Helen Gibson and I'm author of Go For Goosebumps, which is my first book.
00:07The concept for Go For Goosebumps is very much around encouragement.
00:13And encouragement matters because it's where we get our courage from.
00:18And I think so often we can get bogged down with life and the day-to-day
00:23and what I call the porridge of life, so those sticky, difficult bits.
00:28And this is about how we can wade and navigate through that porridge
00:34and get more of those goosebump moments that we're after.
00:39So it is the moments of joy, it's the moments of excitement,
00:43it's the slightly scary moments, but it's really encouraging us
00:47and those around us to go for more of those goosebump moments.
00:52Very simplistically, I've got a traffic light system.
00:56A lot of what I write about is informed and born out of work
01:01that has been done in very difficult situations in countries around the world
01:07that are hostile environments or countries that are not your honeymoon destinations,
01:13but your fragile and conflict-spective countries.
01:17To that extent, some of the reflections and thoughts and ways of operating
01:21that I'm talking about in the book, it is grounded in that
01:26and being able to move and pivot from some of the most difficult,
01:32sometimes disastrous situations in the world is increasingly complex
01:37and challenging, I think, on a global level,
01:41but also locally for us individually in terms of finding our ways within that.
01:47And therefore, to that extent, it's right to recognise what we can't change,
01:55but equally, we've got a huge amount of agency and opportunity ourselves.
02:02Just throwing out our own pebbles into the water and seeing the ripples of that,
02:08yes, we are only one person, one situation,
02:12but it's amazing what a difference we can make
02:15if we've got the right kind of encouragement.
02:19And to me, that is the key thing around encouragement.
02:24It's one of those things, again, we can all do it.
02:27It's not anything fancy, it's not anything high-tech,
02:30it's not anything that's going to cost us,
02:33but it can be as simple as a thank you, a thumbs up, we've got this.
02:39And knowing that you've got that kind of encouragement,
02:42even if you can't change all the things around you,
02:46if you've got the right kind of ingredients there with encouragement,
02:51you can begin to unleash the maximum potential within ourselves
02:58and the people that we're relating to.
02:59Okay.
