Make Brilliant Work & How to Calm Your Mind 2 Books Collection Set - Non Fiction - Paperback

Titles in This Set. Make Brilliant Work by Rod Judkins. How to Calm Your Mind by Chris Bailey. Details. Condition: New. Format: Paperback. ISBN (Make Brilliant Work): 9781529060157. Publisher: Pan Macmillan. Age Range: Adult. Overview. This two-book paperback collection pairs creative inspiration with practical calm, bringing together Rod Judkins' Make Brilliant Work and Chris Bailey's How to Calm Your Mind. Together they offer a rounded toolkit for anyone juggling ambition and burnout, showing how to produce standout creative or professional work while protecting mental energy. Brand new and ready to gift, this set suits students, entrepreneurs, artists and busy professionals who want both sharper ideas and a steadier mind, without sacrificing one for the other.. About the Books. Make Brilliant Work draws on the stories of unlikely achievers—people who lacked obvious talent, failed early, or faced repeated rejection—yet still produced extraordinary results. Rod Judkins, author of the bestselling The Art of Creative Thinking, distils their methods into practical, repeatable strategies for turning ordinary effort into outstanding creative or professional output. It's a book about mindset as much as technique: reframing setbacks, experimenting freely, and pushing past the safe, obvious choice to find genuinely original work.. How to Calm Your Mind takes a different but complementary angle. Productivity researcher Chris Bailey, known for his work on focus and attention, examines what happens when relentless hustle collides with burnout. Rather than offering another list of productivity hacks, he explores how calm and mental spaciousness are themselves the foundation of sustainable performance. Readers are guided through practical techniques for reducing overwhelm, managing anxious thinking, and building daily habits that protect long-term focus and creativity rather than exhausting it in short bursts.. Read together, the two titles bridge the gap between doing brillian