Sorry, you need to enable JavaScript to visit this website.
The digital commonplace book of Marcus Verrall
MV.com
The Commonplace Book of Marcus Verrall

Main navigation

  • Home
  • Career
    • Third Career - Information Technology
    • Second Career - Live Performance
    • First Career - Theatre
  • Library

Why the Startup of You?

Random Quote

Nature as a Teacher

The Creative Act book cover

Simply be aware of moments when your breath gets taken away by something of great beauty.

Nature transcends our tendencies to label and classify, to reduce and limit. The natural world is unfathomably more rich, interwoven, and complicated than we are taught, and so much more mysterious and beautiful.

The Creative Act
p.52

What's required now is an entrepreneurial mindset paired with the concrete skills of startup entrepreneurs.

Whether you work for a ten-person company, a giant multinational corporation, a nonprofit, or a government agency; whether you run your own business or work for several different outfits as a consultant or freelancer—if you want to seize the new opportunities and meet the challenges of today's fractured career landscape, you need to think and act like you're running a startup: your career.

The Startup of You (Revised and Updated)
p.7

Copyright © 2026 Marcus Verrall - All rights reserved

Made by MV