John Collee - Find Somebody Who’s Done it Before

                         

Academy Award-nominee writer John Collee spends time with Duff Watkins to discuss valuable lessons that he has learned. John will reveal "The reason we have 2 sexes", why "It's not an education without language and music" and why you need to "Find someone who's done it before". 

 

About John Collee

John Gerald Collee (born 1955) studied Medicine in Edinburgh, Scotland, and subsequently worked as a doctor in the UK, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, and the Solomon Islands.

From 1991-96 he wrote a popular weekly medical column for The Observer Newspaper, UK.

Since moving to Sydney in 1998 John has written or co-written a number of feature films including the Oscar nominated “Master and Commander” and the Oscar winning “Happy Feet.” More recent work includes "Creation" - about the home life of Charles Darwin - "Walking with Dinosaurs" and "Wolf Totem".   

John is also a novelist and published Author. His novels include “Kingsley's Touch”, “A Paper Mask” - both medical thrillers - also “The Rig”, inspired by his work as a doctor for a Canadian drilling company in Madagascar.

John is married to his wife Deborah, a newspaper journalist, and they have three grown-up children.

​He is also the creative director of Hopscotch Features (producers of Russell Crowe's "The Water Diviner" etc), also co-founder and board member of the climate action group 350.Org, Australia.

 

Episode notes

Lesson 1: It’s not an education without music and language 05m 30s.

Lesson 2: The reason we have 2 sexes 12m 02s.

Lesson 3: How to succeed before you start University 16m 01s.

Lesson 4: Find somebody who’s done it before 23m40s.

Lesson 5: Locate your limits 25m58s.

Lesson 6: Humans achieve communally 29m 31s.

Lesson 7: Output equals input 33m 45s.

Lesson 8: The hard conversations are the important conversations 37m 23s.

Lesson 9: Choose your children wisely 40m 58s.

Lesson 10: It’s not analytical or intuitive …it’s both 45m 01s.