Enthusiasm is a communicable disease. Lucy Bellwood at CreativeMornings Portland, October 2017. Free events like this one are hosted every month in dozens of cities. Discover hundreds of talks from the world's creative community at https://creativemornings.com/talks Don't miss a video. Subscribe! https://bit.ly/1jeJwut Follow CreativeMornings: https://twitter.com/creativemorning https://facebook.com/creativemornings

(I made a PowerPoint to sell my parents on my studying art at college, but that’s a whole separate story)

Even as I grew out of midday naps, I had to find creative ways to stay up reading past my bedtime. ​ As a young bookworm, almost nothing could stop me from reading when I was supposed to be doing anything else, sleeping included.