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ABOUT WROODLES

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IT STARTED WITH A DOODLE.
JUST WITH WORDS.

Wroodles comes from Writing Doodles — little observations about people, behaviour and the strange things we humans do without always realising we’re doing them.

Most of us know a Peacock Pete, a Gobbie Gertie or a Moaning Minnie. Sometimes we might even recognise a little bit of them in ourselves.

We take familiar personalities, habits and everyday situations, exaggerate them just enough to make them funny, and then look at what’s really going on underneath. Because humour has a rather useful way of getting through where lectures don’t — it involves a bit of psychology.

Wroodles isn’t about judging people or putting them into boxes. Quite the opposite. It’s about understanding ourselves and each other a little better — while having a laugh along the way.

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ABOUT MARK

I’ve spent much of my working life doing something I didn’t realise I was doing at the time — watching people.

My background has been rather varied: finance and accountancy, business, consulting, training, mentoring and teaching, developing my own business and helping other business owners, with quite a few less predictable life adventures and experiences thrown in along the way.

Much of it involved working and travelling with people from completely different backgrounds and learning how to communicate with each of them.

But is was the little things people do that really fascinated me.. The posturing. The facial expressions. The need for approval. The person in a meeting who suddenly becomes three inches taller when the boss walks in. The moaner. The worrier. The attention-seeker. And occasionally the wonderfully eccentric person who couldn’t care less what anybody thinks.

I began scribbling observations down, sometimes as little poems and bits of nonsense. Eventually those observations became Wroodles — Writing Doodles.