Kerry Cue

Kerry Cue is on a mission to destroy clichéd thinking wherever it exists before it spreads and turns us all into boring little robotic clones incapable of thinking for ourselves.
From the workplace to sports fields to schools to shopping malls and in the home – think parenting and dieting - behaviour has become codified. We are constantly being told by experts, the media and/or the government what to say, think or do. We are in danger of becoming pre-programmed peoplebots.
DO YOU WANT FRIES WITH THAT LIFE?
When you break free of rigid, clichéd thinking you can approach work, love and life with more imagination. But the irony of living in the era of formulaic thinking is that you will be told time and again to think outside the box while they are hammering down the lid. You cannot work or function on any level when you feel as if you are suffocating.
Kerry Cue uses humour like a crowbar to break you free of the rigid restraints of stereotype thinking. Laughing oxygenates the brain; that’s a good start. But humour gives you a new perspective on work, love and life. Moreover if you can laugh at your own foibles you can leap barriers and reinvent yourself, if you so choose, or simply relish the renewed energy and enthusiasm such freedom brings.
You can see cliche-busting at work on Kerry’s blog, Mathspig. It is written for Maths teachers to show them how to make maths fun:
http://mathspig.wordpress.com
http://mathspig.wordpress.com
If you ask the right questions students will want to know or better still they will want to work out the answers. What are the 10 Worst Maths Disasters in the World? How long would it take 1 Vampire to convert the entire world’s population into vampires? Not long!!!! Can you jump out of an aeroplane that’s about to crash and catch the baddie who took the last parachute? And more.

Kerry Cue is a humourist, mathematician, journalist and author who uses humour to smash through cliché thinking.

She studied Science/Engineering at Melbourne University, worked in a laboratory in hot pants, taught maths and science for 10 years then turned her hand to writing becoming a best selling author of 18 humorous and thought provoking books including Life On a G-String, Born to Whinge and I Left My Heart in Chinkapook and my knickers in New York .

She has written for newspapers for over 25 years with columns appearing in The Australian, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The West Australian, The Advertiser (SA), the Herald Sun(Vic), The Courier Mail (Qld), The Canberra Times (ACT) and more. She has made numerous recordings for the ABC.

Now she is a blogger. Her media-savvy Mathspig blog has gone viral on many occasions because she links maths – an old love – to humour including Twilight Maths for Vampires and Debunking 10 Movie Clichés with Maths. (eg. Can you duck a bullet?)

An electrifying speaker, Kerry travels around Australia energising audiences by showing them how to smash through rigid formulaic thinking, escape work stereotypes and harness the power of new media while celebrating their own individual talents and peculiarities. And she shows them how to have fun doing it.

Kerry Cue studied Science/Engineering at Melbourne University and taught maths and science for 10 demanding years before becoming a best selling author of 18 humorous and thought provoking books including Life On a G-String, Australia Unbuttoned and I Left My Heart in Chinkapook and my Knickers in New York. In her latest book, Forgotten Wisdom, A Search for the Lost Art of Happiness (Published in 2008) Cue uses the new science of the brain to explain that you must shut off the chatty little voice in your head and use Right brain thought to fully understand your emotions. Her Happiness Won’t Wait Workshops use humour and insight so participants can rethink and renew attitudes to life, love and relationships.

Cue writes columns for newspapers around Australia including The Australian, the Herald Sun (Vic), The Sydney Morning Herald, the Canberra Times (ACT) and more. She has made numerous recordings for the ABC. An electrifying speaker, Kerry also travels around Australia using humour to unclutter the brain and unburden the heart.