Psychological resilience is defined as an individual's ability to successfully adapt to life tasks in the face of social disadvantage or other highly adverse conditions.Adversity and stress can come in the shape of family or relationship problems, health problems, or workplace and financial worries, among others. Resilience is the ability to bounce back from a negative experience with "competent functioning". Resilience is not a rare ability; in reality, it is found in the average individual and it can be learned and developed by virtually anyone. Resilience is a process, rather than a trait to be had. It is a process of individuation through a structured system with gradual discovery of personal and unique abilities. A common misconception is that resilient people are free from negative emotions or thoughts, and remain optimistic in most or all situations. To the contrary, resilient individuals have, through time, developed proper coping techniques that allow them to effectively and relatively easily navigate around or through crises. In other words, people who demonstrate resilience are people with optimistic attitudes and positive emotionality; they are, in practice, able to effectively counter negative emotions with positive emotions. Compare the pressures you face in a typical week with a few years ago: have they increased? Now think about the years ahead: are the pressures likely to keep growing? If you’re answering 'yes', this could be a good time to review and renew your strategies for resilience. Alan Heeks has many years’ experience of exploring how people can raise their wellbeing and resilience through contact with nature.Resilience is generally thought of as a "positive adaptation" after a stressful or adverse situation. When a person is "bombarded by daily stress, it disrupts their internal and external sense of balance, presenting challenges as well as opportunities." Resilience is the integrated adaptation of physical, mental and spiritual aspects in a set of "good or bad" circumstances, a coherent sense of self that is able to maintain normative developmental tasks that occur at various stages of life. The Children's Institute of the University of Rochester explains that "resilience research is focused on studying those who engage in life with hope and humor despite devastating losses". It is important to note that resilience is not only about overcoming a deeply stressful situation, but also coming out of the said situation with "competent functioning". Resiliency allows a person to rebound from adversity as a strengthened and more resourceful person. “One of the themes that emerges from these groups is that people feel increasingly depleted by everyday life and work, and it’s getting worse.

"There are many reasons for this, including the many hours spent with smartphones and screens, which mean that they are constantly overloaded with too much information, and alarming news from across the globe. Medical School quotes many research studies showing how long hours in front of screens put people in a continual state of alert, which makes it hard for them both to concentrate, and also to relax. An example of what we can learn from nature is composting: in woods, as in organic farms and gardens, the major source of future growth is waste, dead matter which can be transformed into nutrition for future growth.Resilience is generally thought of as a "positive adaptation" after a stressful or adverse situation.[8] When a person is "bombarded by daily stress, it disrupts their internal and external sense of balance, presenting challenges as well as opportunities." Resilience is the integrated adaptation of physical, mental and spiritual aspects in a set of "good or bad" circumstances, a coherent sense of self that is able to maintain normative developmental tasks that occur at various stages of life. The Children's Institute of the University of Rochester explains that "resilience research is focused on studying those who engage in life with hope and humor despite devastating losses". It is important to note that resilience is not only about overcoming a deeply stressful situation, but also coming out of the said situation with "competent functioning". Resiliency allows a person to rebound from adversity as a strengthened and more resourceful person. You could do the same: imagine recycling negative feelings and anxious thoughts, and using their energy to give you insights and growth. Another theme which emerges for some people at the wood is their concerns for the state of the world, climate change, and damage to the environment. Many people feel helpless about such problems, and simply stuff their worries down. Alan said: “I find that these deep, denied worries affect a lot of people, and sap their energy and resilience. We offer a range of processes, such as composting and deep ecology, to help people face these anxieties, and find a more positive outlook.” The way to positive change for the state of our world begins with dreams. He points out that dreams, in the sense of inspiring visions, and myths, in the sense of prevailing beliefs, have a huge influence in our world. It believes that the wisdom of Gaia, planet earth, can team up with the inventiveness of humans, to find solutions even to the current threats. The mega-crisis represents a mega-opportunity. You could look at it as a chance for humans to grow dramatically in resilience, and in their connection with Nature. We have to dare to dream: if we can at least carry a vision of the future we hope for, it starts to gather momentum.” He provides organic growth approaches for people and their work that help to build resilience. Jane has many years’ experience of working with mindfulness, deep ecology and other approaches to wellbeing, and is part of the Wisdom Tree team.Resilience is generally thought of as a "positive adaptation" after a stressful or adverse situation.[8] When a person is "bombarded by daily stress, it disrupts their internal and external sense of balance, presenting challenges as well as opportunities." Resilience is the integrated adaptation of physical, mental and spiritual aspects in a set of "good or bad" circumstances, a coherent sense of self that is able to maintain normative developmental tasks that occur at various stages of life.The Children's Institute of the University of Rochester explains that "resilience research is focused on studying those who engage in life with hope and humor despite devastating losses". It is important to note that resilience is not only about overcoming a deeply stressful situation, but also coming out of the said situation with "competent functioning". Resiliency allows a person to rebound from adversity as a strengthened and more resourceful person.Three notable bases for resilience, self-confidence, self-esteem and self-concept, all have roots in three different nervous systems—respectively, the somatic nervous system, the autonomic nervous system and the central nervous system. An emerging field in the study of resilience is the neurobiological basis of resilience to stress. For example, neuropeptide Y (NPY) and 5-Dehydroepiandrosterone (5-DHEA) are thought to limit the stress response by reducing sympathetic nervous system activation and protecting the brain from the potentially harmful effects of chronically elevated cortisol levels respectively. In addition, the relationship between social support and stress resilience is thought to be mediated by the oxytocin system's impact on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. "Resilience, conceptualized as a positive bio-psychological adaptation, has proven to be a useful theoretical context for understanding variables for predicting long-term health and well-being".There is some limited research that, like trauma, resilience is epigenetic—that is, it may be inherited—but the science behind this finding is preliminary.Studies show that there are several factors which develop and sustain a person's resilience: The ability to make realistic plans and being capable of taking the steps necessary to follow through with them

Confidence in one’s strengths and abilities

Communication and problem-solving skills

The ability to manage strong impulses and feelings

Resilience is negatively correlated with personality traits of neuroticism and negative emotionality, which represents tendencies to see and react to the world as threatening, problematic, and distressing, and to view oneself as vulnerable. Positive correlations stands with personality traits of openness and positive emotionality, that represents tendencies to engage and confront the world with confidence in success and a fair value to self-directedness.There is significant research found in scientific literature on the relationship between positive emotions and resilience. Studies show that maintaining positive emotions whilst facing adversity promote flexibility in thinking and problem solving. Positive emotions serve an important function in their ability to help an individual recover from stressful experiences and encounters. That being said, maintaining a positive emotionality aids in counteracting the physiological effects of negative emotions. It also facilitates adaptive coping, builds enduring social resources, and increases personal well-being. Formation of conscious perception and monitoring one's own socioemotional factors is considered as a stablity aspect of positive emotions.[citation needed] This is not to say that positive emotions are merely a by-product of resilience, but rather that feeling positive emotions during stressful experiences may have adaptive benefits in the coping process of the individual. Empirical evidence for this prediction arises from research on resilient individuals who have a propensity for coping strategies that concretely elicit positive emotions, such as benefit-finding and cognitive reappraisal, humor, optimism, and goal-directed problem-focused coping. Individuals who tend to approach problems with these methods of coping may strengthen their resistance to stress by allocating more access to these positive emotional resources.Social support from caring adults encouraged resilience among participants by providing them with access to conventional activities.Positive emotions not only have physical outcomes but also physiological ones. Some physiological outcomes caused by humor include improvements in immune system functioning and increases in levels of salivary immunoglobulin A, a vital system antibody, which serves as the body’s first line of defense in respiratory illnesses. Moreover, other health outcomes include faster injury recovery rate and lower readmission rates to hospitals for the elderly, and reductions in a patient’s stay in the hospital, among many other benefits. A study was done on positive emotions in trait-resilient individuals and the cardiovascular recovery rate following negative emotions felt by those individuals. The results of the study showed that trait-resilient individuals experiencing positive emotions had an acceleration in the speed in rebounding from cardiovascular activation initially generated by negative emotional arousal, i.e. heart rate and the like.A study was conducted among high achieving professionals who seek challenging situations that require resilience. Research has examined 13 high achievers from various professions, all of whom had experienced challenges in the workplace and negative life events over the course of their careers but who had also been recognized for their great achievements in their respective fields. Participants were interviewed about everyday life in the workplace as well as their experiences with resilience and thriving. The study found six main predictors of resilience: positive and proactive personality, experience and learning, sense of control, flexibility and adaptability, balance and perspective, and perceived social support. High achievers were also found to engage in many activities unrelated to their work such as engaging in hobbies, exercising, and organizing meetups with friends and loved ones. Several factors are found to modify the negative effects of adverse life situations. Many studies show that the primary factor is to have relationships that provide care and support, create love and trust, and offer encouragement, both within and outside the family. Additional factors are also associated with resilience, like the capacity to make realistic plans, having self-confidence and a positive self image,developing communications skills, and the capacity to manage strong feelings and impulses. Temperamental and constitutional disposition is considered as a major factor in resilience. It is one of the necessary precursors of resilience along with warmth in family cohesion and accessibility of prosocial support systems. There are three kinds of temperamental systems that play part in resilience, they are the appetitive system, defensive system and attentional system. Another protective factor is related to moderating the negative effects of environmental hazards or a stressful situation in order to direct vulnerable individuals to optimistic paths, such as external social support. More specifically a 1995 study distinguished three contexts for protective factors:personal attributes, including outgoing, bright, and positive self-concepts; the family, such as having close bonds with at least one family member or an emotionally stable parent; and the community, such as receiving support or counsel from peers. Furthermore, a study of the elderly in Zurich, Switzerland, illuminated the role humor plays as a coping mechanism to maintain a state of happiness in the face of age-related adversity. Besides the above distinction on resilience, research has also been devoted to discovering the individual differences in resilience. Self-esteem, ego-control, and ego-resiliency are related to behavioral adaptation. For example, maltreated children who feel good about themselves may process risk situations differently by attributing different reasons to the environments they experience and, thereby, avoid producing negative internalized self-perceptions. Ego-control is "the threshold or operating characteristics of an individual with regard to the expression or containment"[49] of their impulses, feelings, and desires. Ego-resilience refers to "dynamic capacity, to modify his or her model level of ego-control, in either direction, as a function of the demand characteristics of the environmental context"Maltreated children who experienced some risk factors (e.g., single parenting, limited maternal education, or family unemployment), showed lower ego-resilience and intelligence than nonmaltreated children. Furthermore, maltreated children are more likely than nonmaltreated children to demonstrate disruptive-aggressive, withdraw, and internalized behavior problems. Finally, ego-resiliency, and positive self-esteem were predictors of competent adaptation in the maltreated children. Demographic information (e.g., gender) and resources (e.g., social support) are also used to predict resilience. Examining people's adaptation after disaster showed women were associated with less likelihood of resilience than men. Also, individuals who were less involved in affinity groups and organisations showed less resilience.

Certain aspects of religions and spirituality may, hypothetically, promote or hinder certain psychological virtues that increase resilience. Research has not established connection between spirituality and resilience. According to the 4th edition of Psychology of Religion by Hood, et al., the "study of positive psychology is a relatively new development...there has not yet been much direct empirical research looking specifically at the association of religion and ordinary strengths and virtues".In a review of the literature on the relationship between religiosity/spirituality and PTSD, amongst the significant findings, about half of the studies showed a positive relationship and half showed a negative relationship between measures of religiosity/spirituality and resilience. The United States Army has received criticism for promoting spirituality in its new [Comprehensive Soldier Fitness] program as a way to prevent PTSD, due to the lack of conclusive supporting data. In military studies it has been found that resilience is also dependent on group support: unit cohesion and morale is the best predictor of combat resiliency within a unit or organization. Resilience is highly correlated to peer support and group cohesion. Units with high cohesion tend to experience a lower rate of psychological breakdowns than units with low cohesion and morale. High cohesion and morale enhance adaptive stress reactions.

 

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Welcome to another transcript of the very inspiring interview with Matt Humphries, Head of Design at Morgan Motor Company as he shares his journey on how he maximised his potential by becoming one of the most respected automotive design engineers in the industry.

 

Kevin: Welcome to Maximise Potential the podcast to educate and motivate through a range of original interviews designed to help you maximise your potential.

 

Welcome to the first Maximise Potential podcast of 2011. Morgan Motor Company is Britain’s sole surviving car manufacturer yet far from just surviving the car is currently experiencing one of its most successful ever commercial periods and is being increasingly seen as one of Britain’s global success stories. I recently recorded this four part interview series at the Morgan Factory in Malvern with key personnel from the company starting off with Morgan’s Head of Design Matthew Humphries. I interviewed Matt because of the way due to his innovative and proactive personality he became Head of Design for Morgan whilst also rapidly becoming one of the most respective automotive design engineers in the industry.

 

So Matt I have got to start with the main question which is how does someone go from an undergraduate who is doing a work experience project with Morgan to now being Head of Design for the company launching your own car the EvaGT within America just within a few short years? I mean that is a hell of a story to tell so go on please share it.

 

Matt: Well I mean it all started when I was on work placement. I like all my other peers at Coventry University were asked to send folios off to different companies and I thought well why not send it somewhere different so I sent it to Morgan. Luckily Charles Morgan picked my folio up, he loved the type of, the way I designed and the type of drawings I was doing. I came in a work placement. I designed the Aeromax and then actually went back to University. And then in September I popped back in to see a couple of the chaps who were at the factory, some of the guys and girls that I had met and made friends with and one of the guys said well come round the back of the factory and I have got to show you something. So I went into this little shed out the back of the factory and there was sat my little clay model which I had made and they had started to scale it up in to the full size car. So from that point on I used to come down here in the mornings to Morgan back up to University in the afternoon when my friends were just getting up and just having a cup of coffee and then we launched the first pre production concept car at Geneva 2005.

It was all, it was grasping the opportunity and saying okay yep we can build a car we can do this between us and it was a very small team that did it. So we did that and then I went back to University finished my degree off and ended up starting as the well Chief Designer when I left Uni in the September.

 

Kevin: I mean what is phenomenal about this story is the fact that you have literally created this department within Morgan. Morgan did not have this before did they?

 

Matt: No I mean the challenge was, for me was actually to set up a design capability within the company. I was on a KTP scheme with the government and the point of it was to establish design capability to be able to go from a sketch all the way through to a final model that you could take into the engineering department and finish off as a production car. So for me the challenge has been setting up and actually getting an old traditional company to understand that having aesthetics and design can vastly improve the time capability you can come up with something and the end product is 50 times better because the old fashioned way of doing things here was to literally knock something up in one of the sheds bring it out and the Directors standing around and go oh I don’t like this bit, I don’t like that bit. And now we are able to sketch something out in ten minutes, draw it up so it looks like it is semi realistic, give them five different options. From that you do get a more refined and actually an aesthetically pleasing product as well.

 

Kevin: How do people react to your approach here? I mean obviously you were shifting the boundaries a hell of a long way from what they had been used to for coming up for a hundred years.

 

Matt: Well I mean it was just a challenge walking through the workshop when I first started. Seeing some short guy with long blonde hair walking through the factory was, I used to get wolf whistled every time I walked through that place. But no I mean it was, I mean here it is one of those places you have to earn the respect of everyone around you to be able to get on. And it was a real challenge for me coming from that student at University all of a sudden I am thrown in here into a factory environment. It was a case of actually going around and making sure I listened to every single person that was involved in those products. To go into the guys in the workshop, go into the tin shop, say to the chaps okay hang on a minute how would you do this if you were doing it what is your suggestion. And as soon as you had that buy in from that, that sort of mutual respect has come because obviously I understand you know how hard their jobs are and the skills that they have that are involved in doing it.

 

Kevin: Well this is something that I was going to touch on because I have been fortunate enough to have a lovely in depth tour around the Morgan Plant and what I have noticed is and I said this to a couple of the members of your team everybody is a craftsman here. And that’s what I think; I mean it must be very interesting from your perspective that you are actually getting a real craftsman’s view on absolutely everything and all the elements that you are bringing to the table.

 

Matt: Yeah I mean that is the nice thing so now we have got this, what we see is a really beautiful mixture of craftsmanship, technology and aesthetic design all mixed in there. The nice thing is that in actual fact all Morgan’s are all based around this concept of functionality. And what we can do now is we can have these craftsmanship skills, these wooden you know forms that have been handcrafted by someone but give them an aesthetic twist. By doing that you end up with something that is beautifully functional but it is the functionality which makes it aesthetically pleasing. So within the Aeromax you expose the wooden frame and then you stretch the aluminium over the top. And it is those forms the aluminium naturally lies in is actually probably the best solution to it anyway. And that is how all Morgan design philosophy comes around.

 

Kevin: I think that is what we are touching on to now which is the influence that you are bringing on to Morgan which probably leads me nicely into my next question which was very much taking a brand perception from a very traditional historical GB brand to something that really is pushing out innovation, design boundaries or that is how it looks from an aesthetic perspective and it will be interesting to get your take on that because I know that you consider the two concepts aren’t actually that far removed although when you look at them cars that you are bringing to the table now look incredibly different in some regards to what they were before.

 

Matt: I think that is partly brand perception. I think the point of every single Morgan is that you can sit a classic car next to a EvaGT, you can open the doors and you will see a wooden frame in there. You will see true real materials. You will see leather, wood, aluminium. It is those DNA qualities that mean that you can sit both cars together and they are truly Morgan and they could only be Morgan. The classic car has had this bad perception of, well I would say it is bad, but of this you know pipe smoking old man for many years. But actually I think Morgan’s are, you know the classic ones are fantastically interesting and very individual and if you take them as a bespoke individual product and think of it more like a tailored suit, think about tailoring it never goes out of fashion. Okay you get someone like Oswald Botang come in and he will storm his way into a very traditional Saville Row, he will bring new designs and new elements of design to it but at the end of the day he is still tailoring, still making a crafted product there and I think it is all to do with brand perception. So we take a Morgan with all the glitz and all the chrome bits on it strip it right down, make it a pure simple sports car again, put it in some interesting colours and natural leathers and you have a very cool simple but British tailored product. And that is the Morgan DNA. The Morgan DNA is about real materials. It is about mixing craftsmanship, technology and aesthetically pleasing design all together to give this functional real sports car.

 

Kevin: And how far do you think you can keep pushing this grand perception and keep broadening it and keep if you like introducing new touches, new ideas and a new audience to the Morgan brand. How far could you go with this?

 

Matt: Well a good example of how far we are pushing it is this weekend we are going to, we are doing the Lord Mayor’s Parade and we have got quite a controversial artist he is going to hand paint a Morgan as he drives through London. It is pushing the boundaries; he is actually calling it ‘The Sacrifice of the Morgan’. This thing is opening up to a completely new marketplace and making Morgan something to look at and watch out for instead of just going ah that is Morgan they have always made those things. Now we are stamping the ground and going now we are doing some bold new things here come on everyone wake up and watch us.

 

Kevin: I think what is lovely to hear and I know for a fact that this is going to come over on the audio as well is the passion enthusiasm and the energy that you are speaking about this. I mean you are absolutely loving it. It is like speaking to you know someone who has come down on Christmas Day and opening up their presents. But I mean how much fun is this for you?

 

Matt: It is a great challenge, it is brilliant. I mean that is part of the point that is that if you can’t challenge things like that all the time and constantly change people’s opinions then I don’t think you are designing properly. So I think it is not just about, it is not for me just about sketching new cars out it is also about the whole brand behind it and it is about building something and changing people’s opinions all the time by one changing the design and secondly putting it in different places, exposing it to new people.

 

Kevin: I love that line that you have just used about changing people’s perceptions. Is that what drives you all the time?

 

Matt: My drive is that I am never content. I constantly have to change things. You know a vintage sports car that I have always dreamed after within six months I became oh this bit isn’t quite right; oh that bit isn’t quite right. Even when we did the Aeromax you know or the EvaGT I am constantly changing things I am never happy with what that final piece is. You get to the point in the design process you have to swipe the pen down and go that is it we are going with that one. But I know within six months I will be back and I will be changing my mind and I won’t be happy with this but I think that is good because I am constantly challenged to strive forward and keep on moving things in a new direction.

 

Kevin: Absolutely and speaking of driving things in a new direction whereabouts do you get your ideas from I mean because it is a big wide world out there but you are bringing some lovely creative flare into the Morgan’s you are designing where does that come from?

 

Matt: I think you just have to keep your eyes, as a designer you have to keep them as open as possible. I mean I look at everything from fashion, music; I go on countless blogs and different things on the internet, constantly hunting down new trends across the world. I have been to some crazy car trends that are happening out in San Francisco and California at the moment that okay that is a car trend but then also I will relate that back to fashion. I will look at advertising that is going on within the world. If you can just pick different things from different elements that actually just the bits that you like put those in a big pile, keep them in the back of your head, and then when you are coming down to designing a new product or thinking up a new marketing campaign something will pop out and you will go that’s what I am saying that is what I remembered it for that is where I it is going next.

 

Kevin: It is funny that is what I noticed from your office because on your office you have literally got just swatches of all sorts of stuff just pinned up on walls and it looks like a real scrapbook.

 

Matt: It is a bit like a cave yeah. I mean we just anything that is exciting or interesting pin it on the wall and keep it there. I mean I am not a hoarder and I cant stand things like that normally I like big clean white walls but I think everyone has to have somewhere where you just throw all the idea out and like I said when you are sketching if they up on the wall you go ah that’s why I remembered that for.

 

Kevin: Do you think that is one of the keys for anybody who is looking to constantly drive themselves forward which is thinking outside the box constantly looking for stuff from left field that could inspire them?

 

Matt: Definitely it doesn’t have to be designer I mean it could be anything. Why be the norm? Why constantly tread that route. It might sound slightly cheesy but you just have to just you know wind your own route through I suppose.

 

Kevin: And that brings me on nicely to a lovely phrase that you used in an interview which I found particularly interesting and it is how you say Morgan’s have to be automotive theatre.

 

Matt: I mean all Morgan’s have to have this concept of what we call automotive theatre because if you imagine seeing in the 1930s a coach built Lamborghini Falaschi body which is one of my favourite coach builders from the period car go down Hollywood Boulevard people would have literally been, their jaws would have been dropping and they would have been going oh wow what is that thing I want to know what it is. Now that sort of theatrical side of the design every Morgan has got it. You drive a classic Morgan down high street in any single city people go wow what is that thing, what is it, how do I get to know what it is. It is that theatrical element to it. It is not actually designed into it either I mean the actual theatre is something that comes around from aesthetics and functionality. But it is just that concept of exciting people and having it different on the road it is not just your normal Astra or something that people as just a fridge this is an piece of automotive theatre that is exciting and different.

 

Kevin: I am going to pull you just a bit down to earth now just um pull you away from the design ideas and I am going to bring you back from where you have come from which is undergraduate putting yourself out there. There is huge competition for graduate jobs right now. What would your advice be to graduates, regardless not just design graduates but people in any discipline to help them set themselves apart and find that job of their dreams just the way you have managed to do that?

 

Matt: I think it is actually about not closing your barriers down as much. People who went on my design course when I instantly said that I was going off to Morgan some of them put their noses up because they thought well that is a traditional company you are not going to be designing modern cars there. But why do that because five days down the line we are doing modern cars here. I have established a design community within the company so what I would say is don’t close your boundaries down. Think okay where could you go that may give me a different opportunity and in actual fact I think when people do that they find their own little niche and their little market that is more them. I will always be designing you know high end luxury products. If it is watches, cars, houses it will still be within that high end network and that is my niche now. You know I have found my little area. When I was at University I didn’t know that was me you know I was designing a Fiesta Van one day and the next day it would be this and you are constantly hunting for which area to go into so just keep completely open mind and if there may be an opportunity that arises that you question then go for it and grasp it.

 

Kevin: I think you have summed it up there which is just go for opportunities don’t wait for them to come to you.

 

Matt: No go and get those opportunities. If I hadn’t sent my folio to Morgan and hadn’t said to Charles look I will come here just let me sit down at a desk and come up with some ideas for you I wouldn’t be doing what I am doing today.

 

Kevin: No nor equally then juggling an actual job with your studies.

 

Matt: Why not push it. You know you are only here once so give it a go.

 

Kevin: Yeah and that is a lovely attitude to take. So keeping on the personal questions I am going to put you on the spot a bit now and we love to ask people actually what drives them.

 

Matt: I think it is the thing that I said earlier on about never being content. I am never going to be content with anything I do and it is a good thing, and also just being positive about everything. You know some people go oh I am never going to be content and then get in a big dull about it. Turn it around be positive about the fact that I am never going to be content and go brilliant okay well it pushes me. It makes sure that every single morning when I get up if I am not happy with something I change it. That is the attitude to have about things.

 

Kevin: Who has been the greatest influence in your life so far?

 

Matt: Probably in a very corny fashion it is my father. He was someone that came up and built quite a large company, an architects practice from nothing and he, I always seemed growing up, I didn’t actually see my father much growing up but that was because he was constantly pushing the boundaries all the time in architecture and design. He is the one who has actually said to me push, push, push keep on going without even telling me to do it because I have seen him going for it. And he has given me the passion to still drive and I think in actual fact there is something in me that says I have to try and achieve more than my father did. I don’t know why and he says, he is not like this in any fashion he would never tell me to do that, but I feel for myself I have to achieve that.

 

Kevin: And I am just going to finish off for people out there who still think of Morgan as being this classic sports car company how would you summarise what Morgan is now and what they might be missing out on?

 

Matt: Well from my point of view I would say that Morgan is now a design lead company. It is something that is taking influences from all around the world but it is also you could say that in actual fact Morgan has stayed where it is but now we are exposing the true qualities of Morgan. In actual fact the whole world has come completely in a circle and now all the qualities that Morgan’s have always had are very of the moment and we are a modern forward thinking company these days that is challenging different boundaries, painting cars in the streets, pushing things forward every single day.

 

Kevin: Matt Humphries thank you very much for your time today.

 

Matt: Thanks very much.

 

Transcript: Matt Humphries – Morgan Motor Company, Head of Design (Max#21)

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