Doom and Bloom: The Case for Creativity in a World Hooked on Panic
By (Author) Campbell Walker
Hardie Grant Books
Hardie Grant Books
13th May 2025
22nd May 2025
Australia
General
Non Fiction
Practical advice: Life hacks / handy tips
Advice on careers and achieving success
Humour
Paperback
176
Width 170mm, Height 211mm, Spine 17mm
462g
Doom and Bloomis a self-help book that distils powerful insights into actionable steps to help you turn the sh*t youve faced in life into fertiliser for personal growth.
Doom is the feeling when everything seems hopeless and hard, and you want to give up. Bloom, on the other hand, is a state of effortless creativity, where solutions surprise you as they flow into reality. Bloom is our highest and most natural state of being, but how do we reach it when the world feelsso dark and heavy InDoom and Bloombestselling author and YouTube sensation Campbell Walker (aka Struthless) offers us a roadmap.
Blending modern research with ancient philosophy, Campbell's witty sense of humour, searing intelligence andintense vulnerability will make you laugh, cry andpull you from the depths of darkness.
Creativity is like a garden you have to start from the ground and work your way up. InDoom and BloomCampbellteaches us how getting down in the dirt can lead to a blossoming life.
Campbell Walker is the bestselling author of Your Head is a Houseboat, as well as an illustrator, animator and content creator, better known as Struthless. His YouTube channel, and its 1m+ subscribers, has amassed over 50 million views across topics such as mental health, sociology, and creativity. Cam has worked with Comedy Central, Spotify, Vice, Shopify, GQ, The Betoota Advocate, Tinder, Samsung, Gatorade and Universal Music. Before he pursued his passion writing and illustrating Cam worked as an advertising creative director, a tattooist and (for one very strange week) a golf-cart taxi driver at a country music festival in Arizona.