Your life is a story.
Who are the main characters? What are the chapters titled? Who are the protagonists and antagonists?
Is it going somewhere?
Chronically Curious.
And other thoughts.
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Tim Brown on analytical thinking and creativity
"The focus on analytical and convergent thinking in education is so dominant that most students leave school with the belief that either creativity is unimportant or that it is the privilege of a few talented oddballs."
~Tim Brown, Change by Design
Aaron Goldman: Make your company a great story.
Aaron Goldman is the author of the forthcoming book, Everything I Learned From Marketing I Learned From Google. Wait. Before you say, "Great, another book on Google" check out this video. His book isn't at all about telling the story of Google. It's about taking something as simple as "googling" and turning it into strategy that companies can use creatively.
When you're thinking like a consumer, answers are easy to search for. When you're thinking like a company, knowing what to search for isn't that easy.
He sums it up nicely in this quote on his site, "If Google’s mission is to 'organize all the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,' then my mission is to organize all the marketing lessons learned from Google and make them universally accessible and useful."
I'll be chatting with him about his new book today and will post the interview later this week.
Start small and eventually we can all live this way
"If you want to lift yourself up, lift someone else up."
~Booker T. Washington
[VIDEO] Education and Imagination
I cannot, for the life of me, remember who said this quote but it really stuck with me. I know that I read it in Nicholas Carr's book called The Shallows but I haven't been able to dig it up again.
I am the type of person who never did well on tests. It didn't matter if I studied or if I was familiar with the materials or not. I just have a hard time memorizing lots of specific data.
I worked much better in situations that required collaboration and on-the-spot thinking. It wasn't really valuable because test were always worth considerably more points than the in-class assignments.
Such is the nature of higher education.
I share the same fear as Alex Bogusky
"It's the fear of not being able to say that you tried, in all sincerity. I think it's a new kind of midlife crisis."
~Alex Bogusky
You can read his story about why he left advertising here.
If I ever find what I'm looking for...
I want you take it from me and hide it -- so I can do it all over again.
If you're good at telling stories, I will listen.
Have you ever some variation of the saying, "Let Nature speak to you" and been confused, skeptical or just dubious? I didn't understand what people were saying either -- until I came upon this tiny lake in Spray Park, Washington.
It literally looked like a mirror because it was so calm. I didn't notice it until I was standing as still as I possibly could.
It's interesting how people tend to work the same way.
You have to be ready to listen before you are ready to speak.
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Andy Santamaria's Posterous
Your life is a story. 
