On social media, you can connect with a large number of people while remaining snuggly in your personal, little cocoon. You don’t have to even engage with your network much, let alone connect with them emotionally. And yet, from that emotionally-detached cocoon, you can engage with many, many people at once and leave them all [...]
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Communications
I’m reading Born to Run, by Christopher McDougall, and I’m riveted. So many things in this book resonate with me… about the tools we use… attitude… technique… I can’t believe how similar running is to communicating! I’m pleasantly surprised that the path to being a good, injury-free runner shares many of the same principles with the [...]
I received my first “complaint” about my last post about 10 minutes after posting it. From my partner. Who thought I might want to tone down “fuck it” to “screw it.” Maybe he’s right… maybe not. But the email made me realize just how difficult authenticity can be, because it turns out, I don’t speak [...]
Are you passionate? Or just intense? When you get going on a pet topic, do people flock to you? Do they leave your discussions Energized? Excited? Eager to go do something? That’s passion. You know you’re being passionate if you find people attracted to you personally and interested in your cause. On the other hand, [...]
There is no such thing as a good idea. Ideas only become good when they get shared, shaped, and executed. Got an idea? Share it. Shape it. Do it. Because if you protect it, you protect nothing but a lousy thought. Enjoy this blog? Listen to my new podcast, Beyond Social.It’ll help you use [...]
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