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Re: The Sales Pitch

sbspalding — Thu, 26 May 2011 17:38:03 -0000

I absolutely agree. Thanks so much Peter!

Re: The Sales Pitch

sbspalding — Fri, 20 May 2011 10:21:47 -0000

At least you're honest about it. I think a lot of people go into it assuming
that it'll be really, really easy to say no. It's not and that's where these
sales folks make their money. (which isn't necessarily a bad thing)

Re: The Sales Pitch

sbspalding — Sat, 14 May 2011 15:44:04 -0000

Ha, yes it was.

Re: The Sales Pitch

sbspalding — Thu, 12 May 2011 21:20:22 -0000

Thank you! :)

Re: Living In The 21st Century

sbspalding — Mon, 09 May 2011 15:36:12 -0000

Thanks for reading mate!

Testing this @reply thing -

@Mindofandre

Re: I Think I Can

sbspalding — Tue, 03 May 2011 16:55:07 -0000

Brilliantly done as always Ophelia!

Re: Living In The 21st Century

sbspalding — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:48:11 -0000

Thank you mate, I appreciate it.

Re: Living In The 21st Century

sbspalding — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:47:54 -0000

Thank you so much! I haven't read Hugh's new book, I should pick it up.

Re: Tom Konkle

sbspalding — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 08:30:57 -0000

That's a really great question. It will be corrected asap. Hah!

Re: Fast Talking More Effective For Ambivalent Audiences

sbspalding — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:39:28 -0000

Yes. This has been empirically proven. Heh.

Re: Simple Rules For Tech Companies

sbspalding — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:08:55 -0000

Ha! I know. I don't -only- read things from writers in the States Maggy. ;)

Re: Confidence Often Trumps Honesty

sbspalding — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:57:32 -0000

That's an amazing point Maggy. I am certain there -is- a politician training
handbook, you just need to pay a beltway consultant a few hundred grand to
print you off a copy. Heh.

Re: The Advantages Of Positive Framing

sbspalding — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:48:57 -0000

Right. I think strong, aspirational positives can be as effective as
negatives in certain situations.

Re: Peering At The Future

sbspalding — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:48:00 -0000

No problem at all. Glad you liked it!

Re: A Brief History Of Information Overload

sbspalding — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:47:26 -0000

That is the most interesting question. There is a point where additional
information just muddles your thinking. Sometimes knowing less and simply
-doing- more can be far more beneficial. The question becomes when do we hit
that point and how do we know we're there. I am certain that Shakespeare
read quite a bit (not about writing but other works of masters) and
developed his style from that. At what point was he better of devoting his
time to writing rather than to absorbing the style and experience of others?

Re: How To Run A Publishing Business Out Of A Barn

sbspalding — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:09:51 -0000

No problem at all Robbi. We've actually never met, you just turned up in my
rather complicated search for interesting things to write about. Though now
I want to know what AWP is so that next time I can go. Thanks for looking at
the guide, it was a really fun bit of curation.

Re: Why Marketers Hate Behavioral Economics

sbspalding — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:12:44 -0000

It's a sad but somewhat hilarious fact of life.

Re: Maybe The Future Won’t Be So Bad

sbspalding — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:17:46 -0000

I don't even feel comfortable predicting 10 months into the future these days. If I took you back to 1989, could you have even conceived of Facebook and its popularity?

Re: Smart-Pills and Microchipped Medicine

sbspalding — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:16:51 -0000

It's odd how much better medication works when someone actually takes the pills. Doing well Maggy?

Re: Tom Konkle

sbspalding — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:46:43 -0000

Thanks! I'll make the correction right now!

Re: How Superstitions Improve Performance

sbspalding — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:51:01 -0000

Yup, there is nothing wrong with a couple of positive delusions every now
and again. Though, I say that with a few pretty large grains of salt. I
think we've become a little obsessed with believing what seems true over
what science has proven to be true, often to our detriment.

Re: The Game Of Politics

sbspalding — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:50:21 -0000

That's a very interesting point that I think brings up a question of motivation. In a game one is motivated to play for the purpose of self improvement. You get better because you're willing to get things wrong for long enough to eventually get them right because the results don't matter. In education, from a very early age, everything is extraordinarily high stakes. If you fail, you don't move forward and are stigmatized. The result is stress and gamesmenship (in order to pass).

I wonder if we kept some of motivational and open learning structures of games (see: Montessori Method in schools) if we wouldn't see increases in motivation and greater desire to self start.

Re: Students Less Empathetic?

sbspalding — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:21:06 -0000

That's absolutely correct, I always worry about trying to find concrete laws
for sociological constructs like student behavior.

Re: The Dangers Of Financial Illiteracy

sbspalding — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:01:02 -0000

Handing over our responsibility kind of defeats the purpose of having it at all. While I do believe there needs to be a certain amount of regulation in most systems to prevent outright fraud, financial literacy is an personal skill that needs to be acquired -- like tying your shoes or understanding basic arithmetic.

Re: People Aren’t Rational

sbspalding — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:31:05 -0000

Ha! It's absolutely amazing what we will come up with in order to make that sort of things make sense to ourselves.