Quitters Often Win: When To Cut and Run

May 12th, 2009. Read up! Published under Economics, In Life So Far. No Comments.

Sorry that there hasn’t been a post for so long, I just seemed to lose the motivation. I’ll get back to it now.

I live and work in Ottawa, and I need a way to get around, so like many other commuters in the city, I went and got myself a bike. Many things were wrong with it, and were continuously going wrong with it, but I kept pouring time and effort and money into fixing it.

Have you ever had a project or task that you started and figured, “I’ve gotten this far, I may as well finish.” You started a book that you didn’t like and just feel like you may as well finish.

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Seth Godin on Marketing and Being Remarkable

April 6th, 2009. Read up! Published under Marketing. 2 Comments.

Seth Godin, one of the world’s foremost marketing gurus, speaks at TED about the dying age of TV advertising and how you need to elicit a response from people by other means, mainly being remarkable.

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Tom Peters on the Education System

April 4th, 2009. Read up! Published under The World. 2 Comments.

Tom Peters, a self proclaimed “loudmouth”, talks about the failings of the modern education system. It rewards those who “colour in the lines” and punishes those who show creativity, even though we are living in a world that values creation extremely highly.

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