by Sean | Feb 26, 2017 | Books, Business, Marketing, Storytelling
If the glove doesn’t fit… Even though I didn’t type it out, your brain probably said “you must acquit.” Why is that? Your brain ‘hears’ the rest of the sentence as if I wrote it out because of audiation, the process by which...
by Sean | Mar 31, 2016 | Business, Culture, Future, LIfe Style, Marketing, Storytelling
Ever since the end of WW2, and the beginning of the suburban sprawl, car culture has flourished in America. Your car is an extension of yourself. And for decades the automakers have been working to provide us with yearly upgrades. Car culture is deeply ingrained in...
by Sean | Mar 25, 2016 | Books, Learning, Storytelling
In 1,252 the Islamic world was in the middle of an golden age – much like the Italian Renaissance. It was an era of free thought and intellectual liberalism. Baghdad was home to the House of Wisdom, a library which attracted a great many Catholic and Jewish...
by Sean | Mar 11, 2016 | Business, Entrepreneur, Happiness, Mindfulness, Philosophy, Practical Philosophy, Productivity, Pschyology, Storytelling
A few weeks ago, during Seth Godin’s Leadership Workshop, I was introduced to Rule Number 6. Benjamin Zander, the man who coined the term, does a great job of explaining the rule here: Every day something happens in our lives that threatens to destroy...
by Sean | Feb 26, 2016 | Government, Marketing, Propaganda, Sri Lanka, Storytelling
Every genocide begins with marketing. Before a government can begin the extermination of a group of people, they have to get buy in from the masses. They have to convince soldiers that by pulling the trigger they are improving the world. Every genocide of the last...