Posts Tagged ‘behavior’
Simon Sinek: If You Don’t Understand People, You Don’t Understand Business
Monday, August 22nd, 2011How To Do What’s Inconvenient
Sunday, May 22nd, 2011Dan Ariely talks about what he calls the present bias focus.
Plug into your hard-wired happiness
Friday, April 15th, 2011In this excellent talk at Columbia University, Srikumar Rao offers precisely the kind of cognitive toolkit to combat our ingrained preoccupation with success/fail outcomes standing between us and our own happiness.
1,000 true fans
Sunday, January 30th, 20111,000,000 Facebook fans would be great to have, but you can’t eat a wall post and Retweets don’t pay the rent.
– Matt Kuzma, Each Person Matters re:
A True Fan is defined as someone who will purchase anything and everything you produce. They will drive 200 miles to see you sing. They will buy the super deluxe re-issued hi-res box set of your stuff even though they have the low-res version. They have a Google Alert set for your name. They bookmark the eBay page where your out-of-print editions show up. They come to your openings. They have you sign their copies. They buy the t-shirt, and the mug, and the hat. They can’t wait till you issue your next work. They are true fans.
Slowing Down
Sunday, November 14th, 2010Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
– Lao Tzu via Focus
Content Matters
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010In the same way that there is no single effect of ‘‘eating food,’’ there is also no single effect of ‘‘watching television’’ or ‘‘playing video games.’’ Different foods contain different chemical components and thus lead to different physiological effects; different kinds of media have different content, task requirements, and attentional demands and thus lead to different behavioral effects.