Friday, January 21, 2005

Quote a day source - Tom Asacker

Tom Asacker has a good run going this month. Each day he starts with an excellent quote and distills from that some business/marketing/branding thought-provoking commentary.

Good writing.
Good reading.
Every day.
It is worth it.

Contrary to his comment on today's Nietzsche quote, you can learn from reading his blog. If you could not, I would not refer you. You may be stuck like Nietzsche apparently was, stuck with drawing out from something only what you know. In that case, I feel for you. You are doomed to repeat the same errors time and time again because you can only learn from something that which you know, and since you can't learn that it is wrong (because you don't know), you can't get out of that rut.

Simon and Garfunkel sang "Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest...". That sounds like Nietzsche's line. No wonder they sang it so mournfully.

Tom, you do need to have lunch, to meet with and talk with other people. By stretching yourself to other points of view, you can learn from events something other than what you already know.

The answers will be where you find them. You may find them in conversations with people but you may also find them in books and blogs.

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