9:17pm Thursday
Saint Paul, Minn
Earlier this week, my wife and two kids all wrapped up their second round of antibiotics for their second round of ear infections and strep throat. We’re stuck inside and the sickness has gone around and around…
and I’ve managed to stay healthy!
Is it because…
(more…)I’ve released a new report for my subscribers to help with marketing your services and products.
“Inside Marketing Secrets for Explosive Growth in 2020” covers some of the most important, and ignored, advice on marketing.
Advice known to old-school experts.
Advice ignored by the current advertising giants and their wanna-bes.
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Sorry to write again about the ongoing worldwide clampdown against the spread of the Coronavirus.
My inbox is filled with this topic, and likely yours is too.
In my recent post The Coronavirus is Coming for You (March 3rd) I wrote how the largest impact to most of us would be the economic impact.
And with the widespread closings of schools, restaurants, conferences, and large gatherings of all types, this seems to be holding true.
What we’re starting to see is people are asking questions like this:
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Why we’re doing the opposite of the home-learning advice we’ve heard
I feel like a hypocrite to write this, because my last few days have been anything but productive or systematic. There have been heavy sicknesses here however (Strep for two, plus an ear infection for the youngest). My family is now recovering fine and last night we got our first night of sleep! The rest of this info holds true even if I’ve not been a shining example…
Humans don’t always have the best understanding of what we want, or how to get there.
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Saint Paul, MN
Tonight I watched a bit of Mark Joyner’s webinar for building wealth in 2020. Joyner is a pioneer in online marketing and wrote the book MindControlMarketing.com (you can read the PRL review here).
I like to attend these to learn what they offer… and to gain a few gems of wisdom.
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(more…)There’s a global panic right now about the Coronavirus, also known as COVID-19.
While the illness is real, we have very little factual data about the illness or its spread.
For starters, there’s an indication this isn’t actually a virus — antiviral medications aren’t making much of a dent.
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A high school student created a fake 2020 candidate. Twitter verified it.
Social Media companies find themselves in a tough spot. A “verified account” is viewed as an authority… but what if it’s a fake account? And what of the real accounts that aren’t verified? The selection process puts a question mark over the trustworthiness of our gatekeepers.
Why Detroit Residents Pushed Back Against Tree-Planting
Some 50 years after Detroit’s trees were cut down —either for law enforcement reasons or for Dutch Elms disease— the residents are wary to plant new trees. The history of trees in Detroit shows how people can have two vastly different understandings of the same set of facts, and how persuading people takes more than just telling them what’s good for them.
Self-restraint builds our resistance to outside attacks on our position and helps us to see the larger picture during times of difficulty.
Bloomberg Big Decisions with Richard Thaler (video)
Richard Thaler is a co-author of Nudge (PRL writeup here) and a professor of behavioral economics, exploring why people make decisions that may not appear rational.
The Weird Power of the Placebo Effect, Explained
The placebo effect can change your world, improve your health, heal your mental ills… and we’re just getting started.
Today is the first day of Lent, the Christian observation of the 40 days before Jesus Christ’s resurrection, marked by Easter.
The Catholic Lenten tradition* involves some sort of fast or abstinence from a pleasurable activity during these 40 days, as a minor attempt to understand the struggle of Jesus’ final days and to build our self-restraint in a world bent on pleasure and external happiness.
*(I can’t speak towards other Christian traditions.)
Looking around, it’s evident that most people shun the idea of self sacrifice as improvement.
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