Tag: Identity
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What Do People Ask You to Do
I was thinking about this earlier today. I don’t remember what the context was or what I was even thinking before this thought, but I was thinking about identity and this was the idea that came to mind. Now, before I start talking about my concept about this is that…
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The Identity of Being Right
I have written a post about always being right. Please check out the post just to give you context for this one. Do you consume information to learn the truth or do you consume information to affirm you for being right? It’s a great question. The more you hear that…
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The Time for Movements
I heard someone say that today. We are living in a time of movements. I am sure you can tell me about the ones you’ve studied or watched on the news. Just think back a few months ago to the Occupy Movement. It’s easy these days to be a part…
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You Either Copy or Innovate
Of course I heard this listening to something today. The context of the conversation where I heard this had to do with mobile phones – most specifically, the iPhone. I don’t know which side of the conversation you sit in, but they all seemed to think that everyone else copies…
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No Friends
So I wrote a post yesterday about The Friends I Eat With, and what I mean by that. I have friends. I make friends fairly easily. It’s part of my personality. Maybe I’m just not that scary. I saw something tonight – someone else’s post of something – that…
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What You Recognize in Others
I tend to write many posts that have to do with this same idea of seeing in others what you see in yourself. I have written things on facebook and twitter – where my friends start to comment about how whatever they do online says alot about who they are.…
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The Peter Pan Mentality
What do you think about when you think about Peter Pan? Are you wondering what Peter Pan has to do with identity? Well, quite a bit if you think about it really. Peter Pan for most of us is a cute story that we learned when we were a kid.…
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The Value of White Space
Have you ever heard of anyone talk about the use of whitespace on webpages? Have you ever seen a website that uses whitespace strategically and smartly? Whitespace used in the right way – focuses the attention of anyone looking at it – on the things that you want to highlight.…
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Live More Than One Life
I heard this concept yesterday. It had nothing to do with identity, but they were using it in the context of work and just trying to get so much done that it seemed like you were trying to live more than one life. But as they talked about this concept,…
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Vanity Metrics and Identity
Sometimes we can build our identity on metrics that really don’t matter. Well, maybe they matter, but they’re only good for your vanity. I was listening to a podcast on marketing and they were talking about the vanity metrics that people follow when they check out the stats on their…
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The Hard Things
….. are hard to do. If it was easy, then we’d do it. There’s something about it though. The hard things bring about a few interesting things. It brings about excuses, a challenge, and a new sense of self. First, it brings about excuses. Give me a hard thing to…
