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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Curiousity and the Cat
- good question -- I thibk if you are passionate about ideas and learning it fuels curiosity Read more >
- Thanks Tom - it was more a question as to why David thinks curiosity is a by-product of passion, as like you, I think curiosity is separate to the passion emotion. I agree that curiosity is something that occurs naturally (in-built survival mechanism) or is learned, however, I do think you have a choice as to whether you see ...Read more >
- Curiosity strikes me as being much more inate (and rarer) than passion. Passion is more about identification and emotion, then a decision to commit. With curiosity, you don't have a choice.
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Marcom
Marcom. Marketing Communications. Schools of Communication. Communication Technology. Courses in Communications. Often culminating in “What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.” (Guess the source.)
So what is communication or communications all about? And why does it so often fail?
- The important question to ask is why do we have conversations in the first place - why do we need them? To build strong reliable relationships - to belong. Relationships don't suddenly blossom, they blossom one conversation at a time over time. Relationships don't suddenly fail, they fail one conversation at a time over time. So the answer ...
- When a lot of people mention Information Theory (Claude Shannon's contribution to C20), they think of comms channel capacity and number of bits per second. What Shannon was developing at a deeper level was Information = what changes beliefs and expectations (in the receivers, ie, other people). Specific beliefs and expectations, not how many words it was, but what influence ...
- Strother Martin in Cool Hand Luke.
