Who are you?
Some people ask: „How are you?”
As a (half-)joke, I like to ask: „Who are you?”
A bit rude, I must admit, but jokes tend to be like that.
Making people happy
There are two ways of acting:
- Making all people happy. This likely leads to making no person happy. People pleasers. People who tell an exaggerated number of „Yes”-es. eMAG and Amazon, when trying to answer every possible product.
- Making very few people happy. Some newspapers do this when they cover an event – they choose a very specific angle, and assume that if 60% of people like this, that is the only solution. Or online stores – they focus on the majority only. Or Google – only the majority.
The solution? As always – the paradox. From time to time, try not to make anyone happy. From time to time, try to make all the people happy.
Strange
I know people who use this word a lot – „this is strange”.
The thing is – they tend to be strange, themselves.
From Seth Godin:
We Are All Weird: My new book launches today. (Link includes translations to three languages and worldwide availability, too).
What are you going to do with your weirdness? Or the weirdness of everyone around you?
My advice?
Don’t even try not to be weird. It’s pointless.
We are all like this.
