Psychology

Why Mistakes Are More Valuable Than Gold (When You Wrangle Them Properly)

Bertolt Brecht

“Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.” – Bertolt Brecht, Born Feb. 10, 1898. If you want to be seen as a leader in your market, it’s not about always winning. It’s about never losing. Maybe the difference there isn’t obvious. In things like our work, […]

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Words that Wound, Words that Heal – We Alternate Them to Persuade People to Buy

Amy Lowell

“All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.” – Amy Lowell, Born Feb. 9, 1874. If you’re just using words to describe shit or explain shit, you’re wasting them. Words can stab. Use yours hit the reader’s tenders organs. Make them bleed. Reopen old wounds. Carve new

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Pattern Breaker: the One True Way to Steal Attention in a Saturated World

Eliphas Levi

“Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.” – Eliphas Levi, Born Feb. 8, 1810. Imagine a turd in a hotdog bun. The easiest way to get attention is to defy expectation, and break the prevailing pattern. Why? The brain exists to keep us alive. To accomplish

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Guess What People Are Thinking, and They’ll Mistske You For Their Own Mind.

Robert Peel

“Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.” – Robert Peel, Born Feb. 5, 1778. Some other famous advertising writer guy once said that persuading people was about entering into the conversation happening inside their own mind. But you don’t need to be a mind-reader to

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Come Get Corrupted With Me And Let’s Get Rich (While Helping People)

Saul Alinsky

“Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.” – Saul Alinsky, Born Jan. 30, 1909. A lot of advertising writers talk some bullshit like “I use persuasion, not manipulation”

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