Author: Garth Beyer

Being Accepted

Garth Beyer

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In a pitch for an executive board position, one candidate said, “You can tell by my personality.”

I don’t advise you say that… ever. Saying that (or something similar to that) let’s everyone know that you will change, that if you get rejected, you’ll alter your personality until you make the most people you can happy.

Worst of all, no, I can’t tell by your personality.

Personality is who you are, not who you can be or how you say you are.

If you’re new, if you want to show that you fit in or stand out, focus on sharing what you have done, what you have created, what you failed over and over at. THAT tells me more about your personality than what you can say your personality type is.

And if you have nothing to show, either say that or go back to the drawing board and build something to showcase.

 

Stay Positive & Go In Swinging, Not Just Saying You’re The Batting Type

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You Can’t Help Them (Don’t Try To)

Garth Beyer

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Many of you who read my stories each day align with all that I have written about helping others, asking for help, and accepting help.

These bits of helping advice will save you in the long run. What will save you more, though, is accepting that you can’t and shouldn’t help those who don’t want to be helped.

It will always put you in a rough spot, aggravated and frustrated.

The rejection of help is the single most forgotten form of rejection. When you try to help someone else because they aren’t doing something right, or you can see that they are struggling, or they missed something crucial that you want to help by pointing out, you are asking to be disappointed.

Not only are you better off going back to doing what you were doing and focusing on yourself when you feel the urge to help someone who is resistant to your offers of assistance, but they are better off too. They are on their own path of learning. Having you trying to enter that path simply adds to their challenge.

When someone wants to do something themselves and they reject your offer to help, leave them to it.

Observe and learn from what they are doing on their own.

There won’t always be someone to offer you help.

 

Stay Positive & Best To Know How To Do It By Yourself, Just In Case

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Photo credit: As for the photo here: it's just a gentle reminder that while you may have had your assistance rejected, you can still make them happy through other means

Why The Digital Age Is Creating A Stronger Sense Of Community

Garth Beyer

Getting things for free feels so good. Getting things for free when you know you shouldn’t – that feels even better.

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Everything that this digital age is producing – whether it be ads, shifts in cultural norms, or tangible products – the result is the same: a stronger sense of community.

(unrelated to digital age) You go to your favorite local coffee shop and since you bought one Turtle Mocha, you get a second one to go for free. Compare this to going to a local coffee shop and buying one Turtle Mocha, but when you pick it up, the barista gives you a second one to go “on the house.”

(related to the digital age) You get one month of Netflix free, after that one month you have to pay. Compare this to getting one month of Netflix free, and after that one month, you get the username and password of your girlfriends’ parents account.

In the coffee shop scenario, getting something free when you shouldn’t have established a connection between you and the barista (effectively the coffee shop too). In the Netflix scenario, you’ve reaffirmed the connection between you and your girlfriends’ parents (obviously a win-win).

This effect is one of the single most important reasons why I love advertising in the digital age. No matter the success or failure of ads, they always leave a stronger sense of community.

Either you buy into the brand and become part of that brands community (coffee deal drinkers or addicted Netflix supporters) or you find a way to get something free when normally you shouldn’t – be it through pre-existing connections (step-brother, in-laws, etc,) or through making new connections (class mates, coworkers, etc,).

The end result is the same: stronger sense of community.

 

Stay Positive & There’s A Reason It’s Called The Connection Economy

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Here’s a bonus read. Enjoy.

 

A Brief About Banksy

Garth Beyer

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Elusive graffiti artist Banksy is on his final two weeks of his month-long residency in New York.

So far he has defaced property expressed himself through spray paint art, created a fibreglass replica of Ronald McDonald having his shoes shined by a real live boy, made people question the worth of his art (art is war on the human brain), and most recently made a 1/36 scale replica of the great Sphinx of Giza from smashed cinderblocks.

Reporters have tried to get the whole scoop on Banksy, but as one informat said in an email to a reporter , “they don’t call him BANKsy for nothing.”

The most we have heard from Banksy (in addition to his daily updates on his website) is that Village Voice had an exclusive interview with him.

I love the Bloomberg-Banksy talk.

I love even more how much people prize his work. So much that they will bar it up.

In the end, nothing tops the fact that Banksy set up an impromptu stand on the streets of NYC to sell his authentic art for $60 a piece and only managed to sell eight pieces. Then, less than a week later, artists Dave Cicirelli and Lance Pilgrim mimicked the exact tactic and stand set-up with a twist – they marked the art as fake and even provided Certificate of Inauthenticity with each purchase.

The stand sold out in less than an hour.

Think Of The Outside Of Your Box

Garth Beyer

Literally, the outside of it.

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You can think outside of the box, but what you think of is often take back and put inside your box. We only ever venture out of our box to gain insight and ideas to bring back and experiment with. All the while, we neglect the outside of our box.

All companies are fighting to put the best tasting most oddball cereal inside their box, but what still matters the most is what is on the outside of the box.

 

Stay Positive & Don’t Forget To Decorate

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Are You Ready?

Garth Beyer

You can’t get stuck on this. You can’t wait until you are. You can’t rationalize your way through it.

Truthfully, you’re better off not being ready and moving forward anyway.

Plus, often the best things in life we are never ready for. Why wait until we are?

 

Stay Positive & You’re Not Supposed To Answer That Question

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