In The Box Podcast

Episode 4: Transparency, Exhaustion, Storytelling And More – Podcast

Garth Beyer

On this episode of In The Box Podcast, we talked about customization, citizen journalism, storytelling in business, humanities desire to conquer more, video games, and transparency.

Episode 4: Transparency, Exhaustion, Storytelling And More

Customization — Do you think for a product or service it has to have a completely customizable option?

Citizen Journalism — What is the point of citizen journalism? Big ideas will get out to the public anyway, right? (do we need to define citizen journalism?)

Storytelling In Business – Would you say it’s essential to tell a compelling story if you’re a business? Why or why not?

Conquering more and more and more… — What piece of the human condition triggers the desire to continually conquer land?

Video games – What is the appeal?

Transparency – When is it a problem?

 

Stay Positive & See My Q&A For Transparency

Advice To My Younger Self

Advice To My Younger Self

Garth Beyer

During meditation earlier my mind began to wonder. For some reason it went back to some childhood memories, of moments that I thought I was the only one who thought something or experienced something.

You know the odd-looking air on the horizon of a road, it’s almost as if it was heat or some fume? When I asked anyone driving in the car with me if they saw it, they responded as if I was crazy. I believed them.

Or, to the extreme, thinking of jumping off a building you’re on. Everyone has thought it at one point, but in the moment we feel so alone, as if we’re the only ones who think these things and we get uncomfortable about it.

The advice I’d give to my younger self is “you’re going to think about a lot of things that you will think are unique to you. They’re not.”

The reason I’d say this to my younger self, and to you, now, is that we have thoughts, which we quickly dispel based on the premise that we think we’re the only ones to think it. It’s a tragedy, really.

You think you’re the only one who has come up with a spectacular idea, but you’re not.

Think Jobs was the only one to think of transportable music in your pocket? Think Gladwell was the only one to wonder about cockpit culture and why planes crash? The answer is yes, you do.

And we’re wrong in that thinking; they’re merely the only ones who acted on an idea. You can be them if you realize you’re not the only one who thinks about things differently, who has the thoughts you do, who has an idea that just might damn well work.

 

Stay Positive & Worth A Try Right?

What Are You In It For?

Garth Beyer

I’ve seen it over and over. People enter agencies and use them as a stepping stone to what they really want.

Then there are those who go into an agency knowing it’s where they want to be.

Thing is, everyone knows why you’re there too.

It benefits all to go where you want to be. Find a way to be there instead of using another place as a stepping stone.

It’ll be worth whatever trials you go through to get there.

 

Stay Positive & Don’t Settle For Baby Steps

Subjection

Subjection

Garth Beyer

I thought earlier today at work how I’m learning more things that are difficult to communicate to people who haven’t experienced what I have.

A lot of what I write can be read as a short cut for you. You can skip all the frustrations of going what I’ve already gone through to reach the same conclusions. Right? …I hope not.

Rather then taking the short cut, I hope you are inspired to take the journey, encouraged to subject yourself to failure, to being uncomfortable, to thinking about things differently.

I’ve made it out alive, so can you.

Sometimes I forget it’s not the finish line that makes the race, but the run all the way to it. It is nice to know there is a finish line, though, and that’s why I write, why I share so many “finish line realizations” about life, about marketing, about public relations, about connections and art.

A finish line isn’t worth it without a marathon before it, and a marathon isn’t worth it without a finish line at the end. We have to take pleasure in both.

One of the toughest questions to answer when we are on a mission of success is what does success look like?

For me it’s getting you to subject yourself to things you wouldn’t have had you not read my writing. And, hey, along the way you may do things a bit differently and reach better, bigger, brighter conclusions than me. Sounds sort of exciting doesn’t it? (it is)

 

Stay Positive & Perhaps YOU Will Start Blogging Daily

Owning It

Garth Beyer

Peculiar vocabulary, owning is.

You can lead a project. You can tag along with one. You can be the pack-mule to one. But owning it establishes an entirely different perspective, a more difficult set of responsibilities.

When was the last time you owned something?

 

Stay Positive & Are You Waiting For Your Turn? (I hope not)