Our jobs as marketers are to understand how the customer wants to buy and help them do so. – Bryan Eisenberg When talking to a fellow graduate student recently, I asked her if she was at all interested in becoming a marketing professor after graduate school. Her response: “I don’t think I’m ready to sell…
Don’t stress the could haves. If it should have, it would have. — Anonymous If there’s one thing humans are good at, it’s imagining how things could have gone differently. From those perfect shower-time comebacks to those infinite routes you could have taken to avoid a crash, we people often engage in what’s known as counterfactual thinking….
Great ideas alone don’t cause progress; it is the spreading of those ideas that does. — (Teeny & Petty, 2017) A couple years ago, I wrote a post about my Master’s Thesis; now, however, that work has been accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed psychology journal. Cue the confetti, balloons, and dancing elephant! Since I started…
People talk about sexual assault like it’s a bad habit that men have. — Jon Stewart Hollywood has many problems, but the one headlining newspapers these days regards sexual harassment and sexual assault. From Harvey Weinstein to Kevin Spacey to even Louis CK, Hollywood is replete with these disgusting individuals. Heck, I could write my longest post…
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. — Alan Dundes There are few compliments that make me blush more than saying I have a nice voice. Maybe it’s the storyteller in me, maybe it’s the wannabe cowboy desperado. But in high school, I was so…
There’s nothing more dangerous in this world than a humiliated man. — Kai Anderson, American Horror Story: Cult It’s hard to turn on the news these days with humans committing more and more extreme acts against one another. Whether that is explicit terrorism or a horrific mass shooting, in response to these events, we often (rightfully)…