I realised today, that most people don't really like the places they live... If its people from Lowestoft thinking they're stuck in a rut, or people at university in High Wycombe thinking that its the shittest town that they could ever imagine being in, or the people from somewhere in Essex that don't really like where they live and whenever they get asked where they are from they instantly say "north east london". Why don't you move?? Scared??
As I come up to the end of university, i'm thinking of where I would like to live for the next few years. Wycombe has been a good town to be in for the last few years, but i don't know if I could picture being here other than to visit my friends that do stay here.
Lowestoft is probably the last option... If you've been there, you'll know its pretty far away from any kind of real civilisation, Norwich being the nearest place really and what does that have? Colmans mustard and Delia Smith!
Is it just when you've been somewhere for long enough it starts to get boring? Once you've done all the things that the town has to offer is it time to just move on?
Big decisions! lol
Much like this decision... Lionel Richie or Micheal Jackson??
Friday 20 March 2009
Monday 16 March 2009
Me
This is my first blog, and despite the fact that i've been told that blogging is such a good thing to do, and that my last two girlfriends have both had blogs (that i occasionally read still) and that it would entertain me more than facebook does at the minute, it was a book by Seth Godin that convinced me to take this blogging game up.
I'm sort of in the middle of reading it right now. In fact, i've taken 10 minutes out of reading this book just to make a blog address for myself.. THATS HOW GOOD IT IS! it's about leadership... well at least the first 30 pages are, and how that everyone wants to be in a tribe; a group of people with shared interested or a common goal that could be benefitial. This got me thinking, advertising to young people has gotten harder and harder, with more inventive ways of advertising being thought up everyday... most of which are either being ignored (when was the last time you actually watched an advert on tv and was convinced to buy something??). Companies advertise to crowds... crowds are interesting in their own right, but there is no way to focus them to focus onto what they are being told. Wouldn't it be soooo much easier for them to sell something if they just found the right tribe to sell it too?
So, i'm going to finish this, my first ever blog entry, with this... First of all, read Tribes by Seth Godin... he's such an inspiring man, and secondly, if your reading this and you haven't got a blog of your own I would urge you to try it, you might find that you enjoy it and that you want to write more... I certainly have!
I'm sort of in the middle of reading it right now. In fact, i've taken 10 minutes out of reading this book just to make a blog address for myself.. THATS HOW GOOD IT IS! it's about leadership... well at least the first 30 pages are, and how that everyone wants to be in a tribe; a group of people with shared interested or a common goal that could be benefitial. This got me thinking, advertising to young people has gotten harder and harder, with more inventive ways of advertising being thought up everyday... most of which are either being ignored (when was the last time you actually watched an advert on tv and was convinced to buy something??). Companies advertise to crowds... crowds are interesting in their own right, but there is no way to focus them to focus onto what they are being told. Wouldn't it be soooo much easier for them to sell something if they just found the right tribe to sell it too?
So, i'm going to finish this, my first ever blog entry, with this... First of all, read Tribes by Seth Godin... he's such an inspiring man, and secondly, if your reading this and you haven't got a blog of your own I would urge you to try it, you might find that you enjoy it and that you want to write more... I certainly have!
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