From the Evening Standard here’s some of the best and worst chat up lines used on Londoners
+ One guy said to me: “Alice, how do you do that?” I said: “Do what?” and he said: “Look so beautiful every day.” That definitely didn’t work.
+ A guy I know used to tell people that he was a shark trainer or a lion trainer. It worked every time.
+ One German guy fed me a lie all evening. He said he was a shepherd, he had no internet and his mum bought his clothes. It would have worked if he had never told me the truth. I thought it was really sweet that he was a shepherd.
Twenty five years at the top, constantly innovating, constantly creative, often controversial Madonna’s rise and continued dominance is well documented. What can be learned about that staying power from what she says?
“A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want.”
Does this one take much explaining? Who are you not to say what you want? But like Madonna says if you don’t tell people what you want it’s highly unlikely you’ll be mystically gifted with it. We’re all allowed needs, dreams, hopes and ambitions and when they’re out in the open they’re much more likely to happen. When you verbalise what you’re after it becomes more real. Not only will you be talking to people who can help you get what you want but you’ll also be personally more compelled to make it happen too because you don’t want to let yourself down in public.
She’s been one of the world’s most famous people for the past 15 years and one of the most famous ‘dumped’ women for the last 6. But there haven’t been mass stories about her having a breakdown or lashing out. What can we learn from what she says about how Jennifer Aniston has become one of the most successful but centred people around?
Guy Kawasaki is seen by many as the social networking king and before that he did quite well at Apple and is now officially a venture capitalist. It’s safe to say he’s at the top of his tree. What can be learned from what he says?
“Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across”
Communication is such a complicated beast. There’s verbal, written, body language and the biggest stumbling block in that the message you give out isn’t always the message that’s received. Once people have filtered your communication through their own filters, experiences and assumptions it can be well and truly mangled. Which is way saying the least possible, in the most direct way possible is the surest way of making sure you’re understood.
There’s little doubt that Albert Einstein was a genius and being the great man that he was he shared the secrets of his genius which can be summed up in just a few of his quotes as pointed out by the dumblittleman.com website
“It’s not that I’m so smart; it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions. Imagination is more important than knowledge.”