Comments on: Holiday Blues for Business Boom

By: Tone Disagrees without Toxins – Brain Leaders and Learners

Tone Disagrees without Toxins – Brain Leaders and Learners — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:12:49 +0000

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By: Robyn McMaster

Robyn McMaster — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:27:25 +0000

Interestingly some research shows that some people value money over relationships and that they find satisfaction in objects. My thought is that these people can also grow to be lonely as they age because they haven’t developed relationships. I agree that they need to gain more of the social or interpersonal skills they never developed. Then they could make their lives an even more satisfying experience. These skills are not learned overnight, but like the rest of us, new risks need to be tried to acquire the skills.

By: Fred H Schlegel

Fred H Schlegel — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:59:14 +0000

I think awareness of how this rewiring can happen also helps you defend against the tools marketers are consistently coming up to play on pre-existing emotional tendencies. Simply thinking through why you have a positive reaction to an advertisement can highlight the disconnect between promise and the actual physical attributes being sold. (Like when beer commercials promise great parties and social gatherings because of the drink. Thinking it through makes it easy to see the great gathering is going to occur for reasons well outside what is being served on most occasions.)