Comments on: The Matrix Lives Your Life http://www.chrisbrogan.com/the-matrix-lives-your-life/ Learn How Human Business Works - Beyond Social Media Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:25:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Liz Strauss http://www.chrisbrogan.com/the-matrix-lives-your-life/comment-page-1/#comment-48383 Liz Strauss Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:43:50 +0000 http://grasshopperfactory.com/cbc/the-matrix-lives-your-life/#comment-48383 Hi Chris and all, It's so nice to hear someone talk of looking before we buy into every new thing that is offered for "networking." We seem to be actively giving away more and more of ourselves without thinking about who we're giving it to. I see people saying things on Twitter that I wouldn't necessarily tell someone I just met. Yet it's there for anyone to read. I wonder about that. I think it's important to look behind the curtain when you visit OZ. Too often the offer is so romantic we forget. :) Thank you for writing this. Hi Chris and all,
It’s so nice to hear someone talk of looking before we buy into every new thing that is offered for “networking.” We seem to be actively giving away more and more of ourselves without thinking about who we’re giving it to.

I see people saying things on Twitter that I wouldn’t necessarily tell someone I just met. Yet it’s there for anyone to read. I wonder about that. I think it’s important to look behind the curtain when you visit OZ. Too often the offer is so romantic we forget. :)

Thank you for writing this.

]]> By: Liz Strauss http://www.chrisbrogan.com/the-matrix-lives-your-life/comment-page-1/#comment-236357 Liz Strauss Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:43:00 +0000 http://grasshopperfactory.com/cbc/the-matrix-lives-your-life/#comment-236357 Hi Chris and all, It's so nice to hear someone talk of looking before we buy into every new thing that is offered for "networking." We seem to be actively giving away more and more of ourselves without thinking about who we're giving it to. I see people saying things on Twitter that I wouldn't necessarily tell someone I just met. Yet it's there for anyone to read. I wonder about that. I think it's important to look behind the curtain when you visit OZ. Too often the offer is so romantic we forget. :) Thank you for writing this. Hi Chris and all,
It’s so nice to hear someone talk of looking before we buy into every new thing that is offered for “networking.” We seem to be actively giving away more and more of ourselves without thinking about who we’re giving it to.

I see people saying things on Twitter that I wouldn’t necessarily tell someone I just met. Yet it’s there for anyone to read. I wonder about that. I think it’s important to look behind the curtain when you visit OZ. Too often the offer is so romantic we forget. :)

Thank you for writing this.

]]> By: The Goat http://www.chrisbrogan.com/the-matrix-lives-your-life/comment-page-1/#comment-48373 The Goat Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:56:45 +0000 http://grasshopperfactory.com/cbc/the-matrix-lives-your-life/#comment-48373 Just a bit more on the passive/active thing: one of the recurring themes for me has been confronting fear of the unknown. I just wrote about this using learning to ride a motorcycle as an example. I love the idea of riding a motorcycle but I'm also a little freaked out by it (no thanks to some of the gruesome photos on the Internet). I'm doing it anyway. I could excuse myself from that in a million different ways, but I've come to realize that the knots in my stomach actually represent opportunity. Not to, you know, totally take the conversation in a different direction. Or whatever. Hi! Just a bit more on the passive/active thing: one of the recurring themes for me has been confronting fear of the unknown. I just wrote about this using learning to ride a motorcycle as an example. I love the idea of riding a motorcycle but I’m also a little freaked out by it (no thanks to some of the gruesome photos on the Internet). I’m doing it anyway. I could excuse myself from that in a million different ways, but I’ve come to realize that the knots in my stomach actually represent opportunity.

Not to, you know, totally take the conversation in a different direction. Or whatever.

Hi!

]]> By: The Goat http://www.chrisbrogan.com/the-matrix-lives-your-life/comment-page-1/#comment-236356 The Goat Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:56:00 +0000 http://grasshopperfactory.com/cbc/the-matrix-lives-your-life/#comment-236356 Just a bit more on the passive/active thing: one of the recurring themes for me has been confronting fear of the unknown. I just wrote about this using learning to ride a motorcycle as an example. I love the idea of riding a motorcycle but I'm also a little freaked out by it (no thanks to some of the gruesome photos on the Internet). I'm doing it anyway. I could excuse myself from that in a million different ways, but I've come to realize that the knots in my stomach actually represent opportunity. Not to, you know, totally take the conversation in a different direction. Or whatever. Hi! Just a bit more on the passive/active thing: one of the recurring themes for me has been confronting fear of the unknown. I just wrote about this using learning to ride a motorcycle as an example. I love the idea of riding a motorcycle but I’m also a little freaked out by it (no thanks to some of the gruesome photos on the Internet). I’m doing it anyway. I could excuse myself from that in a million different ways, but I’ve come to realize that the knots in my stomach actually represent opportunity.

Not to, you know, totally take the conversation in a different direction. Or whatever.

Hi!

]]> By: The Goat http://www.chrisbrogan.com/the-matrix-lives-your-life/comment-page-1/#comment-48371 The Goat Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:49:26 +0000 http://grasshopperfactory.com/cbc/the-matrix-lives-your-life/#comment-48371 I don't know: with all the talk about the importance of "conversation" how can MacLeod's blog be fairly judged to be less relevant than those of any other self-proclaimed social media pundits? I will say this, though: I am sort of sick of hearing about all of it. Wake me up when the Age of the UberMeta finally passes. I'm reminded of your fishbowl analogy. As far as the Matrix metaphor (which I don't wholly subscribe to), personally I think everyone's pitching their own version of it. I don’t know: with all the talk about the importance of “conversation” how can MacLeod’s blog be fairly judged to be less relevant than those of any other self-proclaimed social media pundits?

I will say this, though: I am sort of sick of hearing about all of it. Wake me up when the Age of the UberMeta finally passes. I’m reminded of your fishbowl analogy.

As far as the Matrix metaphor (which I don’t wholly subscribe to), personally I think everyone’s pitching their own version of it.

]]> By: The Goat http://www.chrisbrogan.com/the-matrix-lives-your-life/comment-page-1/#comment-236355 The Goat Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:49:00 +0000 http://grasshopperfactory.com/cbc/the-matrix-lives-your-life/#comment-236355 I don't know: with all the talk about the importance of "conversation" how can MacLeod's blog be fairly judged to be less relevant than those of any other self-proclaimed social media pundits? I will say this, though: I am sort of sick of hearing about all of it. Wake me up when the Age of the UberMeta finally passes. I'm reminded of your fishbowl analogy. As far as the Matrix metaphor (which I don't wholly subscribe to), personally I think everyone's pitching their own version of it. I don’t know: with all the talk about the importance of “conversation” how can MacLeod’s blog be fairly judged to be less relevant than those of any other self-proclaimed social media pundits?

I will say this, though: I am sort of sick of hearing about all of it. Wake me up when the Age of the UberMeta finally passes. I’m reminded of your fishbowl analogy.

As far as the Matrix metaphor (which I don’t wholly subscribe to), personally I think everyone’s pitching their own version of it.

]]> By: David Finch http://www.chrisbrogan.com/the-matrix-lives-your-life/comment-page-1/#comment-48356 David Finch Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:47:26 +0000 http://grasshopperfactory.com/cbc/the-matrix-lives-your-life/#comment-48356 It comes down to "making choices" and "taking action." The question I've asked myself after reading this post is, Am I putting action towards my choices or am I in the never ending rat race of always taking action to someone else's choices? The challenge isn't whether we won't to act. The challenge is whether we want to make a choice. Especially if it goes against the grain. Thanks CB for thoughts and insight! It comes down to “making choices” and “taking action.” The question I’ve asked myself after reading this post is, Am I putting action towards my choices or am I in the never ending rat race of always taking action to someone else’s choices?

The challenge isn’t whether we won’t to act. The challenge is whether we want to make a choice. Especially if it goes against the grain.

Thanks CB for thoughts and insight!

]]> By: David Finch http://www.chrisbrogan.com/the-matrix-lives-your-life/comment-page-1/#comment-236354 David Finch Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:47:00 +0000 http://grasshopperfactory.com/cbc/the-matrix-lives-your-life/#comment-236354 It comes down to "making choices" and "taking action." The question I've asked myself after reading this post is, Am I putting action towards my choices or am I in the never ending rat race of always taking action to someone else's choices? The challenge isn't whether we won't to act. The challenge is whether we want to make a choice. Especially if it goes against the grain. Thanks CB for thoughts and insight! It comes down to “making choices” and “taking action.” The question I’ve asked myself after reading this post is, Am I putting action towards my choices or am I in the never ending rat race of always taking action to someone else’s choices?

The challenge isn’t whether we won’t to act. The challenge is whether we want to make a choice. Especially if it goes against the grain.

Thanks CB for thoughts and insight!

]]> By: Whitney http://www.chrisbrogan.com/the-matrix-lives-your-life/comment-page-1/#comment-48336 Whitney Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:26:51 +0000 http://grasshopperfactory.com/cbc/the-matrix-lives-your-life/#comment-48336 You can see life as a giant funnel or filter, and at different stages, people get excluded from the "exudate" to get all science-y about it. Let's look at people hoping to be doctors. Filter #1 is graduating from high-school and getting into college. Filter #2 is the pre-med classwork, and famously, Organic Chemistry. Filter #3- The MCAT's and getting into a decent Med School. Filter #4- Getting through Gross Anatomy... and on it goes until you reach your destination. After each filter, fewer and fewer people remain. Each filter is there to wean the talented, serious and dedicated out from the rest. The filters aren't perfect, and can seem arbitrary, but they've been set up as checkpoints along the road to "Doctorville". Sometimes I think we fail to do the cost/benefit analysis when we approach these filter points, to figure out whether we want what lies on the opposite side of this wall, and what will happen if we get there? This is the "being equally prepared for success as for failure" question, and so many times, we get caught up in the getting to the location we forget about the Why part of the question, or the "What if". I'm currently confounded by setting a 2 year goal because I made so much progress this past year, two years out seems very difficult to predict. Yet if I don't choose a direction or goal, I could end up anywhere. I have several things I would like to see happen, and perhaps the point of all of this is to start focusing in a more single minded way towards a unified goal, rather than on many shorter term goals. Much to think about- Thanks, CB. You can see life as a giant funnel or filter, and at different stages, people get excluded from the “exudate” to get all science-y about it.

Let’s look at people hoping to be doctors. Filter #1 is graduating from high-school and getting into college. Filter #2 is the pre-med classwork, and famously, Organic Chemistry. Filter #3- The MCAT’s and getting into a decent Med School. Filter #4- Getting through Gross Anatomy… and on it goes until you reach your destination. After each filter, fewer and fewer people remain. Each filter is there to wean the talented, serious and dedicated out from the rest. The filters aren’t perfect, and can seem arbitrary, but they’ve been set up as checkpoints along the road to “Doctorville”.

Sometimes I think we fail to do the cost/benefit analysis when we approach these filter points, to figure out whether we want what lies on the opposite side of this wall, and what will happen if we get there? This is the “being equally prepared for success as for failure” question, and so many times, we get caught up in the getting to the location we forget about the Why part of the question, or the “What if”.

I’m currently confounded by setting a 2 year goal because I made so much progress this past year, two years out seems very difficult to predict. Yet if I don’t choose a direction or goal, I could end up anywhere. I have several things I would like to see happen, and perhaps the point of all of this is to start focusing in a more single minded way towards a unified goal, rather than on many shorter term goals.
Much to think about- Thanks, CB.

]]> By: Whitney http://www.chrisbrogan.com/the-matrix-lives-your-life/comment-page-1/#comment-236353 Whitney Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:26:00 +0000 http://grasshopperfactory.com/cbc/the-matrix-lives-your-life/#comment-236353 You can see life as a giant funnel or filter, and at different stages, people get excluded from the "exudate" to get all science-y about it. Let's look at people hoping to be doctors. Filter #1 is graduating from high-school and getting into college. Filter #2 is the pre-med classwork, and famously, Organic Chemistry. Filter #3- The MCAT's and getting into a decent Med School. Filter #4- Getting through Gross Anatomy... and on it goes until you reach your destination. After each filter, fewer and fewer people remain. Each filter is there to wean the talented, serious and dedicated out from the rest. The filters aren't perfect, and can seem arbitrary, but they've been set up as checkpoints along the road to "Doctorville". Sometimes I think we fail to do the cost/benefit analysis when we approach these filter points, to figure out whether we want what lies on the opposite side of this wall, and what will happen if we get there? This is the "being equally prepared for success as for failure" question, and so many times, we get caught up in the getting to the location we forget about the Why part of the question, or the "What if". I'm currently confounded by setting a 2 year goal because I made so much progress this past year, two years out seems very difficult to predict. Yet if I don't choose a direction or goal, I could end up anywhere. I have several things I would like to see happen, and perhaps the point of all of this is to start focusing in a more single minded way towards a unified goal, rather than on many shorter term goals. Much to think about- Thanks, CB. You can see life as a giant funnel or filter, and at different stages, people get excluded from the “exudate” to get all science-y about it.

Let’s look at people hoping to be doctors. Filter #1 is graduating from high-school and getting into college. Filter #2 is the pre-med classwork, and famously, Organic Chemistry. Filter #3- The MCAT’s and getting into a decent Med School. Filter #4- Getting through Gross Anatomy… and on it goes until you reach your destination. After each filter, fewer and fewer people remain. Each filter is there to wean the talented, serious and dedicated out from the rest. The filters aren’t perfect, and can seem arbitrary, but they’ve been set up as checkpoints along the road to “Doctorville”.

Sometimes I think we fail to do the cost/benefit analysis when we approach these filter points, to figure out whether we want what lies on the opposite side of this wall, and what will happen if we get there? This is the “being equally prepared for success as for failure” question, and so many times, we get caught up in the getting to the location we forget about the Why part of the question, or the “What if”.

I’m currently confounded by setting a 2 year goal because I made so much progress this past year, two years out seems very difficult to predict. Yet if I don’t choose a direction or goal, I could end up anywhere. I have several things I would like to see happen, and perhaps the point of all of this is to start focusing in a more single minded way towards a unified goal, rather than on many shorter term goals.
Much to think about- Thanks, CB.

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