Ed Brodow's Blog, page 6
May 9, 2013
May 5, 2013
March 24, 2013
Farting Around Is Good for You
In my book,
Getting a Success Change
, I advocate the practice of “farting around” which I define as “spending time with no apparent purpose, just being and observing.” This concept has been validated by Dr. Teresa Belton, A British learning expert. She says that society has "developed an expectation of being constantly occupied and constantly stimulated." “As I get older,” she adds, "I appreciate reflection and boredom. It's very freeing being creative for no reason other than you freewheel and fill time." Children especially “need to have stand-and-stare time, time imagining and pursuing their own thinking processes or assimilating their experiences through play or just observing the world around them." Dr Belton concludes: "For the sake of creativity perhaps we need to slow down and stay offline from time to time."
December 31, 2012
December 11, 2012
Negotiator Magazine
Read my article "Ten Tips" in Negotiator Magazine.
This is the Korean edition of Negotiation Boot Camp.
This is the Korean edition of Negotiation Boot Camp.
December 6, 2012
October 27, 2012
Intriguing Decisions
Latest review of
WOMEN FROM VENUS
by Ed Brodow:
"Decisions we make may change our lives irrevocably. Women from Venus is a collection of short fiction from Ed Brodow as he presents many stories of people with serious decisions ahead of them and the aftermath of facing such realities. Women from Venus explores many intriguing ideas and is much recommended reading."
Midwest Book Review/Susan Bethany
"Decisions we make may change our lives irrevocably. Women from Venus is a collection of short fiction from Ed Brodow as he presents many stories of people with serious decisions ahead of them and the aftermath of facing such realities. Women from Venus explores many intriguing ideas and is much recommended reading."
Midwest Book Review/Susan Bethany
HIGHLY Recommended!
Review of GETTING A SUCCESS CHANGE by Ed Brodow:
"I highly, highly, highly, highly (did I say highly? Yep. I'll say it again...), HIGHLY, recommend this book. It's mainly about how people spend their lives constructing things they don't wan t, and don't need, only to cut themselves off from their actual personal selves and dreams. It will wake you up and make you remember who you are and where you want to be."
The Quill of Deana Zhollis
"I highly, highly, highly, highly (did I say highly? Yep. I'll say it again...), HIGHLY, recommend this book. It's mainly about how people spend their lives constructing things they don't wan t, and don't need, only to cut themselves off from their actual personal selves and dreams. It will wake you up and make you remember who you are and where you want to be."
The Quill of Deana Zhollis
October 6, 2012
Champagne for Caesar
I'm off on a European speaking tour and was just connecting with a friend who lives in Paris. She told me this strange story. While attending a wine and cheese tasting event on a riverboat in the Seine, she was handed a sword -- a long, curved scimitar -- and asked to open a bottle of champagne. What you do, they told her, is rub the sword along the curve of the bottle neck until the cork pops out. She was skeptical but she tried it and behold...it worked! And so it has occurred to me that this offers an interesting history lesson. Champagne is the cause of man's predilection for war. Not a psychological disposition of human beings, but Champagne! Swords were created in order to facilitate the problem of corkage. So once again the French have had their impact on history and they have left us with a double-edged (pun intended) legacy. On the one hand, incessant warfare. On the other, the joy of champagne. So next time you are enjoying a glass of bubbly, offer up a toast to Mars. (And be sure to open the bottle with a sword.)
