{"id":1483,"date":"2009-04-07T01:56:41","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T06:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2009-04-07T01:56:41","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T06:56:41","slug":"repostfashionably-skepticalseths-blog-poisoning-the-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/07\/repostfashionably-skepticalseths-blog-poisoning-the-well\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost:Fashionably Skeptical:Seth&#039;s Blog: Poisoning the well"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em; display: block;\">\n<div>\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 212px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:The_Office_US_title.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Office (US TV series)\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/9\/98\/The_Office_US_title.jpg\/202px-The_Office_US_title.jpg\" alt=\"The Office (US TV series)\" width=\"202\" height=\"114\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">Image via <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:The_Office_US_title.jpg\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t agree more.\u00a0 People are just so fucking annoyed with two bit, multi faced <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Interaction\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Interaction\">interactions<\/a> that it is personally dragging to interact with people. I remember this scene from &#8220;<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The Office (US TV series)\" rel=\"imdb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0386676\/\">The Office<\/a>&#8221; probably season4. Where <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Kelly Kapoor\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelly_Kapoor\">Kelly kapoor<\/a> and Darryl from the warehouse fights and kelly says. &#8220;I don&#8217;t understand him who says exactly what he means!&#8221; can&#8217;t help but feel this when talking to people I interact with hesistantly. What I mean is I tend to hang with simple people , people like darryl.\u00a0 Call shit on me when I am shitting them, tear me a new one when I am getting too arrogant and all in all telling me when; Incidentally If i had only listened to them a couple of weeks ago, I probably would not be depressed and extremely fragile right now. I am like a tinderbox ready to explode any second.\u00a0 Well to sum up, try to minimize the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Fog\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fog\">fog<\/a>, speak simply and clearly, tell it to me straight and we will get along fine! In some ways I don&#8217;t like erecting walls that separate , but this is very important to me. Enough of the lies, enough of the deception tell it straight!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Which means that even if you have a really good reason, no, you can&#8217;t call me on the phone. Which means that even if it&#8217;s really important, no, I&#8217;m not going to read the instructions. Which means that god forbid you try to email me something I didn&#8217;t ask for&#8230; you&#8217;re trashed.<strong> It&#8217;s so fashionable to be skeptical now that no one believes you if you attempt to do something for the right reasons.<\/strong><br \/>\nSelfish short-sighted marketers ruined it for all of us. The only way out, I think, is for a few marketers to so overwhelm the market with long-term, generous <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Marketing\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marketing\">marketing<\/a> that we have no choice but to start paying attention again.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2009\/04\/poisoning-the-well.html\">Seth&#8217;s Blog: Poisoning the well<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/ffca791f-cbc5-469f-b32b-ef218acae8ca\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none ; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=525\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image via Wikipedia I couldn&#8217;t agree more.\u00a0 People are just so fucking annoyed with two bit, multi faced interactions that it is personally dragging to interact with people. I remember this scene from &#8220;The Office&#8221; probably season4. Where Kelly kapoor and Darryl from the warehouse fights and kelly says. &#8220;I don&#8217;t understand him who says &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/07\/repostfashionably-skepticalseths-blog-poisoning-the-well\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost:Fashionably Skeptical:Seth&#039;s Blog: Poisoning the well&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,62,64,78,79],"tags":[276,313,502,668,740,794,796,895,896,999,1040,1192,1271,1441],"class_list":["post-1483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-read","category-personal-angol","category-pettiness","category-rant","category-reposts","tag-business","tag-channeling","tag-emotional-health-and-wellbeing","tag-health","tag-interaction","tag-kelly-kapoor","tag-kids-and-teens","tag-marketing","tag-marketing-and-advertising","tag-new-age","tag-office","tag-religion-and-spirituality","tag-seth","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}