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It’s rough out there but I still think we ad folks take ourselves too seriously.
I was born moody… Are we having fun? I ask because sometimes I think we take ourselves too seriously. I know I do. I also know it’s often a character defect disguised as something noble, like...
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Excitement in creation. Beyond anger and lust it’s the best way to experience...
Bad stock photo for elusive great feeling… Not including sex, when was the last time you were so excited about something you couldn’t think of anything else? We all get angry -at politicians, at...
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On anger, assholes and pigeons. Creativity must endure!
The Ass-Con in full glory… A while ago, I got angry with someone on a work related matter. Not a person from my office (I would certainly not write about that here); let’s call him/her an associate...
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The tantrumy creative director. Anger is not passion especially when it’s...
Remind you of anyone in Adland? A gathering of ad agency people –who shall go nameless- were talking about some of the rip roaring screaming matches that used to take place between their old creative...
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An essay on losing it: why yelling and screaming is (thankfully) so rare.
A stranger yelled at my wife the other day in the park. She’d taken our terriers off leash and a pedestrian took offense. Apparently, this other woman didn’t just get mad, she was irate, letting loose...
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Nobody likes an angry person least of all the one who is angry.
Like anyone, creative people get angry. The competition for ideas and constant criticism of them gets to us. As can a power mad account executive or yet another contrarian for a client. We see it all...
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Acting out when we first feel something is perilous – even if it’s the goal...
Babies cry and feel… a lot We feel something. Maybe someone says something to us… or about us… behind our backs… in front of our peers. Whatever the stimuli, it trips one of our many internal wires...
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“Triggered.” Great word that helps your kids move through the mousetraps.
Your kids call it “triggered.” When someone or something sets one of them off. It happens a lot. Snap! Snap! Snap! Teenagers. Sometimes it seems they are moving through mousetraps. Yet the genius of...
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Coming Undone
The meeting progresses like a surreal version of the telephone game. Following Jon’s lead, each person picks up the baton twirling it their own particular way, spinning stories about frustration,...
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