27/52: 'Ridiculus' (Latin) meaning "that which excites laughter"
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I often say to founders that, until things really have to get serious, they should take a leaf out of David Ogilvy’s approach to winning clients (which also applies to getting investment or recruiting new team members) and approach things with “light-hearted gusto”1.
Similarly, in the seemingly serious world of business it’s good to remind oneself to seek out the ridiculous, the daft and the weird stuff that makes you laugh. We’re all just grown up kids figuring all this out as we go so, as a note to myself more than anything else, don’t take yourself so seriously.
Seek out the silliness
Twitter is good for this, in particular @nocontextbrits, @nternetH0F, @TrungTPhan and @vizcomic.
As well as watching Peep Show for what must be the 99th time, here’s some daft stuff that I liked in the last week or so:
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