I had an interesting day today...
My space alien friends are really aiming high with their cure-all wonder cd's... I spent the first half of today preparing a briefing and setting up new marketing tools (paper, paper,and yet more paper) then the second half i spent giving presentations....
Before i go on let me just explain the gist of the product that i'm marketing. Ofr obvious reasons I won't name names so lets me just call him Dr. X.
Dr. X came up with a what i consider a wonderful marketing gimmick tht supposedly re-writes your sub-concious in order to make you a better you. Imagine, being able to remove all those negative counter-productive thoughts like "I'll never quit smoking, I've been smoking for so long." or "God almighty, I suck, even my first grade teacher said i sucked 20 yrs ago". With them gone and replaced with such affirmations as "I am good" or "I am smart" etc etc... He does this using a "patented", notice the open inverted commas, technology that turns these affirmations subliminal so as to by-pass your conscious mind into your sub-conscious, all on a little cd that has synthesized midi tracks and nature sounds.. Wonderful idea, fill your head up with positive ideas to make you a better you, that is if it works...
Anyway, going back to my day...
I spent half the afternoon training telemarketers for our workshop ticket sales... Interesting, 'specially since i only had 2 hr's to teach them everything... However interesting it was though, it didn't beat the last part of my day...
My boss had arranged for me to give a presentation to the second in command of the New Leaders Foundation.... To anyone else out there this may not seem so interesting but wait, it gets better...
You see, the foundation is headed by none other then the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dr Tun Mahathir Mohammad... His second in command at the foundation was his scientific advisor when he was still Prime Minister... The signifigance of this is that the fellow was impressed and has hinted that we might need to give another presentation to the former PM himself!!!
What I find weird is that, here i am, marketing a product i seriously don't believe in, I think it's nonsense, and it just might make me meet Mahathir... How am I going to convince the guy it works if i don't believe in it? Hell, should i even attempt to convince the guy it works in the first place?
Sometimes, life throws you a curve ball so weird it's doing cork-screws in the air while reciting Romeo & Juliet... I find so many ethical paradoxes in what i have to do... These people are nice people, a little bit misguided, but nice all the same... Should i carry on doing what i consider to be a fallacy or should i attempt to open my mind a little... Hell, for all i know the damn thing works... Maybe i should try that "Freedom from Smoking" Cd after all... If i quit, then i know that there might just be something to all this... If i don't.... Dunno.... I feel like I've walked into some weird movie or something...
My space alien friends are really aiming high with their cure-all wonder cd's... I spent the first half of today preparing a briefing and setting up new marketing tools (paper, paper,and yet more paper) then the second half i spent giving presentations....
Before i go on let me just explain the gist of the product that i'm marketing. Ofr obvious reasons I won't name names so lets me just call him Dr. X.
Dr. X came up with a what i consider a wonderful marketing gimmick tht supposedly re-writes your sub-concious in order to make you a better you. Imagine, being able to remove all those negative counter-productive thoughts like "I'll never quit smoking, I've been smoking for so long." or "God almighty, I suck, even my first grade teacher said i sucked 20 yrs ago". With them gone and replaced with such affirmations as "I am good" or "I am smart" etc etc... He does this using a "patented", notice the open inverted commas, technology that turns these affirmations subliminal so as to by-pass your conscious mind into your sub-conscious, all on a little cd that has synthesized midi tracks and nature sounds.. Wonderful idea, fill your head up with positive ideas to make you a better you, that is if it works...
Anyway, going back to my day...
I spent half the afternoon training telemarketers for our workshop ticket sales... Interesting, 'specially since i only had 2 hr's to teach them everything... However interesting it was though, it didn't beat the last part of my day...
My boss had arranged for me to give a presentation to the second in command of the New Leaders Foundation.... To anyone else out there this may not seem so interesting but wait, it gets better...
You see, the foundation is headed by none other then the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dr Tun Mahathir Mohammad... His second in command at the foundation was his scientific advisor when he was still Prime Minister... The signifigance of this is that the fellow was impressed and has hinted that we might need to give another presentation to the former PM himself!!!
What I find weird is that, here i am, marketing a product i seriously don't believe in, I think it's nonsense, and it just might make me meet Mahathir... How am I going to convince the guy it works if i don't believe in it? Hell, should i even attempt to convince the guy it works in the first place?
Sometimes, life throws you a curve ball so weird it's doing cork-screws in the air while reciting Romeo & Juliet... I find so many ethical paradoxes in what i have to do... These people are nice people, a little bit misguided, but nice all the same... Should i carry on doing what i consider to be a fallacy or should i attempt to open my mind a little... Hell, for all i know the damn thing works... Maybe i should try that "Freedom from Smoking" Cd after all... If i quit, then i know that there might just be something to all this... If i don't.... Dunno.... I feel like I've walked into some weird movie or something...
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