Image via Wikipedia I saw this expression of the “map is not the territory” in some online article, the origin of which I can’t remember but it stuck in my mind for several hours anyway. It is a term was originally put in print by Alfred Korzybski at a meeting of the American Mathematical Society [...]
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The Map is not the Territory
Posted in inner marketing, management, marketing, performance, tagged brain, Cognition, creative, creativity, map, marketing, Neuro-linguistic programming, territory, Wendell Johnson on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Your body is a brain
Posted in inner marketing, marketing, performance, tagged Arts, Auguste Escoffier, body, brain, gut, Houghton Mifflin, instinct, Jonah, marketing, neuroscience, Paul Cézanne, Proust Was a Neuroscientist, Walt Whitman on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cover of Proust Was a Neuroscientist Walt Whitman understood that the flesh was the source of meaning; Auguste Escoffier discovered that taste is actually a smell; Paul Cézanne realized that the brain can decipher an image from minimal brushstrokes. Jonah Lehrer has written a book called “Proust Was a Neuroscientist” (Houghton Mifflin; hardcover; 242 pages) [...]
Good Marketers have Clinical Diagnoses
Posted in marketing, tagged brain, clinical, creative, diagnosis, logical, marketer, marketing, stigma on May 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I often joke that clinical people are more in their “right brains” (creative, spatial, nonverbal) than their “left brains” (logical, linear, verbal). I can joke as I am a clinician and I speak from experience. However, when I go to hire a new clinician for my clinic, I look for moderate traits of OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive [...]




