Guest Thinkers — August 16, 2010

Hillary Adds Another Message Adviser

The Clinton team has added a new message guru, advertising and branding wizard Roy Spence. From ABC News.com:

Spence, 60, a longtime friend of the Clintons, is the quirky Austin-based advertising legend who coined the phrase “Don’t Mess With Texas,” and developed the Southwest Airlines slogan, “You are now free to move about the country.”…

…Spence was active early on in the campaign, but will now take on an even greater role, inputting how to rebrand Clinton’s message to voters.

“Hillary wants somebody in there that is going to comprehend what messaging conversations are being had, and how things are being formulated,” a Clinton campaign insider told ABC News.

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Neuropsych

25 years since Columbine: We’re closer to decoding mass-shooter psychology

Public mass shooters almost always have worldviews shaped by the "3 Rs": rage, resentment, and revenge.

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Thinking

Everyday Philosophy: “Is there anything wrong with trauma dumping?”

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Leadership

Adam Grant on how to identify and develop high-potential leaders

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Want true success? Be more philosophical about “good” and “bad” failure.

Bob Dylan gave us the paradoxical gem "there's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all." He had a point.

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The idea that matter is mostly empty space is mostly wrong

Practically all of the matter we see and interact with is made of atoms, which are mostly empty space. Then why is reality so... solid?

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