Finger on the Pulse

[luka]

... social constituency coming to self consciousness and self expression

 

[version]

You should. But that's a different thread.

It was what I was thinking of when I made the thread tbh. I think using the term "the pulse" took it in a different direction.

 

[luka]

having your finger on the pulse means being ahead of the crowd. Knowing what the cutting edge is. Knowing the storm is gathering long before it breaks

 

[version]

Yeah, but I was thinking of it in terms of stuff like Trump and Brexit and people like Farage recognising and capitalising on something they found in the public consciousness.

 

[shiels]

It’s also about energy direction and potential. Knowing the source, recognising the strength of an idea and also if it’s likely to scale. Staying open and watching your own prejudice

 

[luka]

It’s also about energy direction and potential. Knowing the source, recognising the strength of an idea and also if it’s likely to scale. Staying open and watching your own prejudice

Ew, yuck that sounds straight out of one of your marketing seminars!

 

[shiels]

It means Being sensitive to where transformative energy is coming from

 

[luka]

Ew, yuck that sounds straight out of one of your marketing seminars!

I just got a glimpse of your professional self! Freaked out now.

 

[luka]

That's how Shiels gets the big consultancy fees.

 

[version]

William Bennett from Whitehouse does stuff like that.

 

[luka]

William Bennett from Whitehouse does stuff like that.

Consultancy work?

 

[shiels]

Ew, yuck that sounds straight out of one of your marketing seminars!

it’s because I used the word scale

 

[luka]

Yeah 'likely to scale' gave me the willies. I saw the reptile skin.

 

[shiels]

So it’s about understanding what will work for other people, not just what you’re into. So a finger on the pulse is about going beyond yourself a bit. It’s basically exactly the same thing as what you were on it about in your how to write manifesto

 

[version]

Consultancy work?

I saw a clip of him doing some sort of seminar on being persuasive in a business environment. How to move, how to speak.

 

[luka]

I saw a clip of him doing some sort of seminar on being persuasive in a business environment. How to move, how to speak.

Power posing - Wikipedia

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[Leo]

So it’s about understanding what will work for other people, not just what you’re into. So a finger on the pulse is about going beyond yourself a bit. It’s basically exactly the same thing as what you were on it about in your how to write manifesto

yet, that's still all about yourself: trump et al aren't going beyond themselves to help others, they are doing things to sway others for the end result and sole purpose of benefiting themselves.

 

[Leo]

perhaps it's that those with their finger on the pulse are understanding not what will work FOR other people, but instead what will work ON other people in order to sway them.

 

[pattycakes_]

He gets paid big buku $ to do this

 

[Leo]

back in that days when brands couldn't spend enough money on advertising, there was a guy who spent time at various agencies as a futurist, getting big buku $ to travel the world and speak at conferences. he was everything you'd imagine: the carefully cultivated slob look (manky t-shirt, torn jeans, $800 sneakers), spewing coke-fueled stream of consciousness blather.

haven't heard from him in awhile...