It started on a whim. Surfing. A blog somewhere mentioned Johnny Bunko and I followed the link. Following links is like following the Rabbit. How far down the hole will you go and how far will it take you? Red Pill. Blue Pill. It’s one of the undefined hazards of the Internet no one tells you about.
Corporate America doesn’t want you to know there’s life outside of ads. The media wants you spending your precious time on their pages. And so on. But for some of us…life is clicking on the little links buried in the text – hoping for an Easter Egg. I found one.
Johnny Bunko. Six lessons no one ever told you about, and in Manga. Cool.
Wait! There was a contest. What is the “Seventh lesson?” Why not? I fired off my answer and promptly forgot about it…until I got “the letter” from Daniel Pink telling me I was a finalist. Sweet.
Do it Now.
Be Thankful.
Stay Hungry.
I said, “Stay Hungry” of course. (C) on the list of choices. I got the feeling I got in by the whim of fate, the skin of my teeth. But I’m in. Now – do I take part in this popularity contest? Or do I turn it around? What’s more important? For me – it’s not winning..although bragging rights would be cool and so would the trip to the 2009 TED conference in Oxford, England. What would really be cool though is reaching people with the “Seventh Lesson,” and what it really means to keep looking for more. So many people settle. They settle for jobs they hate, careers that bore them, a routine that smothers every creative bone in their body. Why stop at winning some contest? Why not save the world from mediocrity? Why not explain HOW to stay hungry?
I’m on it.
