When I was younger, and everyone was wearing NIKE shirts that said, "Just Do It", and occasionally the fonts of the shirt would run the words together, I would always ask, "What's Doit?"(I guess I haven't changed much). Obviously, the marketing strategy from NIKE was built on encouraging everyone to get off their butts and "do it", whatever it was, and hopefully that "it" involved buying their overly priced merch. For those who are motivated by having a chip on their shoulder or the desire to prove others wrong, I wonder how the "You Can't Do It" marketing campaign would have worked? “If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” Vincent Van Gogh
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"The world is going to hell in a handbasket" was a phrase that my dad would say about once a day. We knew what it meant (but didn't really know what it meant because what in the hell is a handbasket anyway). His point was that the world/society was getting worse not better. One of the reasons that our society is deteriorating is because people are looking to do things but only under specific conditions. "I will do it under one condition" or "I will do it if ..." or "It just doesn't "feel" right". Those "conditions" are what stops us from actually doing anything of value and from reaching our full potential as an individual, team or society. “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” Sheryl Sandberg
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