For months I have wanted to create a blog and this clip was the inspiration I needed. You will see Proximo explain to Maximus an insightful principle that I believe will become increasingly important in the coming years. He says, "I was the best because the crowd loved me...win the crowd, and you will win your freedom."
It is 2013. The competition for attention has never been greater. 100 hours of video are uploaded to youtube every minute. ~35,000 tweets are sent in that same 60-second interval. Attention is perhaps the new currency and the Gladiator in each of us must fight for it.
Oh yeah, and one more thing, our personal computers and mobile phones give each individual in the crowd the ability to divide his or her attention. People, or "the crowd," leverage this capability to, as Sherry Turckle so beautifully said, "...customize their lives." They go in and out of all the places they are because the thing that matters most to them is control over where they put their attention."
Proximo's counsel to win the crowd is important if you wish to sell products, get your ideas funded (think kickstarter), or even get good customer service ( e.g., explain to an individual who is not giving quality customer service that you will make the establishment's lack of customer service known to all your followers). In short, to stay alive and win your freedom, you must develop the ability to "win the crowd."
So, how do you "win the crowd"?
It is 2013. The competition for attention has never been greater. 100 hours of video are uploaded to youtube every minute. ~35,000 tweets are sent in that same 60-second interval. Attention is perhaps the new currency and the Gladiator in each of us must fight for it.
Oh yeah, and one more thing, our personal computers and mobile phones give each individual in the crowd the ability to divide his or her attention. People, or "the crowd," leverage this capability to, as Sherry Turckle so beautifully said, "...customize their lives." They go in and out of all the places they are because the thing that matters most to them is control over where they put their attention."
Proximo's counsel to win the crowd is important if you wish to sell products, get your ideas funded (think kickstarter), or even get good customer service ( e.g., explain to an individual who is not giving quality customer service that you will make the establishment's lack of customer service known to all your followers). In short, to stay alive and win your freedom, you must develop the ability to "win the crowd."
So, how do you "win the crowd"?
