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Seth Godin Today wrote something very interesting in his blog post titled “Thirsty”. 

Quote from the Blog Post

I’ve noticed that people who read a lot of blogs and a lot of books also tend to be intellectually curious, thirsty for knowledge, quicker to adopt new ideas and more likely to do important work.

I wonder which comes first, the curiosity or the success?

Another blogger found a missing element between curiosity and success “Implementation”.

My first thought was both of them are only half right.

What do you do when you are thirsty? you go and drink water…

And guess what do you do when you have a thirst for knowledge? you go and find the source to quench your thirst. That’s reading.

And this is where process stops.

Internet is such a shining example of this. With so many Keyboard warriors (Like my mentor used to call intellectual masturbators), you can see what happens for intellectually curious.

 

Sometimes I shake my head watching people do stupid things… I know, I have done stupider things in my life but somehow this takes the cake.

Today I somehow got lost and found myself in front of my TeeVee. Anyone who knows me, knows I avoid TeeVee like a plague. But anyways, I digress.

I almost ended up scaring the hell out of myself. On the TeeVee, we had celebs acting as a foster parent to toddlers. I mean which stupid came up with the idea on putting kids less than yr old in the hands of more stupider people (celebs tends to lose whatever braincell they receive you know) and put them on show.

Now I am struggling to decide who’s more stupid, TV directors, Celebs or the parents of the kids participating?

Sigh…

People do anything to get a chance on the TeeVee.

Crazy thing is one of the so called celeb Rakhi Savant was trying to be a foster parent to kid… Man was she being a parent or being a snooty nosed witch? I know she makes money being nosy (and noisy) but that doesn’t mean scare the shit out of kids.

If I was a parent, I would have punched the nose, kicked the shin and stomped on foot. Multiple times.

Anyone who called TV as an Idiot box was pretty damn right.

One of my mentor used to say this “The size of your TV tells me about the size of wallet and pant. The bigger the TV is, the smaller the wallet is and fatter your waist is”. Funny eh?

My thought of overall show was simple. I don’t care what people do, there’s no need to push toddlers into all this. We already have 3–4 yrs old in front of stage and trying to outshow the other 3–4 yrs old in singing, drama contest.

There’s another Ad on TV which literally says something like this “I could not live my dream but I’ll make sure I live my dream through my childs”. Scray thoughts.

The ad is about a Credit card (If I remember that right).

People are pushing their dreams onto their children. Why not let them find their own goals, dreams?

When I see people around me, I see them trying to re-live their life through their children. Of course their parents did the same to them, now it’s their chance to payback. How about breaking the chain and becoming the parent you should be?

Fortunately my parents never tried that… Thank god their foresight. I am not a parent, right now. But whenever I am going to be, I won’t be any of the above stupids I talked about.

Like in the pic, You got to teach your kids lots of things, but pushing your dreams on to kids is not one of those.

Varun Pratap

Desire. Commit. Succeed.

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1) Do not use splash pages

Splash pages are the first pages you see when you arrive at a website. They normally have a very beautiful image with words like “welcome” or “click here to enter”. In fact, they are just that — pretty vases with no real purpose. Do not let your visitors have a reason to click on the “back” button! Give them the value of your site up front without the splash page.

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Even the least net savvy people have trained themselves to ignore banner advertisements so you will be wasting valuable website real estate. Instead, provide more valueable content and weave relevant affiliate links into your content, and let your visitors feel that they want to buy instead of being pushed to buy.

3) Have a simple and clear navigation

You have to provide a simple and very straightforward navigation menu so that even a young child will know how to use it. Stay away from complicated Flash based menus or multi-tiered dropdown menus. If your visitors don’t know how to navigate, they will leave your site.

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When visitors are deeply engrossed in browsing your site, you will want to make sure they know which part of the site they are in at that moment. That way, they will be able to browse relevant information or navigate to any section of the site easily. Don’t confuse your visitors because confusion means “abandon ship”!

5) Should have a content management system which provides RSS feeds.

RSS feeds will help you promote your website. Whenever you update your website, RSS feed let the whole world know about the updation. Its like Self-promotion on steroids. In a nutshell – you’re nuts NOT to use an RSS feed. The Internet is changing, just like everything else