Storytelling
Of Gods and Squirrels
Here’s one my favorite stories from the Ramayana scripture, now available as a popular comic series in India (I’m not making this up). The Divine Rama needed to cross from India to Sri Lanka to rescue his wife, Sita, from top bad guy, Ravana, so Rama’s devotees were helping him to build a bridge. Hanuman,…
Read MoreThe Magic of Seven
6 + 1 The Magic of Seven According to marketing psychologists it takes about seven reminders to inspire people to take action in response to a message. When I read this I thought, “that seems like a lot of reminders. When I’m running an email campaign I really don’t want to bug all the people I…
Read MoreDon’t Tell Anyone, but I think Pope Francis works at Google
On April 14th, 2014, I gave a talk, at Google in Mountain View, on Meditation, Creativity and the Power of Mantra. The day before my talk I was driving back from a lovely weekend meditation retreat down in Big Sur where we sang kiirtan mantras and meditated and ate yummy vegetarian food and went to…
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