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Sing it to the tune of Grand Funk Railroad’s iconclastic song “We’re an American Band”. Go on, sing it loud, “I’m still a Cubicle Man“. Yeah, yeah! Unlike Grand Funk, this morning I don’t have anything to be happy about because (sing it loud), “I’m still a cubicle man“.
Grand Funk were happy when they recorded “We’re An American Band”, on their 1973 album of the same name. Released on 17th July, they were celebrating and loudly proclaiming their Americaness and uniqueness at a time when America was gripped in the depths of moral torment caused by the actions of President Nixon and his hoods at the Watergate hotel.
The Watergate senate hearings had started in May and the day before the album release, the 16th July, the senate hearing were told that President Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.
Imagine the bombshell that had just been dropped on the American people. It was a huge shock to learn that your president, the leader of your nation that just happened to be the world’s leading superpower, was complicit in an illegal act and sactioned a burglary. Against this backdrop, Grand Funk Railroad’s song captured the spirit of the American dream and resurrected hope and reaffirmed that all was not lost in the Land of the Free.
God knows, America did need some respite from the doom and gloom and fresh hope to cling onto. This song provided it.
If you are still a Cubicle Man or Cubicle Woman and have a dream you want to make a reality, you need to listen to “We’re An American Band” loud. Very loud. It will resurrect your spirit, replenish you determination and desire to escape the cubicle. It will instill in you again your need to succeed as an entrepreneur.
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funny thing is actually that I’ve met truly entrepreneurial people who work for massive multinationals and horribly shackled independent business-owners that have no spirit or fire of creative problem-solving/ risk-taking/ decision-making that isn’t blamed on anyone else if it fails (etc. classical entrepreneurial traits.. )
You don’t have to work for yourself to be free, or entrepreneurial.
In the same way that you need not dive with sharks to be courageous.
Hail to bringing on the rowdy anthems that ignite our being. I’ve had Incubus’ The Warmth in my head since I started reading this - BTW. works really well for playing loudly in the car when you find yourself without a punching-bag to hand (hunt it, it’s a goodie)
Me hunt Incubus. Now!
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