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Life would be sweeter if at the moment of birth we were presented with $10,000 and our own copy of a user-manual titled “How To Succeed In Life” with a FAQ or knowledgebase to refer to from that moment on.

But the evolved plan of life as we know it, was to see who the fittest among us are and to see how we survive in life and try to rise above the rest of mankind at whatever we choose to do with our one shot at ‘life’. But all is not lost. If you ENGAGE your success values you will improve your chances at succeeding.

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Seth Godin is a genius at metaphor. None more so than by applying tribalism to marketing . And I am kicking myself for not picking up on this when for years in Africa I lived in a society where tribalism governed our lives. And nothing outqualifies ‘apartheid’ as being the premier example of tribalism in its worst manifestation at work.

However, what Seth uses tribalism for is for the betterment of society through encouraging leadership in marketing which benefits all peoples directly and indirectly.

Seth Godin has picked up on what Africa gave the world when the world began - “tribes”. The world today is a result of tribal expansionism and individual breakouts from an existing tribe to go off into the wilderness to create and lead one’s own tribe.

Survival of the tribe depended on leadership. And in today’s world, the principle remains as steadfastly paramount as it did when tribal leaders wore a loincloth and battered the heads of invading tribes with a newly adapted tool made of a T-Rex’s dainty femur bone or a shaft of wood with a stone attached at the other end.

Incredible.

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Quite what your blog will get is not yet known or planned or ever given a second thought. It won’t happen. The headline is the thing. It is an old used line but I thought I’d add ‘Your’ and bring the headline a bit closer to home. To your site. Not mine. Your site.

I’ve just had an idea for tomorrow’s headline based on a real event. The headline will say it all but you will want to know more so you will read on. I know you will because if you don’t, the blog gets it.

Now I wonder how much of a veiled threat will it take to entice you to read the entire article? Do threats in headlines work? Do they trigger a defensive mechanism that forces your decision making process to realise that there might be a threat regardless of the fact that I deem myself to be less harmless than the skin of a custard tart. Or does the headline create another reaction? Curiosity.

And is it curiosity that makes you read on? I hope it is because at least your mindset is in a positive frame rather than coming from the defensive/negative need to establish if a threat no matter how veiled does exist.

What drives you to read an article?

Read This Or Your Blog Gets It