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Learning can be painful. But should’t we welcome the pain?

Image by deb­cll via Flickr Watch­ing my two and four-year-old daugh­ters learn about life can be a lit­tle dis­con­cert­ing at times. They fall down try­ing to do some­thing new, cry because they’re frus­trated with a dif­fi­cult task, or they try to get mommy to do it because it’s hard. As adults, we for­get how painful real …

April 22, 2010 – 3:20 pm | By Jimmy Gilmore | Posted in marketing | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Not every experience is valuable

Image by Rishi S via Flickr Why do peo­ple always say if you’ve had a par­tic­u­larly bad expe­ri­ence that you should “learn from it?” Do they really mean it? It’s not always pos­si­ble to grow from some­thing. Espe­cially if that bad expe­ri­ence lasts longer than say five min­utes. (I want to make it clear I’m not …

November 18, 2009 – 9:02 am | By Jimmy Gilmore | Posted in advertising | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

So, you want to work in advertising. An open letter.

This is an open let­ter to the many who have asked me, and will ask me, about work­ing in an tough indus­try. I’ve been slammed lately, seems like there’s just as much work these days but I’m doing a lot more things rather than cre­at­ing ads. So I’m apol­o­gize if it’s taken awhile to get …

August 17, 2009 – 10:18 pm | By jimmygilmore | Posted in advertising | Tagged , , | Comments (1)