Bigger the risk, bigger the reward. But the higher the climb the harder the fall.
Reputation will become an even more important currency in the future.
Social standing and reptuation has always mattered, but now it 's happening on a global basis.
The oldest and most important currency is debt.
Researchers have compared brain scans of those people who are making money to those high on cocaine and found that them to be almost identical. Money has a biological and psychological effect on us.
Gone is the day where you work at a job for thirty years and retire. Millennials jump around and switch careers. I think it's important for CEOs to highlight career mobility within a company, so that employees don't get bored and continue to be stimulated.
Researchers have found that identical twins who have been separated for long periods of time actually invest in a similar manner. Biology really does affect how we spend money.
Well, after Zombie Birdhouse came out, I toured behind it in the fall of 1982, into the spring, and in the summer in the Far East. At that time, I found my work self-referential; it was getting to be rock songs about a rock singer who lived a rock life on the rock road, and I was starting to wonder what I would be like to rent my own apartment, what it would be like to have a checkbook.
I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which however the margin is not large enough to contain.
The challenge before us is to savor the unknown and delight in the taste of possibility.
I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas.