Find a Parade
I have a vivid memory of standing in the kitchen one afternoon, home from high-school baseball practice, jars rattling faintly in the open fridge. I never showed the potential of a Willie Keeler, so I was drowning my sorrows in a quart of milk.
“Tell me,” said my mother. “How do you see your future?”
I said, “I don’t know. I feel like I could be a leader of something—I’m just not sure what.”
She thought. “Well, that’s not so hard. Just find a parade and get in front of it.”
These two pieces of advice, one each from my father and mother would make a nice set of bookends for a brand library. Between hitting ’em where they ain’t (differentiation) and getting in front of a parade (finding a trend), you have the keys to finding your ...
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