Comments on: The Weird and Wonderful World of The Human Brainbox http://deanhunt.com/the-weird-and-wonderful-world-of-the-human-brainbox/ The highly acclaimed and controversial Internet Entrepreur Dean Hunt shares his off-beat views on success, marketing, personal development and some wacky humour. Why? Because everyone is entitled to his opinion Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Joe http://deanhunt.com/the-weird-and-wonderful-world-of-the-human-brainbox/comment-page-1/#comment-32890 Joe Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:06:25 +0000 http://deanhunt.com/the-weird-and-wonderful-world-of-the-human-brainbox/#comment-32890 Just tried this with my brother, who is 15 years old, he said at 60:40 he would rather us both get nothing. Quite a cool experiment.<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-32890">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> Just tried this with my brother, who is 15 years old, he said at 60:40 he would rather us both get nothing.

Quite a cool experiment.

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]]> By: Innovation Catalyst http://deanhunt.com/the-weird-and-wonderful-world-of-the-human-brainbox/comment-page-1/#comment-32466 Innovation Catalyst Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:24:16 +0000 http://deanhunt.com/the-weird-and-wonderful-world-of-the-human-brainbox/#comment-32466 The metaphor is the relationship between you and your network of collaborative partners. The $100 represents the potential of the business to be had. However, you don't have the expertise to get the full amount, you need your collaborators to join your team. As the lead you can expect to keep the lion's share for yourself but your partners know without them you won't get the work. So you have to determine how much of the pie to give them to make them happy and keep the relationship going well for future work.<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-32466">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> The metaphor is the relationship between you and your network of collaborative partners. The $100 represents the potential of the business to be had. However, you don’t have the expertise to get the full amount, you need your collaborators to join your team. As the lead you can expect to keep the lion’s share for yourself but your partners know without them you won’t get the work. So you have to determine how much of the pie to give them to make them happy and keep the relationship going well for future work.

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]]> By: Tom http://deanhunt.com/the-weird-and-wonderful-world-of-the-human-brainbox/comment-page-1/#comment-32465 Tom Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:55:57 +0000 http://deanhunt.com/the-weird-and-wonderful-world-of-the-human-brainbox/#comment-32465 It not exactly about feeling important, it's all about relativity. I remember reading of similar experiments where peoplewere asked if they would rather like getting 20k and everybody else got 40k or get 10k and everybody else got 5k. The majority picked the lesser amount of money just because it was more than everybody else got. The "moral"? People like feeling superior to others (maybe that's what Dare ment when using "important"), it's part of human nature, Darwin and all... The moral for business? Make people feel superior. Make them feel they are "in the know", part of an "inner circle". etc, etc. The best copywriters of the world use these techniques masterfully.<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-32465">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> It not exactly about feeling important, it’s all about relativity. I remember reading of similar experiments where peoplewere asked if they would rather like getting 20k and everybody else got 40k or get 10k and everybody else got 5k. The majority picked the lesser amount of money just because it was more than everybody else got.

The “moral”?

People like feeling superior to others (maybe that’s what Dare ment when using “important”), it’s part of human nature, Darwin and all…

The moral for business?

Make people feel superior. Make them feel they are “in the know”, part of an “inner circle”. etc, etc. The best copywriters of the world use these techniques masterfully.

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]]> By: Dare http://deanhunt.com/the-weird-and-wonderful-world-of-the-human-brainbox/comment-page-1/#comment-32427 Dare Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:12:00 +0000 http://deanhunt.com/the-weird-and-wonderful-world-of-the-human-brainbox/#comment-32427 It's human nature..the feeling of importance. Everyone wants to feel important. By giving the one more than the other you "subconciously" you're not worthy, you're unimportant. That's hurting the ego and the feeling of importance. So the person reacts by not allowing nobody to have the money and it that way according to him it will be right, justice. It's interesting thing that human depends of emotions, and if you learn the right stuff about them you can absolutely rule the world...<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-32427">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> It’s human nature..the feeling of importance. Everyone wants to feel important. By giving the one more than the other you “subconciously” you’re not worthy, you’re unimportant. That’s hurting the ego and the feeling of importance. So the person reacts by not allowing nobody to have the money and it that way according to him it will be right, justice.
It’s interesting thing that human depends of emotions, and if you learn the right stuff about them you can absolutely rule the world…

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]]> By: Dean Hunt http://deanhunt.com/the-weird-and-wonderful-world-of-the-human-brainbox/comment-page-1/#comment-32415 Dean Hunt Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:44:53 +0000 http://deanhunt.com/the-weird-and-wonderful-world-of-the-human-brainbox/#comment-32415 two really good answers thus far. Keep them coming.<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-32415">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> two really good answers thus far.

Keep them coming.

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