“Oh, gosh,” he answered, “I guess probably eighty-five to ninety percent buy smart phones. Almost nobody needs one but,” Brent the Verizon salesman said, “nobody trades in their smart phone. I’ve never seen it.”
Two years ago I had an idea for for a fundraiser so massive my boss demanded I get a smart phone before… 
Posts Tagged ‘psychology’
Dumb Phones Are For Dumb People
Faking It For A Change
What we believe and feel and think determines our actions. Some say it always works this way. I’m not so sure.
James said our tongue can steer our whole life, like a rudder steers a ship.
Hebrews believed that bowing the body in worship also bowed the heart.
Jesus said when I place my treasure in one spot…
The Smallest Change That’s Made The Biggest Difference
What’s the smallest change that’s made the biggest difference in your life?
That’s an easy one for me: We canceled cable.
One phone call. Big difference.
Becky and I didn’t do it because of some profound philosophical shift we underwent. Nope, what happened was we sat down to watch X-Files one Sunday night – as we were in the habit…
Creative Contradictions #2
What’s this series all about? Read Creative Contradiction #1.
2. Convergent and divergent. The folks with the most consistent creative output are thought to be using two contradictory yet complimentary modes of thinking: convergent and divergent.
Convergent thinking is logic, measured by IQ tests. It’s used to solve a definable problem and find its one right answer. …
Creative Contradictions #1
My nephew Phillip is extremely creative. His father, Brian, wonders if that’s why he moved his family here to Nashville a few years ago – not so Brian and I could work together, but so I could help interpret Phillip to him and reassure him on a regular basis that Phillip’s completely normal. For…
Significance Part 3
Thomas Mann once wrote, “Enemies are the necessary concomitant to any robust life.” Tyler Durdan described Generation X as a generation of “slaves in white collars” with “no purpose or place” because “we have no great war.” These are just two ways of re-expressing what some scientist types have come to believe: Much…
About Shaun — Shaun Groves is a communicator who’s known by a lot of titles: Singer/songwriter. Speaker. Blogger. Husband. Daddy. Friend. He feels and thinks deeply and laughs easily. And he’s helping Christians discover what they were saved for, and being a voice for children around the world, desperate to be saved from poverty.
