Comments on: Choose an Opponent http://okdork.com/2007/07/18/choose-an-opponent/ A blog about marketing, online communities and other business musings. Come join the fun! Wed, 09 Nov 2011 02:14:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: karen http://okdork.com/2007/07/18/choose-an-opponent/comment-page-1/#comment-133287 karen Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:48:37 +0000 http://okdork.com/2007/07/18/choose-an-opponent/#comment-133287 Great post, as always. I too laughed, out loud, about the comment of 'winning the race' at the gym. :) Adam and I are thinking along the same lines of sometimes it's better to have internal goals that you select as your opponent. I often set my work goals a lot higher than what others do (it's that damn perfectionist living inside of me...) So often, others don't challenge me enough so I have to challenge myself. I am definitely in the lead for top comments, at least for August. What's the all time goal? I need something to challenge me a bit... Great post, as always. I too laughed, out loud, about the comment of ‘winning the race’ at the gym. :)

Adam and I are thinking along the same lines of sometimes it’s better to have internal goals that you select as your opponent. I often set my work goals a lot higher than what others do (it’s that damn perfectionist living inside of me…) So often, others don’t challenge me enough so I have to challenge myself.

I am definitely in the lead for top comments, at least for August. What’s the all time goal? I need something to challenge me a bit…

]]> By: Barney Davey http://okdork.com/2007/07/18/choose-an-opponent/comment-page-1/#comment-128677 Barney Davey Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:50:31 +0000 http://okdork.com/2007/07/18/choose-an-opponent/#comment-128677 I blog about the art business. As with many others, it is rampant with knockoffs. This is a constant thorn in the side of creatives who work hard to produce something original only to see a wave of look alike work follow any success they have. Once any legal means has been put to use, the best thing artists coudl do would be to turn the dial on the treadmill and channel their frustration into creative energy using the slings and arrows of knockoff competitors to drive them to new heights. I blog about the art business. As with many others, it is rampant with knockoffs. This is a constant thorn in the side of creatives who work hard to produce something original only to see a wave of look alike work follow any success they have.

Once any legal means has been put to use, the best thing artists coudl do would be to turn the dial on the treadmill and channel their frustration into creative energy using the slings and arrows of knockoff competitors to drive them to new heights.

]]> By: It’s NOT your Skillz it’s your Will - Noah Kagan’s Okdork.com http://okdork.com/2007/07/18/choose-an-opponent/comment-page-1/#comment-125888 It’s NOT your Skillz it’s your Will - Noah Kagan’s Okdork.com Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:27:09 +0000 http://okdork.com/2007/07/18/choose-an-opponent/#comment-125888 [...] smartest, fastest, cutest? and other things but I would go harder than everyone else. Similar to my competing with random strangers and pushing the hardest on the last mile of a run. What are you [...] [...] smartest, fastest, cutest? and other things but I would go harder than everyone else. Similar to my competing with random strangers and pushing the hardest on the last mile of a run. What are you [...]

]]> By: dave mcclure http://okdork.com/2007/07/18/choose-an-opponent/comment-page-1/#comment-123408 dave mcclure Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:47:11 +0000 http://okdork.com/2007/07/18/choose-an-opponent/#comment-123408 remind me not to work out next to you at the gym ;) - dave "old & creaky knees" mcclure remind me not to work out next to you at the gym ;)

- dave “old & creaky knees” mcclure

]]> By: Noah Kagan http://okdork.com/2007/07/18/choose-an-opponent/comment-page-1/#comment-121250 Noah Kagan Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:11:21 +0000 http://okdork.com/2007/07/18/choose-an-opponent/#comment-121250 Will, Call me and will talk about. # is 510 866 Noah Will,

Call me and will talk about. # is 510 866 Noah

]]> By: Will http://okdork.com/2007/07/18/choose-an-opponent/comment-page-1/#comment-121244 Will Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:04:33 +0000 http://okdork.com/2007/07/18/choose-an-opponent/#comment-121244 Noah, This does not surprise me one bit, it is your genetic make up, it is what makes you...you. BTW, is the competition Wesabe? I have been seeing a lot of write ups on them lately, when is Mint launching? Will Noah,
This does not surprise me one bit, it is your genetic make up, it is what makes you…you.

BTW, is the competition Wesabe? I have been seeing a lot of write ups on them lately, when is Mint launching?

Will

]]> By: Noah Kagan http://okdork.com/2007/07/18/choose-an-opponent/comment-page-1/#comment-121031 Noah Kagan Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:57:48 +0000 http://okdork.com/2007/07/18/choose-an-opponent/#comment-121031 Mortal Kombat, my bad. I am paranoid like crazy. Drives me to work much harder. Atish loses, in ping-pong You all should compete for top commenters on okdork Mortal Kombat, my bad.

I am paranoid like crazy. Drives me to work much harder.

Atish loses, in ping-pong

You all should compete for top commenters on okdork

]]> By: Mo Kakwan http://okdork.com/2007/07/18/choose-an-opponent/comment-page-1/#comment-121006 Mo Kakwan Thu, 19 Jul 2007 05:16:24 +0000 http://okdork.com/2007/07/18/choose-an-opponent/#comment-121006 Somtimes you get effed in the aye like that one time that steven segal got up infront of a crowd and said "I CHALLANGE ANYONE IN THIS CROWD WHO THINKS THEY CAN BEAT ME UP TO A FIGHT!" ... an 80 year old boxer ended up wiping the floor with his punk ass. Moral of the story, don't fight old men... that were boxers... or something. Somtimes you get effed in the aye like that one time that steven segal got up infront of a crowd and said “I CHALLANGE ANYONE IN THIS CROWD WHO THINKS THEY CAN BEAT ME UP TO A FIGHT!” … an 80 year old boxer ended up wiping the floor with his punk ass.

Moral of the story, don’t fight old men… that were boxers… or something.

]]> By: Jason H. http://okdork.com/2007/07/18/choose-an-opponent/comment-page-1/#comment-120958 Jason H. Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:53:04 +0000 http://okdork.com/2007/07/18/choose-an-opponent/#comment-120958 Don't u remember from your Intel days--Only the Paranoid Survive! Don’t u remember from your Intel days–Only the Paranoid Survive!

]]> By: atish http://okdork.com/2007/07/18/choose-an-opponent/comment-page-1/#comment-120890 atish Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:34:55 +0000 http://okdork.com/2007/07/18/choose-an-opponent/#comment-120890 Kagan Wins. Fatality Kagan Wins. Fatality

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