• Chat pack Friday, living dangerously.

    Posted on August 27th, 2010 by and currently 11 commenting.


    Photo via flickr via Chuck Sutherland’s photostream.

    I love breaking rules. I do it all the time. Some of them small, some slightly more adventurous. It just makes me feel a little more alive and in control at the same time.

    And it’s funny. One of the reasons I think Brains on Fire is Brains on Fire is this: we challenge the rules of marketing. A lot. It’s a mindset I hope we always maintain.

    Hmmmm….

    So this Friday’s chat pack question is one I love. Ready?

    If, with your safety guaranteed, you could experience something considered very dangerous, what would you want to experience most of all?

    Me. I’d drive a car or a motorcycle or something over 200 mph. What can I say?

    Speed calms me.

    Now you go… come on. I need some “social media” interaction this morning.

    BTW, this will be the last chat pack Friday for while. Starting next week, we’ll have something cool planned for Friday. Stay tuned.

  • http://www.carolinamarketer.com Casey

    Skydive. Definitely.

    I would want to do it somewhere beautiful and I would want to do it alone. I think it would be such an amazing feeling of freedom. And the guaranteed safety thing is an added bonus as well! :)

  • http://blog.fmidm.com steve olenski

    Does telling my wife she doesn’t look good in a certain outfit qualify as “living dangerously?”

  • W

    Well, speed and falling have been covered. What about a trip to outer space? I’m always amazed by those pictures of Earth as a blue and white dirty ball floating in space. I’d love to know what it’s like to see that view in person. Being able to experience the feeling of complete weightlessness would be the icing on the cake.

  • Shannon

    Swim with sharks. I’ve always wanted to scuba dive, might as well make it dangerous :)

  • http://www.wediscoverstories.com Hugh Weber

    If my safety (and I’m going to extend this to financial stability) were guaranteed, I would start a campaign to challenge the national brands and advertising farms that continue to produce slop with no sense of purpose, no conscience, no consideration of the impacts on individuals and no vision for the future.

    That sounds pretty flipping terrifying to me…but can you imagine the adrenaline rush?

  • http://www.colonialwilliamsburg.com Sean

    Wow. Pretty sure I’d go with a moonwalk. A spacewalk would be a fine runner-up.

    It’d be such a magical (life changing, I think) shift in perspective to see our planet from another heavenly body with my own two eyes.

  • http://brainsonfire.com Robbin

    @ steve I hope she doesn’t stalk you online. Cause you just did. That’s funny.

  • http://pointoforder.squarespace.com kamran popkin

    I would break the time travel rule. Forward a thousand years, back a thousand years, whatever.
    Feel free to edit this entry out–I am prolly unfit to answer this, as I am not much of a rules person. My parents got so tired of my they finally reduced them to two. (no jeeps, no motorcycles- broke em both the second I moved out). I am now up to nine, and they are just silly.
    Now you know why I got kicked out of Montessori school. Not good with rules,even on a space/time continuum scale.

  • http://brainsonfire.com Robbin

    Oh Kamran, I get you now. We are kindred spirits and rule breakers from way back when. AND and Time Travel is always on my mind!

  • http://flickr.com/chucksutherland Chuck Sutherland

    It’s spelled Sutherland. Thanks for the link.

  • http://brainsonfire.com Eric Dodds

    Chuck,

    You’re quite welcome for the link, and we’re quite sorry for the misspelled name. It has been fixed.

    –Eric