Seth Godin likes his tea herbal
by admin
2004 is lining up nicely with – get this – a major training event to attend each month until May. Each one special in its way.
Take January 28, 2004 – one day with Seth Godin at his loft in Tarrytown, NY.
It was a low-key day that made a lot of little impressions.
Seth is…hmm. A creative and calm version of your stereotypical mad scientist. He likes his tea herbal. He has a unicycle hanging from the roof of his 4,000 square foot factory space. All his ‘stuff’ is the best there is…technology and gadget wise.
But he doesn’t rush around. And he has no help. He dumped out the used coffee grinds for us himself. There was mostly raw food for lunch – sushi, sashimi and some cooked chicken, all Japanese. No utensils other than chopsticks. And a train that passes by directly outside the windows of the room every 20 minutes, perfect timing to take another sip of tea and continue his sentence where he left off, once the train has buzzed its way by.
(And hey at $8 a square foot for 4,000 square feet of grown up play-space…not a bad compromise, I’d say.)
No fuss or muss. No last minute powerpoints or beads of sweat. No squishing in of content until your head bursts. Just stories and visual aids and a lot of great interweaving of thoughts at a level that makes you go “OOOo0H.”
Like I said. Zen.
It’s nice to meet a brilliant person who’s also just normal you know?
(Seth Godin is the author of many bestsellers, the most recent of which is the highly recommended “Purple Cow, Transform Your Business By Being Remarkable”)
