Fresh Air

by Scott Jangro on 10 February 2009

Fresh Air. We all need it.

Earlier this week, fellow affiliate marketer Geno Prussakov, wrote a post about not getting enough fresh air.

Of course he’s talking about literal fresh air. He needs to get outside more, and he vowed to get outside for at least one hour a day, more on weekends. It’s a problem that affects us work-at-home types for sure. I’m always looking for reasons to get out of my home office.

But when I read the title of his post, my mind went more toward the figurative sense of the term “fresh air”. Maybe it was because I was reading a blog post at the time, but it got me to thinking that we need more fresh air feeding our brains as well.

When it comes to consuming information and opinions, we can easily get stuck in the rut of reading and listening to the same people every day.

If you find some smart people who teach you things, entertain you, and otherwise serve as online friends and colleagues, that’s great. But it can get to the point where a tight circle forms and no fresh ideas get in.

We start breathing our own exhaust.

Because people with similar ideas tend to stick together, it can seem like these points of view are more widespread than they really are.

So open your virtual window and let in some fresh air. Seek out some new people to pay attention to. Read some new blogs, find some new people to follow on Twitter and FriendFeed.

Get some fresh perspectives.
Discover that there are people out there who are not aware of your own perspectives. They need to be educated! ;)

Fresh air is good for you.

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  • yes...we have to talk about fresh air allwhere....maybe our children live for this "fresh airé
  • We do need some new ideas. The internet is starting to get flooded with the same regurgitated material. I think we need an e-toilet so we can start over.
  • That is good and I do need a bit more new people around but I think right now I am in need of some literal fresh air.
  • working today, but going fishing for most of the rest of this week. ahhh, fresh air, here i come. :-)
  • Getting rid of stale air and breathing fresh air not more than once a couple of days is important.... or we may lose our ways in the dense jungles of blogosphere.
  • How about getting into photography? It can certainly get you out and about, get you fit - and you may even be able to use the results in your blog.
  • interesting post, scott.
    yes, "breathing your own exhaust" can be dangerous, perhaps even figuratively fatal.
    however, it can also get you kinda high sometimes, and i think that some of us could actually benefit from getting a little high on our own "crazy" ideas and burying our heads in the sand a little bit more every once in a while in order to shut out all those endless status quo influences that attempt to make us think moreso like everyone else all the time.
    but, i suppose all this depends heavily on what you are attempting to accomplish in life......
  • being inside an office long enough can really drive someone crazy. sometimes i imagine something happening outrageous like in superhero and action movies where you're sitting by the window in the office and suddenly there's a giant reptile eating the opposite building or superman suddenly flies by to save a girl from falling off the roof of another building. boredom can really get the imagination going.

    my idea of "fresh air" are different blogs of different people, but it gets so addicting! this is what usually happens to me. i click on a link on my sidebar and read my friend's blog. if there are really interesting posts, i comment on them. and when i see and interesting comment from poster, i follow that poster's blog, and the cycle repeats, until i don't know how i got to the nth blog anymore.
  • That is some imagination.

    So how did you get to this blog?
  • exact example of what i said a few days back. =D
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