Comments for Brenton Gieser

Comment on Why Doesn’t Our World Work…What Can We Do? by Brenton

Brenton — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:07:45 +0000

Thanks alot for the comment Justin. I agree with you…the system cannot be fixed…it must be transformed. Fixing implies we’re still working under the same paradyms that created the system in the first place, just adding some tweaks to make it better. Because of its breadth and scale the system would need to collapse in some way.

What I am talking about is more on a personal and interpersonal level. What if everyone thought of contribution before status…shifts would start to happen. It can’t happen with just the work of one person or startup…but they can be a spark or catalyst for it.

Love the discussion…would love to discuss this again at some point

Comment on Why Doesn’t Our World Work…What Can We Do? by Justin

Justin — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 05:05:17 +0000

Great post! I absolutely agree with every point you had to make about how fraud and twisted our society is. I mostly focus on educational system and consumerism on my research, but I believe they are all related to each other. As an entrepreneur I understand how most startups focus on creating “hit” social platform contributing to wasting human resources. But to be honest, this whole problem is just too big of a scale that it is literally impossible to fix. Tradition and culture isn’t something that can be changed over night with some brilliant idea. You can call me a coward or pessimist, but I don’t think this problem can be solved solely by a startup or two. Give me a feed back, I would love to hear from you

Comment on What everyday habit do you wish you had developed earlier in life? by Brenton

Brenton — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:23:10 +0000

Many people aren’t as aware and brave as you are to take adversity head on…and design your own life in the face of circumstance…bravo my friend!! I love the addition of the right experiences…a book is just a book until you live it. I don’t think it’s about having a ah-ha moment…as those come rarely…but turn every experience into something of value to your own personal development.

Comment on What everyday habit do you wish you had developed earlier in life? by Josh Lipovetsky

Josh Lipovetsky — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:59:44 +0000

Reading the right stuff is HUGE! Also, just being aware that you can change your life by “conscious endeavor”. I had no idea that you could purposefully design your life until I got sick and started reading a ton of personal development books. That realization has led to many new empowering habits/breakthroughs.

Read the right stuff + Have the right experiences. Adversity, unfortunately, is the greatest teacher. Maybe there’s a way to put people in situations, where they can get all of the positive aspects of going through a tough experience without actually going through that experience. Maybe it can be done.

Thanks,
Josh Lipovetsky

Comment on The Mastermind Retreat (A Few Days Like Thoreau) by Brenton

Brenton — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:51:16 +0000

Lets have a mastermind session over coffee…let me know when you come to PA

Comment on The Mastermind Retreat (A Few Days Like Thoreau) by Lars Pind

Lars Pind — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:47:31 +0000

Sounds awesome. Please invite me next time

Thanks for sharing, it’s great to see other spiritually minded entrepreneurs. Let’s catch up when I’m back in the Valley.

//Lars

Comment on The Mastermind Retreat (A Few Days Like Thoreau) by Brenton

Brenton — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:29:31 +0000

Thank you…and I second that.

Comment on The Mastermind Retreat (A Few Days Like Thoreau) by Kyle

Kyle — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:29:55 +0000

Well said sir. One of the most amazing things I have ever done.

Comment on An Inquiry Into the Occupy Movement by Brenton

Brenton — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 05:16:07 +0000

I haven’t seen much of that…sounds fantastic though.

It’s a cop out to label this movement as leftist, hippy or whatever else you would like to slap it with…it’s shining the light on a major system flaw…therefore it effects billions of people.

It’s great to hear families and the upper middle class is getting involved…very promising.

Comment on An Inquiry Into the Occupy Movement by Ingrid Stabb

Ingrid Stabb — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:23:49 +0000

Funny, John and I were over at Occupy SF two weeks ago, too. Probably on the same day. But we were with friends at the Occupy Families area on the grass with parents and kids an a little puppet show. It was a different vibe but they have a voice in this, too. Did you see that grassy area? The Occupy Families are meeting in SF every Sunday afternoon at Justin Herman Plaza. I hope more photos of the families and kids get into the media so that folks can see the true diversity of the faces of the Occupy movement.