Today, as I was riding my bike 3.5 miles to play volleyball, I thought up of a new tagline for my blog, "Anonsage. Think. Do. Learn."
The old tagline was, "Thinking about thinking about thinking. Don't be stuck in a paradigm, facts change." And, I really like that one. I might even use it again. Or at least feed it to one of my sub-blogs to use for awhile. But, now, I think I have a better line, only because my old lines has been in use for such a long time.
"Reading isn't free. The cost is opening your mind."
Here's some other variations of it that I was thinking of:
- Reading isn't free. The cost is opening your mind to new perspectives.
- Personally, this might be my favorite because it has "new perspective" in it. But, in order to be Simply Advanced™, I have to limit things if not too much is taken away. I hope "cost is opening your mind" makes enough sense. Perhaps, I'll try both in some A/B testing. I would like to see which version aligns with readers better.
- The cost of reading is opening your mind [to new perspectives].
- It's short and sweet, but I don't think it is as powerful as, "Reading isn't free".
- The cost of listening is opening your mind to new perspectives.
- This is a more general quote, which is more useful when in a non-reading context.
I could think of others right now, but my blog posts have recently been getting on the really long side. So, I'll leave it up as an exercise to the reader to think of more variations on "reading is not free".
In my first used version of this, it will have to be "Reading isn't free. The cost is opening your mind to new ideas and perspectives." even though it is a little longer. I hope readers will better understand what happens in this blog. But, I'm still really thinking about taking out the "ideas" part... hmmm...
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Simply Advanced ~
ps - At the time of this writing, Google search returns no results for any of these quotes/taglines in quotations (",").
