Jesse Ventura & the Q's
Jesse Ventura went from being a Navy Seal to a Football Coach to Governor of Minnesota. How he went about campaigning was a shock to the system at the time - especially to his foes! He didn't try to hide his past, whether utilizing prostitutes, his war experiences, or smoking marijuana. He took away the ability of his opponents to attack on the usual fronts and threw them off balance because he shockingly just told the truth! He took pride in his experiences, good and bad, victories and defeats. It was a level of honesty out of place on the political stage where you typically hire fixers to hide your past and bring out the nastiest and ugliest past of your opponents and spin it to death. Regardless of how people experienced his reign as Governor, it was a breath of fresh air to witness the pre-election debates where actual issues had to be discussed because mud-slinging wasn’t an option.
Jesse also appears to have various portions of IQ, EQ, SQ, CQ, AND GQ - a wider variety than most politicians. Much of it was likely garnered from his life experiences, which he wasn't afraid to tell tales about. SQ - street smarts; CQ- criminal intelligence (knowing how criminals think); GQ - seeing through his opponents' political personas and totally upright stances; and just plain old smarts - IQ. All were great advantages entering the political arena and gave him much more flexibility, agility and entertainment value than his opponents.
These toys can be great fodder for conversations and explorations with a clear human example of how it played out in real life - for better or worse! This also dovetails well with the philosophy of Gerry Spence, in his book, HOW TO ARGUE AND WIN EVERY TIME. He essentially counseled his clients to tell him the truth and the whole truth, unvarnished as it may be. He believed that a jury would give you a fair shake if you told the whole truth and let them decide what it all meant. However, if you left something important out, and it came up during the trial and exposed a lie, you could lose all credibility, as well as the court case. Consider this quote:
“The first trick of the winning argument is the trick of abandoning trickery. Most of us can talk about ourselves -a little - and zoom in on our feelings - a little. But most of us do not tell much of the truth about ourselves. We hold back our hurt, our anger, our deep dread. We fear to reveal our fear, our joy, our jealousy, our hunger, our ideas, our insecurities, ourselves. Credibility comes out of the bone - deeper yet, out of the marrow.” Gerry Spence, p. 47
Jesse Ventura went from being a Navy Seal to a Football Coach to Governor of Minnesota. How he went about campaigning was a shock to the system at the time - especially to his foes! He didn't try to hide his past, whether utilizing prostitutes, his war experiences, or smoking marijuana. He took away the ability of his opponents to attack on the usual fronts and threw them off balance because he shockingly just told the truth! He took pride in his experiences, good and bad, victories and defeats. It was a level of honesty out of place on the political stage where you typically hire fixers to hide your past and bring out the nastiest and ugliest past of your opponents and spin it to death. Regardless of how people experienced his reign as Governor, it was a breath of fresh air to witness the pre-election debates where actual issues had to be discussed because mud-slinging wasn’t an option.
Jesse also appears to have various portions of IQ, EQ, SQ, CQ, AND GQ - a wider variety than most politicians. Much of it was likely garnered from his life experiences, which he wasn't afraid to tell tales about. SQ - street smarts; CQ- criminal intelligence (knowing how criminals think); GQ - seeing through his opponents' political personas and totally upright stances; and just plain old smarts - IQ. All were great advantages entering the political arena and gave him much more flexibility, agility and entertainment value than his opponents.
These toys can be great fodder for conversations and explorations with a clear human example of how it played out in real life - for better or worse! This also dovetails well with the philosophy of Gerry Spence, in his book, HOW TO ARGUE AND WIN EVERY TIME. He essentially counseled his clients to tell him the truth and the whole truth, unvarnished as it may be. He believed that a jury would give you a fair shake if you told the whole truth and let them decide what it all meant. However, if you left something important out, and it came up during the trial and exposed a lie, you could lose all credibility, as well as the court case. Consider this quote:
“The first trick of the winning argument is the trick of abandoning trickery. Most of us can talk about ourselves -a little - and zoom in on our feelings - a little. But most of us do not tell much of the truth about ourselves. We hold back our hurt, our anger, our deep dread. We fear to reveal our fear, our joy, our jealousy, our hunger, our ideas, our insecurities, ourselves. Credibility comes out of the bone - deeper yet, out of the marrow.” Gerry Spence, p. 47
Jesse Ventura went from being a Navy Seal to a Football Coach to Governor of Minnesota. How he went about campaigning was a shock to the system at the time - especially to his foes! He didn't try to hide his past, whether utilizing prostitutes, his war experiences, or smoking marijuana. He took away the ability of his opponents to attack on the usual fronts and threw them off balance because he shockingly just told the truth! He took pride in his experiences, good and bad, victories and defeats. It was a level of honesty out of place on the political stage where you typically hire fixers to hide your past and bring out the nastiest and ugliest past of your opponents and spin it to death. Regardless of how people experienced his reign as Governor, it was a breath of fresh air to witness the pre-election debates where actual issues had to be discussed because mud-slinging wasn’t an option.
Jesse also appears to have various portions of IQ, EQ, SQ, CQ, AND GQ - a wider variety than most politicians. Much of it was likely garnered from his life experiences, which he wasn't afraid to tell tales about. SQ - street smarts; CQ- criminal intelligence (knowing how criminals think); GQ - seeing through his opponents' political personas and totally upright stances; and just plain old smarts - IQ. All were great advantages entering the political arena and gave him much more flexibility, agility and entertainment value than his opponents.
These toys can be great fodder for conversations and explorations with a clear human example of how it played out in real life - for better or worse! This also dovetails well with the philosophy of Gerry Spence, in his book, HOW TO ARGUE AND WIN EVERY TIME. He essentially counseled his clients to tell him the truth and the whole truth, unvarnished as it may be. He believed that a jury would give you a fair shake if you told the whole truth and let them decide what it all meant. However, if you left something important out, and it came up during the trial and exposed a lie, you could lose all credibility, as well as the court case. Consider this quote:
“The first trick of the winning argument is the trick of abandoning trickery. Most of us can talk about ourselves -a little - and zoom in on our feelings - a little. But most of us do not tell much of the truth about ourselves. We hold back our hurt, our anger, our deep dread. We fear to reveal our fear, our joy, our jealousy, our hunger, our ideas, our insecurities, ourselves. Credibility comes out of the bone - deeper yet, out of the marrow.” Gerry Spence, p. 47