Comments on: Big Man = The Sales Man Everyone Wants

By: Cynthia Young

Cynthia Young — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:14:48 +0000

Hi Nicholas,

The documentary is Ongka’s Big Moka: The Kawelka of Papua New Guinea. It’s a great documentary that helped me look deeper into my own culture, I hope you enjoy it too!

By: Nicholas Timmons

Nicholas Timmons — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:59:29 +0000

Hi!
What was the name of that documentary?

By: Al Pittampalli

Al Pittampalli — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:57:06 +0000

I hate the stigma that sales = bad. This post turns that antiquated association on it’s head…bravo!

By: Cynthia Young

Cynthia Young — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:23:57 +0000

Hi Don,

Wow! Thank you for sharing your unique life experiences. I agree, that sales, business, and life is about nurturing authentic, human connections and not about showing off.

By: Don

Don — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:58:50 +0000

After spending over 30 years in the electronics business and having a very successful career, I had an epiphany, “How I spend the second half of my life is more important than how much I spend.” I liquidated all of my assets and went back to school to become an archaeologist and museum curator.

I was following the course of a “Big Man” but had two important things said to me by my deceased son, Ammon Montoya. “Dad, don’t be so much of a “Look at Me,” and “Don’t be so caught up in your own bullshit.” I have now cast aside being a materialist and seek to follow the “Hopi Way” and become more of a minimalist. I am in the pursuit of making my life simpler by living more of a subsistence life style. I now live on 1/4 of what I was making 20 years ago and am much richer for it.

“Humble Circumstances does not mean one is Poor”
I admire the Puebloans and other Native Americans, as well as indigenous peoples, and those who live subsistence lifestyles who have figured out how to live in the so-called civilized world but not be part of it.