What makes you feel excited?

A Girl Illustration

I love marketing case studies.

Turning a harsh, blizzard-swept landscape into a winter storm tour—and it becomes a huge success.

Putting a simple “Please buy me!” note on batteries—and they start selling.

Even leaves turned into a business—now popular as garnishes in restaurants.

Stories like these—taking what already exists and, through a shift in perspective, turning it into something unique—never fail to excite me.

What can I do?

That question always fills me with a sense of excitement.

The stories I read as a child have, over time, become familiar—almost worn out.

But marketing success stories still thrill me every time.

They feel like magic.

I think of it as a kind of modern alchemy.

Even though it’s frustrating to feel like I can’t do anything yet, today again, I’m captivated by stories that turn the ordinary into something magical.