DAVID NIHILL is the author of the best-selling book Do You Talk Funny? and the Founder of FunnyBizz, a community, writer platform, and conference series, where business meets humor to abolish boring content. His work has been featured in Inc., Lifehacker, The Huffington Post, Fast Company, The Irish Times, WSJ, and Forbes. A graduate of the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School he calls San Francisco home when immigration officials permit, and was named on the 2017 Irish America 100 List, which recognizes the accomplishments of the best and the brightest Irish-American and Irish-born leaders.
3 words to describe Nature?
Inspiring, awe, wonder
3 things Nature taught you?
Patience, appreciation, fear
3 most treasured Nature spots?
Annanpurna Nepal, Tofu Mozambique, Salt Flats Bolivia
When you look at the ocean, it makes you feel…?
Like kiteboarding or swimming
When you see a forest, it makes you feel…?
Like running but also like stopping
When you see a volcano, it makes you feel…?
In awe
When you see a sunrise or sunset, it makes you feel…?
Grateful
When you hear thunder, it makes you feel…?
Alive
When you hear the wind howling, it makes you feel…?
Like kiteboarding
Are you an Ocean, Mountain, Forest, or Desert person?
Ocean
On a scale of 1 to 10, how important is Nature to your well-being?
9..but why not 10, it should be 10 🙂
Share with us a childhood nature memory.
When I was 7 years old I went fishing for tadpoles by a small river. I urinated without surveying my surroundings and had an argument with an electrical fence. Exactly as memorable…and painful as it sounds 🙂