Confession: I never finished hey whipple. Got busy with work and life in the middle of it and never picked it back up.

I’m doing pretty well professionally 🤷🏻‍♂️

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HAHAHHAHAH

I always thought The Advertising Concept Book was the better book about making ads. Hey Whipple did the better job of selling you on a career in advertising. And then inevitably disappointing you when you get in and realize "Hey, what the hell? No one respects the creative? I can't talk about movies and stuff all day? This is just another office job!"

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Love ACB unfortunately haven’t finished it yet 🫣

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I never even started

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I’ve only ever read the first chapter

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No one does. We just collectively pretend we did.

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This is the realest thing I have read today. Its soooo true.

I used to say I read it long before I actually did. Not sure if I learned anything from it, but I still tell others to read it to keep the cycle going.

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Abomination

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Is that book still relevant? I read the whole thing but I can’t remember a single thing it said that would apply to today’s advertising industry

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I’ll take this a step further and say, as a writer, I’ve only finished less than a handful of books in my life. In fact, I kinda hate reading.

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I’m an art director and I’ve never seen art in my life.

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The last 4 chapters are blank precisely for this reason.

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I’m sure it’s been updated since I read it a million years ago as an advertising student. But like others have mentioned, it’s a book about how to make great work at two of the top agencies in the country. Your experience at an agency probably won’t resemble what he’s describing. And a lot of the advice about concepting and executing work assume you’ll have budgets and time that you’ll never have. If you’ve been working for a while, I’d suggest reading it just for kicks.

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Did someone say you had to finish?

But nobody ever claimed the correlation you're suggesting.

Plenty of people I work with swear by it as an essential read, esp towards people starting out in their careers 🤷🏻‍♂️

You never finished what?

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