I think the biggest growth moments in my life came after realizing a hard, harsh, annoying, tough truth.
It’s not pleasant to see the naked emperor, to face your ugly fears, to fight your inner demons, to pick up the sword.
Yet, this is where growth comes from.
To keep ruminating things, to relive bad moments, to look at you in a mirror which doesn’t hide faults – now, that’s difficult.
But after the darkness, there’s light.
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There’s a nice movie, in English, with translations in Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and German:
I liked it, I recommend it! Available for free until Monday, 14th of June 2021.
I have a great deal of respect towards dr. Alexandru Pesamosca (deceased) and dr. Niculina Bratu (see this, in Romanian »).
Both of these people pretty much sacrificed their lives to the well of others.
It reminds of a scene in Schindler’s list (1993):
– I didn’t do enough!
– You did so much!
Think of it – there are/were people in this world who lived, mostly, for others’ good. That’s impressive!
Bucharest, June 11, 2021: Alin Gherman- CEO Nobel Technologies, Olivia Vereha– co-founder & chief of operations at Code for Romania; Alex Glod– storyteller, trainer and TEDx speaker, Ioana Vieru – Marketer and Andrei Lasc – Creative Director at Cu Substrat Agency are the speakers for this new edition of FUN Bucharest.
„I think a lot of people dream. And while they are busy dreaming, the really happy people, the really successful people, the really interesting, engaged, powerful people, are busy doing.” – Shonda Rhimes, Dartmouth 2014 (via – Sahil Bloom on Twitter)
Doing things helps with gaining knowledge. Sure, you can read about things, you can be prepared, but in the end, one needs to act.
It’s not an easy life. When I think of workers who work long hours, sometimes even on the weekends, just work, no fun, that’s not easy.
I also think that most people need some time off, it’s a necessity.
But if I have to choose between two extremes – work or read and think, I’d consider working. (sure, unless you consider reading to be working, such as for a book critic)
I like this quote and I wanted to share it with others. Now, for some other quotes.
What do people do after they retire?
#1 Read
The founder of ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, Zang Yiming has announced that he will be stepping down. […] Yiming he would like to start reading more books and daydream a little more too. (via »)
#2 Spend more time with family:
Nick Maroutsos, head of global bonds at Janus Henderson Investors, is set to retire in October to take more road trips with his kids, after the pandemic caused him to reevaluate his „goals in life,” he told Bloomberg. (via »)
But how do rich people get rich? Some of them by reading books:
Mark Cuban is an avid reader (as are his fellow billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffett). […]
But Cuban said one book in particular stands out as helping him to stay focused on his money goals early in his career: “Cashing in on the American Dream: How to Retire at 35.” (via »)
Once, at my grandparents’ house in Buzău, I was sent into the village. I came back running, to overhear a conversation between my grandfather and my grandmother: „Olivian is a hardworking person. Wherever you send him, he goes.”
My grandfather didn’t use to say too many good things to my face. But when he made that confession to my grandmother, I knew he meant it.
Another memory is with a rather critical teacher from the 8th grade, who, at least for a moment, I managed to impress.
I think people should say more good things one to another.
The only exception I can think of are monks, who prefer not to be praised.
Praising makes the world better, in my opinion.
I still think of moments when someone told something good about me, it feeds me, it’s a validation I need. I’m trying not to depend on this, but it happens naturally.
Also, don’t fake it. If you don’t mean praising, I wouldn’t do it. Say the truth, don’t just say things.
But if you focus on „What could I say good about this person?”, most likely you’ll come up with something.
There is some hardware, like a nice keyboard or an ergonomic chair, which you can hardly test.
Sure, you can go into a store and see if you like it or not, start typing on the keyboard or lean back on the chair.
But how will you feel one week after using it? 3 months? One year?
I don’t think that first impressions are the best in these situations.
As I see it, you can only test if you don’t like some things like that – if you really hate the chair, if the keyboard annoys you a lot.
Mai jos, resursele cele mai importante, pentru mine, din luna mai 2021. Pot fi suprapuneri de la o secțiune la alta.
In Romania, I’ve heard some times ago that ads that are emotional, with soul, are remembered better than those that speak about logic and demonstrations.
And what do a lot of advertisers do? They put a heart in their ads.
Lots of ads with a heart:
The list is surely bigger, but I don’t watch as many ads as I used to do.
The issue with all these? They’re mostly cognitive, not emotional.
Even if you say „This is from the heart”, this does not make the message emotional.
„From Russia, with love” (1963 movie) does have some emotional connections (Russia, love). But, still, it’s rather rational.
It’s not enough, in my opinion, to take the heart, put it in an ad – voilà, you have an emotional message.
Emotions come from memories (recalling an emotional event, like the connection with Russia, above), or from stories („with love” will remind you of other times when people told you a thing like that).