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I once saw an interview with a national (international, maybe?) Olympian in high school.

He was asked something along the lines of „How did you get to this result?”.

His answer: It takes a lot of work, a lot of work.

I think it’s not enough.

To be successful, you need a combination of three things, in my opinion: put in a lot of work (be dedicated and serious in work), have some natural skills, and be in the right context (country, economic context, history time).

With any of these, you can get results, but a combination of two or even three makes it shine.

I don’t think that mere work solves any issue. Even in learning Mathematics, you need some talent; not anyone can become an Olympian, no matter how hard they try.

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In my opinion, betting ads make football matches unwatchable.

Betting is an addiction; it brings nothing good, and just promoting them a lot makes the matches unwatchable.

I don’t want to look at a match where a lot of ads on betting occur.

It’s just unwatchable.

The problem is there is a lot of money involved, so the ads are everywhere – not just the commercials on TV, but on players’ equipment, on the stadiums, even in the name of the Football Leagues.

Since it’s impossible to skip them, the matches become unwatchable.

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Let’s say you want to learn flags (for example, by using Seterra Geography Games).

One good strategy I find (for example, for differentiating between Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia) is to try and find out what is particular about a flag and associate something with that flag in my mind.

This small exercises proves to be able to solve the issue for me.

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Sometimes, when you imagine things about a person, the image can come to an abrupt halt if you work with them and discover something else.

You meet a person, you like them, and after a while, you get so used to the person that you’ll find some things annoying.

But it’s all in your head.

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… Și, în plus, creează emoții. Memorii emoționale.
Asta e un lucru esențial. Ați văzut. Oricare poate să spună că a avut profesori buni pe parcursul formării.
Nu mai știm exact ce ni s-a spus atunci, dar ne aducem aminte ce trăiam, ce senzație trăiam la lecția cutare de chimie pe care ne-o preda un profesor extraordinar.

Mircea Miclea: Secretul succesului, România eșuată, OM vs. AI, definiția profesorului, nelibertate – YouTube

A lot of memories I have with a lot of people are based on emotions.

I remember little of what X said/did, but I remember how I reacted to their gestures.

The trouble with this? If I was 8 when I was annoyed, it doesn’t matter if now I would look at the situation differently.

It matters that when I was 8, I was happy/sad/angry at a person.

Their gesture – it’s irrelevant. Most of the time, either I can’t recall it, or it’s got a huge deformation in my mind (I don’t recall it correctly).

In conclusion – the memory is tricking me into remembering the wrong things about a person, mostly due to emotions.

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If I’m not mistaken, I’ve listened to Bishop Robert Barron saying something along the lines of – „Hurting someone is easy. Doing evil is easy. Doing good and being good is hard.”

Also:

Răul poate să-l facă oricine, cât de nevolnic ar fi. Binele însă e numai pentru sufletele tari și firile călite. Răul: lapte pentru copii; binele: carne pentru adulți.

– Nicolae Steinhardt, Jurnalul fericirii, Editura Mănăstirii Rohia, Rohia, 2005, p. 162

I remember times when I hurt people. Most of those, I deeply regret. Some of them, I regret. For some, I’m indifferent. I’m proud of none.

Also:

Pacea este de patru ori mai mare decât dreptatea!

– Arhimandritul Arsenie Papacioc

Or:

“Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.”
― Brad Meltzer

Do good, no matter how hard it is.

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