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• They don’t sell small/cheap iPhones, so you tend to treasure more what you have; if you don’t have a small iPhone to buy, you’ll appreciate more the big-screen phone;
• They deliberately sell products with low specifications (low storage, low RAM, etc.), thus forcing you to pay extra for more capabilities; when you do pay, you like it more;
• They deliberately only give the most powerful features in an iPhone to the top-tier products; if you want to buy a cheaper phone, you’ll get last year’s performance; thus, you’re inclined to buy the latest phone and enjoy it more.

As I see it, restrictions increase pleasure. A user will like the products even more.

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Below are some very personal thoughts on intelligence vs. memory. These are not validated by anything but my own experience.

I think these things are related:

• Some people have a good memory and thus are able to access a lot of things. Paradoxically, although it might be unclear, I think these people have good creativity due to their large memory abilities. On the downside, they might not see very well the logical paths.
• (I consider myself rather in this position.) Other people might have a weak memory and need to use their intelligence in a lot of situations. Thus, they can be intuitive and use logic.

So, when facing a new project, people with good memory are able to find new solutions but might fail to see what’s logical.

People with poor memory might be more intuitive but miss some creative processes.

Creativity is great; you need some good memory for this. But intelligence and intuition are also fine.

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Pe scurt – e nevoie și să fii conștiincios și să depui efort, dar contează și norocul.

Ai nevoie și să fii o persoană muncitoare, dar și să ai niște factori ajutători.

New psychology research pinpoints personality traits related to wealth accumulation:

Conscientiousness appears to play a crucial role in money management and wealth accumulation, according to new psychology research published in Financial Planning Review. The findings provide evidence that individuals who are more diligent, organized, and hardworking tend to have higher levels of wealth, even after accounting for education and other factors.

Don’t Underestimate the Power of Luck When It Comes to Success in Business:

Beane uses more colorful language, but the point is that Beane is aware that, for all his ingenuity in winning an unfair game, luck or randomness is an inescapable factor in all walks of life — even in baseball.

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On my last visit to Bucharest, I once traveled by tram.

At one point, the tram didn’t stop because the respective station was under construction. This thing was not common knowledge, and passengers complained about the driver not stopping the tram.

The tram driver said there’s a sign in the station (but how could the passengers know so that they could have got off one stop before this?).

What would have likely been better? Announcing this: „The next station is under construction, you can get off at this station (the previous one to the one in construction), or the station following the one in construction.”

Yet, the driver put their energy into being aggressive instead of looking for a better solution.

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It’s so incredibly easy to find a mistake in others’ actions that whenever I hear a complaint that „You do something wrong!” I find myself seeing how I can easily:

• Either pass the responsibility by showing that it wasn’t 100% my fault.
• Or find guilt actually at the person giving the blame.

Sure, I make mistakes. I just try to avoid blaming others, knowing that finding 100% blame for one’s actions is not easy. At all.

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At sea, at least where I go, some people are going with ski jets.

Of course, they can be dangerous, and as long as you are in the water, you need to carefully watch over yourself.

Long gone are the days when you could swim without any worry.

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