The word “passion” comes from: 1125–75; Middle English (< Old French ) < Medieval Latin passiōn- (stem of passiō ) Christ’s sufferings onthe cross, any of the Biblical accounts of these (> late Old English passiōn ), special use of Late Latin passiō suffering, submission, derivative of Latin passus, past participle of patī to suffer, submit; see -ion (source) “Passion” can be, thus, interpreted less as: Ah, look at my energy, I am so energetic, let’s put energy. And more as: I will suffer for this. How does one suffer, in business environments? Most likely – through work. So, “passion” is more about “work” than it is about a special emotion. :) Note: the current definition contradicts me, but the name origin doesn’t. P.S. Also see: Despre pasiune #2: Olivian Breda PS, 2019.10.08: Do what you love – Paul Jarvis. PS, 2019.10.08: Chasing Your Dreams is Probably a Bad Idea – CLIPPING CHAINS. PS, 2019.10.27: Passion at a price: UO study finds passionate employees may be exploited for loving what they do. 0 Links
I thought that this:
- Start at one of the lowest minimum bet tables. This allows you to become comfortable with your strategy with the least amount of investment.
- With each losing hand, double your bet until you win back the money lost. This is whats known as a “reverse-progression”, “Martingale strategy” or “double bet strategy”. (source)
Could actually be working. It doesn’t.
I have once been to a conference in which one guy said that you can best predict a person’s behavior, by analyzing its relationship with just three things: Chocolate, money & sex. E.g., if you like chocolate to much, or too little, or you put restrictions, this affects your whole life. Same for money & sex. They can predict a lot of things in your life.
In The Great Dictator (1940), there is a character called Garbitsch (Garbage, but funny). :)
(spolier alert!) I’ve had quite a few insights while watching Life of Pi (2012):
Still, why don’t I like the movie?
Sometimes, I see people with criteria around them – “In order to …, you will have to …”. My criteria is this – “In order for me to consider you a top-notch person …, you will have to …”. On the other hand, I try to put no criteria on behavior. So, my thought above is an internal one, not an external one. I try not to request people to do actions, in order for me to treat them right (or how I perceive right). Some people do request certain a behavior to receive a certain behavior (“you have to act like this, in order for me to act like that”). Über-cool thing: even if I do meet the criteria, I tend to despise that thinking. It’s a faulty logic, no matter if I fulfill the criteria or not. My logic goes like this: “I generally don’t ask people to do something, in order for me to do something. But for you, especially, I will apply the same criteria you apply to others. Take it as a gift”.
I talked with a friend recently about love matters. I generally don’t tackle this topic, so I didn’t have a procedure ready to apply.
I realized this – you should just keep your mouth shut. Or say things without any meaning. Don’t try to influence in any way. That’s it.
Sometimes, I listen to stupid things. People tell me things which I don’t adhere to. But I get good insights out of them.
There is a short story by Gala Galaction which says that a serial killer wanted to convert to Orthodoxy, but he had killed almost 100 people. But he wants to convert and not stop the kills. To convert and keep on killing. The guy kills the few priests/monks who tell him that he should stop with the kills, he can’t join Orthodoxy and still keep on killing people. He reaches the 99 limit, and knows that at 100 he will die. One last person tells him that it’s OK to join Orthodoxy and still keep on killing. But prior to continuing his kills, he should do some rituals. And he prays for lots of years in a church. At some point, he does a good deed by killing a person (he kills one devilish person who wants to marry an innocent person) and dies and presumably goes to heaven. There is a saying in Romanian proverbs which says you can’t do impure, lust actions (the proverb is more plastic) and still have your soul in heaven. While this is true, there are some exceptions to this rule, which fascinate me. See the above example. The guy kills not for himself, to derive pleasure of killing, but for others, to help others. It’s really tough for me how you can have sex for the good of others :) , yet the general principle that you can do some things and still be an Orthodox is a nice one.
At different times in my life, I received this feed-back: I shouldn’t help X, X is using me.