Non-practice

O reclamă e făcută ca să vândă. Sunt multe lucruri extrem de discutabile aici, dar scopul e vânzarea. Mă irită seria de reclame, îmi stă pe nervi repetiția din final, gluma mi se pare slabă. Dar am reținut reclama mai bine decât pe altele. Îmi place să mă uit la reclame, nu am televizor și când am acces la un televizor, prefer să mă uit la calupuri publicitare (schimb canalul până găsesc ceva), mi se pare că în 30 de secunde sunt investite extrem de multe resurse, cunoștințe, timp, efort, creativitate. În reclama de mai sus vinde umorul, repetiția (final), surpriza. Ești indus emoțional în Africa, căldură, soare, totul e hot. Multe din reclamele de la SuperBowl din ultimii ani mi se par extrem de agresive, și mă irită. Dar mă uit pentru mecanismul din spate, și ca să înțeleg cum gândesc alții.

Mental math is by no means required to survive in the world, but being able to do a few basic calculations in your head makes life a lot easier. For example, calculating a tip is all about basic percentages and is simple to do in your head: To find 5%, find 10% and divide it in two. To find 15%, find 10%, then add 5%. To find 20%, find 10% and double it. To find 25%, find 50% and then halve it. To find 60%, find 50% and add 10%. To find 75%, find 50% and add 25%. (source – The Skills We’ve Lost to Technology (and How to Get Them Back))

Mostly, it’s work hard. To do so, you generally need to: Be healthy (eat right, do sports, rest well, avoid stress). Do self-improvement on various areas (reading, doing things better). Work when you don’t feel like working (have the power to say “Go! Go! Go!”, when you just don’t feel like this anymore). But, all-in-all, it’s about work. I’ve been to Năvodari these days, met some colleagues. Some thoughts: You can be the smartest in your generation (self-improvement), and, due to the fact you don’t like to work hard, and only read as pleasure, don’t succeed. You can be less-than-perfect in self-development, but over-compensate by working hard. There’s a big need in the workforce for working hard. You can be a good athlete, do some self-development, but if you don’t work hard, you’ll likely not succeed. Even if you lack a good discipline to do sports, even if you don’t read as much, if you work hard you’ll likely do at least some level of sports, and at least some level of healthy living, and at least some level of reading, at least on your niche business. All-in-all, succeeding is about hard work. (I might have said this before, I donno) I have some real-life examples in my head when I say this.

You may want to watch the following video: through this paradigm: The first instincts & thoughts about wolves are negative (they are killers, they are hunted by few animals, themselves, their social structures are closer to Mafia than Old-village-with-nice people, they’re aggressive and dangerous to humans). The movie first starts by telling you some reasons on which the wolves actually do some good (they kill deer, which helps the vegetation, but they also make deer stay away completely from vast areas, in which they can be caught easily). Then the movie gives some implications of saving vegetation → birds appear → then some rodents → then other birds, for those rodents → then some castors → then some bears, eating berries → then more deer get decimated, by the bears. But the movie also shows that vegetation has a deeper impact – due to river banks being influenced by the vegetation, some rivers change their course / stay on their course more, depending on the vegetation just brought up by wolves. Thus, wolves influence the direction of rivers. It’s a big difference between the first impulses & thinking the situation over. First instinct is based on primary emotions, thinking requires more cognitive functions (primary emotions, also). More than this, by deeply analyzing a situation (or studying previous situations), you can get to very powerful insights (wolves change the banks of rivers). In some management decisions, things are based on simple thinking (I apply this rule – “wolves are bad” / “delegation is key” / “do coaching”). The better solution is to try & have …

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