A lot of people seem to be afraid to say “I don’t know” / “I’m not sure”.
Also, asking questions like “Would you prefer…?”.
To me, this is a sign of strength, not weakness.
I think more people should say, “I don’t know!” and set themselves open to finding out new things rather than appearing to be omniscient.
Un citat care mi-a plăcut, via o carte în pregătire a lui Ion Cosmovici:
“Pentru a fi frumos, un suflet trebuie să semene cu o biserică.
Iar o biserică, cu un suflet.” – Vladimir Ghika.
Atâta frumusețe și poezie!
I recently traveled to Galați.
It made me reconsider some things:
As a conclusion, traveling is good for comparing things.
Following a recent article (The best titles that all articles about successful people have – Blog de Olivian Breda), I want to present you something else: there are plenty of articles that claim they found a solution for you to become the next Steve Jobs (a search »).
Some of these articles claim they have found the trick in Steve Jobs’ sleeve – how was it that it was so successful?
The thing is – there are much more articles on how to be like Steve Jobs than new Steve Jobs seem to show up.
So, a lot of people claim to know Steve Jobs, and they can teach you some things from his life, but yet new Steve Jobs doesn’t show up.
Perhaps the articles are not that bad, but it does help put things in perspective – lots of solutions/pieces of advice, but few actual examples.
Legat de munca fizică, cred că e printre cele mai greu de automatizat (unele munci, desigur).
De exemplu, soră medicală, sau angajat în construcții.
Pot fi automatizate unele aspecte ale curățeniei, dar nu toate.
Au șanse mai mari să își păstreze joburile unele categorii de persoane care fac muncă fizică, decât alții care lucrează la birou.
De văzut pe tema asta un articol lung în două părți:
Se vor ivi noi joburi pentru cei care fac lucruri ce vor fi preluate de AI, dar vor fi probabil ceva mai dificile.
You should “get lost in the present moment” (like children tend to do).
“Not thinking about the past, not preoccupied with the future, but completely caught up with a kind of joyful abandon in the present moment”.
The solution? “… like a child, be able to live with a kind of beautiful, joyful abandon in the present moment”.
Did I tell you how much I appreciate Bishop Barron? Because I do. :)
There are plenty of articles with the best habits of successful people (all sorts of variants based on that title).
Yet, when you read most of the articles with such titles, you’ll find that the titles were 100% misleading.
The authors didn’t go through biographies of famous and successful people, didn’t spend time with them, and didn’t interview them.
No, the authors of such articles simply present a list of what they think and 100% imagine that a successful person would do.
I feel a bit annoyed to see how such articles exist and flourish, considering that they have misleading titles.
I’m also to blame; I click on articles with such titles, encouraging their further development.
Sure, a title that says, “These are eight things that all the successful people do,” is more attractive than “What I imagine and fantasize that successful people do.”
I used to wonder – “How do they do it? How do they know what those eight things are? How did they find out?” It seems it’s just imagination, presented in a manipulative way.
So, coming back to the title of this article: “The best titles that all articles about successful people have.” What are they? I don’t know.
But I would hope that they’re not misleading and, instead, they’re just the truth.
Eram foarte săraci pe vremea lui Ceaușescu, mâncarea era o problemă, și cu toate că unele produse erau necalitative, e posibil să fi mâncat mai sănătos prin faptul că aveam o restricție calorică și în general oamenii cred că erau mai puțin grași.
Eram săraci în anii ’90, Windows în engleză, Office în engleză, format tastatură în engleză -> Pe termen lung ne-a ajutat să învățăm limba, acum și dacă ai în română alte opțiuni, e bine împământenită, și sărăcia s-a dovedit benefică.
Suntem săraci după Revoluție, nu am investit în dublare, ci în titrare, pe termen lung înveți mai bine limba nouă.
Sărăcia poate duce la lucruri mai bune pe termen lung. Dar dacă întrebi pe cineva, vrea opțiunile mai simple: suficientă mâncare, sănătoasă (pe vremea lui Ceaușescu nu prea aveai astfel de opțiuni), software și hardware în română, filme dublate. Sunt mai simple, nu neapărat mai bune.
I once heard Horia-Roman Patapievici saying something along the lines of: I used to have emotions when doing public speaking. Then I realized that it was a form of pride, and my emotions disappeared.
I remembered his line of thinking but couldn’t understand it well until I reached the same conclusion with the emotions in my life.
Recently, I discovered one more thing related to this: if I think of a mistake in the past and regret it, I’m culpable of being too proud.
What do I expect? To have a perfect life?
Sure, some things in the past are embarrassing, things don’t turn out the way I intended, and I made some small, medium, large, and more than large errors.
But it’s part of life, part of learning. I couldn’t have done it any better, and I wouldn’t be the man I was today had it not been for those errors.
A man who claims they should have made no errors is a proud man (not in a good sense).
It’s best to avoid errors, to not do them on purpose, and to be prepared & alert.
But if errors and mistakes happen, they’re part of the line.
Remembering them makes them vivid in my mind. If this isn’t a helpful behavior, avoid it altogether.
There are some clear advantages of being melancholic. But if, overall, it doesn’t help, avoid this state.
