Non-practice

It struck me very well that I was harsh when I was young, that I was a stubborn child, that I resisted, that I did everything I wanted, with courage, with insensibility, and stubbornness – lots of times.

I learned a lot, probably more than I would have learned if I had been a good and submissive child.

At school – I learned, I did my homework, I put in the effort.

But beyond that, I did what I wanted to do.

And trauma, of course.

(my) Life’s solution – insist until you are forced to grow and develop.

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How different is the life of those close to you?

A person, a man, a house – everything is different, it’s a different life.

You can see the lives of your relatives, their friends, their neighbors.

All – radically different.

The house they have, the social circle, their jobs – they differ quite a bit.

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If you’re firm and tough, and strong, there’s an excuse for your behavior – If you have a good reason, you may be right to be upset.

I’ve seen people getting upset. If they had a reason for it, I tried to understand their reactions.

Generally, I don’t like verbal aggressiveness. But I can try and understand it. And, in the end, tolerate it.

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In the past, I used to look at journalists with admiration.

CHIP magazine, game magazines, 22 magazine.

Even today I do so but to a much lesser degree.

I feel that, at the same time, I grew wiser and the press, in general, decreased its quality.

I’m not the person I was 10-20 years ago, the press, again, is not the same.

And, with the Internet there are so many opportunities to know, read, view, interact with.

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Sectarians vs. Orthodox people are like people doing SEO to each other.

If the sectarians believed in the Holy Tradition, in the Saints, they would have a basis for discussion with the Orthodox.

In vain do I say, „This is what Holy Tradition says,” if it means nothing to them.

Likewise, SEO discussion. If I say „That’s what Moz.com says,” if it means nothing to X, that he knows better, we have no way of talking.

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If you are poor, you make the wrong financial decisions. It’s not easy to make the right decisions.

• How Low Income Affects Routine Decisions – Association for Psychological Science – APS.
• How poverty changes your mind-set | Chicago Booth Review.
• Read This: How 34,000 dollar stores are scamming America.

“The core demographic of dollar stores—lower-income families who earn less than $40K per year—are often living paycheck to paycheck and can’t afford to buy in larger quantities, even if it means getting a better deal,” Crockett explains.
Desperation breeds profit for these dollar stores, and it’s a business model that has, perhaps unsurprisingly, proven extremely successful—there are more of these stores than all the Walmarts, CVS, Walgreens, and Targets combined. So yeah, you might wanna consider buying your pool floaties and Chef Boyardee Spaghettios somewhere more ethical like… well… um… damn.

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It might be a bit counterintuitive is to write blog posts describing some secrets in your industry – for example, if I’m an SEO teaching people how to do SEO.

These kinds of things might look will leave you without clients.

The advantage? They have a tendency to position you as an expert.

Trust is a powerful thing to be able to gain:

Simon Sinek Performance vs Trust – YouTube.

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I once attended a workshop with Jim Bagnola.

He asked us some complicated questions and told us – „You are free to do as you please, at the end the person who can tell me the most answers wins 5$” (very approximate quote).

The game was before the heavy use of smartphones, so we had to pick our brains.

And while some people, me included, focused on answering the questions by ourselves, some people formed groups.

The winner of the game stood in the back, listened to people’s answers, and wrote them on a piece of paper.

What’s the lesson, here?

It’s very hard for an individual to know everything on a topic. Use the group’s knowledge and create a powerful team for answering questions.

Note – this does not refer to cheating at exams and tests in school.

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Barry Schwartz, Dorwin Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and Social Action at Swarthmore College:

He thinks too much choice overwhelms us and makes us unhappy—a phenomenon he calls the paradox of choice. Endless choices, Schwartz says, are more stultifying than gratifying. In one canonical experiment dubbed “the jam study,” grocery-store shoppers scanning 24 different gourmet jams were less likely to make a purchase than shoppers who looked at only six jams. The shoppers choosing from a wider selection were also unhappier with the jam they’d bought.

I think it’s good to have some limits. If I want to buy a PC, I won’t start reading about every processor out there, I’ll only focus on a few choices.

If I want to pick a PC format, I’ll choose between a few options.

What about RAM? I’ll focus either on speed, price, or performance/price.

What about SSDs? There are so many options. Yes, but I can filter by a few criteria.

So, if your dating criteria is „it’s a man/woman”, you’ll have a lot of options, and you might think you could have gotten a better option.

But if you have limiting criteria, there are far fewer options.

I tend not to like artificial limits.

„You should spend 2x your monthly salary for a car. You should save 10% of your income, donate 10% and invest 10%. Buy recycled. Walk instead of taking the bus.”

If I set the criteria for myself, I’ll enjoy it. If I feel the criteria is imposed, I won’t like it as much.

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