Un om în deşert vede o fântână şi strigă:
– Apă, apă, apăăăăăăă!
Imediat iese unu’ din fântână şi zice:
– Unde, unde?
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Banc: Un om în deşert vede o fîntînă
Non-practice
„I’ve got the power!”
„I’ve got the power!”, you might think.
But what is personal power?
- On one hand, it might look that power comes from aggressiveness. Being tough, fighting, never giving up, persisting.
- On another hand, what I think real power is – is humility. Sure, persisting in something is good, but you need humility for that, to admit that you might be wrong. You can help others, you can be available, you can be open and vulnerable.
A lot of times, I see power mistaken as force. „Push things!”, they say. But being able to control your inner demons, succeeding despite …, insisting, having the humbleness to start from scratch – these, all help a lot in real power.
You can manipulate people, force them, make them fear you. Or you can bend the tree by having him wanting to bend, by making the tree feel more like a flower than a solid object. You can make people feel good and want to be on your side.
To me, the real power is controlling yourself.
There’s a poor joke / acronym: „BITCH = Babe In Total Control of Herself„. But it’s actually half-true: if you want to be powerful, you need to be able to control your urges and emotions.
Don’t be aggressive, but control your emotions. That’s not how people commonly see the acronym.
„Stupid is as stupid does” – Forrest Gump
„Stupid is as stupid does” – Forrest Gump (1994 movie)
About the above quote: I don’t think that Forrest Gump is either 100% smart or 100% stupid.
The quote makes you think – is someone who acts stupid really stupid?
There are two ways to look at this aspect:
- You can have intellectual issues, thus be considered stupid;
- Do wrong things, thus be considered stupid.
I think that putting a label on Forrest doesn’t help anyone. He tries his best to make the world better and works a lot for this aim.
From time to time he does something rather silly, but in the big picture of life, this doesn’t matter.
Then there’s the act of looking at stupidity – while you are confronted with two options – A and B – it is rather difficult to choose between the two. After some things occur, it’s easy to look back at the life and claim „Oh, I would have done better in the same context”. I’m not so sure about this logic.
Also, there’s really no 100% intelligence. The smartest people do silly mistakes.
You might think that you are not stupid, from a true perspective. An imaginary reply, at some point:
[PILATE]
But what is truth? Is truth unchanging law?
We both have truths – are mine the same as yours?
Jesus Christ Superstar – A Rock Opera: Trial Before Pilate / 39 Lashes – Andrew Lloyd Webber
There’s no 100% objective on success, in this case, you can do something which is considered both silly and very smart – at the same time. Se Forrest Gump’s life.
Yes man
I watched with great interest the movie Yes Man (2008).
Apparently, saying „Yes!” to everything is something positive. I won’t deny this, it can be so.
But it can also be something negative. For example, it might mean you don’t trust yourself enough to accept the critical part of yourself. You might almost surely have negative feelings about something – you don’t like going everywhere, you won’t like some of the things suggested to you, you would prefer that instead of 10 things to have on your „To-do” list there would be only 5.
Saying yes to everything has some advantages – you will be confronted with lots of situations, you might earn more, you will tend to be more productive, you’ll accomplish things.
But it might bring some dissatisfaction – you might fail some deadlines, you will overpromise, at times, you will say things which won’t necessarily happen.
How can you tell if someone’s vegan at a party? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.
How can you tell if someone’s vegan at a party? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.
On repetition
“Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.” ― Zig Ziglar
Note – on the article below, most of the things are from the perspective of a novice, who wishes to clarify things for himself. These should not be treated as expert knowledge.
The thing with repetition is that it’s required on more levels.
Sure, in an enumeration you tend to remember the first item and, to a lesser degree, the last one.
If you wish to memorize something, repeating might help. You need to recall the information in different ways, though – you can summarize information, make an essay, create your own question-and-answers tests, teach someone something about the information you want to memorize.
On another hand, even „brute” repetition works. Just going through the same information over and over will help you remember things.
But how about other aspects of your life? Other than memorizing things, if you want to enforce a habit, going through the same habit a few times will help reinforce it. Do the same thing for 30 days, and you’re more likely to turn that into a habit.
If you want to change your mind, it might help going deep, really turning an issue upside-down.
But it might also help if you go through the process again and again. Instead of doing, how I did it, in one session, for a day or two, just writing for hours at a time, you could go through the process a few minutes each day.
Why do I tend to forget things?
I think of a lot of things, lots of things pass through my mind. Thus, I forget things.
I don’t consider it a big problem, just a little annoying.
Also, this has implications on long-term vs. short-term goals. I tend to focus a lot on short-term things, even though I would like to give more emphasis to long-term priorities.
Sometimes, it’s as if I have no history with person/brand X.
One less evil person
There’s a quote:
— Leşii sunt! striga tanarul ce venise de curand şi pre care l-am auzit vorbind; şi-au schimbat drumul şi vin aici…
— La porţi, flacai! zise batranul. Încuieţi-le şi gramadiţi bolovani pe ziduri. Aşezaţi-va toţi pe la metereze. Sa nu zica leahul c-au intrat într-o cetate romaneasca ca într-o ţarina pustie.
— Dar noi suntem numai nouasprezece şi asta-i o oaste întreaga, observa unul; cum se…
— Taci mucosule! îl curma batranul. Te temi ca-i peri? Mare paguba! Un mişel mai puţin.
Vanatorul astfel înfruntat se trase ruşinat şi se sui pe ziduri.
which says, basically, that if you care too much for your life you will not be able to do good things.
Banc: Se duce un medic veterinar la doctor
Se duce un medic veterinar la doctor:
Doctorul:
– Spuneți, ce vă doare?
La care veterinarul:
– Păi bine, mă, așa-i usor…
It takes time, it’s not that bad, it will be better
One thing occurs a lot when talking about Romania:
- „We’re at a poor level, everything is bad, it’s no hope”.
I think the counter-arguments are these:
- It takes time. We advanced a lot from 1990 to 2000, from 2000 to 2010, and from 2010 to 2020. Compare Romania in 1990 to Romania in 2020 and there is a difference. A huge difference, I’d say.
- It’s not that bad. We compare ourselves frequently to the most advanced nations, but we’re not that bad in the overall view of the world.
- It will be better, as time goes by. I’m confident that we’re on a growing wave.