Be vulnerable. When I was the head of growth at a 50-million-dollar venture capital firm, one of the venture capitalists was a top-20 salesperson of 2016. I talked to him every day. He had a way of making you feel like you were his best friend. I could always tell him what was on myContinue reading “What is the best way to get to know someone in a short amount of time?”
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More art related quotes 2023
Not repeating from the previous posts To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist. Uta Hagen For me the grotesque is necessary to understand beauty. David Altmejd Buy Art because you like it, not as an investment. Buy Art as a Custodian, and not as a Collector.Continue reading “More art related quotes 2023”
Bullshitting is an advantageous skill
What may come as a surprise is that we’re not only excellent at bullshitting, we’ve come to respect it. A researcher recently polled over 100 employees at several large companies. What he found was that employees who were ranked low in terms of honesty and humility were held in high esteem for being “politically skilled.”Continue reading “Bullshitting is an advantageous skill”
They say books are narcotic, I say, so the others too
It sounds full of positive energies that books are a narcotic, but by using the same word, when you say, drugs or alcohols is a narcotic, our mind switch to negative emotions. Think carefully, I start to realise, isn’t all are just a narcotic? Which makes you feel calm, don’t want to die even forContinue reading “They say books are narcotic, I say, so the others too”
6.25 Over civilisation and subjection
Random thoughts. “Cowering in subjection” so that now there is no foes, enemies …as I’m reading the true story of ahQ, now I understand how the logic works. This kind of victory mindset, it seems Chinese really master it. On small matters might be fine, but once you are used to this kind of mindset..noContinue reading “6.25 Over civilisation and subjection”
6.21 Rationality and art
People tend to define how a drawing whether valuable or not by how much it’s been sold, but you know these prices are arbitrary doesn’t mean anything…and those ordinary people or even the so called artists would judge a painting simply by how famous it is..just remind me a lot of likeness to the stockContinue reading “6.21 Rationality and art”
6.20 absurdity
Open your eyes, you see these absurdities repeat again and again. And think why they look so happy as if the world is the heaven, it can be anything but heaven as long as these man made stupidness I still can see… The hard thing for me to comprehend is they seem so damn happy..Continue reading “6.20 absurdity”
6.17 love is about the admiration, when it disappears
If you admire someone you already have the foundation to be able to love that person. I say you’re able to is because sometimes life is only designed in a way once only allow you to have in love with sexual relationship with one person,if you can have sexual relationships with multiple people at theContinue reading “6.17 love is about the admiration, when it disappears”
Novels are good
I’m reading The Stranger from Camus, it appears a quick read book, and easy to handle, interesting. Unlike some books using flimsy experiments try to convince or make a point. The main problem with them they can just use one or two paragraph to summarise instead making everything sounds complicated..many are just common sense though.Continue reading “Novels are good”
6.15 thoughts
If both pleasures and sufferings are just temporary, I’d rather choose the sufferings, if can go through it, you’re gonna have completed different views from the pleasures.
