THE 7 SECRETS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE
1. Private school
2. Legacy Ivy admission
3. Nepotism hire
4. Seed capital from family
5. Family network
6. Personal assistance
7. Strong belief they're "self-made"
Rich Titanic tourists sink in submarine: Whole world watches as navies spare no expense to find them.
Hundreds of migrants sink in overcrowded boat: Hope you can swim, losers.
If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would try to figure out what's wrong.
When humans do it we put them on cover of Forbes.
"You have to build a life beyond your job, and expecting your job to give you all your happiness isn't going to work, even when you like your work."
-
@AOC
THE 7 SECRETS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE
1. Private school
2. Legacy Ivy admission
3. Nepotism hire
4. Seed capital from family
5. Family network
6. Personal assistance
7. Believing they're "self-made"
THE 7 SECRETS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE
1. Private school
2. Legacy Ivy admission
3. Nepotism hire
4. Seed capital from family
5. Family network
6. Personal assistance
7. Strong belief they're "self-made"
"What Orwell failed to predict is that we'd buy the cameras ourselves, and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching."
- Keith Lowell Jensen
If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would try to figure out what's wrong.
When humans do it we put them on cover of Forbes.
A city has 100 inhabitants.
99 have been vaccinated
1 has not
2 people get COVID-19:
1 vaccinated and 1 unvaccinated:
Some newspapers:
“50% of the Covid patients are vaccinated!
Vaccines do not work!l”
What could possibly be wrong with such headlines?
THE 7 SECRETS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE
1. Private school
2. Legacy Ivy admission
3. Nepotism hire
4. Seed capital from family
5. Club memberships
6. Personal assistance
7. Family network
"In our society, there seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.”
- David Graeber
"What Orwell failed to predict is that we'd buy the cameras ourselves, and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching."
- Keith Lowell Jensen
THE 7 SECRETS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE
1. Private school
2. Legacy Ivy admission
3. Nepotism hire
4. Seed capital from family
5. Family network
6. Personal assistance
7. Strong belief they're "self-made"
A city has 100 inhabitants.
99 have been vaccinated
1 has not
2 people get COVID-19:
1 vaccinated and 1 unvaccinated:
Some newspapers:
“50% of the Covid patients are vaccinated!
Vaccines do not work!l”
What could possibly be wrong with such headlines?
"In our society, there seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.”
- David Graeber
Reality:
I completed an easy course.
LinkedIn:
I am humbled and honered to announce that I was able to successfully participate in a thought-leader taught program from a world-leading institution which enables me to professionally thrive in today's volatile business environment.
"The standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital."
- Noam Chomsky (born
#onthisday
)
"What Orwell failed to predict is that we'd buy the cameras ourselves, and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching."
- Keith Lowell Jensen
“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”
- Daniel Kahneman
THE 7 SECRETS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE
1. Private school
2. Legacy Ivy admission
3. Nepotism hire
4. Seed capital from family
5. Family network
6. Personal assistance
7. Strong belief they're 'self-made'
“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”
- Daniel Kahneman
Reality:
I completed an easy course.
LinkedIn:
I am humbled and honered to announce that I was able to successfully participate in a thought-leader taught program from a world-leading institution which enables me to professionally thrive in today's volatile business environment.