The answer is relatively simple: because the poor are working for their riches. If there is no one working for them, they would be poor too!
This brings about a very provoking question: so can the rich manipulate the poor and make them poor forever? Strangely, yes and it is happening all around us.
The traditional mindset is to work for people and save (90% of the population does that). The mindset that the rich has is to work for their riches and invest. (10% of the population) It creates an income disparity between the polar opposites just due to this simple theory. They don’t teach that in school because they need people like you and i to work for them so they become filthy rich.
The right thinking is a crucial factor to success as compared to other variables like appearances, education level etc. In fact i think they play a very small role as compared to the “right” thinking. The “right” mindset makes all the difference… it makes or breaks people.
That is why i don’t listen to what the world says anymore.
I don’t digitally manipulate my facial features in the photos, there is no point to that. Imperfections are there to stay, i hate the BCG mark on my left arm and i have to clone it off in every photo. Yes, it is a bloody imperfection that the world does not see in the final post production. There are some models out there who super impose their face on another model’s body because they are not confident of their own body. It is very easy to tell if it is fake, it will look unnatural. Super models walking down the walkway are close to alien looking long neck creatures with pale skin. Maybe that is why i am not taking the step to contact a modeling agency as i do not want to become the stereotyped beauty of the century. I am happy the way i am, naturally. I use natural products like DR’s Secret and only apply chemical based makeup on shoots and remove them immediately after the session.
There is no need for wide contact lenses as it blows the eyes out of proportions and the photos turn out like freaks of nature. Or thick makeup that looks like a opera singer. Fortunately, many of the guys whom i know admitted that they prefer girls not to wear heavy makeup as it is too scary when they look closely at their faces. Then again not a lot of girls know how to put make up properly (lack of education in grooming). Thank god my mum took the initiative to sign me up for a few Dior workshops (purchase a $60 voucher to get a free makeup workshop) and it really makes a difference.
Her empty eyes showed no emotions
They had no mirrors in them, no reflections
It seems like her soul has drifted away from her body
Leaving it dry and hollow.
She took out a knife with a long end and stabbed it
into the heart of her mother, she took the ends out
slowly… enjoying every single bit of pain that she
has inflicted on her unwilling party. Fresh blood gushed
out from the gasping hole as the victim tried to breathe
before falling into a trance like state with her eyes
wide open, in disbelief of the event that has happened.
She licked the ends of the knife clean and gave a
sinister laughter… a cold laugh that pierces into the air.
Her murderous intent boiled her mind as she sped off to
find her next victim before dawn.
Sometimes when a feeling comes
It just stays around & doesn’t go away
Like a plague, a dirty stain that refuses to disappear
After washing up, feeling cleansed and refreshed
Looking out of the window, into the night air
Sometimes, you just seem to wonder why
Is it something that you have not done
or is it something that is troubling you?
You wonder as you lay your head on
the pillow, drifting into a deep dream
Waking up the next day with this heavy feeling
in your heart. You ask yourself, “Why?” but you
still can’t find the answer as you dress up for the
new day and wear your new shoes as you step
into the city streets jostling with the endless crowd.
You see an accident scene as you tried to walk pass
in a hurry, turning your head around in curiosity.
You see a wounded man being wheeled into the ambulance
You stop in that instant. Suddenly,
you feel that you had not done what you want to do
in your life, instead, you are working for the sake of working.
Suddenly, the world seems so empty.
It is only you left. No one else. No one will remember you when you are gone.
You start to panic as it seems to frightening and real
that it is horrifying to think about. You take a step backwards
from the accident scene and head to somewhere quiet to relax.
You think of a way out of this but you can’t seem to find the answer.
The feeling stays within your heart, and it never seems to go away.
“Today, I was privileged to have a conversation with a very intelligent Frenchman. I explored with him the matter of the French attitude towards intellectuals – and learnt that theirs is an enviable stance indeed.
Before I speak of what he spoke of, perhaps I should paint a little background to my perspective on his words. I grew up in Britain. This is a country where, in most schools, to be an intellectual is to suffer a kind of social disease. The gifted child will be almost universally ill-treated, if they have not developed sufficient social skills to deflect such attacks. It is a culture that made being gifted a burden indeed – and one that many children tried to shrug off, by dumbing down: they felt that they had to, because the social environment gave them no choice but to do so.
France, however, stands in contrast to this. The gifted child is, according to my French associate, respected by his fellows and, what’s more, the gifted child’s parents are well-looked upon, for having raised such a child. I was stunned by that. In many cultures, the parents of a gifted child are actually greeted with incomprehension and the view that they have somehow pushed their child into this “gifted” state. The idea that the parents would actually be admired for their child was a new one for me.
It didn’t end there. Throughout French society there is a pervasive respect for the intellectually gifted. Intellectuals actually become media stars. They are listened to with respect and their opinions sought on every matter under the sun. To be an intellectual in France, is often also to be a public figure of some standing. How odd. I don’t remember Britain being like that, in the main. Intellectuals did not have the prominence that say, a footballer would have, or a Page Three model (a “topless” model), would have. In Britain it was the “celebrity” who had a sway over the people – not those people who actually had a mind to form opinions and a will to speak them.
France actually has celebrity philosophers. That, in itself, says all that we need to know about the situation of the intellectual, in that culture.
The world would be a better place, in every way, were intellectuals received with the welcome, everywhere, that they receive in France. For a start it could begin in the world’s schools. If they were like French ones, there would be no jealousy of the gifted child, from their peers – but a widely held respect. That would surely change the life stories of many gifted children for the better.
Yet, the benefits wouldn’t stop there. I believe that every nation that adopted this positive attitude towards its gifted, would benefit, thereby. Their cultures would flourish and deepen, their nations would prosper. Why? Because the best among them would no longer have to hide their gifts; they would no longer have to “dumb down” to enable themselves to fit in: they could soar, instead, to the heights they were born to achieve. They could finally, fully become. How much better a world that would be.”
This is a very inspirational post and i hope it might happen in near future. If the human race is to progress we have to be more receptive to the gifted, they will create the next wave in human advancements.
I am a keen supporter of Social Darwinism, intelligence breeds intelligence. We got to continue the cycle of reproducing more people of a higher intelligence to continue the rate of intellectual progress of the society so it moves forward instead of backwards. Probably Lee Kuan Yew foresaw that 30 years ago in setting up the Social Development Unit for unmarried graduate couples. It will be a pretty darn waste if they don’t continue passing down their gene pool after all the thousands of years of human evolution that has been endowed to them.
The essential notion is that the relationship between theory and its users must always be open to evaluation and reinterpretation through the process of research whether “real world” or in the “classroom”
However, this seems too obvious, almost banal. After all most students of business have a notion that theory is unreal or suspect – almost by definition. The problem is that to move beyond simple assessments that theory, such as Porter’s diamond, the product life cycle or the Boston Consulting Group matrix, are right or wrong requires more detailed accounts of how these ideas are used by the academy that takes primary responsibility for them. Thus, accounts need to focus on the pragmatic employment of theory to develop effective and workable solutions for specific contexts. This might encourage a more reflective, pragmatic and critical appreciation among students of management education concerning the potential of theory.
“Management theories hold true for rats. You can theorize rat behavior as they are very predictable creatures. The theories don’t hold true for humans. Humans are unpredictable creatures, they bite when least unexpected.”
LOL i wonder what the aussie lecturers will think when they read it.
