A window used to filter light, move air, frame a view, and still look like someone cared. Now it just fills a hole in a wall.
That’s the whole story of what modern architecture gave up for speed.
The wealthiest people in the world:
75% of them are entrepreneurs.
15% of them are investors.
7% are athletes.
3% are artists.
None of them are employees.
A salary cannot leverage you into self-sufficiency.
A salary takes you through a journey of 5 phases:
Phase 1: Earning
Phase 2: Spending
Phase 3: Borrowing
Phase 4: Planning
Phase 5: Budgeting
Once you cross Phase 5, which comes after years of being broke despite earning, you cross to 2 more phases
Phase 6: Saving
Once you cross Phase 6, which requires a lot of maturity, self-satisfaction, sacrifice and discipline,
You unlock Phase 7: INVESTING.
This is where you either become a business owner or remain an employee forever.
This is like the one where a man was telling a friend about how his first two wives had died from eating poison mushrooms. The friend asked if his last wife had died from eating poison mushrooms and he said no, that she had died from a blow to the head. The friend asked the cause/
@seashell_luvr@GurpriyaSidhu They do not succumb to trends. They can spot potential before someone else sees it. They are generally a few steps ahead of what ever is the common, most popular take.
@seashell_luvr@GurpriyaSidhu Most often, you will need a great practitioner / master of craft to guide you to appreciate it fully. Provided, as they say in music, that you have an ‘ear for it’.
A clear sign of someone with great taste is that they can hold contrarian takes with confidence.
@Munalozy This is how children are when they start life. They are very direct and no sugarcoating their desires. Only for them to grow into a life of suppressing your desires and holding onto what you want so that you don't offend others...
I read somewhere, "The ruling class benefits greatly from the popular misconception that government mismanagement is the result of stupidity and incompetence rather than actual malice. People would be a lot angrier if they knew that all of this was being done to them on purpose."
After the great fire of London which consumed 80% of the city, measures were put in place to ensure that it would never happen again. That included switching to use of brick instead of timber to build. This was back in the year 1666
In 2011, Tsunami hit Japan. Thereafter they put a 395km long coastal protection featuring a 15m high concrete wall.
In 2016, Nairobi experienced ravaging floods that led to loss of lives. The governor said sorry and life went on. This week, floods happened again and the government didn’t hesitate to say sorry. We blamed the heavy rains. We are moving on.
Even animals learn!
@maxvayshia What always amaze me is that mostly when you fail due to a circumstance or two. The people see what you haven't done and quickly forget the greater sacrifices you have made.
@josbjohnson@BlondB00 Yes, as a Christian several instances in the bible where even after you are guaranteed a greater future, you still have to work towards it. You don't sit back and wait for things to happen.
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