This 50-minute lecture by Jeff Bezos will teach you more about business than a 2-year MBA program.
Bookmark it and give it 50 minutes today, no matter what.
Sexual discipline separates boys from men.
Financial discipline separates the rich and the poor.
Discipline separates the best from the rest.
As a man, discipline is the highest form of Self-respect.
OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman:
«You don't need to write prompts anymore.»
In 38 minutes, he explains how to use ChatGPT better than most people do.
He gave this lecture for Stanford students. My friend sent me the recording.
I watched it last night, realizing I was using maybe 15% of what ChatGPT can actually do.
Watch it, then read the guide below on how to build a system that prompts itself.
Believe it or not, people do bounce back. From failed relationships, financial setbacks, toxic bonds, unemployment, from anything. It's all about mindset, readiness to restart, and refocus.
La création de Fanta n'a rien de festif ou d'innocent.
C'est le pur produit du cynisme de Coca-Cola, prêt à tout pour sécuriser ses profits sous le Troisième Reich.
Parce que même au milieu de la pire guerre de l'Histoire, le business ne fait pas de pause.
Oubliez la morale. Oubliez les valeurs d'entreprise. Tout commence par un vulgaire problème d'approvisionnement.
Allemagne, 1940. La filiale allemande de Coca-Cola est un empire florissant.
Puis le blocus allié paralyse le pays. Impossible d'importer la fameuse boisson d'Atlanta.
Les usines allemandes doivent s'arrêter. La faillite est assurée.
Max Keith, le patron de la filiale locale, n'a aucune intention de fermer boutique. L'effondrement de l'Europe n'est pas une excuse acceptable pour cesser de faire du profit.
Il ne peut plus vendre de Coca-Cola. Alors il va inventer une nouvelle boisson. Avec les seuls ingrédients encore disponibles dans une économie de guerre rationnée.
C'est-à-dire les poubelles de l'industrie alimentaire.
Il mélange du petit-lait, un résidu de fromagerie, et de la fibre de pomme récupérée des pressoirs à cidre.
Il demande à son équipe d'utiliser son imagination pour trouver un nom commercial. Imagination se dit Fantasie en allemand.
Le Fanta est né.
Le succès est foudroyant. Non pas pour ses qualités gustatives, mais parce qu'il n'y a littéralement plus rien d'autre de sucré à boire dans le pays.
Le Fanta sert même de base de cuisson pour les ménagères privées de sucre.
En 1943, la filiale écoule 3 millions de caisses. L'entreprise survit, s'adapte à la dictature, et prospère.
Mais le vrai chef-d'œuvre de cynisme intervient en 1945.
À la fin de la guerre, le siège de Coca-Cola à Atlanta ne pose aucune question embarrassante sur la façon dont sa branche a collaboré avec l'économie nazie.
La maison mère récupère tranquillement ses usines allemandes intactes, ses bénéfices accumulés pendant le conflit, et s'approprie la marque Fanta pour l'exporter dans le monde entier.
Le capital n'a pas d'idéologie. Il ne fait pas de politique.
Il s'adapte aux pires régimes, survit aux guerres, et à la fin, il encaisse toujours les profits.
Stop being a loser. Get up early. Make your bed. Go train. Eat clean. Do your laundry. Pay every bill on time. Save till it hurts, then save more. Pick a craft and get obsessed. Pick a person to become and start acting like them today. Care more than everyone around you. Push till you break, then get back up. Knowing when to quit isn't weakness, it's strategy. Stand up straight. Speak up. Go all in. Smile anyway. Life is short and then it's gone. Misery is a choice. You're not the first to suffer and you won't be the last. Someone with less than you made it. So will you. Nobody's special. Everybody is. Keep moving.
O melhor conselho de vida que meu pai me deu: desapareça e foque em você mesmo. Não por amargura, não para provar um ponto, mas porque algumas fases exigem silêncio, disciplina e distância. Nem todo mundo precisa ter acesso a você enquanto você está se reconstruindo. Fique quieto, corrija seus hábitos, afie sua mente, treine seu corpo, ore mais, junte seu dinheiro, e deixe os resultados explicarem onde você esteve.♟️
@norbert_fr Lol tu connais vraiment pas les lois du marchés. La ségrégation ça a déjà existé. Le problème c'est les riches contre les pauvres. Un Bernard Arnault pourrit ta vie plus que les 20 millions de "sub blablabla"
@Sylvain_TIGER Éliminer les gens comme toi qui ne comprennent pas que tout est voulu et décidé depuis le haut, il y a un plan, on est juste des pions, et encore
I admire work ethic. I think that it should be reinforced throughout our neighborhoods…everybody should work hard. You have to be diligent about what you want. Practice makes perfect. You have to apply yourself. You have to motivate yourself. You have to do it for yourself by yourself.
~Tupac
“Do you realize that those very things that are considered hurtful and which are causes of unhappiness by human standards may be transmuted into advantages within the Grace of God?
I am totally convinced that human beings who have been traumatized in their lives either physically or psychologically have tremendous potential to become truly great. This is also why the holy elders have placed so much emphasis on how to contront temptations. They didn't mean by that the pseudo-temptations related to the pleasures of the senses. They meant the temptations that accompany the difficult and seemingly hopeless circumstances that people find themselves in. They meant the temptations that torment human beings and which often lead to serious psychological traumas.
When we find ourselves in such circumstances but approach God in the right way, allowing Grace to get energized within ourselves, then something paradoxical takes place. God, as the doctor of our body and soul, not only heals our traumas so that no trace of the trauma remains, but does something much more important. He transforms the old hurts into spiritual assets. The healed person has now become knowledgeable of the inner world of human beings and can therefore become a healer to others.”
"That's why," Father Maximos continued, "God quite often permitted and even propelled saints to succumb under pressure to various temptations, great temptations, that caused them deep sorrow and psychic turmoil."
"Why?"
"Because a human being who has not been tempted, who has not experienced pain or shed bitter tears, is not able to understand others in their pain and sorrow."
"As a Cypriot proverb goes," I added, "if you have a full stomach it is not likely that you will think of those who are hungry."
"That's how it is," Father Maximos agreed. "A person who has not been tempted is like bread that has not been baked. All of life's temptations unfold within the Providence of God."
"Are you by any chance suggesting, Father Maxime, that God cooperates with evil?"
"No. God never cooperates with evil. He simply offers us the opportunity to transform the painful experiences in our lives into advantages and blessings. I'll never forget the words of elder Paisios, who used to tell us that the time will come when we will be grateful to God for all the hurts and pains that we underwent in our lives. Each one of us carries his or her own cross. If we persevere and face our trials in a spiritual way, we will realize at a certain point that these traumas and trials have been transmuted within us into great advantages, into real treasures. You see, the saints knew about this mystery. That's why they would often intentionally not avoid trials and sorrows but rather allow them to get energized."
- The Mountain of Silence: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality (pg 179).