🏘️ Property Tax: HIGHEST in the US
⛽ Gas Tax: 2nd HIGHEST in the US
🏢 Corporate Tax: 3rd HIGHEST in the US
We have a tax addiction in Illinois.
Thank JB Pritzker.
Una profesora de Stanford lleva 20 años estudiando por qué algunas personas tienen más suerte.
Su conclusión: la suerte no es azar. Es como el viento: hay que ponerle vela.
Si quisiera tener más suerte, haría estas 7 cosas:
1/ Salir de mi zona de confort con micro-riesgos.
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Bernie Sanders in 2015: "Open borders? … That's a right-wing proposal which says essentially there is no US. It would make everybody in America poorer… What rightwing people in this country would love is an open-border policy… I don't believe in that."
✝️ WHY JESUS RODE A DONKEY… AND NOT A HORSE 😳
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On Palm Sunday, something feels… almost strange.
A King enters His city.
A crowd shouts “Hosanna!”
Palms are raised.
And yet…
There is no horse.
No war animal.
No symbol of power.
Instead, Jesus chooses a donkey.
At first glance, it looks like humility.
But it is far more than that.
It is a deliberate, prophetic, and shocking statement.
✝️ A PROPHECY BEING FULFILLED IN PLAIN SIGHT
This was not случай.
It was Scripture unfolding:
“Behold, your king is coming to you;
humble, and mounted on a donkey…” (Zechariah 9:9)
Jesus is not improvising.
He is revealing His identity, clearly, publicly, unmistakably.
Anyone who knew the Scriptures should have understood:
👉 “This is the promised King.”
But again… they missed the deeper meaning.
✝️ HORSE VS DONKEY: TWO DIFFERENT KINGS
In the ancient world, the difference was obvious:
Horse - war, conquest, domination
Donkey - peace, humility, royal legitimacy
Kings rode horses when they went to fight.
They rode donkeys when they came in peace.
So Jesus is making a bold declaration without speaking:
👉 “I am a King… but not the kind you expect.”
✝️ NOT WEAKNESS… BUT CONTROLLED POWER
Let’s be clear.
Jesus did not ride a donkey because He lacked power.
He could have entered Jerusalem:
With angels
With authority
With overwhelming force
But He chose restraint.
The donkey is not weakness.
It is power under control.
It is God saying:
👉 “I do not conquer by crushing you…
I conquer by saving you.”
✝️ THE DETAIL MOST PEOPLE MISS
The Gospels tell us something very specific:
👉 The donkey (a colt) had never been ridden.
This is not random.
In biblical thought, what is set apart for God is often unused, untouched, reserved.
This means:
This moment is sacred
This kingship is unique
This mission is unlike any before it
No king before Him rode this path.
No king after Him can repeat it.
✝️ THE COLLISION OF EXPECTATIONS
The crowd saw the donkey… but interpreted it wrongly.
They still waved palms.
They still shouted “Hosanna.”
Because in their minds:
👉 “The King has come.”
But they expected the next step to be:
👉 War. Power. Revolution.
Instead, Jesus moves steadily toward something else:
👉 The Cross.
✝️ FROM DONKEY TO CROSS
The donkey was the first sign.
It was Jesus saying:
“I am not here to destroy your enemies.
I am here to become your sacrifice.”
That is why the story turns so quickly:
From “Hosanna!”
To “Crucify Him!”
Because a King of peace is harder to accept
than a king of power.
✝️ WHY THIS STILL CONFRONTS US TODAY
Many people still want a “horse-Christ”:
A Christ who fixes everything instantly
A Christ who defeats their enemies
A Christ who brings visible success
But Jesus comes on a donkey:
Quiet
Humble
Sacrificial
And that kind of King demands something deeper:
👉 Trust, not control
👉 Surrender, not domination
👉 Faith, not spectacle
✝️ THE FINAL TRUTH
Jesus did not choose a donkey by accident.
He chose it to reveal a truth many still struggle to accept:
👉 God saves the world… not by power/force,
but by self-giving love.
The donkey was not just a ride.
It was a message.
And many are still missing it.
God bless you 🥰
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Un profesor del MIT dio la misma conferencia cada enero durante 40 años, y cada una de las veces no cabía ni un alma en el aula.
La vi a las 2 de la mañana y cambió por completo mi forma de entender la comunicación.
Su nombre era Patrick Winston. La conferencia se titula "Cómo hablar" (How to Speak).
Su frase de apertura te golpea como un camión: "Tu éxito en la vida vendrá determinado en gran medida por tu capacidad para hablar, tu capacidad para escribir y la calidad de tus ideas, en ese orden".
Ni tu nota media, ni tus títulos, ni tu coeficiente intelectual. Cómo hablas es lo que separa a las personas que son escuchadas de las que son ignoradas.
Este es el esquema que inculcó a los estudiantes del MIT durante cuatro décadas:
1) Nunca empieces con un chiste: Empieza diciendo a la gente exactamente qué es lo que va a aprender. "Prepara la bomba antes de verter nada". Él lo llamaba la "promesa de empoderamiento": dales una razón para no levantarse del asiento en los primeros 60 segundos.
2) La regla de las 5S: Para que una idea se quede grabada debe ser: Símbolo, Slogan, Sorpresa, Saliente (relevante) e Historia (Story). Cualquier idea que valga la pena recordar cumple al menos tres de estas.
3) La técnica del "casi acierto" (Near Miss): Esta parte me dejó alucinado. No te limites a mostrar lo que está bien; muestra lo que parece estar bien pero no lo está. Ese contraste es lo que hace que el cerebro registre algo de forma permanente.
4) Su regla final: Termina con una contribución, no con un resumen. No recapitules lo que ya dijiste. Dile a la gente qué les has dado que no tenían antes de entrar por la puerta.
He usado este esquema en ventas, entrevistas y presentaciones desde que lo vi, y los resultados no son sutiles.
Patrick Winston falleció en 2019, pero esta clase sigue siendo gratuita en el OpenCourseWare del MIT. Una hora, vista por millones de personas, y no cuesta absolutamente nada.
Video: "How to Speak", Patrick Winston, MIT OpenCourseWare, RES.TLL-005, January IAP 2018.
Fuente: MIT OpenCourseWare.
Licencia: CC BY-NC-SA.
Términos: ocw. mit. edu/ terms
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