I have been trying my French since primary school and failed to be able to order a meal when I was 18. When I stayed for half a year in Paris, however, I discovered one should think of French on 5 different levels. Words and expressions from lower levels may penetrate higher levels but it is a slow process. Eventually, they wind up in the Larousse dictionary.
An experience shared by many is that people in general tend to accept only what they already know or have experience of. A complicating factor is that people want a commonality of knowledge or experience, for this commonality makes them feel safe. They do not want to stand out. People who do, tend to be ostracized. Listen to conversations at dinner tables and even speeches in congresses. One would expect people to dare address the new in those places but only minor deviations are deemed acceptable and these are then only addressed in a facetious way or, as in scientific circles, as a posited reason, phenomenon, or explanation, in other words, as a suggestion or proposition, not as a fact.
The low acceptance level of people stems from
The letter conveyed fatherly advice on how to tackle the world. Knowing that Donald had trouble remembering things, the letter also gave Donnie a trick to remember the wise words by. The trick was that all words of Fred Trump's advice started with a D.
This is the letter that Little Donnie got on his 18th birthday:
"Dear son,
The old Romans already knew that the world wanted to be Deceived, so deceive it and you will come out on top.
Now, if anyone finds you out, remember the first letter of your name and do what that letter tells you. First Distance yourself from it. If that does not work or happens to be impossible, Do the following:
- Deny (you knew or Deny it was bad)
- Distort (by creating chaos) or, even better, Distract (by creating bigger chaos elsewhere)
- Delay
If that does not help, then pick any or all of the following Devices and Do that.
It is highly unlikely Trump did this test because he can only react. He does not concentrate and cannot think. And his narcissism forbids him to put himself in a position where he can be found out. This test will find out.
Trump must have protested against the test saying something like "I need not do the test, look at me, I have the highest IQ, everybody can see that." What must have happened is that the army general, who was present, 'explained' each question and each item to Trump, thus giving away the answers.
This
situation raised quite a few eyebrows in Paris where excessive CEO payments are
severely frowned upon and not a few people want to limit
them. Fortunately for Tavares, his paymaster is a Dutch holding company. But
the question remains. Why? How come? Here’s the straight yet convoluted answer.
Brexit was done to keep EU scrutiny of rich folk's personal finances at bay, especially of Arron Banks and Jacob Rees-Mogg. Brexit was sold as "take back control" by Nigel Farage, and he was brilliant at it, I must say. Brexit was spruced up with gut fears of criminal immigrants (exactly according to the playbook Steve Bannon devised for Donald Trump and Cummings). That's all.
And now both remoaners and brexiteers are talking about daily economics and contend that Brexit is a disaster. Brexit has and had nothing to do with ordinary people or national interests. In the light of the purpose of Brexit, Brexit was and still is a huge success for
A problem is a point where several counteracting forces are acting upon at the same time.
A chronic problem is a situation that will not go away, whatever you do.
Examples of the latter are easily found in health and politics. But they abound everywhere. I bet you can think of perhaps a hundred of them yourself unassisted. That is how common they are.
How to proceed? There is a natural law, an immutable law, which will help analyse and solve your problems. I found it in 2012 and published it then but was remiss not to communicate it on a broader scale
We are talking about The Law of the Multiple Causes.
There are a lot of British blogs and vlogs talking about the economic and political damage of Brexit. They try to prove Brexit was wrong and do that by showing where the pain of Brexit is being felt. This makes no sense because Brexit was not about economics or politics. Which is why the mainstream media are not reporting on Brexit damage and Brexit problems, or, otherwise, simply put the blame on the EU.It could never be the English who are at fault, could it?
The downfall of trade and the virtual disappearance of the farmers and fishing industry, and other industries that may follow, is just collateral damage. The landed gentry may even regard the disappearance of farmers as a bonus: they now will have wider hunting grounds.😄
The flaw is that they have taken the human element out of it and then, afterwards, say something is wrong or missing.
In essence, people invent a statement or rule and although this is actually a premise, they call it 'truth'. The next step is that they develop a whole world of on top of it.
It happens in religion (theïstic or not), mathematics, statistics, music, politics, in the explanation of societies and economics, physics, investing, the list is long . It cannot be understood without
Don't do to others what you don't want to be done to yourself.
or its variant:
Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself.
BUT .....
A Nigerian banker once confessed to me:
“Oh, but I do apply the golden rule, too, you know.
It reads: He who has the gold, makes the rules.”
If there are no guns involved, most of business and diplomacy becomes more easily to comprehend.
Now, look at these paintings. Do you feel enchanted, stunned, enraged, baffled by them? I bet you don't. But these paintings were absolutely sensational when they were made.
I estimate the tsarina you see left is wearing about half a billion in today's euro's worth of diamonds and pearls. The girl to the right seems caught in the act when she donned the most prized possession of her mistress, a set of pearl earrings.
Pearls were handed down in families for centuries until they lost their value with the arrival of cultivated pearls in 1907. Before that, pearls were more expensive than diamonds.
