There is a TED talk on YouTube titled “How to Speak so People Will Listen” by a speaker called Julian Treasure. It is 10 minutes long and has 30 million views at the time of writing this. This makes it one of the most viewed TED talks on YouTube. For comparison, Bill Gates’ TED talkContinue reading “How to Fool Thirty Million People for Ten Minutes”
Business Lessons from Japanese Melons
How price is based on the perceptions of the people… things they cannot not feel. I used to have an issue with the claim that money has value because everybody has agreed for it to have it… that money has no intrinsic value. But it does, I used to think. It’s written their on theContinue reading “Business Lessons from Japanese Melons”
Business Lessons From Expensive Watches
WSJ Expensive Watches YouTube video A commenter says nobody cares what you wear… they are too busy with their own lives. This tries to paint expensive watch buyers as delusional and somewhat stupid. The truth is, some people do notice, some don’t. Let’s just say in a certain scenario/social cirlce/context you are in, nobody noticesContinue reading “Business Lessons From Expensive Watches”
Double Standards in Reality
You cannot apply any theory (other than the one these lessons are based on… the theory that selective validation creates conviction of patterns… and based on those patterns, people’s behavior change, which arise from motivation to minimize individual guilt/maximize individual happiness) successfully to every phenomenon/scenario without hitting roadblocks/errors. And that’s fine. That is the reality.Continue reading “Double Standards in Reality”
Business Lessons From Aristotle’s Lies
There is a theory called Aristotle’s Rhetoric. It means Aristotle’s model for explaining humans’ persuasion. When I was trying to figure out what motivates people to do what they do, hoping to gain business success through it, I was quite captivated by this theory. This was mainly because of how popular it was. Added toContinue reading “Business Lessons From Aristotle’s Lies”
Addiction
How insecure must a bottle of liquor feel when it’s waiting to tackle the drinker in a supermarket aisle… like a football player waiting in the entrance tunnel in the darkness to enter the game for the god-knows-how-manyth day. Last night went well, thankfully, but now it has to do the same tonight, to maintainContinue reading “Addiction”
Walking Out of an Audi Dealership
This lesson is about my quest for finding the grand customer service philosophy that fits all businesses; what is the best approach to customer service? An older professor at my university, who is from the UK, was briefly talking to us about the importance of good customer service as it came up while talking aboutContinue reading “Walking Out of an Audi Dealership”
How It All Started
This is how my story goes. When I was a kid, I wanted to grow up to be extremely rich the richest person on Earth. I had a case of superlatives. I wanted to feel superior to everyone else in the whole world… specially all the rich kids I knew about. I wanted to beContinue reading “How It All Started”
You All Look Alike
Do twins look alike? Yes, they do. But not to their parents. Why is that? Overtime, you inadvertently start to notice additional patterns… you associate their appearance to their behaviors… the way they talk, their facial expressions, posture, gestures and etc. In other words, you can say the people who first see them unknowingly ignore/lookContinue reading “You All Look Alike”
The Dress
The dress being perceived as black and blue or white and gold is because people compensate for the light being shone on it (as perceived by them). This is just like people calling someone white or black, when clearly they are not exactly that. Also, people calling some pugs blue. They discount/invalidate information to arriveContinue reading “The Dress”