Silicon Valley is known for this cliche every time you turn and look at what made so and so successful.
I have a confession to make. There are more stupid people on the planet than smart people, present company included.
To accomplish said surroundings you have to know what constitutes surroundable smartness. This is no easy task esp if majority of the surroundings include the sound of dumbness. It is like trying to break out of the earth's gravitational pull to find a true vacuum. Or perhaps that is mixing the metaphors, but hey I did not say I was smart.
No one seems to acknowledge (mostly) that it was dumb luck that got someone to where they were starting with their birth. Accidents happen and sometimes they are great.
No downplaying the use of elbow grease (another condiment available in the USofA) or perseverance. Yet, another category of surroundings that can help one's chance at success is the influential variety.
So there is something genetic about a person's make up that can set you in influential company that trumps all the Estee Lauder you can apply. Then comes Estee Lauder to boot.
Being good looking either through genetic arrangement or by copious and sensible use of potions and amalgams on the exterior certainly can do its part to appear worthy of inclusion in the smartness or influencer club.
Smart people also like vanity to surround themselves lest they get whacked out of orbit by sheer axiomatic excitement.
So moral of this orbital theory is that either be the orbiting smart pants or be the dumb yet beautiful nucleus that the smart electrons want to orbit around and you will find lasting enjointment.
Cool cat the Japanese are Tokyo at dusk My second visit to this land of the rising sun after almost a decade. Back then clearly I was wet behind the ears product manager and likely didn’t pay attention to all (efficient) things Japanese. But today I did and of course continue to be impressed. It is as much the obvious stuff like on time travel that is both clean and comfortable and all that which makes it possible. The impressive landmark and landscapes that these humans have put together despite their cramped (or because of it) surroundings and precarious geological conditions could amaze a novice architect among us. But it’s also the little things that someone had to think about which have a phenomenal impact on day to day lives that make the Japanese stand apart. Below are few random examples- 1. Providing a very fine machined wooden toothpick in every packet of wooden chopsticks. The said chapsticks are simply set on the To Go counter of any food vendor/ convenience store wher...
If you are smart enough to find smart people who will surround you, you can't be too dumb. I personally prefer the theory about surrounding yourself with dumb people so they make you look smart. Look at heroines in Hindi films- where would they be without dozens of ugly surrounders?
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