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Business is War and Peace
Aug 17th
“Business is war.” the traditional language of business certainly makes it sound that way: winning the competition, getting market share, beating up suppliers, locking up customers. There are the victors and the losers.
But today in doing business, you have to listen to customers, work with suppliers, keep good relations—even with competitors. That does not sound like war. Besides, there are few victors when business is looked upon as war.
Most businesses succeed only if others also succeed. Business is competition and cooperation as well. In other words, business is war and peace.
To bring together competition and cooperation, we turn to game theory. Game theory provides that whether one person wins or loses depends on what other people do. It is particularly effective when there are many interdependent factors and no decision can be made in isolation from other decisions.
Game theory breaks down the game into key elements: players, added values, rules, tactics, and scope (PARTS). Every element affects the result of the game. This means that each of the five elements gives you a way to change an existing game into an entirely new one. Change on of the PARTS, and you change the whole.
Essay Writing
Aug 17th
To students, essay writing is a must. And it has truly been the most unforgettable experience in my undergraduate school life.
Paper writing is not easy. And depends on your purpose of writing, the difficulty level varies. You could talk about a love story in the style of narration, which might be an easy job for most people; you could argue against some opinion in the style of argument and then present your ideas, which might be a little bit difficult.
I still remember my writing of Homosexuality in the Bridegroom. We had to first read the whole story and it is a long story. Then we choose one of five topics given by the lecturer. I spent two afternoons in the library to have that essay written. Evan (the lecturer of my Literature Class) sent it back the next day and told me to rewrite my essay. And in fact, I rewrote that six hundred words essay for three times.
But I have to say essay writing helps me understand the story better. For students today who need help in writing, they could find many Essay Online services. Those services often offer custom essays and term papers samples writing. Students can use those professionally written assignments to write their own A+ work.
When I start to write my research paper, I hope I could find some professional and experienced writers, academically of course, with free plagiarism and unlimited revisions. just joking
Posts Content I do not like
Aug 11th
Being a blogger is the best decision I have ever made. I can write anything on my blog and I make friends with other bloggers by reading and making comments on their posts. This helps me understand what is happening around the world and what people’s attitudes are.
I open my friends’ blogs every other night and see what they are talking about. Then, I update my blog and replay to comments made by others on my posts. It just makes me feel connected.
Though I would love to read people’s post, there are posts that I do not like at all.
Many people choose health as their blog niche and they write health related topics. You could always find useful and interesting information and tips about how to keep a healthy diet and things like that. This is good. But some people write these posts in purpose of promoting health related products, say drugs. Most often you could see they use personal experience even. Well, I do not reading these posts. I just ignore them. I would ask my doctors or go to hospital whenever I do not feel well. Drugs just matter a lot.
Game related content is another one that I do not like at all. By game I mean online gambling here. Just an example, I have never played Backgammon and I am not sure if it belongs to the category of online gambling. Some people say Play65 is the largest backgammon community online, hosting thousands of online backgammon games since 2004. But I just want to say there is no winner in gambling. You win today and you are sure to lose some day. It is just a matter of time.
Shrinking Your Fear
Aug 8th
Create a mental picture of the thing you fear. Now change its dimensions. If you are scared of social situations, imagine that the people you are going to meet are the size of peanuts. If you are scared of flying, imagine looking down on a tiny plane. If you are scared of small spaces, imagine yourself as a teeny, tiny person surrounded by acres of space.
Encourage the image to become as ludicrous as possible, and fill it with movement and color and sound. If you are scared of flying, imagine yourself wearing two plane-shaped roller skates. If you are scared of your boss, imagine him or her as a tiny dot of a person who is shouting to be heard but all you can hear is a distant squeaking. If you are afraid of being in a tall building, imagine yourself playing with cardboard boxes which look like buildings and which you can stack and rearrange at your whim.
Whatever your fear, diminish it to a point where it is unable to affect you and where you are controlling it. Enjoy feeling strong, confident and having fun.
Limitlessness
Aug 6th
The final lesson you must learn is limitlessness. It is the sense that there are no boundaries to what you can become or do. You learn it when you know that your evolution is never-ending and your potential for growth reaches to infinity.
You were born knowing your limitlessness. As you grew and became socialized in this world, however, you might have come to believe that there are boundaries that prevent you from reaching the highest levels of spiritual, emotional, or mental evolution. However, boundaries exist only in your mind. When you are able to transcend them, you learn the lesson of limitlessness.
In this world, we have countless people who have proven that a person can do whatever he or she strives to do.