Time, like hope is an illusion

Time, like hope is an illusion. Interesting Super Mario Bros (2023)

Selling

Like acting, sales works best when hidden –Peter Thiel

Menarik, sudah lama tidak menulis tentang sales (termasuk turunannya selling, jualan). Hari ini mulai lagi mengkonsep mengenai jualan. Teorinya selalu sama “Market define you”, kurang lebih adalah customer oriented bukan product oriented. Konsep ini, cerita seorang bapak butuh waktu hampir 1 tahun, setelah melewati beberapa proses tender untuk bisa memahami kenapa sebuah bisnis itu sangat susah sekali untuk dibangun.

Politics a definition

And politics is like war. It takes three things to win. The first is money and the second is money and the third is money.”

Excellence wither without adversary

Excellence wither without adversary, (Seneca 4 BC-6 AD)

Interesting, Seneca has Stoicism Philosophy

Similar with “There is no path to greatness without great suffering”

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche sharply criticizes those people who wish to abolish suffering. According to him, suffering is the only thing that bestows value upon the world. Without pain and misery, life would be absurd and worthless.

To Nietzsche, suffering provides the only test by which a person’s worth can be determined. In other words, the person who can endure the greatest suffering is the greatest of men.

Pasti ada jalan

Inveniam viam = Pasti ada jalan
Aut inveniam viam aut faciam

Aut inveniam viam aut faciam is Latin for “I shall either find a way or make one. Menarik, beberapa quote ini relevan sekali dengan kehidupan sehari-hari.

Menenangkan diri

a chain is only as strong as its weakest link

Beberapa kali menjumpai kejadian seperti ini, entah di keluarga, di kantor ataupun dalam diri pribadi. Pelari yang kuat tidak hanya ditentukan dari otot kaki, tapi juga jari kaki atau sesederhana lecet pada telapak kaki. Kita tidak bisa memaksakan diri, apalagi organisasi untuk berlari sama seperti orang lain berlari. Don’t take it personally.

Definition Quote Definisi Politik

“Politik adalah perang tanpa senjata, Perang adalah politik dengan senjata, yang paling penting adalah simbol” ILC 18 Sep 2018. Ridwan Saidi (b1946) former MP 1977-1987. Interesting, this should be attributed to “Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed, Mao Zedong” ref

Running Country vs Running Company: Huge Difference

Paul Krugman (1996) explain on why running country is totally different than running a company. He also remind an old joke about the centipede who was asked how he managed to coordinate his 100 legs: He started thinking about it and could never walk properly again. So true. See also here, here and here

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