Are people poor because they are lazy?
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Earl Nightingale tells a story in his series of tapes (yes they are old) called Lead the Field of a guy who had a very successful restaurant. Someone interviewed him one day and asked when he became successful. The restaurant owner replied that he was always successful, even before his restaurant took off and that success was just a state of mind. That is spot on with what you said PKM and I couldn't agree more.
Yes. My dad was a freaking mad crazy guy that always pushed the ultimate limits. I suspected that every year would be my last with him because he just wanted to see how crazy he could be.
Anyway, he decided to move to San Felipe, MX for a couple years. Took his H1, a couple Rhinos, and a few other toys and was just going to bum out for a while. He called me one day saying he found this killer spot to try to surf. It was a couple hundred acre shrimp farm whereby the exaggerated tides would fill the 200 acre reservoire and they would damn it with about an 8' wide concrete and metal door (whatever that would be called). Once the shrimp were cultivated out of the reservoire, they would life the door and allow 200 acres of water to flow out of the 8' space. He was all excited to try to surf it. The guy with him said as the door opened he jumped on his board and lasted only about 20 feet before the strength of the flow took him under and he didn't resurface until he was about 400' out into the ocean. I spoke to a world-class surfer that knows the area very well said that no one could make it out of there ..
larryselbows
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Very interesting read about the connection between money and happiness.
https://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dtg/DUNN GILBERT & WILSON (2011).pdf
https://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dtg/DUNN GILBERT & WILSON (2011).pdf
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It's cute how much you talk about your daughters. Honestly, as a kid, you need that one parent that is there to support, discipline, and love you every step of the way.
Personally, I grew up with both parents, but my dad is always passive. He put food on the table, but didn't honestly do much else. My mother pretty much did most of the parenting for the three of us. I always felt the lack of a decent father-son relationship, which is why I aim to have a very involved father-son relationship when the time comes.
Economically, my dad pretty much moved to Canada with only a few hundred dollars to his name, but quickly propelled our family into the middle class (he went to engineering school in Kosovo, but the Yugoslav government removed him from his job, which is why my parents moved away at the time; the Canadian job-market never really recognized his degree though). He joined a company, and worked from a $11.00 hour wage to now a ~36, and he has the highest position in te company without being related to the owner. Very reminiscent to an American-Dream type story, and my old man achieved it through his ridiculous work-ethic. Still, we were fortunate to arrive during the boom of the Albertan job-market of the mid-90s.
Now, my older brother is fast-tracking his way into law-school, and i just finished my first year of sciences. My dad was the first person in his entire family to have gotten a college degree, and we're continuing onto that path; however, this is very uncommon with most 1st generation immigrant families that I've met in Edmonton (with strong exception to the Oriental nations).
It's very hard for recently-landed immigrants to not only start from scratch, but to try and cope with the culture shock of a new nation, as well as trying to raise a kid using two different moral standards. We turned out decently, but in comparison to the many other Albanian families in our city, we are the exceptions. Out of the ~50 Albanian kids my age that I know, only 5 made it into college. Many have gone down the path of drug-trafficking, and other stuff prevalent among inner-city communities.
Im posting this on my iPhone while on the train, so sorry for the lack of coherence
just got onto a tangent
It's cute how much you talk about your daughters. Honestly, as a kid, you need that one parent that is there to support, discipline, and love you every step of the way.
Personally, I grew up with both parents, but my dad is always passive. He put food on the table, but didn't honestly do much else. My mother pretty much did most of the parenting for the three of us. I always felt the lack of a decent father-son relationship, which is why I aim to have a very involved father-son relationship when the time comes.
Economically, my dad pretty much moved to Canada with only a few hundred dollars to his name, but quickly propelled our family into the middle class (he went to engineering school in Kosovo, but the Yugoslav government removed him from his job, which is why my parents moved away at the time; the Canadian job-market never really recognized his degree though). He joined a company, and worked from a $11.00 hour wage to now a ~36, and he has the highest position in te company without being related to the owner. Very reminiscent to an American-Dream type story, and my old man achieved it through his ridiculous work-ethic. Still, we were fortunate to arrive during the boom of the Albertan job-market of the mid-90s.
Now, my older brother is fast-tracking his way into law-school, and i just finished my first year of sciences. My dad was the first person in his entire family to have gotten a college degree, and we're continuing onto that path; however, this is very uncommon with most 1st generation immigrant families that I've met in Edmonton (with strong exception to the Oriental nations).
It's very hard for recently-landed immigrants to not only start from scratch, but to try and cope with the culture shock of a new nation, as well as trying to raise a kid using two different moral standards. We turned out decently, but in comparison to the many other Albanian families in our city, we are the exceptions. Out of the ~50 Albanian kids my age that I know, only 5 made it into college. Many have gone down the path of drug-trafficking, and other stuff prevalent among inner-city communities.
Im posting this on my iPhone while on the train, so sorry for the lack of coherence
Once I had them all of the other stuff that was "important" just faded away.
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Except for basketball, duh.
But the real burning question is, do you buy them one at a time or in a big box? Personally, I pick out the big box at the store and then separate them before I get to the check out line. That way the poor cashier has to scan each and every one of them.