To succeed at building your startup you need to focus.
This infographic is about eliminating everything from your life that does not help your startup.
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Jewels…
Erykah Badu (b. 1971), by Joseph Llanes, 2011. In an essence.com interview published in July 2011, she responded to the question, “What has influenced your style through the years?”
“I’m always evolving. I visited Cuba to get a santería reading in 2000 and I didn’t know exactly what to expect. I went there, sat on the curb and waited for my reading. I had on this white head wrap and this white long dress and all of my jewelry, because it was part of me. It was who I was. I was overdressed because everybody else had on T-shirts and baggy tights…
I sat next to a guy whose nails were dirty. He had on some Pumas that were tied so tight you could see the tongues hanging out. Then there was a guy on my left with white shorts and no shirt, and the two were passing a cigarette across me and drinking beer. I finally went in for my reading and there was this beautiful older woman who had on a yellow long dress and short haircut. She was very pretty. She started walking around me and speaking to me in Spanish. I assumed she was the priest who was going to give me my reading.
When the guy with the beard and dirty nails came in, I told the interpreter, ‘I kind of wanted it to be private.’ She goes, ‘Oh no, he’s the Priest.’
I never wore the head wrap again. I realized it wasn’t necessary anymore, because after all that man was from a long line of healers and he didn’t have to look like one. He was born with it. No matter what he did or what he said, no one could take that away from him. That’s when I was freed and began to evolve. I began to focus on being more in here than out there.”
Preach…
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Preach..:
Truth….
I wouldn’t be surprise if the illustration creator is not from a Nordic country…. This illustration is essentially what happens when someone has the reported information about a place, society, organization or entity but not the nuance understanding of how things really works….
THANK YOU
Don’t forget healthcare
Dear Silhouette Man, as a Scandiscot, may I direct you to the flaws in your post; firstly you claim that students in the Nordic countries don’t pay tuition fees, this is in reality not true. Sure, citizens of our countries are exempt from tuition fees, but so are Scottish students and all EU students in Scotland, whereas foreign students in the Nordic countries pay thousands of pounds a year to attend university. A Chinese student wishing to study English at my Alma Mater pays £7000 a semester for their degree. What is more, until 2010 Swedish students were enforced by law to pay a de facto tuition fee to a student union in order to be allowed to attend university.
Furthermore you seem to think that the measly stipend that is given to each and every student in Sweden is a sum we get without any strings attached, which is far from the truth. Not only are we not allowed to fail any classes while doing a course, we’re only entitled to a grant for a maximum of 12 semesters, meaning that doctors, teachers, psychologists and the like still end up having to pay for the last semesters of their degrees. What is more, the stipend on its own barely covers the rent in one of Sweden’s few student flats - campus flats do not exist as a concept in Sweden, and few if any students share flats with other people because of cultural and social reasons - meaning that in order to survive we are, lest otherwise privileged with a shitload of money, forced to take out a loan to pay for our living expenses, just like any American. At the moment my debts amount to a whooping £79,000, so to claim that my education was for free is a load of bollocks.
What is more, on account of being a massive country, the majority of Sweden’s students have to move away from their parents in order to attend uni, meaning that people cannot possibly save money by living at home. Anyone from the north of the country has to move between 150 and 900 kilometres to attend uni, making living at home and commuting virtually impossible - sure if I had been able to stay at home, I could have survived on £200 a month, but as I had to move 390 kilometres to start my degree, I had to take out a loan.
I get annoyed with the glorification of Scandinavian countries, people still seem to think that our countries constitute some socialist utopian wonderland, when the truth is that our countries at the moment are some of the most right-wing in Europe. Sweden has a right-wing government and, what is more, a very active openly racist party in parliament, and something close to 25% of all Finns, if my memory serves me right, voted for a right-wing, fascist party in the last election.
Quit talking about Scandinavia as if it was a perfect, flawless place - it isn’t, and unless you’re willing to talk real politics, i.e. compare the political, social and historical reasons behind the States’ and the Nordic Countries differing educational policies, don’t bother telling Americans that they’re stupid, because really…
Preach..
Sixteen Things Calvin and Hobbes Said Better Than Anyone Else
To paraphrase E.B. White, the perfect sentence is one from which nothing can be added or removed. Every word plays its part. In my more giddy moments I think that a simple comic strip featuring Calvin, a preternaturally bright six year-old, and Hobbes, his imaginary tiger friend, features some of the most lucid sentences committed to print. And when I sober up, I usually think exactly the same.
Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes ran between 1985 and 1995. His comic strip managed to infuse wondering (and wandering) on a cosmic scale into an ageless world of lazy Sunday afternoons, snow goons, and harassed babysitters. I’m not saying that you should take moral and philosophical guidance from the inventor of Calvinball (a game that runs on chaos theory), but you could do much worse.
So here, in no particular order, is a selection of quotes that nail everything from the meaning of life to special underwear. Enjoy.
On life’s constant little limitations
Calvin: You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.
On expectations
Calvin: Everybody seeks happiness! Not me, though! That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
On why we are scared of the dark
Calvin: I think night time is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.
On the unspoken truth behind the education system
Calvin: As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever. You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.
On the cruel reality of commercial art
Hobbes: Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
On the tragedy of hipsters
Calvin: The world bores you when you’re cool.
On the tears of a clown
Calvin: Isn’t it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humour? When you think about it, it’s weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity. We laugh at nonsense. We like it. We think it’s funny. Don’t you think it’s odd that we appreciate absurdity? Why would we develop that way? How does it benefit us?
Hobbes: I suppose if we couldn’t laugh at things that don’t make sense, we couldn’t react to a lot of life.
Calvin: (after a long pause) I can’t tell if that’s funny or really scary.
On the falling of sparrows (or providence’s lack of a timetable)
Calvin: Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.
On why winter is the cruellest of seasons
Calvin: Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
On the gaping hole in contemporary art’s soul
Calvin: People always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to congratulate themselves on their superiority to the rest of the world. As my artist’s statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance.
On playing Frankenstein with words
Calvin: Verbing weirds language.
On realising God is more Woody Allen than Michael Bay
Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines.
Hobbes: Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers.
On why ET is real
Calvin: Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
On looking yourself in the mirror
Hobbes: So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met?
On the future
Calvin: Trick or treat!
Adult: Where’s your costume? What are you supposed to be?
Calvin: I’m yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you’re old and weak. Am I scary, or what?
On the truth
Calvin: It’s a magical world, Hobbes, ol’ buddy…Let’s go exploring!
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I’ll work on making life simpler…
Preach…
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![Solid advice…
amexopenforum:
Don’t take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give—with a few exceptions—generalize whatever they did…Every company carves its own path, and [founders] are under pressure to make their startups look like the last successful company everyone remembers.
— Ben Silberman of Pinterest
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Solid advice…
Don’t take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give—with a few exceptions—generalize whatever they did…Every company carves its own path, and [founders] are under pressure to make their startups look like the last successful company everyone remembers.
— Ben Silberman of Pinterest
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