STUDY BROADLY, LEARN A LANGUAGE, READ AND ATTRACT THE BEST PEOPLE

I saw this very interesting quote on Instagram the other day:

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz0t5iZAPec/

If you can't open it here it is:

"So here's my advice: Study broadly and without fear. Learn a language if you can, because that will make your life more interesting. Read a little bit every day. But more importantly, surround yourself with people who you like and make cool stuff with them. In the end, what you do isn't going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with." - John Green

There are some good points here. Lets go through them.

Study broadly: Yes I agree with that. I think it makes you a rounded person. I think that people who only know one thing can be a little socially inept and the conversations around them are average at best and if you don't know about their speciality it can be a bit boring. Get out there, learn about things, learn about what is going on in the world, learn about stuff.


Learn a langauge: I have blogged about this in the past. Take a look at the following:

https://dailyrbl.blogspot.com/2016/07/finding-right-language.html

https://dailyrbl.blogspot.com/2017/06/what-do-you-call-someone-who-can-only.html

https://dailyrbl.blogspot.com/2017/07/learn-language.html

When you learn a language you world opens up a great deal. You learn a lot about yourself and you upbringing as well. I have learned stuff about English that I had never heard before.


Read a little bit every day: I have been trying to do this for a long time. Admittedly I don't do it every day but I will try to do some reading after I post this. Read a little bit every day relates back to the first one about studying broadly. You might read a lot about your speciality but reading every day helps you to talk about things that you might not have an idea about but with that one little bit of knowledge you might be able to engage someone in that topic.

https://dailyrbl.blogspot.com/2016/10/does-small-talk-scare-you.html (Look at number 4 in this post)


Surround yourself with the best people: They say that you are the average of the five people you hang out with the most. Is this true? Probably. You want to create things with these kinds of people and because they are the best, you are going to create quality stuff.


Read that quote again and try to apply those things to your life. I'm sure your life will get better and better as you attract better and better people and things into your life. Good luck.

Cricket World Cup

It would be amiss of me not to comment on one of the best sporting contests that I have ever seen. Before I carry on, I'll let you be the judge:

You might not be a cricket fan but the excitement and happenings in the game may never be repeated. I won't explain what happened here but let me just say that a game like that will never be seen for such a long time.

To play for almost 8 hours and to have a tie not only in the first 100 overs but in the super over (penalty shoot-out) was amazing.

I'm a New Zealander so my opinion might be biased but as I see it New Zealand didn't actually lose the game. They came second in the competition but they didn't actually lose the final and they should take pride from that. At this moment, it doesn't actually mean anything because they are not World Cup Champions but I'm sure if they look back on it they will remember that fact and take pride in that they participated in such a wonderful game of cricket.

Amazing!

Congratulations England and Kia Kaha New Zealand.

"YOU CAN BE ANYBODY YOU WANT."

I'm not a big gambler. I do have the odd flutter from time to time. For example I put NZD$10 on the New Zealand cricket team to beat the Indian team in the semi-finals of the World Cup in 2019. That was a nice win.

Occasionally I punt on the horses or dogs. That is fun.

Admittedly I have no idea what is happening at a casino. I don't understand any of the games. About the only game I had any idea of what I was doing was at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, it was called The Big Wheel or something like that. Lets just say it was fun and no harm was done to anyone.

For some reason a couple of my favourite movies are ones about gambling.

Rounders is about professional poker players who travel around looking for poker games. I don't know why I enjoy it because I don't know anything about poker but I do.

The second movie which was released in 2008 is called 21. It is based on a gambling group from the Massachusetts (that is difficult to spell) Institute of Technology who basically cleaned out some casinos if that is possible.

I have watched 21 a couple of times and what I like about it is the following line from the movie:

"In Vegas you can be anybody you want."

I think this is good advice for the situational extrovert. Many people like to give the advice that you should be yourself, which is well meaning but pretty crap advice.

I recommend that on occasions you play a character. If it is a networking event for example, you might need to do that. If you are trying to attract a member of the opposite sex then I wouldn't advise it because it will come back and bite you in the arse in the long term when he or she realises that you are not who you are when you were at that soiree.

You can be anybody you want but remember it is only for a short time.

Good luck.

RESTARTING MY DAILY BLOG

I have decided to restart my daily blogging. This will be from July 14th, 2019. I know that I have said this before but I never had my mind 100% in it.

The whole idea for blogging for me is to create something on a daily basis and to use this to create more and more. While doing this I hope to create some value for you, the reader, with the hope that you will come back the next day and the next day and the next day.

I look forward to your support over the coming months.

Thank you.

                    START ME UP INDEED

INTROVERTS AND EXTROVERTS DEFINED

I saw this meme on Instagram the other day. It sums it perfectly. It is one of the best descriptions I have ever seen.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BxWV7N9hmFk/

It says, "Introverts run on re-chargeable batteries while extroverts run on solar panels."

That is perfect. That's exactly what it is all about.

That's all. Short and sweet.

Introverts do talk

It's going to be a short and sweet post today.

For all of you people out there who think that introverts don't like to talk, think again. Introverts just don't like to make small talk.

I would like you to watch the above scene from the movie The 40-Year Old Virgin. I think that this is a classic scene and to be honest, it is a little hard to watch, cringeworthy almost. (By the way, there is some "colourful" language in this clip so if you are offended by that, don't watch it.)

Did you watch it?

Can you see that Steve Carell's and Seth Rogen's characters are the complete opposite?

Cal (Seth Rogen) is talking about his weekend in which he had a fun time and did something, in his mind anyway, that was cool and should be talked about forever. However, introverted Andy (Steve Carell) couldn't really care less because he had a good time by himself and that egg salad sandwich was obviously important to him but to an extrovert that sounds like torture, hence the shooting himself in the head at the end of the scene.

Let me leave you with this, Introverts do like to talk but you have to pick a topic that they are interested in. Unfortunately a woman having sex with a horse in Tijuana is not going bring that out in them no matter how "cool" you think it is.

Get an introvert talking about something they are interested in and you won't be able to shut them up for hours. They will talk with passion, with enthusiasm and "fluency." Talking about something insignificant will not do that.

(I'm sorry, horses in Tijuana are not interesting.)

WHAT IS FUN FOR YOU IS NOT GOING TO BE FUN FOR ANOTHER PERSON

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwxfwafgrzh/

The above link is one of the best Instagram posts I have ever seen. It sums it up perfectly.

This guy, Steve Bartlett hits the nail on the head. Let me quote him just in case you haven't clicked on the link.

"Don't subscribe to other people's definition of "fun."

Fun doesn't have to mean drinking, partying and socialising.

Fun can be a night in alone, getting lost in a book, a deep conversation, a walk, creating art, playing music or doing your work!

Fun is yours, you define it."

I couldn't agree with this guy more. Who says that you have to go out and drink yourself into a stupor? People who do these kinds of things are usually the, lets say 'more robust' people in society.

They think and they don't mind saying it in stereo sound that if you are not having fun in their way that you are "weird" or maybe you are "strange" or maybe you are "anti-social." I say that those people are the weird ones. Actually, that is bringing myself down to their level. As Mr. Bartlett says above, you decide what fun is. Actually I am having fun writing this. I've got some music playing in my ears. I'm in a nice environment. This is fun. There is no alcohol around, there is no dancing going on.

Remember, if you want to stay home on a Friday night and relax, that is fine. Who cares? You are doing what you want to do and that is fun.