Human psychology on winning favours – it could be winning someone's hearts, snatching a prey from the jaws of a rival or bagging a business. The methods in the madness…
- Flattery, pure and adulterated. This is the first and this almost always works, or at least creates good impression, because human beings' craving for appreciation, admiration and applause is universal. A word of good always does a world of good to lift your spirits.
- Promoting oneself by highlighting one's own qualities, of course vastly exaggerating, to impress ingratiate himself/herself to the customer to the person s/he has taken a fancy for.
- Foul-mouthing and running down a rival or a competitor, who may have the prey in his/her jaws (or on the verge of acquiring it) or who may have a better product and snatching it away by hook or by crook. It's like hitting one below his/her belt.
- Incentives thrown as baits to lure the prey or customer – it could be in cash or kind like entertaining him/her at fine restaurants or theatres or sexual favours.
Guard yourself against anyone trying to ingratiate himself and curry favour with you by denigrating another. It is impossible for anyone to judge one's character by looking at his/her picture, and if anyone says s/he can, then s/he is a fake.
A couple of months ago some wise guy did hit me below the belt, bad-mouthing me to a common friend, and I at once unfriended him.
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TOI headline today…
RBI gets a world-class economist as governor
And the paper has devoted a whole page on him.
(Me: We have this habit of bragging about ourselves – international, Olympians, etc, and the paper calls itself WORLD'S LARGEST CIRCULATED! The media men or the others in the West hardly do this kind of blowing their own trumpet. If Raghuram is good enough in his job as the central bank governor, his work will speak for itself. Anyways, one would think that the policy guidelines on bigger issues are laid down by the finance ministry after endless haggling with its coalition partners and the opposition and all that he might be able to do is tweaking it here and there. Furthermore, if the country is to get out of its rut and the rupee salvaged, manufacturing and farming sectors should boom, exports vastly increase, FDIs pour in…
Some gem quotes from him… Not that our discerning countrymen already don't know them…
On population dividend: "We keep talking of the population dividend. If we give them all this 0 infrastructure, education, health and financial inclusion – they are part of the population dividend. But if we don't give them all this, they are part of the population curse
On govt. efficiency: "A poor country cannot afford a govt that doesn't work. Much of our government doesn't actually work. This is not a blanket statement, there are lots of parts which work, but we tolerate many parts that don't and we need to subject them more to competition of the people who are ostensibly being served.
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Bobby: Do you know what the bee said to the flower?
Ron: No idea. What?
Bobby: Hello honey!
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Man to wife, both fiddling with their cell phone handsets: "We're paying for unlimited texting. If we talk to each other, it's just throwing money away!"
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The way to do is well to do well!
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From the world of science…
While veggie shopping, pick locally grown vegetables over exotic ones to make sure that you get maximum nutrients and least preservatives.
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If you don't ea fish, include walnuts, broccoli, and spinach in your diet to get your dose of omega 3 fatty acids.
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Raw garlic can halve lung cancer risk…
Eating raw garlic twice a week can nearly halve the risk of developing lung cancer, even lowering the danger for smokers by around 30%, a new study published in the journal Cancer's Prevention Research.
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Sleep loss may cause junk food cravings: study.
A sleepless night can make you crave for junk food.
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Weird world…
US man saws off hands…
A California man is accused of stabbing his father with scissors before using a power saw to cut off his own hands. Jason D, 27, pleaded not guilty Monday to an attempted murder charge for the attack on his father. He appeared in court with his hands reattached but heavily bandaged.
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Brazil teen shoots parents, gran, aunt then attends school.
The 13-year-old, who wanted to become a hitman, spent the day on campus, then went home and shot himself; his father and mother were both cops.
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Panesar fined for peeing on bouncers…
English cricketer Monty Panesar has been fined 153 pounds (Rs.15,000) for urinating on bouncers in drunken state following a brawl at a club in England.
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Unemployed CA jumps to death from Charkop (a Mumbai suburb) bldg..
A 34-year-old unemployed chartered accountant jumped to his death from a six-storey building in Charkop Wednesday.
(Me: So, one can imagine how grave unemployment situation even in the commercial capital of the country is…)
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Mumbai: TB plan gets hi-tech with Rs.42 crore push from Bill Melinda Gates Foundation.
(Me: Not a crowning glory for a country that often flaunts its cutting edge IT tech..)
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Tweet of the day quoted in Mumbai Mirror: "@sidin: LOL Sabha and Hasya Sabha"
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"A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public" – Franklin Knight Lane
(Me: that's purely a personal opinion of a foreign national and applicable to his country)
