“People buy based on emotion, not logic.”
Great advice for the sales world. And let’s face it, everyone, including you, is selling something.
Don’t do good things that look bad.
Parents told me that when I was young. It made more sense as I became older.
What does that advice mean to you, in practical terms? Like with an example?
Like helping someone commit a crime
Make your bed every day.
An order I received from a friend helping me out of a dark place. Asked why and was told to just do it.
There’s a TED talk on that
The apocryphal story by the military man?
Correct
Correct
I started to do it to keep the dog dirt out of my sheets. It’s the first time I have ever done this in my life. I now feel like an adult.
Read the manual and if something’s broken, give fixing it a shot even if you end up breaking it more.
When you read the manual, you learn things (often including how to fix them without breaking them more). The more things you know how to fix, the more everything starts to look familiar. This is how those people who seem to be ridiculously good at fixing everything learned to be good.
I know two that are about relationships:
“Long distance is the wrong distance”
and
“Crazy bitches fuck like tigers”
