Knowledge breads distance,
distance breads knowledge.
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Remember, the saying, love is blind? Well, this can apply to things you love. Often we are very present with things we really care about and loose perspective. We don't see things in the greater perspective or we have a hard time doing it because we are so engaged... People off the streets are in this mode right away and they are pretty unflappable . We tend to respond right away like an exposed nerve. A sort of shock. Initially we feel the full impact because we don't know how to respond and we are so raw.
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Solution: Know your goals and objects so well that you can recite them on the spot and under any condition. Live fire exorcizes. If you do it right, you will love it. Then you will go looking for people to challenge you. When you find people to challenge you, milk them for everything they are worth. Question the living hell out of them. If they are just being A-holes give them the Spud Wed Back court press!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spud_Webb
Spud Webb was a 5ft6in Mosquito from hell with a gift for not only owning 6ft5in NBA basket ball players, but literally pantsing them in the back court... This guy was a freak... He was like a little neighborhood dog who the big dogs dreaded.
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Moral of story: If they open their yaps (talk is cheep) make them pay for it or shut the F up!.... Say to yourself, I'm a serious craftsman/woman ( I mean business) and don't have time for your half A, Cocktail queen off cuff, regurgitated, exotic, name dropping remarks!..... I only deal with real people so roll up your sleeves and lets get down to it or F OFF!!!!....... Many people , especially critics think they are thinking , yet they are only rearranging their biases in front of you... Leonardo Da Vinci said, when people recite from memory, they aren't truly thinking. He dealt with these A hole all the time, people from the academia who basically owned Florence at the time but it time were forgotten. Da Vinci was a big time, present tense thinker.