Before you’re able to understand any hack, including the 1 hack for understanding the world, you must accept that world is a word. In other words, world is no exception to everything you know is a word. Well, how well do you know the world? Your answer depends on when you were born.If you were born before the invention of words — when the age was stone, the Sahara green, and Northern Europe under 1-mile-thick
May 30, 2024
HONEST WARNING: Words don’t (do anything)
HONEST WARNING: Words don’t (do anything) Some readers will be surprised by the honest warning, but for others it’s nothing but a warning they’re used to, like the signal on their smartphone that the battery is low: WORDS DON’T (DO ANYTHING): They don’t matter*, live, mean, or sense. If you believe that words matter, live, mean, or sense, that means you presuppose that words have the organs required. But when you look at words with
What do the schools, internet, and artificial intelligence have in common? The schools, internet, and artificial intelligence have in common that they know in the beginning is the word.Beyond the shadow of a doubt. The preachers and teachers, and the schools at which they do their preaching and teaching, have known that in the beginning is the word since the beginning of words, that is since words were new. Of course, the internet and artificial
The #1 mistake I see many word-users make with you is mistaking it for what it isn’t. Many word-users mistake you for what it describes. But that’s mistaking it for what it’s not. You is what you’re looking at, a word. As is everything else you have a word for. Believe it or not makes no difference. It’s not just about you of course. It applies to all words.For you to describe anything takes a
May 28, 2024
The only way to decide your words well?
The only way to decide your words well? The 2 things that can be said about words with zero risk of being wrong are the following: 1: You suffer if you have an emotional response to everything that is said to you. Because if words control you means everyone else can control you. 2: If you don’t know words well, you don’t know how to decide words well. And if you don’t know how to
May 24, 2024
How to turn SETBACKS into SUCCESSES
How to turn SETBACKS into SUCCESSES I’ve experienced more setbacks — relationships, professional, and financial, to name a few — than I care to remember. Among other things, I got bankrupt in 2011. When I did, my only option on the table was to fly away from the country that was my home at the time, into Switzerland, the country where I was born, that I had left 41 years earlier, in 1980, to work,
May 23, 2024
I’m answering the TOP question I get asked about words: “Have words not been around forever?”
The answer is “No, they haven’t”. The answer to what’s been around forever is in 4 parts. Part 1: Energy. Part 2: Earth. Part 3: Humanity. Part 4: You. Part 1: EnergyFomulised in “E=mc²” (by Albert Einstein), energy has been around forever and day. Practically speaking, nobody knows since when, but many pretend. Part 2: EarthOn our blue planet, words and word-users got invented 13,750 years ago. 13,750 years ago marks the time Before Words
May 23, 2024
Trying to STAND OUT in an interview?
The best way I know of to stand out in an interview is this: Ask questions that will be remembered. It doesn’t matter whether you ask or if you’re being asked — for example in a job interview or on a date — as long as they’re questions that will be remembered by either party. This is not a way or method known to ever have failed yet to stand out in an interview. How