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Ex Gang Member interview-Johnny – Soft White Underbelly
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Ex Gang Member interview-Johnny (follow up) – Soft White Underbelly
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10 Minutes of Jimmy O. Yang Being Roasted By His Dad
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Sixteen Strategies of Zhuge Liang
Governing a country
– Be as “unerring as the North Star”
Ties between the ruler and subjects
– Let respect and loyalty become the only set of links between the ruler and his subjects.
Observing and listening
– Be a
leader with a good strategic understanding of the situation at hand.
Keep your mind on the game and your eye on the target.
Acceptance of advice
– Be receptive and kind to other people’s ideas.
Being perceptive
– Be perceptive of all details (large and small) and make a clear distinction between the attribute of right and wrong.
Managing people
– In order to win people over to your side, educate them.
Selection of people
– Seek the worthy and employ the talented.
Performance evaluation
– Promote the praiseworthy and dismiss the average performers and producers.
Military administration
– Play the game effectively and win by sound strategy development.
Rewards and punishments
– While you reward those who deliver a clean, efficient administration, you should punish those who do not.
On emotion
– Do not make decisions via emotion.
Controlling chaos
– Be careful when handling a chaotic situation.
Education and orders
– Rectify oneself first when issuing orders.
Dealing with difficulties
– Act decisively to eliminate the cause of chaos.
Looking ahead
– Be farsighted and cautious when planning.
Observation
– Commit one’s self to strive only for success.
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“They also asked me why I didn’t make my
female figures more beautiful. If I have to choose between making
something look beautiful and making something look realistic, I would
choose the latter. Paintings that depict really beautiful women are
rarely truthful representations of reality, because real people have
flaws. Take, for example, the figures in classical oil paintings…”
— Wei Dong
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The Way of the General
“The
five skills are skill in knowing the disposition and power of enemies,
skill in knowing the ways to advance and withdraw, skill in knowing how
empty or how full countries are, skill in knowing nature’s timing and
human affairs, and skill in knowing the features of terrain.
The four
desires are desire for the extraordinary and unexpected in strategy,
desire for thoroughness in security, desire for calm among the masses,
and desire for unity of hearts and minds.”
— Zhuge Liang
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Managing people
– In order to win people over to your side, educate them.
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What is the purpose of houses? It is to protect us from the wind and cold of winter, the heat and rain of summer, and to keep out robbers and thieves. Once these ends have been secured, that is all. Whatever does not contribute to these ends should be eliminated.
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Being perceptive
– Be perceptive of all details (large and small) and make a clear distinction between the attribute of right and wrong.
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A trap is for fish: when you’ve got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you’ve got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you’ve got the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find someone who’s forgotten words so I can have a word with him?…
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When future generations look back to my time, it will probably be similar to how I now think of the past.
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Cai Guo-Qiang on ‘Brilliant Ideas’
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by Cai Guo-Qiang