motivation
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Snake oil
Snake oil is a term used to describe deceptive marketing, health care fraud,
or a scam. Similarly, “snake oil salesman” is a common expression used
to describe someone who sells, promotes, or is a general proponent of
some valueless or fraudulent cure, remedy, or solution. The term comes from the “snake oil” that used to be sold as a cure-all
elixir for many kinds of physiological problems. Many 19th-century
United States and 18th-century European entrepreneurs advertised and
sold mineral oil (often mixed with various active and inactive household herbs, spices, drugs, and compounds, but containing no snake-derived substances whatsoever) as “snake oil liniment”, making claims about its efficacy as a panacea. Patent medicines
that claimed to be a panacea were extremely common from the 18th
century until the 20th, particularly among vendors masking addictive
drugs such as cocaine, amphetamine, alcohol and opium-based concoctions or elixirs, to be sold at medicine shows as medication or products promoting health.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil
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Buddhist Explanation of Karma
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What Does it Mean to be Self-taught?
In the end, I think it’s less important that someone be self-taught or
formally educated. The truth is that curiosity is what matters. The
desire to be self-taught is a good one, because it means that you are
actively thinking and motivated to learn. I still hold people who are
self-taught in high regard, because we often assign genius not to people
who have an extraordinary ability to learn but to those who are
incredibly tenacious in their desire to learn.
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“If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for”
Happy Birthday Tupac