Adaptability, emotional, intellectual quotients and more life lessons

1. It was about 4:30 in the afternoon. As I walked towards the elevator down the corridor a guy saw me and said casually: Hey, I thought I missed you, blah, blah, blah. Now this guy, yes, I knew him, but I didn’t have an appointment with him or anything. Some greetings like that might have happened to you dozens, hundreds of times this year alone.

Question: What is wrong with this picture ?

Answer: The guy assumed that I was **on his time**. **He**thought. **He** missed me. Here’s the thing, I’m not on that guy’s time. Watch out, people will do this to you, subordinate you to them. Most people won’t notice. Yes, he thought he missed me, but I didn’t.  If I need you, I know how to get a hold of you.

2. Love is what dumb people feel when they’ve had too much dopamine to drink.

3. Life is like Pilates: 10s to the front, 4s to the back. (according to a TV commercial)

4. Romantic relationships bank skulduggery: men are looking for short-term loans, women for long-term loans. Here’s what happens with loans, everybody and their brother know this: While short-term loans may have higher interest rates at first, long-term financing typically end up paying more in interest. That’s because the long-term length allows interest to build up over time. Got it ? Once again, which one costs you more ?

5. In the game of life, you are either prey or predator, bow arrow or target. Either way, you have to move. You’ll switch between the two roles many times, but there are only two roles. Guess who’s luckier, prey or predator ? Idea: draw two columns, on the left-side column write what you’re being a target of, and on the right-side column what is it that you are targeting. It’s important to know on which side, left or right, you are on the different issues in your life.

6. For those that believe in Heaven: heaven is built like a prison. I am not kidding. The prisoner processing is the same. What would my own intake processing look like ?

Saint Peter:   State your name, please.
Max Cantor:  M.C.
St. Peter:       What is your religion ?
Max Cantor:  Heavy lifting.
St. Peter:       What’s that ? Never heard of it. Anyways, your profession ?
Max Cantor:  Obstacles running.
St. Peter:       Ok, I guess. And your education ? Do you hold a university degree ?
Max Cantor:  Yes, I do. I went to the University of Hard Knocks. Masters in Life.
St. Peter:       What ? Can you repeat that ? I’ve never heard of that one school.
Max Cantor:  You’ve heard of Gladiator School, have you not ?
St. Peter:       We haven’t heard of that one in some time. What part of town is that school ?
Max Cantor:   Hell’s Kitchen.
St. Peter:        Is that in Hell ? Then what are doing here ?
Max Cantor:   Doing hard time.
St. Peter:        Are you sure this is where you belong ? Things are supposed to be easy in here.
Max Cantor:   Easy for you, maybe. If it’s not hard, I don’t want any part of it.

7. “That is how you sate desire,
For love or for vengeance,
Without hesitation.” -Ilythia slicing a wounded prisoner through the chest in “Empty Hands”,              Spartacus

8. “The man that is apparently best suited for a place does not always fill it best.” -Real Man

9. The Man who towers above the rest,
Is that Man who laughs at the rags of life,
Unmoved, unhinged, unemotional.

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