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The Top 10 Largest economies in the World 🌎
1. United States 🇺🇸 - 27,974 GDP (USD Billion)
2. China 🇨🇳 - 18,566 GDP (USD Billion)
3. Germany 🇩🇪 - 4,730 GDP (USD Billion)
4. Japan 🇯🇵 - 4,291 GDP (USD Billion)
5. India 🇮🇳 - 4,112 GDP (USD Billion)
6. United Kingdom 🇬🇧 - 3,592 GDP (USD Billion)
7. France 🇫🇷 - 3,182 GDP (USD Billion)
8. Italy 🇮🇹 - 2,280 GDP (USD Billion)
9. Brazil 🇧🇷 - 2,272 GDP (USD Billion)
10. Canada 🇨🇦 - 2,242 GDP (USD Billion)
source: Forbes 2024
Our fears are our traitors.
They keep us from becoming what we could be if we weren't afraid to try.
Such fears often torment very worthy and educated people. On the one hand, "Impostor Syndrome" prevents us from admiring ourselves and pushes us to keep working on ourselves.
On the other hand...
"Impostor syndrome" is the fear of being exposed, of being found out that you are not competent enough, talented enough, worthy of what you aspire to and dream about. Nearly always this syndrome is experienced by people who have absolutely no basis for it🌗
Sort yourself out, look at yourself from the outside, get rid of the barriers that you yourself have built on the way to your goal and start acting❗️
In 2018, footwear retailer Payless set up a fake luxury shoe store called Palessi. Their aim was to see if people would be willing to pay luxury prices for their discount footwear. It succeeded, with shoppers agreeing to pay upto about $600 for footwear that would typically cost between $19.99 and $39.99.
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In September 2022, Brazil stated that it had banned the sale of iPhones without a power adapter and fined Apple, Inc. 12.275 million reais ($2.38 million). This order was issued a day before the company was set to announce a new model of the iPhone.
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Did You Know? 🌚
In Nepal, there's a unique festival known as Kukur Tihar dedicated to celebrating dogs for their unwavering loyalty and companionship. This festival is part of the larger Tihar celebration.
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If you want to be HAPPY, don't wait for a better time!
Do you know the state of waiting for the best day, week, or period of your life?
Admit it, you've told yourself something like: "I'll finish my quarantine and go to yoga...", "go to English courses", "take a second university degree".
How'd it go? Did you go? Got in?
Lots of people are used to putting their lives on pause, hoping that everything will change and the REAL LIFE will begin.
But in the meantime, that real life passes by, and "waiting for a better day" becomes a constant, joyless way of living it.
Partner Support
All of us have to face different circumstances in life, whether it's health problems or job loss.
It is precisely at these times that your partner needs support and encouragement, even though these events can be a source of tremendous stress for you as well.
You don't need to portray an unfading optimism and hide your worries.
The most important thing is to be there for you and for your partner to feel that together you can overcome these difficulties.
💪🏻 Your confidence and support will not only reduce your partner's worries, but most likely will help him to mobilize all his resources to overcome the problem situation.
How to let go of the past
Don't impose standards on yourself. It's a trap!
There is such a thing as a "standard of expectations. Most people absolutely know that any standard situation must have its standard development. And, accordingly, most traumas and hurt feelings from the past are unfulfilled expectations.
➡️ For example, a woman gets married because she expects her husband to provide for her, her husband earns pennies and does not move to earn more, the woman gets divorced and gets angry at the whole world, thinking all men are mean and lazy.
The divorce took place many years ago, and if it were not for her perpetually angry and depressed state of mind, the young energetic woman would have simply found herself another man from among those who are "grounded" to earn, and does not consider it a feat. However, all of her energy is spent regretting the past and the "best years of her life" that are irrevocably gone.
IT'S HARDER TO BE HAPPY THAN MISERABLE
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Mutual love and happiness is a much more difficult experience than unhappiness and unrequited love.
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Happiness can be accompanied by anxiety, fear of loss, and other complicated feelings, while grief is a clear one-way road. Survive, drink, rethink, and get out.
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And happiness is the more difficult task of life. Or even, let's say, a philosophical category. Being here and now, without the possibility of getting caught up in expectations.
ALARM OBJECTIFICATION
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Statistically, forty percent of people on earth have an elevated background of anxiety for various reasons. They wake up in the morning and are already anxious. They worry about work, about children, about money, about the future... And especially strongly such people are so anxious when they cannot find objective reasons for this very anxiety and set in motion their rich imagination.
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What if it is a chronic disease? What if the radiologist (surgeon, therapist, any other doctor) missed something important on the picture?
For example, like now, in the world crisis, or in the plight of polar bears in the conditions of global warming... A person who has finally identified his anxiety becomes much easier. He knows what is happening, he is in control, he takes action, he is afraid, but he still feels better, because an external object has been found.
Leave your parents alone
Leave them alone with their crap and stop blaming them for your own misery, unless you really want to keep feeling miserable. Stop assuming, even in your dreams, that your parents still owe you something or can keep you from something if you are over 18.
If someone is "holding you back" from something, it's you. This is your fear of growing up, making choices, and taking full responsibility for each of your decisions.
Many people are concerned about how to control their emotions
That's a fundamentally wrong question.
The point is not to control emotions, including so-called "negative" emotions, but to first understand why they actually arise - what in your mindset compels you to perceive one or another phenomenon of reality as negative. That's the main thing. As for trying to control emotions without knowing their roots, it's like chasing your own shadow.
The main task is to get out of the vicious circle: negative emotion — negative attitude — an even stronger negative experience. But to hope that you can do it all at once means to inflict fail, since your attitude and manner of reacting to external events has been formed over the years.
Transformation is not a goal or an outcome. It is a process. It is a way of being.
To change constantly is to reflect the essence of life: its fluidity. To change is to be alive and free.
Face your fears and you will no longer be afraid of life. Learn how to let people go and then you will be loved. Know deeply that everything you do is right, and you will not need anyone's faith anymore - you will succeed.
There is no success and there is no failure as two separate things. There is life - and you are part of it.
You shouldn't care
... if you go your own way and strive for freedom.
This is difficult to achieve, because since childhood you have been taught to conform to someone's ideas about the norm. But it is possible — if you have the guts to go through the breaking of the firmware, distinguish your goals from those imposed and not just go your own way, but continue to go them despite difficulties, kickbacks and pressure from the outside.
"It doesn't matter" — it doesn't mean to turn into a moron who puts on everyone and everything. Do not confuse "anyway" with rudeness, stupidity, frostbite and marginality. No one has canceled and does not cancel diplomacy and the skill to negotiate with other people. "It doesn't matter" means to act according to yourself, your interests and the laws of the universe, even if everyone around you claims that you are mistaken.
A place of power (not speaking of Tibet or Peru)
A place of power can be any place in any city or in the vast wild. For me, in Moscow - it is the Red Square, in St. Petersburg - Senate Square, in Paris - the platform in front of Notre Dame. The other day, when I was in Sochi, I discovered another one — Krasnaya Polyana (Red Field).
In a place of power, it is very simple to enter a state of total awareness. Your reality will become what you intended it to be. This state is the main goal of all practices for working with the Field. The deeper and longer it is, the more likely and faster your reality will transform.
After finishing film school, two students wanted to write and fund their own film. They didn’t have much money, so the pair decided that the cheapest script to film would involve two actors in one room. This idea then led to them creating Saw.
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Sony's PlayStation was never meant to be an actual product. Instead, it was intended to be a CD-ROM console that would support Nintendo games. However, when Nintendo backed out of the deal at the last minute, Sony went ahead and launched what soon became one of the most successful gaming consoles of all time.
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In 2020, chocolate "rained" from the sky in a town in Switzerland. This incident was caused by a ventilation system malfunction at a chocolate factory in Olten. Strong winds then carried the snow-like cocoa powder and spread it around in the immediate vicinity of the factory, covering cars and other things in chocolate.
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Before the 2004 tsunami struck Thailand, a 10-year-old British girl named Tilly Smith warned her parents of the imminent danger, having recognized tsunami warning signs she learned in a geography class. Her alert led to the evacuation of the beach, saving approximately 100 tourists from the disaster.
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Total solar eclipse plunges parts of Mexico into darkness
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How to get the negative out of you quickly
If your thoughts keep returning to an unpleasant event, find something to do and distract yourself.
The most effective way to stop yourself from getting worked up is to exercise.
🆗 Clean your house, go for a jog, go to the gym. Physical activity promotes the production of endorphins, which will dull the negative feelings, and fatigue will distract you from bad events.
ANGER, RESENTMENT, HEALING
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When you realize that your parents were wrong in your childhood, you become angry and resentful. Anger tells you that you disagree. Resentment tells you that you expect a different attitude. And as the first stage of healing, anger and resentment are very important. They show a discrepancy between what you were given and what you needed.
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But if the healing goes on, you notice that even though you are an adult, you continue to behave as if someone is not treating you right. Replay the old pattern yourself.
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Breaking this pattern involves letting go of anger and resentment. The disappearance of anger and resentment does not mean that your parents have stopped misbehaving. It means that you yourself have stopped behaving toward yourself the way your parents once did.
Happiness is leisurely
Rapid pace of city life and lack of time are the main enemies of happiness.
Life speeds up, as if transferring us into the cabin of a fast car, where our emotions and feelings begin to flash like lights behind the window✨
We don't have time to feel anything. Our lives blur and we sink into a strange space of "emotionlessness."
So just take your time, let your feelings slowly mature and your happiness will blossom.
🍷 Couples who drink together have stronger relationships, according to a Michigan State University study.
Scientists analyzed 4,656 couples over 50 and found that in couples where people drink together, the relationship is much stronger as it promotes increased intimacy and better understanding.
When you blame other people for something, you also blame yourself for something.
For example, if you're used to treating "fat people" with contempt, you'll be afraid to be like them. Because then you will find yourself in the position of being judged.
Judgment will eventually turn you into a neurotic. For example, you will go to the gym more motivated by fear and rejection than by creative desires.
Following this approach, true happiness is out of the question.
At the same time, we always judge other people and ourselves, both consciously and unconsciously.
But when you stop doing this, your quality of life and your emotional well-being will improve considerably.
One of the stages of growth involves getting over all your childhood desires in order to let them go and thus stop spending energy on them.
In my case, I got over absolutely all of the childhood desires that were not realized in my childhood. Every single wish my inner baby got.
The last wish I got over was an expensive gaming computer - to run the newest games like RDR2 or Cyberpunk 2077.
Take your time and write down all the things you wanted to have as a kid, and let them go. The sooner you get rid of these desires, which in fact continue to live inside you, the sooner you will redirect the energy to the new desires and make them come true.
If you're apathetic, it's a good thing.
This means that you are much closer to yourself than, for example, some idiot who has taken another business course on successful success.
Only by going through deep apathy, that is the loss of all false meanings, such as "family is the main thing," endlessly saving money, creating a career in a profession you haven't felt like doing for a long time - can you find a deeper meaning and a deeper freedom.
As long as you are attached to money, relationships, family, children, or career, you are doomed to permanent disappointment, anxiety, guilt, and, in the long run, to profound apathy.
How to find out if you love or not?
Very easy: when you love, you love everyone, basically all living things, you love the very life running through you.
You are absolutely not attached to a particular person, you let everyone have complete freedom to live and manifest as they want, because you are free yourself. When you love you don't even think about letting anyone go, since you're not holding on or clinging to anyone at all.
How to trust after cheating?
If you are in a classic monogamous relationship and you have been cheated on, the question "How to trust a person again?" is no longer appropriate. The answer to it is one — no way.
You will no longer be able to trust this person the way you trusted/trusted before. And you have two options: either be in a relationship with him further and just accept your distrust as a given and inevitable, or break up. Well, to live, remaining in a relationship, to suffer and be tormented by the question "How to trust?" — this is not an option. It's just a neurotic mockery of yourself and nothing more.
Passion: expiration date
When people say, "we've been together for 10, 20, 30 years, and the passion is like the first time" - it's a lie and self-deception. The lifespan of any passion in a permanent classic relationship is 3-4 years.
After this period, it may randomly increase and subside for a few more years, but eventually comes to naught. And this is normal.
Therefore, classic relationships based only on passion last a couple of years at most, and then they fall apart if there is no other common ground between people.
Another point: after being together for 3-4 years, people break up and then suddenly get together again, the passion between them may reach its peak again.