FVS 8: Ten Questions, Opposites Repel, FACEBOOK loses money & more

FVS 8: Ten Questions, Opposites Repel, FACEBOOK loses money & more# FVS 8: Ten Questions, Opposites Repel, FACEBOOK loses money & more

“Experience is an author’s most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the…

FVS 8: Ten Questions, Opposites Repel, FACEBOOK loses money & more

“Experience is an author’s most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.” ― Mark Twain

Hi, this is another edition of “For Value Sake”. A weekly post, it contains a few articles, a book recommendation and a TED talk. These are the most impressionable resources I consumed during the week, and share them so you can reap some value as I did. The only goal is to add value. Cheers :)

10 QUESTIONS, 10 ANSWERS

“Don’t try to make money.”

10 questions, 10 Answers. One minute read. Time well spent!

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OPPOSITES DON’T REALLY ATTRACT

“We are magnetically drawn to someone just like us — in the ways that really count — the ways that eventually can cause us the most difficulty.”

We grew up hearing “opposites attract”, well not really. Research has shown that we are attracted to the people that look like the person we love the most “Ourselves”. We are attracted to the familiar. Familiar ideologies, familiar habits. Well, people are attracted to opposites sometimes romantically research has shown they don’t often marry them. Google for yourself :)

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THE LAND WHERE FACEBOOK LOSES MONEY

“Facebook can afford to operate in low-income markets because it has a firehose of profits pouring in from markets in North America and Western Europe, revenue that it can use to cross-subsidize its operations in Nigeria or Indonesia.”

We grew up hearing, opposites attract well not really. Research has shown that we are attracted to the people that look like the person we love the most “Ourselves”. We are attracted to the familiar, familiar ideologies, familiar habits, Will people are attracted to opposites somethings romantically research has shown they don’t marry them.

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TED TALK OF THE WEEK: THE LITTLE RISK YOU HAVE TO TAKE TO INCREASE YOUR LUCK

“I realized that sharing your failures makes you stronger, not weaker.”

Failure is something we are taught from a young age to avoid. In schools, you need to pass not fail. So we have come to think of failure as a bad thing. But failure is a part of life, we have all failed. We need to change the way we perceive failure in business, not just that we also need to be comfortable talking about our failures our lessons learned and the emotional experience. Let’s fail Mindfully!

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BOOK OF THE WEEK: WILLFUL BLINDNESS: WHY WE IGNORE THE OBVIOUS AT OUR PERIL BY MARGARET HEFFERNAN

Willful blindness is a legal concept which means if there’s information that you could know and you should know but you somehow manage not to know, the law deems that you’re willfully blind. You have chosen not to know. There’s a lot of willful blindness around these days. Willful blindness in relationships, your friends and family can see why that person isn’t good for you but can see it too but you turn a blind eye until the axe falls. There is Will blindness in business as well. It’s everywhere, how do we understand it and prevent ourselves from being in it that’s what this book is about.

Don’t wanna read the book? Here’s Margaret’s TED Talk on it https://www.ted.com/talks/margaret_heffernan_the_dangers_of_willful_blindness

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