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  Facts about Entrepreneurship :- An antidote Gratitude might be the way forward. So much of what ails us gets a bit better when we say ‘thank you.’ Even when it’s hard. Especially then. How long is “never”? It changes. It changes as we age, and it changes depending on the situation. A second-grader might think that a boring class is never going to end. A bad cold might feel endless, unless we have the perspective of someone who has experienced a chronic problem. Some things actually deserve “never.” But most of what we’re worried about probably would be better categorized as “eventually.” People problems are complicated problems Engineering problems are difficult, but they have a right answer. People problems, by their nature, are on a spectrum, a distribution of possible forward paths. But they’re complicated. A situation might not fit a person, and vice versa. Add a second person and now you have two people, and two people interacting exponentially increase the number of possibi...

  ENTREPRENURSIP :  A paradox of status and power One can refuse to pay bills, bully employees, steal credit, work the refs and look for shortcuts… or pay bills ahead of time, elevate employees, amplify the credit of others and take the long road. While both are modern signifiers of a certain kind of success, only one is a resilient way forward. Ancient emperors that aspired to power often had their enemies beheaded. The ones with real power gave them clemency. You left out the all caps part If you see a set of rules that don’t make sense, that are overly stern, that seemed designed to be offputting instead of helpful, it’s possible that the poster is leaving part of the memo unsaid: It could be something like: THE LAST CUSTOMER WAS UNFAIR AND UNKIND! And so the list of rules to make sure that this never happens again, even if the next customer isn’t like that at all. Or: WE’RE STILL REELING FROM THE UNEXPECTED THING THAT IS PROBABLY NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN AGAIN, BUT ONE WAY TO...