Zengin olmanın daha kısa bir yolu yok mu?
Go to college, get good grades, graduate, get a good job, save 10% of your paycheck, invest in the stock market, preferably in a low cost indexed-fund, max your 401(k), slash your credit cards, and clip coupons . . . then, someday, when you are, oh, 65 years old, you will be rich.
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…zaman içerisinde, melek Mikail’in elindeki mızrak‘la şeytanın gözünü oyarken bitimlediği pek çok resimle karşılaştım. Ve hiçbirinde, meleğin duruşundaki o sakinliği görmekten bıkmadım. Nasıl bu kadar acımasız davranabiliyordu? Sanırım bunun yanıtı yaptığının adil olduğuna inanmasıydı; çünkü o, iyiden yanaydı.
Bu yaz yanınızdan ayırmak istemeyeceğiniz kitapları sizin için bir araya getirdik.
💬 Siz olsanız bu listeden hangisiyle başlardınız?
If, in some cataclysm, all scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next gen-eration of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis, or the atomic fact, or whatever you wish to call it, that all things are made of atoms-little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another. In that one sentence you will see an enormous amount of information about the world, if just a little imagination and thinking are applied. 10
BİRİNCİ KİTABIN SONU
Will, silah deposunda bir haftadır gece gündüz durmaksızın devam eden hazırlığın gürültüsünü de duyuyordu. Redmont Kalesi yaklaşan savaşa hazırlanıyordu.
Ama Will, hayatında ilk kez huzurluydu.
Will duraksadı. Çekinerek, "Şey, efendim," diye söze başladı, "şeyi soracaktım... Orman Muhafızı ne yapar?"
Halt, "Anlamsız sorular sormaz, evladım!" dedi. "Gözleriyle kulaklarını açık tutar ve sürekli bakar, dinler. Sonunda, eğer iki kulağının arasındaki pamuk değilse, bir şeyler öğrenir!"
For example, let's say that you and a business colleague named Maryam both come from a high-context culture like Iran. Imagine that Maryam has traveled to your home for a visit and arrived via a late-evening train at 10 pm. If you ask Maryam whether she would like to eat something before going to bed, when Maryam responds with a polite "No, thank you," your response will be to ask her two more times. Only if she responds "No, thank you" three times will you accept "No" as her real answer.
The explanation lies in shared assumptions that every polite Iranian understands. Both you and Maryam know that a well-mannered person will not accept food the first time it is offered, no matter how hungry she may be. Thus, if you don't ask her a second or third time, Maryam may go to bed suffering from hunger pains, while you feel sorry that she hasn't tasted the chicken salad you'd prepared especially for her.
In a high-context culture like Iran, it's not necessary-indeed, it's often inappropriate to spell out certain messages too ex-plicitly. If Maryam replied to your first offer of food, "Yes, please serve me a big portion of whatever you have, because I am dying of hunger!" this response would be considered inelegant and perhaps quite rude. Fortunately, shared assumptions learned from childhood make such bluntness unnecessary. You and Maryam both know that "No, thank you" likely means, "Please ask me again because I am famished."
