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  Adding options to people's lives can't help but increase the expectations people have about how good those options will be. And what that's going to produce is less satisfaction with results, even when they're good results.  It all looks so great. I can't wait to be disappointed Nobody in the world of marketing knows this. Because if they did, you wouldn't all know what this was about. The truth is more like this.  Everything was better back when everything was worse The reason that everything was better back when everything was worse is that when everything was worse, it was actually possible for people  to have experiences that were a pleasant surprise.  Nowadays, the world we live in -- we affluent, industrialized citizens, with perfection the expectation -- the best you can ever hope for  is that stuff is as good as you expect it to be. You will never be pleasantly surprised, because your expectations, my expectations, have gone through the roof...

  I'm the oldest of three kids in my family. We're the first generation in our family to go to college. I did well in high school. I did things like Mock Trial. I successfully fought and overturned a book ban at my high school. Things like this made me think, "Oh, maybe law - maybe being an advocate would be fun."  I came to Grinnell; I did well here. I went to a law school; I did well there. Passed the Bar, got the type of job I wanted, and I was being an actual lawyer. But to use another metaphor, I kind of realized that morning, having that (full-blawn) panic attack, that I was sort of like Wile E. Coyote chasing the Road Runner. And I was going so fast from goal to goal and step to step. At the time, I'd started doing what I wanted to do, and it was the end goal all the time. I was a mile off the edge of the cliff and just falling all the way straight down.  Now, thankfully, that situation - I used it as a wake-up call. I started things like therapy and...

  When a man named Tycho Brahe got an idea, this idea, that to look at the thing, to record  the details and to hope  that in the information thus obtained may lie a clue to one or another of a possible theoritical interpretation.  This is the key of modern  science and is the beginning  of the true understanding of nature.  So Tycho who was a rich man, and owned,  I believe an island near copenhagen.   Outfitted his island with great  brass circle and special  observing positions   (situation chair that you could  look through a little hole)  and recorded night  after night the position of the planets.  It's only through such hard work that we can find out anything.  When all these data were collected, they came into the hands of Kepler who then tried to analyze what kinds of motions the  planets made around the sun.  And he did this by a method of trial and error. ...

  That's why you see some of the ads they're quite creative. And even if you don't like the ad it's okay even if the ad is annoying if it gets your attention If it creates some stopping power for you to say "what's going on here." and it's able to communicate the key feur and benefits of the product or create  interest so you develop um a need to know more about the product or  service  and ideally make you want the product right  Create a desire for the product even though if we've done  our marketing research properly  we've already identified  the unmet need  so now we're just making people aware  of the product or service we're just making them aware of the solution it shouldn't be a tough sell for us to get people to buy the product since we've already done the research and we know what their problems are but still we want to um instill in them this desire for the product and ultimately get them to take action which means a...

  Third : Escalation of expectations.  This hit me when I went to replace my jeans.  I wear jeans almost all the time.  There was a time when jeans came in one flavor,  and you bought them, and they fit like crap. And  They were incredibly uncomfortable,  and if you wore them long enough and washed them enough times,  they started to fit, feel OK.  I went to replace my jeans after years of wearing these old ones.  I said, " I want a pair of jeans. Here's my size ."  And the shopkeeper said,  "Do you want slim fit, easy fit, relaxed fit?  You want button fly or zipper fly? You want stonewashed or acid-washed?  Do you want them distressed?  Do you want boot cut, tapered?" Blah, blah, blah and on he went.  My jaw dropped.  And after I recovered,  I said,  " I want the kind that used to be the only kind ."  He had no idea what that was.  So I spent an hour trying on all these damn jeans ...

  I also witnessed that these parents, more often than not regardless of how good or bad the situation was that brought them to work with me, were often a zealous advocate for their own children. They had strong, passionate feelings about how their children should be treated, and it was really encouraging to me. But I also sometimes noticed that they didn't always apply that same level, the same high level of standards of respect and treatment, to themselves. And it kind of dawned on me that it's often easier to be a zealous advocate for those around you than for yourself. It's often easier, you know, to speak up for your friends and family, intervene on their  behalf, than maybe face some hard truths about yourself. And I'm not saying that solutions and issues like domestic violence and substance abuse are easy. You can't just flip a switch and fix them. But understanding your self-worth and demanding more of yourself is one of those first steps. And I don't wa...

Sorrow is what I sought in its depths. Sorrow in tears and I found them and I tasted of them. But He who has pitied all men , and who has understood everyone and everything.  He will take pity on us.  He and no one else.  He is the judge.  He will come on that day  and He will ask  Where is thy daughter, who sacrificed  herself for her wicked. A nd consumptive  stepmother,  and for a stranger's  little children.  Where is thy daughter  who pitied her earthly  father  a useless drunkard  and who was not  dismayed by his  beastliness.  A nd He will say  come forth,  I have already  forgiven  thy once.  Thy many sins are  now also  forgiven for thou h ast loved much. A nd He will forgive  my Sonia He will.  I know  that he will forgive  her just a little  while ago,  when I was with her  I felt this in  my heart.  And He w...

  In Russian it's "a piece of cake". What you see that's what you pronounce, very easy. So I encourage you to learn the Russian alphabet as soon as possible. Put everything else away and concentrate on learning the alphabet.  That will help you  tremendously. Okay Now, Let's write down the whole alphabet first, and you repeat after me the pronunciation. I'm not going to name the letter like Bhe, Vhe... I'm gonna pronounce the sound that this letter makes  Б б  (Bheh) В в  (Vweh) Г г  (Gheh) and so on.  Well let's just not waste our time with that, so the first one is  А а  (Aa..) I encourage you to repeat after me.  А а  (Aa..) And by the way I'm not gonna dwell too much on writing and on explaining the order of those lines. That's what is good about the video – you'll be able to go back and watch it as many times as you need to learn the order.  So  А а  (Aa..) Б б  (Bheh) So this is like  English B В ...

  How do you call this stuff in English? (ERASER) in Russian it's called губка (gubka). Or maybe I don't know the proper word for it.  Now let's get to the boring stuff, to the Russian stuff. And of course we start with the alphabet. We start with Russian alphabet, this monster, this nightmare, The Cyrillic alphabet. Everybody seems to be scared by it, but I don't know why. Actually I have good news and bad news about it.  So let's begin with bad news  okay? Bad news – there are 33 letters. 33 letters in the Russian alphabet, in the Cyrillic alphabet. It might be pretty scary for those who deal with Latin alphabet. 24 is much easier  than 33, right?  Some of the letters  will be completely unknown  to you.  The good news is that as soon  as you learn these letters,  actually the sounds  of these letters.  So once you  learn them, you'll be able to  read any Russian word.  Sounds good, right?  It's not l...