Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels by Guy Ritchie http://realini.blogspot.com/2018/02/snatch-written-and-directed-by-guy.html - 9 out of 10

 

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels by Guy Ritchie http://realini.blogspot.com/2018/02/snatch-written-and-directed-by-guy.html

9 out of 10

 

 

Guy Ritchie is one of the most talented film makers we could find, although looking at some of his creations you might think that he does have it, but something is not quite right, maybe he does not put in all that effort (at times at least) something we may think, if we read Outliers http://realini.blogspot.com/2013/05/outliers-by-malcolm-gladwell.html one of the classics by Malcolm Gladwell

 

Malcolm Gladwell is maybe the most influential psychologist of the age, however much detractors would attack him, and although we have Daniel Kahneman http://realini.blogspot.com/2015/07/thinking-fast-and-slow-by-daniel.html with his fantastic Thinking Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman is the only psychologist to have won the Nobel Prize, there is no such recognition for psychology, but he won it for economy and from his majestic book, I have learned about ‘regression to the mean’

 

Among other things, of course…now, let us return to Malcolm Gladwell (alert here, not a spoiler, for I will not say how Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels ends, except to insist that it has an exhilarating dénouement, where everything is in limbo, extraordinarily inventive, but other than this, I may not say anything more about the alleged subject) and his masterpiece, Outliers, which is phenomenal

The luminary looks at famous creators, from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Steve Jobs, Beatles, Bill Gates and others, finding that they have spent a lot exercising, practicing, and the formula we get is ten thousand hours of work over ten years is likely to get you to the very top, unless you want to be a basketball star and your height is 156 centimeters, or some other situation where the goals are clearly too grandiose to reach

 

Furthermore, Malcolm Gladwell looks at cultures in general, and in Asia, the basis is the rice fields, which demand attention throughout the year, he mentions a Chinese (if this is not wrong) saying which goes something like ‘if you rise with the sun for 360 days every year, you should be alright’ which is quite relevant

In the Far East, one has to be plugged in for all the year, except for those five days missing above, and this is because rice is really demanding, it requires constant attention, if you put too much water, then the crop is gone

Similarly, if you have too little, no rice for you, and this fundament for the Eastern culture explains how they are used with working hard, ‘if there is a problem, they through more activity at it’ and they have had tremendous success

 

South Korea is a clear example and demonstration, it has had a level of poverty that was similar with Africa, this realm here, and now it is at the forefront, leads in technology, culture and so much more, but they have a culture of immense effort there, students learn well into the night and there is no repose, it seems

The Economist has published this week (September 9) a study about sleep, and if the Nordic countries lead the way – I mean god damn, these people have it all…fuck it, they lead in happiness levels, trust in one another and authorities –actually, that is connected, if you have a land where folks do not trust one another, then your levels of depression rise, and the reported wellbeing is also low

 

At the bottom of these charts you find the Asians, in other words, they sleep much less than the rest of the world – on average, for somebody was telling me otherwise at the sauna, which the equivalent of the medieval market square, this is where we talk, gossip and debate over the latest research or myth…

This fellow was telling me about his Chinese colleagues, who take a…nap, no matter what, sometime around noon, or in the middle of the day; on the other hand, they leave the office at…ten or so in the evening

 

The striking thing is we are talking about…Huawei, which is clearly a big (if not huge) thing here, contrary to what our status as NATO members might suggest – I mean the USA is very clearly against this phone company that is somehow controlled by the Chinese state aka the communists, and frankly, anything Chinese is, well, at least dubious

They have banned their presence (Huawei) in places like New Zealand, and many other realms, so what about here…they have their name on one of the towers that rise in an important business district

 

Just the other day actually, they had had a symposium or something, for which they closed the parking lot at this bizarre Caro hotel, putting on the property some big hall for a shindig, beano or something

What the hell, they do not even go ‘pe burta’ discreet about it, thy just flaunt their big presence here - now that I have exposed this flaw, the conclusion is that they do have a major operation here, and what am I doing talking to you, instead of leading a campaign of boycott of Huawei aka China…long live Taiwan anyway!

 

Now for a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html  

 

From To The Heritage:

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life. As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality. Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’