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WHY GETTING FIRED IS NOT A DEATH SENTENCE

If I offered you $100 today, but told you that you could have $10,000 if you pass on the $100, and just wait for two years. That's all you have to do. Simply wait. Many people will take the $100. Because they are impatient, and incapable of thinking beyond this current moment. This test that was notoriously given to toddlers in the Stanford Marshmellow Experiment. Children were given a marshmellow and told they would be given two marshmellows if they waited until the researcher returned without eating the first marshmellow. Only about a third of the children waited for the researcher to return. The majority just ate that one marshmellow and then looked sad when the researcher returned without a second one. " Follow-up studies suggested children who waited were more successful in school (higher SAT scores), possessed better stress management, had lower BMIs, and had better social skills later in life." I know a guy who has been fired from more than half of the jobs he ha...
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"Stars" by Molchat Doma

Shared post from ROVVLES.com:

Music video for "Stars (Zvezdy)" from the 2020 album Monument by Molchat Doma. We want to include a description from a YouTube user simply known as S who left the following statement in the comments section for the video:
"Some background for the foreign fans of Molchat Doma. The hero of the video is a municipal worker from Minsk, Belarus. Government here uses municipal workforce to paint over the protest signs, tags and graffiti, which are spread literally everywhere these times. They usually do this with ugly gray paint, making the walls look dull. Some places have dozens of layers of graffiti & repaints. But for the so-called government "dull and ugly" is much more preferred then "rebellious". People who are caught making those signs get jailed like criminals, some of them get 2-3 years of prison! This is what happens right now here. Back in the video at some moment of time, the hero repaints beautiful cosmic graffiti with an abstract painting, thus, turning his heart to the world of creativity, art, love and freedom. He was witnessed by an old woman, who didn't like it because demonstrating creativity and freedom is banned here and the woman obviously doesn't support the ideas of the protest. She tells that to the officer of the fictional "anti-street art center", which is a parody on the real ministry of housing and communal services.

But it's too late… Freedom is in the air and nothing can stop it!"




Happy New Year! Let's hope that 2021 is better than 2020.

Even if we have to do it ourselves!
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