The relatively well-known Red Dot Design Award will notify you if you’ve won, but if you don’t pay the fee, you won’t receive any exposure through public channels (in most cases, only your notification email will serve as proof of your award). You’ll need to pay the fee to gain exposure via other official channels, and this exposure typically lasts only 12 days.
The Profitable Grift: A Business Model Worth Embracing
Time as Currency: Only Those Who Share It Are Worth Your Effort
If time is the only currency, then the people you spend the most time with—whether family or others—are the ones who deserve your greatest investment.
Bad people are far more diligent than good ones
Bad people in this world are far more diligent, hardworking, and ambitious than good ones.
Because they have motivation.
Good people are altruistic and may not have such strong ambitions, while bad people are self-serving, so it's only natural that they work themselves to the ground.
Reframe the Problem: Rethink Conditions, Deconstruct the Proposition and Resources
Risks are inflated by rallies; opportunities are born from declines.
Risk is built up during rallies; opportunities emerge from pullbacks.
Why Students and Workers Are Exhausted: It’s Inflation of Effort
Why are students so exhausted? Because everyone's working too hard—so much so that you can still fall behind even when you're trying your best.
Why are office workers so drained? Because everyone's pushing too hard, like sailing upstream where not advancing means falling back.
Demand exceeds supply.
The earlier it is, the more worth complaining but the less you do
You'll come to realize one truth:
the further back you go, the more there is to complain about—and yet the fewer complaints there are.