No matter how smart you are, if you don’t exchange values, you’ll starve to death. For one thing, being self-sufficient enables survival, but self-sufficiency is only possible if you have your own assets and can borrow from others. However, even with existing assets, one can only survive through minimal labor and effort, which means engaging in productive activities. Thus, having great intelligence and applying that intelligence to productive activities are two different things. Even if you aren’t brilliant, you can survive if you are productive. It’s essential to identify the productive activities in which I excel and those where I need improvement. If I understand that, I must act without looking back. - Joseph’s “just my thoughts”
Abraham, in the Bible, remained silent when God revealed that he should offer his only son, Isaac. However, when he rescued his nephew Lot from the doomed city of Sodom, he bargained with God. What is a “bargain?” In life, it is crucial to know with whom to bargain and when. If we bargain over what we shouldn’t or don’t do what we should do bargain, then our lives can become quite weird. Every day, we seek something to bargain for, repeatedly hoping for favorable outcomes or facing disappointments. - Joseph’s “just my thoughts”