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Carácteristicas de una persona con suerte

by dumpa

Llevaba un buen rato esperando toparme con algún estudio sobre la suerte. Me encontré con un gran libro—The Element por Ken Robinson—donde menciona otro libro—The Luck Factor por Richard Wiseman.

Robinson resume cuatro caracteristicas de la gente suertuda según Wiseman:

  1. Maximizan sus oportunidades.
  2. Son efectivos escuchando a su intuición.
  3. Esperan tener suerte. Anticipan el exito.
  4. Convierten la mala suerte en buena. Una habilidad para re-plantear una situación de fracaso hacia una de exito.

Estoy ya buscando el libro de Wiseman. Espero entender después de esto como funciona la suerte. Por ahora va hacia una actitud, o habilidad de cada uno. Esto sugiere que cualquier persona se puede entrenar para ser suertudo. No quita el hecho que pueda estar codificado genéticamente, o sea algo cultural.

Actualización Oct. 27 12:17:03 pm

links útiles

http://www.theluckfactor.com

http://www.theluckfactor.com/docs/ebooklet.pdf

http://www.richardwiseman.com/resources/The_Luck_Factor.pdf

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My dangerous idea – Legal system reboot

by dumpa

My dangerous idea is that of rebooting the legal system. I see that many law hackers are taking advantage of the law for personal benefit. There are a lot of flaws that can not be easily fixed—maybe not even be fixed at all—because of the complex structure of the system combined with a bullet proof bureaucracy. I believe that the system needs a reboot.A thought experiment I recurrently have is that of deleting the laws of a country or community. From a point onwards there are no laws. If from a certain point there are no laws, chaos would initially emerge. We humans, at first would take advantage of the situation for personal benefit, and soon leaders would emerge to put some order. Complete anarchy is not stable from my point of view. New laws would emerge.My guess—and I would bet for it—is that good people would take over. Good will prevail. New laws would be thought in favor of the people and not of a few. People would have better chances to fight for a law that doesn’t make sense, and to propose how the system should be composed.
The basic blocks of the law system are very old. I’m not saying that it does not work at all. I’m suggesting that we can start from scratch and construct a new updated system that works better with new technologies, markets and crimes that didn’t exist years ago.If this would become true. My suggestion would be to create a collaborative framework for constructing a new legal system. If we have a platform where we can openly discuss and construct our law system, more people would have a chance to speak up and hence the laws would favour the more and not the few.

The only question that remains is how much time do we need to re-do our legal system? Is this time short enough so that we don’t kill each other?

 

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