Adjudicated Parallels

 In all the humdrum around in bustling areas, people fail to notice many obviously overlooked things. One of them is the wrong notion of everything or everyone put in their thinking of elitism. The notion is that if a person is very talented, he need to fit in a greater walk of life or should not be a 'big fish in a small pond'. While this aspect of their thinking seems to be absolutely true, it is really not. I once was interviewed by a writing company and they asked me to send a sample article. They gave some silly reason and ruled out my writing altogether. Though I thought that the Company was good, I later found out that there was a dearth or lacking of ample work in it for all the employees. Interestingly, only an article would be written by an employee over a period of few months. The fact that if I was working there, it would be a struggle to make ends meet for a living made me thankful for the course of my career I chose. I learnt work from an editor and that helped me...

 People heaping praise on others are the most loved. But it is not wise to do it incessantly and there should be a limit to it. Sycophants who do it more and more to gain favour of an authoritarian person are hated by people other than the target himself. This is not the topic here. Imagine a person is down with you and is envious of the person and stature attached to you. The best way to gain favour and some respect from him is to praise him as compared to his forthright enemy. This can settle the score and the man who is against you can respect your stature somewhat. I had the privilege of doing this and gaining some ground in the man's mind. His close confidante from many years became an unrelenting soft enemy. I praised the person's language skills as compared with this enemy. The result was that he became welcoming to me and the creditworthiness of me increased in his sight. The words hit the sweet spot of the target and life became easier. This is not so manipulative of p...