Something to Keep in Mind

Love what you do

‘For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.’ Steve Jobs

Their love for what they do energizes and motivates them. While average employees go  home to get away from work, thought leaders are constantly reading, learning, and working, even when they’re “off the clock.”

Good company

Thought leaders are also known for hiring the best people possible and developing them through courses, programs, and education.

Steve Jobs was this way. He was known for only hiring “A+” employees. He knew that having the top talent created a competitive advantage so he was only interested in working with the best people. He believed that a small group of “A+” employees could accomplish more than a larger team of “B” or “C” employees.

The results at Apple speak for themselves, and many other thought leaders follow this tenet. They choose to surround themselves with the best talent possible because by doing so they gain an advantage and increase the capacity of what they can accomplish.

Dont miss lunch

A lack of commitment can quickly turn into a lack of trust. Consistently being late or not showing up at all creates a bad reputation. Doing business with an untrusted person is slow and messy and often kills relationships altogether. Thought leaders know this and always show up on time, or better yet, ahead of schedule and with a smile.

New growth comes from new thinking

Thought leaders realize that if they approach issues the same way everyone else has for the last X number of years, there’s no opportunity to improve. But if they can find a new way of doing things, there may be an opportunity for break-through growth. The difference between thought leaders and others is that they maintain a mental state that allows them to view every problem differently which eventually lead to new opportunities for growth.

Curiosity makes Clarity

Albert Einstein was an example of a person who was known for his curiosity. In a letter to a friend that was quoted in his biography by Walter Isaacson, Einstein said, “People like you and me never grow old. We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.”

This kind of curiosity continued throughout his life and contributed to much of his breakthrough discoveries. He continued asking questions and learning throughout his life, 

This insatiable curiosity is present with thought leaders. They continue learning and advancing because they absolutely must learn more. Their curiosity never ends.

Narcissism

Narcissism is the pursuit of gratification from vanity or egotistic admiration of one's own attributes. The term originated from the Greek mythology, where the youngNarcissus fell in love with his own image reflected in a pool of water.

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Narcissism is the part of my personality that I am the least proud of, and I certainly don't like to see it highlighted in everybody else I meet.

Ben Affleck

Confidence trick

"Con man" 

A confidence trick (synonyms include confidence scheme, scam and stratagem) is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their confidence, used in the classical sense of trust. Confidence tricks exploit characteristics of the human psyche such as dishonesty, honesty, vanity, compassion, credulity, irresponsibility, naïveté and greed.

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C++

GETTING STARTED 

Do I need to know C to learn C++?
No. C++ is a superset of C; anything you can do in C, you can do in C++. If you already know C, you will
easily adapt to the object-oriented features of C++. If you don't know C, that's OK—there's no real
advantage to learning C before C++, and you will be able to immediately take
Do I need to know math to be a programmer?
If I had a nickel for every time someone asked me this, I’d need a calculator to count my small fortune.
Fortunately, the answer is, emphatically, No! Most of programming is about design and logical
reasoning, not about being able to quickly perform arithmetic, or deeply understanding algebra or
calculus. The overlaps between math and programming are primarily around logical reasoning and
precise thinking. Only if you want to program advanced 3D graphics engines, write programs to perform
statistical analysis or do other specialized numerical programming will you need mathematical skill.
yes , yes , yes lucky me 
Programming
Programming is the act of writing instructions in a way that allows a computer to understand and
execute those instructions. The instructions themselves are called source code. That's what you'll be writing. We'll see some source code for the very first time in a few pages.

a compiler to make the program do stuff. and an editor is what you need next.

The editor will also give you two other nice features, syntax highlighting and auto-indentation. Syntax highlighting just means it adds color coding so that you can easily tell apart different elements of a program. Auto-indentation means that it will help you format your code in a readable way.

Go hard or Go home 

Art

 

Programming like other art forms, allows you to create but in programming, your power is multiplied by the speed and capabilities of the computer. You can create engaging games like World of Warcraft, Bioshock, Gears of War and Mass Effect. You can create detailed and immersive simulations like The Sims. You can write programs that connect people together: web

browsers like Chrome, email editors or chat clients, or websites like Facebook or Amazon.com. You can build apps that delight your users, taking advantage of new devices like iPhones or Android phones. Those things, of course, take time to become skilled enough to create. But even in the beginning you can write interesting software—programs that solve your math homework for you, simple games like Tetris that you can show your friends, tools to automate tedious chores or complex calculations that would otherwise take days or weeks by hand. Once you understand the basics of programming a computer— which this book will teach you—you'll have the ability to pick up the graphics or networking libraries you need to in order to write the kinds of programs that interest you, whether they're games, scientific simulations or something in between.

Psychological manipulation

Psychological manipulation is a type of social influence that aims to change the perception or behavior of others through underhanded, deceptive, or even abusive tactics. By advancing the interests of the manipulator, often at another's expense, such methods could be considered exploitative, abusive, devious, and deceptive. Social influence is not necessarily negative.

Requirements : 

1. concealing aggressive intentions and behaviors.
2. knowing the psychological vulnerabilities of the victim to determine what tactics are likely to be the most effective.
3. having a sufficient level of ruthlessness to have no qualms about causing harm to the victim if necessary.

Vulnerabilities exploited by manipulators : 

• the "disease to please"
• addiction to earning the approval and acceptance of others
• Emotophobia (fear of negative emotion; i.e. a fear of expressing anger, frustration or disapproval)
• lack of assertiveness and ability to say no
• blurry sense of identity (with soft personal boundaries)
• low self-reliance
• external locus of control
• naïveté - victim finds it too hard to accept the idea that some people are cunning, devious and ruthless or is "in denial" if he or she is being victimized.
• over-conscientiousness - victim is too willing to give manipulator the benefit of the doubt and see their side of things in which they blame the victim.
• low self-confidence - victim is self-doubting, lacking in confidence and assertiveness, likely to go on the defensive too easily.
• over-intellectualization - victim tries too hard to understand and believes the manipulator has some understandable reason to be hurtful.
• emotional dependency - victim has a submissive or dependent personality. The more emotionally dependent the victim is, the more vulnerable he or she is to being exploited and manipulated.

the following are also vulnerable to psychopathic manipulators :

• dependent - dependent people need to be loved and are therefore gullible and liable to say yes to something to which they should say no.
• immature - has impaired judgment and believes the exaggerated advertising claims.
• naïve - cannot believe there are dishonest people in the world, taking for granted that if there were they would not be allowed to operate.
• impressionable - overly seduced by charmers. For example, they might vote for the seemingly charming politician who kisses babies.
• trusting - people who are honest often assume that everyone else is honest. They are more likely to commit themselves to people they hardly know without checking credentials, etc., and less likely to question so-called experts.
• lonely - lonely people may accept any offer of human contact. A psychopathic stranger may offer human companionship for a price.
• narcissistic - narcissists are prone to falling for unmerited flattery.
• impulsive - make snap decisions about, for example, what to buy or whom to marry without consulting others.
• altruistic - the opposite of psychopathic: too honest, too fair, too empathetic.
• frugal - cannot say no to a bargain even if they know the reason it is so cheap.
• materialistic - easy prey for loan sharks or get-rich-quick schemes.
• greedy - the greedy and dishonest may fall prey to a psychopath who can easily entice them to act in an immoral way.
• masochistic - lack self-respect and so unconsciously let psychopaths take advantage of them. They think they deserve it out of a sense of guilt.
• the elderly - the elderly can become fatigued and less capable of multi-tasking. When hearing a sales pitch they are less likely to consider that it could be a con. They are prone to giving money to someone with a hard-luck story. See elder abuse.