Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

I'm always asked, 'What's the secret to success?' But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

Life is anything but predictable.

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you're not alone.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I've done it.

I've always seen first responders as unsung heroes and very special people because, when everyone else is running away from danger, they run into it.

If you tell me there's something I can't do, I'll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

I knew credibility would come only in time and through earnest performances.

I've learned never to say never.

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<ul><li>One of the most interesting Halloween traditions around the world is practiced in Ireland. In fact, Halloween originated from Samhain or “All Hallowtide”, a pagan Irish festival that marks the end of summer. </li><li>A long-held Halloween custom is the baking and eating of Barmbrack, a dense cake loaded with currants, raisins, and candied citrus. </li><li>It is tradition for bakers at Halloween to mix a ring, small rag, and a coin into a Barmbrack. Whoever gets the ring will marry or find happiness, whoever gets the rag will join the clergy or have an uncertain financial future, and whoever receives the coin wi<warningtag>ll have a prosperous year.</warningtag></li></ul>

Samhain: Ireland

<ul><li>The Hungry Ghost Festival is not strictly a Halloween custom. Rather, it is an old Daoist tradition that guides the spirits that walk the earth. </li><li>On the 15th day of the 7th lunar month (Ghost Month), at dusk, people lay out incense, food, and water in front of photos of deceased family members. The spirits might then bestow blessings or punishments upon their living relatives. </li><li>Many see this tradition as a way of appeasing the hungry ghosts who have been errant since the beginning of Ghost Month. Later that same night, a feast is typically held where families leave an open setting at the table f<warningtag>or a departed ancestor.</warningtag></li></ul>

Teng Chieh: China

<ul><li>The Day of the Dead is a culturally rich tradition akin to Halloween that takes place on November 1 and 2.</li><li> The Day of the Dead is all about celebrating life, joy, and color. Its essence is to demonstrate love and respect for the spirits of departed family members.</li><li>The celebrations include activities like dressing in bright makeup and dazzling costumes, throwing parades, singing, and dancing. </li><li>What marks this holiday as especially unique is the custom of making offerings to loved ones. Families build temporary altars as a tribute to deceased ancestors. The altars are laid with c<warningtag>onfections like sugar skulls and bottles of tequila, as well as marigolds and photographs of the lost. </warningtag></li></ul>

Día de Los Muertos: Mexico

<ul><li>Halloween customs are rooted in ancient traditions like La Festa di Ognissanti, or Hallowmas, in Italy.</li><li> November 1 is All Saints Day, the first day of Hallowmas, which celebrates the Catholic saints. </li><li>On this holiday, Italians will spend time with their families and even exchange gifts.</li><li>November 2 is All Souls Day, a commemoration of deceased loved ones. Families will leave chrysanthemums on loved ones’ graves, attend a requiem mass for the dead, and eat lots of food. </li><li>It is believed that spirits share in the celebrations. Hence, cookies called Fave dei morti, or beans of the dead, are offered to<warningtag> the deceased. </warningtag></li></ul>

La Festa di Ognissanti: Italy

<ul><li>The Festival of the Dead has all the verve of Halloween tradition, but with a completely different cultural backdrop. </li><li>On November 1 and 2, Haitian practitioners of Voodoo, Vodouisants, pay their respects to Baron Samedi, father of the deceased spirits. </li><li>Vodouisants dance in the streets to commune with their dead and walk through graveyards where they ‘feed’ their ancestors with food from their own tables.</li><li> Fet Gede is occasionally described as the Voodoo equivalent of Mardi Gras, Día de Los Muertos, and Halloween because of its explosive celebratory atmosphere, vibrant cultural traditions, and c<warningtag>ommemoration of deceased family.</warningtag></li></ul>

Fet Gede: Haiti

In France, Halloween is often outshone by La Toussaint, All Saints Day, on November 1. The tradition in France is marked by the laying of Chrysanthemums at the graves of relatives.The French reserve little fanfare for Halloween as it is seen as an imported American tradition. All Saints Day, however, is a national public holiday following Halloween. On this day, the French visit special church services and cemeteries to lay flowers on deceased relatives’ graves.

La Toussaint: France

<ul><li>Hong Kong has gradually begun to embrace Halloween, despite its colonialist origins. For the whole American Halloween experience, Halloween Time in Hong Kong Disneyland is the place to go. </li><li>The event includes an interactive performance by Disney Villains, who sing original songs crafted for the performance. </li><li>For Halloween with local flavor, visit Hong Kong’s largest theme park, Ocean Park Hong Kong. This oceanarium and zoological attraction hold Asia’s biggest Halloween celebrations. The night’s roster of events includes haunted houses, street shows with gory costumes, etc.</li></ul>

Hallowmas Eve: Hong Kong

<ul><li>Halloween in Japan has taken on a life of its own since it was first celebrated at Tokyo Disneyland in 2000. The Japanese place little importance on American Halloween traditions like trick-or-treating. </li><li>Where Americans might wear basic costumes from a party store, the Japanese will go all out with quality cosplay (costume play) that ranges from cute to terrifying. </li><li>In Japan, Halloween celebrations burst out onto the streets in manic zombie runs, flash mobs, and street parties. </li></ul>

Halloween: Japan

Halloween in The Netherlands is a small affair, seen as evidence of Americanisation and commercialism rather than as a cultural institution. Despite this, shades of Halloween can be seen in the wild parties dotted around Amsterdam. <ul><li>However, on November 11, the Dutch hold Sint-Maarten, a children’s feast day that resembles American Halloween yet is more widely practiced. On the evening of the 11th, children can be spotted on the streets, carrying lanterns that resemble sugar beet or turnips, reminiscent of the American jack o’lantern. </li><li>As they wander the streets, the children will knock on door<warningtag>s and sing songs to their neighbors in the hope of receiving candies. </warningtag></li></ul>

Sint-Maarten: the Netherlands

<ul><li>Dia das Bruxas, or Day of the Witches, is the equivalent of Halloween in Portugal. The holiday shares many of its traditional roots with Halloween. </li><li>Trick-or-treating is a staple of Dia das Bruxas, but children ask for bread, fruits, or nuts instead of candy.</li><li> Families also visit the graves of deceased relatives on the Day of the Witches. They adorn the graves with flowers and candles to honor their ancestors.</li></ul>

Dia das Bruxas: Portugal

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It's easy to find the beauty that ties together different Halloween traditions around the world. Read on to find out how it's celebrated!

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10 Halloween traditions from around the world

Doesn't matter for how many times life drags you down, never stop like the waves of the ocean

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too

The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul

You can either see yourself as a wave in the ocean or you can see yourself as the ocean

The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can’t

﻿We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came

Here are some inspirational Ocean quotes, messages, images which are going to inspire you throughout your life.  

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<ul><li>A jack-o’-lantern is, as the name might suggest, a lantern—one made out of a root vegetable. </li><li>Their origin comes from an Irish myth about Stingy Jack, who tricked the Devil for his own monetary gain.</li><li> When Jack died, God didn’t allow him into heaven, and the Devil didn’t let him into hell, so Jack was sentenced to roam the earth for eternity. </li><li>In Ireland, people started to carve demonic faces out of turnips to frighten away Jack’s wandering soul. </li><li>When Irish immigrants moved to the U.S., they began carving jack-o’-lanterns from pumpkins, as these were native to the region.</li></ul>

The history of jack-o’-lanterns

The pumpkin aspect of the tradition is uniquely American. When Europeans came to America, they discovered pumpkins, a Native American crop that, besides being tasty, they recognized would make fabulous jack-o’-lanterns.The spooky history behind this family tradition has been lost as years go by. So now carving pumpkins is synonymous with family and fun instead of spooky spirits.

How jack-o’-lanterns have changed throughout history

<ul><li> Halloween is based on the Celtic festival Samhain. It was believed that during Samhain the souls of those who had died that year traveled to the otherworld and that other souls would return to visit their homes.</li><li>In the 8th century CE, the Roman Catholic Church moved All Saints’ Day, a day celebrating the church’s saints, to November 1. This meant that All Hallows’ Eve (or Halloween) fell on October 31. </li><li>Traditions from Samhain remained, such as wearing disguises to hide from the souls wandering around your home. </li><li>The folklore about Stingy Jack was quickly incorporated into Halloween, and we’ve b<warningtag>een carving pumpkins—or turnips—ever since.</warningtag></li></ul>

How jack-o’-lanterns become associated with Halloween

<ul><li>Lighting candles is a near-universal way to beckon the dead in cultures that still call them to return for one night. For instance, you can see this custom in the Mexican Día de Muertos. </li><li>But only the Celtic culture uses imitation skulls called jack-o’-lanterns to welcome some and banish others. </li><li>Japan has a similar tradition: The Japanese light four-sided paper lanterns on small wooden rafts and send them down rivers to guide their beloved spirits back home on a stream of light on their day of the dead, which they call Obon.</li></ul>

Jack-o’-lanterns in other cultures

Why do we carve pumpkins on Halloween? This fun tradition, and jack-o'-lantern history, dates way, way back.

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Why Do We Carve Pumpkins at Halloween?

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

This quote, suggests that even if one is at a low social level at this moment in their life, it’s possible to change that. Some are born great and don’t have to work for it; others work hard and find greatness, while a third group is given the opportunity to be great in a surprising manner.

Thought of The Day - October 11, 2022

You have to fail more to succeed more. Our greatest moments of growth often stem directly from our greatest moments of failure.Don’t fear failure. Learn to fail smart and fast—never fail the same way twice.

The Paradox of Failure

Persuasive people don’t argue—they observe, listen, and ask questions.Argue less, persuade more. Persuasion is an art that requires a paintbrush, not a sledgehammer.

The Paradox of Persuasion

Parkinson's Law says that work expands to fill the time available for its completion.When you establish fixed hours to work, you'll find unproductive ways to fill them. Work like a lion instead—sprint, rest, repeat.

The Paradox of Productivity

You have to put in more effort to make something appear effortless.Effortless, elegant performances are simply the result of a large volume of consistent, effortful practice.Small things become big things. Simple is not simple.

The Paradox of Effort

The more you learn, the more you are exposed to the immense unknown.This should be empowering, not frightening. Embrace your own ignorance—embrace lifelong learning.

The Paradox of Wisdom

Taking more advice can leave you less well-equipped.<ul><li>Most advice sucks. It's well-intentioned, but it's dangerous to use someone else's map of reality to navigate.</li><li>Winners develop filters and selectively implement advice—take the signal, skip the noise.</li></ul>

The Paradox of Advice

More connectedness, less connected.<ul><li>Social media has created more connectedness than ever before—a constant dopamine drip.</li><li>We have more connectedness, but we feel less connected to those around us.</li><li>Schedule time to disconnect, and feel the connection.</li></ul>

The Paradox of Social Media

“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” — EpictetusIf you want your words and ideas to be heard, start by talking less and listening more. You’ll find more power in your words.

The Paradox of Words

What allows a Formula 1 driver to fly around the track It's not the engine, the tires, or the suspension. It's the brakes. Strong, reliable brakes allow you to go fast.Build brakes into your life that allow you to accelerate and hit turns without fear.

The Paradox of Speed

Success doesn’t come from taking on every opportunity. It comes from focusing energy on the opportunities that matter—the 10x opportunities.Time and energy are finite. Say yes to what matters & no to everything else.

The Paradox of Opportunity

You have to lose money in order to make money. Every successful investor & builder has stories of the invaluable lessons learned from a terrible loss in their career.Sometimes you have to pay to learn. Put skin in the game.

The Paradox of Money

The thing we fear the most is often the thing we most need to do.<ul><li>Fears—when avoided—become limiters on our growth and progress.</li><li>Make a habit of getting closer to your fears. Treat them as magnets for your energy. You'll find growth on the other side.</li></ul>

The Paradox of Fear

We assume that more choice is a good thing, but research has shown that more options lead to less happiness with whatever option is selected.In a world of abundance, what we truly crave is scarcity.

The Paradox of Choice

Sometimes you have to stop looking in order to find what you're looking for.Stop looking—what you’re looking for may just find you. This applies to love, business, happiness, & life.

The Paradox of Pursuit

Growth takes a much longer time coming than you think but then happens much faster than you ever would have thought. Growth happens gradually, then suddenly.The best things in life come from allowing compounding to work its magic. Let it work for you.

The Paradox of Growth

<ul><li>The more you can't trust others, the less you can be trusted.</li><li>Challenges with trusting others can often stem from our own distrust of ourselves.</li><li>We reflect outward when we need to reflect inward.</li><li>Build trust in yourself to learn to trust others.</li></ul>

The Paradox of Trust

Intelligent people are more likely to fall victim to stupidity by convincing themselves they are smarter than the system.They create complexity vs. doing the boring, easy thing that works.

The Paradox of Intelligence

The more available something is, the less we want it.Ever want something so badly, only to lose interest once it is right in front of you? You're not alone--our desire for what we can't have is strong.This applies to love, business, happiness, & life.

The Paradox of Availability

The more you brag, the less people think of you.<ul><li>Successful people rarely feel the need to brag about their success.</li><li>If someone brags about their wealth or success, the reality is likely a small fraction of what they claim.</li><li>Brag less, impress more.</li></ul>

The Paradox of Bragging

<ul><li>You must know your death to truly live your life.</li><li>Memento Mori is a Stoic reminder of the certainty and inescapability of death.</li><li>It's not intended to be morbid--but to clarify, illuminate, and inspire.</li><li>By accepting our time as finite, we are able to live.</li></ul>

The Paradox of Death

The most creative, captivating ideas stem directly from periods of intense boredom.You’re bored, your mind wanders, your thoughts mingle - creative insight strikes. Boredom sparks creativity.

The Paradox of Boredom

<ul><li>The more news you consume, the less well-informed you are.</li><li>More data leads to a higher noise-to-signal ratio, so you end up knowing less about what is actually going on.</li><li>Want to know more about the world? Consume less news.</li></ul>

The Paradox of News

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

I think it’s better to feel good than to look good.

If you’re funny, if there’s something that makes you laugh, then every day’s going to be okay.

Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.

The actual work requires the same discipline and passion as any job you love doing, be it as a very good pipe fitter or a highly creative artist.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It’s not a miracle; we just decided to go.

I try to do what I call the three E’s — educate, entertain, and enlighten.

There’s a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

Some people go to bed at night thinking, ‘That was a good day.’ I am one of those who worries and asks, ‘How did I screw up today?’

I want to have a good time myself. I don’t want to dread going to work no matter what the gig is.

It’s always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It’s hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

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Economic inequality is a symptom of processes=some good, some bad- that drive the global economy. It's the residue of a post-industrialized age.

On Economic inequality

"Inequality is not the same thing as unfairness; and, to my mind, it is the latter that has incited so much political turmoil in the rich world today" says Deaton

Inequality or unfairness

<ul><li>Health financing</li><li>Mergers of large companies</li><li>Sluggish federal minimum wage</li><li>Diminishing worker power</li><li>The rise of temps</li><li>The growth of the stock market</li><li>Corporate wins in politics</li></ul>

What's unfair

The rising unfairness is not a consequence of seemingly unstoppable forces like globalization and technology, but of a dysfunctional economy.

A dysfunctional economy

Are we confusing unfairness with inequality.

Inequality is often misconceived as the cause of certain social processes.

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A Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Thinks We’re asking All the Wrong Questions About Inequality

“Once, Picasso was asked what his paintings meant. He said, “Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don’t. But you listen to them anyway.” So, sometimes with art, it is important just to look.”

“The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing because it is demanding all of you.”

“Because in the end you are really alone, whatever you do.”

“What you’re doing is not important. What is really important is the state of mind from which you do it. Performance”

“It is incredible how fear is built into you, by your parents and others surrounding you. You’re so innocent in the beginning; you don’t know.”

“If you’re a woman, it’s almost impossible to establish a relationship. You’re too much for everybody. It’s too much. The woman always has to play this role of being fragile and dependent. And if you’re not, they’are fascinated by you, but only for a little while. And then they want to change you and crush you. And then they leave. So, lots of lonely hotel rooms, my dear.”

“If you experiment, you have to fail. By definition, experimenting means going to territory where you’ve never been, where failure is very possible. How can you know you’re going to succeed? Having the courage to face the unknown is so important.

“To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings by changing your breathing.”

“People have so much pain inside them that they’re not even aware of.”

“When I was young it was impossible for me to talk to people. Now I can stand in front of three thousand people without any notes, any preconception of what I’m going to say, even without visual material, and I can look at everyone in the audience and talk for two hours easily. What happened? Art happened.”

“Some couples buy pots and pans when they move in together. Ulay and I began planning how to make art together.”

“The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.”

“Human beings are afraid of very simple things: we fear suffering, we fear mortality. What I was doing in Rhythm 0—as in all my other performances—was staging these fears for the audience: using their energy to push my body as far as possible. In the process, I liberated myself from my fears. And as this happened, I became a mirror for the audience—if I could do it, they could do it, too.”

“Sometimes people are ashamed to talk about these things, but I know so many people who would never throw away their old shitty T-shirts or pullovers that are falling apart because of the comfort they get from those clothes. Everybody is vulnerable.”

“Then I woke up and the reality of the dream was stronger than the reality of the day.”

“... you can tell the most terrible truths if you first open the human heart with humor.”

“I realized that this is the theme I return to constantly - I'm always trying to prove to everyone that I can go it alone, that I can survive, that I don't need anybody.”

“Travelling makes a person young because he doesn't get time to get old.”

“I had experienced absolute freedom—I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that pain didn’t matter, that nothing mattered at all—and it intoxicated me.” In 2010, more than 750,000 people stood in line at Marina Abramović’s MoMA retrospective for the chance to sit across from her and communicate with her nonverbally in an unprecedented durational performance that lasted more than 700 hours. This celebration of nearly fifty years of groundbreaking performance art demonstrated once again that Marina Abramović is truly a force of nature. The child of Communist war-hero parents under Tito’s regime in postwar Yugoslavia, she was raised with a relentless work ethic. Even as she was beginning to build an international artistic career, Marina lived at home under her mother’s abusive control, strictly obeying a 10 p.m. curfew. But nothing could quell her insatiable curiosity, her desire to connect with people, or her distinctly Balkan sense of humor—all of which informs her art and her life. The beating heart of Walk Through Walls is an operatic love story—a twelve-year collaboration with fellow performance artist Ulay, much of which was spent penniless in a van traveling across Europe—a relationship that began to unravel and came to a dramatic end atop the Great Wall of China. Marina’s story, by turns moving, epic, and dryly funny, informs an incomparable artistic career that involves pushing her body past the limits of fear, pain, exhaustion, and danger in an uncompromising quest for emotional and spiritual transformation. A remarkable work of performance in its own right, Walk Through Walls is a vivid and powerful rendering of the unparalleled life of an extraordinary artist.

“I had experienced absolute freedom—I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that pain didn’t matter, that nothing mattered at all—and it intoxicated me.” In 2010, more than 750,000 people stood in line at Marina Abramović’s MoMA retrospective for the chance to sit across from her and communicate with her nonverbally in an unprecedented durational performance that lasted more than 700 hours. This celebration of nearly fifty years of groundbreaking performance art demonstrated once again that Marina Abramović is truly a force of nature. The child of Communist war-hero parents under Tito’s regime in postwar Yugoslavia, she was raised with a relentless work ethic. Even as she was beginning to build an international artistic career, Marina lived at home under her mother’s abusive control, strictly obeying a 10 p.m. curfew. But nothing could quell her insatiable curiosity, her desire to connect with people, or her distinctly Balkan sense of humor—all of which informs her art and her life. The beating heart of Walk Through Walls is an operatic love story—a twelve-year collaboration with fellow performance artist Ulay, much of which was spent penniless in a van traveling across Europe—a relationship that began to unravel and came to a dramatic end atop the Great Wall of China. Marina’s story, by turns moving, epic, and dryly funny, informs an incomparable artistic career that involves pushing her body past the limits of fear, pain, exhaustion, and danger in an uncompromising quest for emotional and spiritual transformation. A remarkable work of performance in its own right, Walk Through Walls is a vivid and powerful rendering of the unparalleled life of an extraordinary artist.

Marina Abramovic

Walk Through Walls

Corporations support ethical trade and green investing. Thought leaders host panels on worldwide justice. Philanthropists flaunt their kindness in “giving back.” Could this whole discussion of making the world turn into a better place be a sham?The influential language of transforming the world is a scam to maintain the status quo. The means that the ideologies they support allow them to maintain their power and the actual denial of that power lets them to remain in charge.

Business elites have redefined social progress to fit their own personal interests

The win-win maxim of the elites enables them to look like they’re improving the world while they are essentially benefitting from inequality.If you occur to be an extremely effective person, you might be accustomed to reasoning in terms of win-win. It’s the easy principle that in all circumstances, there’s a result that’s valuable for every side. The idea became popular from the famous book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Win-win might be an excellent maxim for personal effectiveness; however, when elites use it to the bigger world, it gets more difficult.

The win-win maxim of the elites

What do you think the future holds? A lot of prosperous business founders assert that we’re moving to a future where everybody will be an entrepreneur, where technology will indefinitely extend our lives, and where online videos will substitute text communication. These may seem like possible predictions of things to happen.Presenting a specific future scenario as unavoidable is only one of the means that business elites use to act as if they do not have power. Also, they like to act as rebels against the establishment. However, it only conceals the actual power they possess and the manner the<warningtag>y use it to take advantage of those that are truly powerless.</warningtag>

The powerful deny their power

Nowadays, the majority of us obtain our information from famous online sources in bite-size pieces. All thanks to digital media, different types of complicated ideas are now more extensively accessible than ever before.That signifies that it is very easy than ever before to make oneself heard. The issue is, it’s usually not complicated, critical ideas that are conveyed. Instead, there has been a current spread of glib, reassuring messages asserting that things are okay just the way as they are. Previously, we had public intellects asking difficult questions about the manner society functions; <warningtag>now there are the thought leaders.</warningtag>

Elites depend on thought leaders to maintain their power

Consider the challenge of worldwide poverty. Businesses like to promote business answers. For instance, TechnoServe asserts to create wealth by connecting people to markets and information.However, by doing that, they pass over the real roots of poverty, such as unfair labor circumstances and low wages. Concentrating on those would need businesses to examine how they maximize their own profits at the expense of workers. Who wants to do that?

When a business approaches problem-solving dominate, social issues are disregarded

“There is no denying that today’s elite may be among the more socially concerned elites in history. But it is also, by the cold logic of numbers, among the more predatory in history.”

“Profitable companies built in questionable ways and employing reckless means engage in corporate social responsibility, and some rich people make a splash by “giving back”—regardless of the fact that they may have caused serious societal problems as they built their fortunes.”

“How can there be anything wrong with trying to do good? The answer may be: when the good is an accomplice to even greater, if more invisible, harm.”

Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can--except ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it. They rebrand themselves as saviors of the poor; they lavishly reward "thought leaders" who redefine "change" in ways that preserve the status quo; and they constantly seek to do more good, but never less harm

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve. An essential read for understanding some of the egregious abuses of power that dominate today’s news. "Impassioned.... Entertaining reading.” —The Washington Post Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can—except ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it. They rebrand themselves as saviors of the poor; they lavishly reward “thought leaders” who redefine “change” in ways that preserve the status quo; and they constantly seek to do more good, but never less harm.      Giridharadas asks hard questions: Why, for example, should our gravest problems be solved by the unelected upper crust instead of the public institutions it erodes by lobbying and dodging taxes? His groundbreaking investigation has already forced a great, sorely needed reckoning among the world’s wealthiest and those they hover above, and it points toward an answer: Rather than rely on scraps from the winners, we must take on the grueling democratic work of building more robust, egalitarian institutions and truly changing the world—a call to action for elites and everyday citizens alike.

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