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The Kentaro Sono Letter 2024
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2024-W42-1 | Monday | Bonus: ENG
No. 288
From:
Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, Japan
Monday, 10:00 A.M.
October 14, 2024
Dear Friend,
In The Kentaro Sono Letter 2024, in the issue No. 287, the author Kentaro Sono (It's me) writes:
Listen: It’s critically important to thank those who spread good reputations for you. Because when they recommend you to someone, they risk their own reputations too. If you treat Alice rudely, Alice lose trust in Diana. If you get recommendations from someone, you must thank him or her immediately. You don’t have to pay any money, but at least, you can give a quick sincere call for example. That small kindness differentiates you from competitors.
In the previous issue, I showed you the danger of not saying “Thank you” enough to your existing customers who bring you their friends. If your customers risk their own reputations for you, you must thank them explicitly. Remember? Good. Let's move on to the today's topic. The danger of controlling someone with violence.
If you have kids, you must be interested in how to stay your kids away from playing stupid games and make them do homework.
Stupid parents try to control their children by stress, fear and pain: negative emotions.
They yell at, scream at, slap, beat, and kick their children. They throw away or destroy the “unnecessary” personal belongings their children cherish to “punish” them. Or they crush their “bad” friendships or love by sneaky, disgusting, and despicable means only to isolate them. They don’t even apologize. Because these were done in the name of “discipline”, "love", and “your own futures”.
The history tells us tyrannies promise the tragic ends. As long as your children don’t have any means to run away from you, they may pretend to be obey you. But under the false smiles, they accumulate hatred toward you. Some day… when the limit comes, the hatred overflow. And once the limit comes, everything is too late.
They explode!
You try to believe that is temporary hysteria, but it is not. Because what you see is just the tip of the iceberg. The situation is far worse than you want to believe it is. If you don't want die alone, stay away from violence. But it is easier said than done. Because actually...
Violence is fun!
Especially if you are not in danger of getting counterattacks. That’s why stupid parents get addicted to violence so easily. Your children can’t counterattack you because it just escalate your retaliation. Your children can’t report your violence to the school or the police because of the same reasons. And even if the police arrest you, what can they do after that? There is nowhere to go. That's why your children try to put up with every violence silently beyond their limits.
Remember: Never try to control your children by stress, fear and pain. It’s far more dangerous than you think.
In the next issue, I show you How to make other people do what you want them to do without violence!
Today's Pearl of Wisdom #1:
Domestic violence is not FREE!
Sincerely,
Kentaro Sono
Bonus 1:
The Kentaro Sono Selection 2024
~What did you read today?~
No. 288-1
In the book Bully Market: My Story of Money and Misogyny at Goldman Sachs, in the CHAPTER NINE, the author Jamie Fiore Higgins writes:
Part of my job, once we got our hedge funds short, was to keep them short. That meant we always had to borrow the stocks that the hedge funds wanted to short. In return, the hedge funds would pay us a fee, a percentage rate applied to the market value of the trade. The harder the stock was to find, the more expensive the fee. Clients would pay high fees (upwards of 100 percent). Since there wasn’t a published market for short fees, you couldn’t just look it up on an exchange like a stock price. The broker quoted the fee at the time of the initial trade, but they could change day to day.
Do you know what does she mean by the sentence “That meant we always had to borrow the stocks that the hedge funds wanted to short. In return, the hedge funds would pay us a fee, a percentage rate applied to the market value of the trade.”?
Read Where Are the Customers' Yachts?: or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street before start investing.
Bonus 2:
The Kentaro Sono Selection 2024
~What did you read today?~
No. 288-2
In the book The Man's Guide to Women: Scientifically Proven Secrets from the "Love Lab" About What Women Really Want, in the Chapter 4 FIRST IMPRESSIONS, the authors John Gottman & Julie Schwartz Gottman & Doug Abrams & Rachel Carlton Abrams writes:
The next step is obvious: Ask for her phone number or ask her out on a date. And when you do ask, if it’s appropriate, touch her forearm while you do it. Research shows greater compliance to a request if you have “light tactile contact.” So touch her forearm for 1 to 2 seconds while you are asking for a dance, or her number, or a date. It’s another way of indicating your social status and confidence. Remember that it’s a light touch—gentle and brief contact. Don’t hold her arm in a death grip until she complies or come across as overly familiar. Brief. Playful. Confident.
You know what? Rodale Books publishes excellent books about understanding women. This book is not about easy, cheap, quick SEX. You can read this book with your partner.
