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[Part 1: How to trick employees] If you are a manager, a boss or in whatever position that requires you to lead some people, this is the tip for you: Give RM50 raise (or any other small perks) to every employee, and tell them "This is specially for you only, don't tell the rest".  You now successfully made the whole team love you. And none of them will tell the rest, because everyone believes that he/she is special like what you have assured them.  If you are an employee, team member or in whatever position that requires you to be led by others, this is the tip for you: Be very careful when your leaders tell you that you are the special one, because very often they are telling all of your colleagues the same line.  [Part 2: How to make people dislike you] If you want people to like you, talk only about him: his job, his family, his hobby, his frustrations, his fear etc. Ask everything about him, talk nothing about yourself. If you want people to dislike you, talk only abo

We now take for granted that living to an age of 70 is normal, while living for only 40 years of life is tragic. But that wasn't the default in most parts of human history. Many people died very early in the past. Some died of Addison's disease at 41. Some died of tuberculosis at 40. Some died of tuberculosis-induced heart failure at 34. Some died of meningitis at 24. Some died simply because of having eaten a rotten fruit at 36. Some died of airplane crash at 34. Some died of epilepsy-induced accident at 29. My grandfather died of appendicitis (can you imagine?) at 28. I am not even talking about self-inflicted deaths like that of rock stars who died of drug abuse or depression-induced suicide. I am talking mostly about pure misfortunes, mainly due to some completely random diseases, either genetic or bacterial. We can safely conclude that if most of them were born in the world today, they would have survived way longer. Almost no one dies of tuberculosis