{ Translated experimentally by Artificial Intelligence - please forgive any imperfections and funny mistakes! ;) }
Development, business and success for those, who can think bigger!
The world is an endless buffet of opportunities. The whole art, is to open your mind, see wider, make choices and catch opportunities. To be like a fly in a sea of chocolate - where it does not swim, there prosperity.
Break patterns. Push the boundaries. Don't be a copy - live an original life!
Most people fall into standards, stumble over routine and get bogged down in everyday life. They live and die unhappily, having hung on only to what they found when they came to this Ball. Throughout their so-called lives, they become less and less clear copies of their own, often equally repetitive ancestors. And yet each successive photocopy from photocopy becomes increasingly pale and indistinct....
Few people are aware that original, good and fulfilled Life begins where the pattern, "normality" and repetitiveness end. The world is an infinite buffet of possibilities. The whole art, is to open your mind, to see wider, to make choices that are not always obvious, and to catch the opportunities that the Great Programmer has spread all around you.
Be free and surf the sea of opportunities. Where you like; with whom you respect; when you want.
"Fly in chocolate" is a collection of inspiring, sometimes funny and sometimes - scary parables that really happened. Funnily enough, most of these stories happened in one of the strangest places in the world: a country that is very far (both geographically and mentally) from the Far East, and that the Civilized West (although not too far away) doesn't want to admit either.
So let's call the country a country of the Middle West. And thus a place whose inhabitants are still torn between:
● greed for consumption and illusions of spirituality,
● the excess of things and the scarcity of peace,
● constant "unassassism" and the spurs of "canvassing."
● possession of watches vs. lack of time,
● the incessant pursuit of Friday / vacation / first million and retirement vs. Equilibrium (call it "zen" if you prefer - it's fashionable, after all).
If you notice inspiration from "The Frog's Prayer" and other de Mello books in your reading, that's good. If here and there you feel the claw of Gandhi or the breath of the Dalai Lama, after which you want to leave the world a little better than you found it, that's beautiful too. But keep in mind that everything you read happened not in the rugged mountains of Tibet or in voluptuous India, but in a moderately developed, moderately civilized and constantly contradiction-ridden country aspiring to the so-called first world.
If even one of these parables inspires you to do something good, I'm glad.
An inventory of [some] stories:
It's just life
What crisis?
To earn like a cab driver
...Like a turnip of a dog's tail
Hard work for idiots
Invest in a worm
Who wants a high-five?
Apple's strategy
Recipe for a cake
Multimedia
Free choice
Motivation
Employee our master
Sisyphus
No(w)ark?
Time
Fables - brakes
Oh, I didn't know...
Fire gives energy
How much do you want to earn?
Ordinary master
What does the gingerbread have to do with lumber?
In the land of chocolate
How much do you cost?
Do you have regrets?
You can lose!
To eat or to sow?
Cancer
Retreating to the front?
Calm anxiety
By their fruits you will know them
Volatility
Worth falling for
A man of success
A fly in chocolate
Freak or commoner?
Underground rose
Look for those who have no time
Lose the job!
Richer than the rich
Fomo sapiens
Retirement in me
A lame snake
If to fall, then... from the curb
A rod, not a fish! Or...
Not yet!
A million on the downside, a million on the upside
Don't eat the elephant a piece at a time!
Sawing wings, or "yes, but..."
Paper apartment
Really, really rich!
What kind of animal?
Holiday under a pear tree
Let your imagination off the leash
Are you what you have?
Why do you have and I don't?
It depends
The way of the mosquito
...and dozens of other parables - will you join this adventure?
About the author:
Maciej Dutko PhD - entrepreneur, investor, lecturer at top business schools, auditor of e-sales offers due to his penchant for tracking down sales spoiling pests and "healing" offers, called "Doctor Hous of the Polish Internet".
Author of more than a dozen books (including "Bargain! The Zen of Negotiation", "The Tiger Effect", "Real Estate Seppuku"). Originator and coordinator of the most important book in Polish e-commerce "Bible of e-business", which even at the stage of pre-sales hit the list of bestsellers, later also received a number of awards (including the Economicus I award for the best economic guide of the year in the competition of "Gazeta Prawna" and the Readers' Oscar for the best publication of the year of the Helion Publishing House - in the plebiscite "Bible of e-business" beat several hundred other titles). M. Dutko's books have sold more than 70 thousand copies so far (2022), and more than 20 thousand people have participated in his training courses in 2003-2019.
Lecturer at 6 of the top 20 business universities nationwide (postgraduate and MBA). Creator of original training courses "E-business to the Square" and "Zen of Customer Service". Columnist for Onet.pl (until 2015), "Mensis.pl" and - as a guest - "Online Marketing Magazine". Participant and co-organizer of Polish and international industry conferences, co-author of numerous articles and reports (including "E-commerce Standard").
Owner of Dutkon.pl Group; it includes: www.Evolu.pl (blog and training for e-business), www.Audite.pl (improving sales effectiveness of offers) and www.Korekto.pl (No. 1 editing company in Poland). Promoter of ethics in marketing and business.
Recognized by the WhitePress.pl website as one of the 100 most inspiring people in the Polish interactive industry. Winner of the von Mises Award for promoting the idea of the free market.
Investor. He has been making money from renting since 2003, although he only became more seriously interested in real estate in 2012. He consulted and audited the offers of realtors, smaller developers, but also listed companies such as Marvipol - all helping to improve the effectiveness of e-sales.
Speaker at numerous business events around the world (Poland, UK, Australia, Thailand, Zambia, Sweden, Norway, Germany), including - real estate events (such as Mieszkanicznik Sydney, InvestCamp, Global Investors Club, MBA, Oslo Investors, Polish Professionals in Sydney, Australia Study, Asbiro Sheffield Investors, BiznesCamp, KontestCamp and others). In addition to real estate, he invests in the arts, promising companies, and, with more variable "luck," the stock market.
A big proponent of negotiation intelligence, which he promotes in his book "Bargain!" and at [rare] training sessions in this field.
Read more: www.dutko.pl ● www.facebook.com/maciejdutko ● https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maciej_Dutko
