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By Chris Barker
Sometimes, even the Mafia needs a little extra assistance. When things get messy, the notorious criminal organization has an utterly ruthless and deranged clean-up crew of paid assassins on standby. Whether they need to violently send out a message, or subtly whack a rival with minimum repercussions, the Mob can turn to any number of cold-blooded career professionals. These contract killers are a law enforcement officer’s nightmare – and case studies for criminal justice experts.
It’s an odd profession, killing for a living. Career prerequisites include ruthlessness, aggression, and an icy sense of emotional detachment. And if the cases that follow are anything to go by, some kind of psychological imbalance probably helps as well. The infamous killers on this list plied their trade with the kind of fervor and dedication that might have earned them a golden handshake had their chosen careers been above board. Read on for the 10 most dangerous mafia hitmen in history.
Abe Reles was a natural born killer. He was a violent and unpredictable man and an early member of the charmingly named Murder, Inc. This was a notorious “enforcement arm” of the American and Jewish Mafia believed to have killed up to 1,000 people during the 1930s and ‘40s.
Reles was renowned for using an ice pick on his victims, which he would ram into their brains through their ears. Even day-to-day he was unstable and would sometimes attack innocent bystanders; he once murdered a parking lot employee for not bringing his vehicle up fast enough.
This notorious hitman was arrested in 1940, but despite being implicated in “dozens” of killings, he was able to wriggle out of the death penalty by ratting on his boss Louis Buchalter and other key members of Murder, Inc.
Informing didn’t work out well for Reles, though: he was found dead on the pavement outside his hotel room on November 12, 1941. The press called him “the canary who could sing, but couldn’t fly.”
“Sammy Bull” Gravano was another Mob rat who evaded justice by squealing on his colleagues. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1945, Gravano worked his way up from small-time theft and street fighting to become the protégé of crime boss Joe Colombo in the late 1960s.
Under his mentor’s guidance, this cold-blooded criminal committed a number of murders, which won him respect and approval. Eventually, issues arose with another Colombo mobster and Gravano was allowed to leave the family to avoid any conflict.
Continuing his Underworld existence, Gravano joined the Gambino crime family. And as well as making this career move, he also achieved significant influence – and became a multi-millionaire – through construction and trucking business interests. Gravano achieved underboss status working for the head of the Gambino family, John “the Teflon Don” Gotti.
Then, after being arrested along with Gotti in December 1990, Gravano turned stool pigeon and sold his boss down the river. Despite Gravano’s involvement with at least 19 killings, in 1994 the state sentenced him to only five years in prison. And because he’d already served four of them, his sentence amounted to just one year’s jail time.
Sam DeStefano worked for Chicago crime syndicate the Chicago Outfit and was one of their most feared and brutal enforcers. Beginning his career as a political fixer and petty criminal, DeStefano became a member of Chicago’s Forty-Two Gang in 1930. And later, in the 1950s, he became one of the city’s first loan sharks.
This gangster would often lend money to vulnerable clients, like drug addicts. When they failed to pay up on time, he would bring them to his soundproofed chamber in the basement of his house and sadistically torture them until they died. He would often kill clients who owed him money simply in order to scare the rest into paying. And according to other criminals, he foamed at the mouth while he was torturing his victims.
DeStefano’s downfall came in 1973, when he and two associates were arrested for a murder committed 10 years earlier. Worried about the media circus surrounding him and the possibility that DeStefano might turn informer, his associates ambushed and shot him before he could be brought to justice.
Frank Abbandando was a ruthless New York career hitman believed to have been responsible for as many as 30 murders. Abbandando killed most of his victims by stabbing them in the chest with an ice pick, although he was sometimes partial to a meat cleaver as well. Rounding off his nice-guy portfolio, “The Dasher” was also an alleged sexual predator and rapist.
Like Abe “Kid Twist” Reles, Abbandando was an early core member of the Murder, Inc. hit squad and took part in one of the gang’s most notorious crimes: the murder of the Shapiro brothers – one of whom was buried alive.
Abbandando was arrested in May 1940. Throughout the trial he was confident that his associates would fix the case in his favor. At one point, he even whispered a threat into the presiding judge’s ear. But to Abbandando’s surprise, aided by the testimony of associate-turned-stool-pigeon Abe Reles, he was sentenced to death by electric chair and executed in February 1942.
Strauss pictured on the right
Harry “Pittsburgh Phil” Strauss was another Murder, Inc. stalwart and, allegedly, the organization’s most violent member – which is saying something. Strauss is thought to have dispatched with at least 30 people during his dark career. In fact, according to some historians, the figure is somewhere between 50 and 100 – possibly more, if other sources are to be believed.
A well-organized and remorseless murderer, “Pittsburgh Phil” often carried a gun and an ice pick in his suitcase, along with a change of clothes and a length of rope. And when carrying out hits, he would sometimes torture his victims by wrapping a rope around their head and neck, so that any movement would cut off their oxygen supply.
Interestingly, despite his nickname, this hitman was a Brooklyn native who had never even visited Pittsburgh. Strauss was arrested 18 times but was never convicted, until the downfall of Murder, Inc. in 1940. During his trial, his attempted insanity plea failed, and he was executed on June 12, 1941 by electrocution.
Thomas Pitera was a hitman for the Bonanno crime family in the 1980s. He was bullied as a child, which may account, at least in part, for his obsession with martial arts and his violent, sadistic behavior. Well known for his fighting skills, Pitera was given the nickname “Tommy Karate.”
Astoundingly, Pitera is believed to have carried out as many as 60 murders during his career with the Mob. Taking pleasure in his work, he often dismembered his victims after killing them and would cautiously bury them in plastic or in suitcases, always careful to inter them deep enough to prevent police dogs from finding them.
With his crew, Pitera frequently robbed and murdered drug dealers and resold their products. He also liked to keep trophies like jewelry, which is a classic trademark of deranged serial killers and not in keeping with Mafia “etiquette.”
Pitera was indicted in 1990 for leading a drug-dealing operation and for his involvement in several murders. The hitman’s attempts to get a reduced sentence have so far been in vain, and currently he is still serving a life sentence at the Federal Correction Complex in Allenwood, Pennsylvania.
Joseph Barboza was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1932. Born to Portuguese immigrants, he was also a skilled chef and was well known for his authentic Portuguese cuisine. He even graduated as a chef and mastered French cooking. But by his mid-twenties, Barboza was heavily involved with the New England Mafia, performing contract killings for the Patriarca crime family.
Barboza earned his nickname “The Animal” in an altercation that sounds like a scene out of Goodfellas. While drinking one night, he was told off by an elderly man who didn’t appreciate his crude behavior. In retaliation, Barboza slapped the old man in the face. Underboss Harry Tameleo shouted at Barboza, saying, “I don’t want you to ever slap that man. I don’t want you to touch anybody with your hands again.” So Barboza bit the man’s ear – and, according to some sources, chewed on his cheek as well.
Barboza was arrested in 1966, but as with many hitmen before (and after) him, “The Animal’s” information was more valuable than his skin. Negotiating his way out of trouble, Barboza was able to escape with a one-year prison sentence by ratting on other members of his organization.
In the end, on February 11, 1976, Barboza was murdered, despite being one of the first criminals to use the witness protection program. He was killed by four shotgun blasts at close range before he even had a chance to draw his gun. Maybe he should have stuck to cooking.
Roy DeMeo was the leader of the infamous DeMeo crew, a gang of contract killers who killed for the Gambino crime family. Between 1973 and 1983, he and his associates murdered between 75 and 200 people, mainly using the “Gemini method,” which DeMeo developed to decrease the messiness of disposing of a body.
The DeMeo crew would generally lure their victims to the Gemini Lounge, where one member (allegedly almost always DeMeo himself) would shoot the victim in the head with a silenced pistol and immediately wrap the wound with a towel to stem the blood flow. After that, another gang member would stab the victim through the heart to reduce the blood flow from the head wound. The body was then hung upside down in the bathroom to drain and was later dismembered on plastic tarpaulins and sent to the Fountain Avenue Dump in Brooklyn.
This method was so successful that most of the crew’s victims were never found. However, in 1982, the FBI became suspicious about the number of people who had disappeared at the Gemini Lounge and launched an investigation. Several of DeMeo’s associates were arrested, and the hitman spent his last few days in a
state of constant panic, convinced that he himself would be assassinated – and he was right: his body was found in the trunk of a car in late January 1983. He was most likely killed by members of his own organization.
Giovanni Brusca is a former Sicilian Mafia member who once claimed to have murdered as many as 200 people. Born in Sicily in 1957, Brusca began working as a driver for the head of the Corleonesi faction of the Mafia when he was 20 years old. He was nicknamed “The Pig” for his unkempt appearance.
One of Brusca’s most gruesome acts was kidnapping the 11-year-old son of a gang-member-turned-informant and torturing the boy for more than two years in an effort to get the fellow mobster to retract his testimony. The boy was later murdered and his remains were disposed of in sulfuric acid.
Brusca’s 1992 murder of anti-Mafia crusader and magistrate Giovanni Falcone, along with Falcone’s wife and several bodyguards, eventually led to “The Pig’s” arrest in May 1996. The Mafia killer managed to secure improved treatment by acting as an informer himself, which caused controversy in Italy, with many of his victims’ relatives reacting with outrage over the government’s cooperation with criminals. Damningly, Brusca’s confessions alleged that ex-prime minister Silvio Berlusconi paid the Mafia to have things “kept in order.”
Richard “The Iceman” Kuklinski is one of the most prolific contract killers ever to have worked for the Mafia. Having taken his first life when was just 13, he claimed to have personally committed as many as 250 murders.
The hulking Kuklinski was born into an abusive household in Jersey City, New Jersey in April 1935. He was violently beaten by his father, who allegedly beat Kuklinski’s brother Florian to death. Kuklinski’s older brother Joseph was also convicted of raping and murdering a 12-year-old girl. And Kuklinski himself was beaten by his mother as well and fantasized about killing his father.
As a kid, Kuklinski sadistically tortured and killed neighborhood animals for fun and took out his anger fighting and killing local bullies as well. Working as a hitman for Mafia crime families in the 1950s, he would stalk bums and kill people who had offended him to practice his skills and master his craft. Kuklinski earned the nickname “The Iceman” because he would sometimes freeze the bodies of his victims in order to mislead the police as to their time of death.
This most cold-blooded of killers was eventually arrested in 1986, based on the testimony of undercover agent Dominick Polifrone. He was sentenced to several consecutive life sentences and died in prison in 2006 before he could give evidence against crime boss Sammy Gravano.
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Dan Osman died November 23, 1998 at the age of 35 after his rope failed while performing a “controlled free-fall” jump from the Leaning Tower rock formation inYosemite National Park. Osman had come back to Yosemite to dismantle the jump tower but apparently decided to make several jumps (over a few days) before doing so. The failure was investigated by the National Park Service with assistance from Chris Harmston, Quality Assurance Manager atBlack Diamond Equipment. Harmston concluded that a change in jump site angle probably caused the ropes to cross and entangle, leading to the rope cutting by melting. Miles Daisher, who was with Osman when he made the jump, stated that the ropes used in his fatal jump had been exposed to inclement weather — including rain and snow — for more than a month before the fatal jump, but that the same ropes were used for several shorter jumps on the previous and same day.
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By Nick Notas
No one likes being sold to.
When I worked in real estate, I cold called people to pitch them on refinancing their mortgage.
Nearly every person who picked up the phone was annoyed. Even when my offer was potentially useful, I struggled to get anyone to hear me out.
I had way more people tell me “Fuck off!” than “Oh yes, I’m so happy you called!”
It’s because people are turned off by “salesmen”. They envision guys with ill-fitting suits trying to convince them to buy something they don’t want.
So where dating is concerned, I tell my clients: “Be the buyer, not the seller.”
This means approaching women with the mindset that YOU are choosing a compatible person for YOU. You should not be acting like a desperate salesman trying to prove that you’re good enough.
Being the “seller” means you value the approval of others over your own opinion of yourself. You worry about their judgment and you work hard to impress them. You’re afraid of losing any opportunity (scarcity) rather than focusing on finding ones that youfind fulfilling (abundance).
This is an unconfident, needy mindset. As I’ve written before, neediness is the biggest turn-off for women.
But implementing the “buyer” mindset means raising your self-esteem. I know that’s not easy to do overnight.
What you need to do is change your behavior and develop new habits that breed a high-value mindset. So I created 4 exercises that will help you cultivate a confident mentality of choice and abundance.
You might believe that finding other people who like you is next to impossible. You expect everyone to think you’re awkward and creepy. This fear prevents you from meeting new people regularly.
When you do socialize, you try to act cool rather than have genuine fun with the conversation. Then you obsess over every opportunity because you don’t know when you’ll get another one.
We need to trick you into being more social by removing the pressure of performing. We’re going to focus on simply being curious.
Objective: Be more social through exposure to different people. Expand your social circle and develop an abundance mentality. See for yourself that many people will like you for you.
Exercise: Head out to a bar, club or social event. The game is to remember a single fact about each person you talk to. That could be their occupation, how they met their friends, or what they do for fun. No other goals.
Approach people and talk for 3-5 minutes at a time. This can be individuals or groups – male or female. Once you’ve learned enough, leave to another person or group.
You can say something like, “It was nice meeting you but I’m going to go grab a drink.” Or “I’m going to mingle for a bit, maybe I’ll see you around later.” Repeat for at least 30-45 minutes.
After that, I want you to return to the people you spoke to earlier. Approach them using the fact you remember about them. For example:
“Hello my favorite accountant!” or “It’s the elementary school besties!” or “So what’s the next stop on your ever-expanding travel list?”
This may seem basic but you’re actually doing something powerful.
By leaving conversations to continue mingling, you’re showing that you’re not desperate. You’re also being seen as the confident, outgoing guy in the room and therefore creating social proof.
When you return to talk to the people you left, they’ll see you as more valuable. They’ll show interest and work to win your approval.
Only then will you see that plenty of people will love your company. Putting your best self forward is enough to attract them.
Too many of you correlate a woman’s appearance with her value. You automatically place hot women (“9’s and 10’s”) as superior human beings. You put them on a pedestal. You’re terrified of being rejected and feel like you have to win these women over.
All this is before you even know who the girl is!
Let me tell you something: hot women are all over the place. Walk down any busy street. Go to a mall, bar, or club. How many attractive women do you see? More than you could ever handle.
Finding people who are beautiful on the inside, however, is much more rare.
You need to get past seeing attractiveness as invaluable and see it for what it is. Feeling attraction is just the initial indicator of whether or not you’re interested in getting to know someone more intimately.
Objective: Stop placing total value on looks and subconsciously seeing yourself as less. Become comfortable talking with attractive women. Get over the fear of losing an attractive prospect — aka scarcity mentality.
Exercise: When’s the last time you turned down or walked away from an attractive woman? Probably never. In fact, you’ve likely done the opposite – and tried everything in your power not to get rejected by them.
For an entire night, you’re going to remove the possibility of being rejected. How so?
You’re going to reject women first.
That means you’re not allowed to ask for a single number or try to meet up again. Tell yourself that before heading out, “I’m going to walk away from hot women all night.”
When you approach a woman, I want you to act disinterested (shorter answers, no compliments, looking past them while they’re talking).
Set a 2-5 minute limit and then walk away from the interaction. “It was nice meeting you but I have to get going. Have a good night.”
I don’t want you to do this to hurt a woman’s feelings. I don’t want you to be rude or insulting. And this isn’t going to be your long-term strategy.
But I do want you to realize that hot women are common. It’s not a big deal to speak to them. If you don’t click with one, there are a dozen more you can immediately talk to. We aren’t running out of them anytime soon.
Now that you’ve gotten used to speaking with attractive women, you need to see them as people, not just conquests. You need to break free of that “must win every hot girl” mentality.
Do you have any attractive female friends? I’m not talking about the girls you hang out with that you secretly desire. I mean true, platonic friends.
There’s a good chance you answered no.
Again, physical beauty does not mean you have to be with that person. There’s this tiny little thing called compatibility.
You need to be okay with women not being attracted to you in that way. Being considered “just a friend” is not a personal attack on you. It doesn’t mean you “lost”. And it doesn’t make you less of a person.
Objective: Remove your results-based mentality. Stop needing to prove yourself to every beautiful woman. Be happy with some connections not being romantic.
Exercise: You must intentionally friend zone every attractive woman you speak to for a night. You don’t have to worry about success because you’re not pursuing anyone romantically. I want you to use the word “friend” explicitly in conversation.
Make statements like, “I knew we were going to be best friends.” Or “Look at us, we’re already friends.”
When you ask for her number, express it under friendly intentions, “You seem like a great friend to have, we should hang out some time.”
If a woman responds to a number request like, “I’m sorry but I have a boyfriend.” you reply with, “That’s okay, I’m just looking to make friends. Nothing more, promise.”
The key to this is that you have to mean it. You have to legitimately be her friend and nothing more. No ulterior motives allowed.
This exercise will not only reinforce gorgeous women as people but it will also provide new, meaningful friendships. And as everyone knows, having attractive female friends comes with some great benefits:
1. Walking into any social setting with beautiful women improves your social proof. Other women will see you as more desirable. Also, girls make amazing wingmen.
2. They will introduce you to their other attractive friends.
Having female friends is always a win.
We’ve worked on being more social. We’ve taken hot women off the pedestal and forced you to see them as everyone else. The final step is internalizing your own value to truly embrace the buyer mentality.
High value people have standards for themselves. They know who they are and what they want. They don’t just chase anyone – even if they’re hot, powerful, or wealthy.
When they meet someone new, they think, “Who is this person? Do I want them in my life? Why or why not?”
If you’re focused on selling yourself and convincing people of your value, you’re not building real connections.
You won’t be listening well. You’ll constantly be in your head trying to say the right thing. You’ll be performing rather than trying to get to know others. It’s an insecure, self-centered mindset.
We need to shift your objective from proving yourself to seeing if someone meets your qualifications.
Objective: Become genuinely interested in discovering who people are. Critically evaluate if they match what you’re looking for. Develop a mindset of choice by screening people and thus recognizing your value.
Exercise: Write down a minimum of 5-10 qualities you find attractive in someone and 5-10 qualities you consider turn-offs. For example, you might write…
Like – Ambition, respect, strong family ties, open-minded, socially liberal, traveler, can have intellectual discussion
Dislike – Cynicism, negativity, dishonesty, lack of career goals, no political or world interests, can only hold thin conversation
Then, I want you to approach women and ask questions that filter for those qualities. Use questions from this article for ideas.
From the start of conversation, I want you to put women on the spot and make them prove themselves to you. Challenge them.
After they answer a question, I want you to follow up with another, and repeat. Even go overboard on the questions.
Within 5-10 minutes, you must honestly decide whether or not you should continue speaking with them based on their answers. If they don’t meet your standards, move on to someone else.
The idea is to break the “I need everyone’s approval” mentality. You should want quality people, not just need anyone.
This also flips the script on women. Most guys they talk to never qualify them or make them work for their attention. By doing so, you immediately stand out as a catch with options. And they’ll be more attracted to you because of it.
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Read this question, come up with an answer and then scroll down to the bottom for the result. This is not a trick question. It is as it reads. No one I know has got it right. Few people do.
A woman, while at the funeral of her own mother, met a guy whom she did not know. She thought this guy was amazing. She believed him to be her dream guy so much that she fell in love with him right there, but never asked for his number and could not find him after the funeral. A few days later she killed her sister.
Question: What is her motive for killing her sister?
[Give this some thought before you answer, see answer below]
Answer:
She was hoping the guy would appear at the funeral again.
If you answered this correctly, you think like a psychopath. This was a test by a famous American Psychologist used to determine if one has the same mentality as a killer. Many arrested serial killers took part in the test and answered the question correctly. If you didn’t answer the question correctly, good for you
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by Henrik Edeberg
If you haven’t been living under a rock for the last 30 years I’m pretty sure you know who Bruce Lee was. Besides being an awesome fighter and iconic figure, Lee also had some very useful things to say about life.
Here are 7 of my favourite fundamentals from Bruce Lee.
1. What are you really thinking about today?
“As you think, so shall you become.”
Perhaps the most basic statement of how we work. Think about what you are thinking today. What do those thoughts say about you? About your life? And how well do they really match your plans for your life and your image of yourself?
It’s easy to forget about this simple statement in everyday life. It’s easy to be quite incongruent with what you think on an ordinary day compared to how you view yourself and your goals. A simple external reminder such as a post-it with this quote can be helpful to keep you and your thoughts on the right track.
2. Simplify.
“It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.”
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”
If you want to improve your life then it’s tempting to want to add more. One problem with this may be that you don’t really have the time or energy to do more though. And so your efforts to improve become short-lived.
Adding more and more just creates more stress and anxiety. Removing clutter and activities, tasks and thoughts that are not so important frees up time and energy for you to do more of what you really want to do. And as the clutter in your outer world decreases the clutter in your inner world also has a tendency to decrease. This has the added benefit of making it easier to actually enjoy whatever you are doing even more while you are doing it.
Adding more thoughts and thinking things over for the 111:th time may create a sense of security. It’s also a good way to procrastinate and to avoid taking that leap you know you should take. And the more you think, the harder it gets to act. Perhaps because you want to keep that comforting sense of security and avoid the risk of wrecking that feeling.
Thinking has its place. It can help you plan a somewhat realistic route to your goal and help you avoid future pitfalls. Overthinking is however just a habit that will help you waste a lot of time. It’s more useful to replace that habit with the habit of just doing it.
3. Learn about yourself in interactions.
“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.”
The one person that is the hardest to get to really know may be yourself. Studying yourself while you are alone may result in some insights. But it’s also likely to produce a lot of made up thought loops and doubts in your mind. A good way to really learn more about yourself is study yourself in interactions with other people. How people react and act in these interaction can over time teach you a lot. And what you think and how you react can perhaps teach you even more.
What you see, feel and hear in other people may be a reflection of you. The things you learn by thinking this way may not always be pleasant, but they can be enlightening. They help you to see yourself and also how you may be fooling yourself. And these powerful insights can be very valuable for your personal growth. So, in interactions with others, try asking yourself: what is reflected?
4. Do not divide.
“Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.”
This is a very useful and powerful thought. It is also one that obviously is hard to live by. Why? I believe it’s because the ego loves to divide and find ways to “add more” to itself. It want’s to feel better than someone else. Or more clever. Or prettier. Or cooler. Or wiser.
How can you overcome this way of thinking and feeling?
To me it seems to boil down to not identifying so much with your thoughts or feelings. That doesn’t mean that you stop thinking or feeling. It just means that you realize – and remember in your everyday life – that the thoughts and emotions are just things flowing through you.
You are not them though.
You are the consciousness observing them.
When you realize and remember this it enables you to control the thoughts and feelings instead of the other way around. It also enables you to not take your thoughts too seriously and actually laugh at them or ignore them when you feel that your ego is acting out. When you are not being so identified these things you become more inclined to include things, thoughts and people instead of excluding them. This creates a lot of inner and outer freedom and stillness. Instead of fear, a need to divide your world and a search for conflicts.
5. Avoid a dependency on validation from others.
“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
“Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.”
The ego wants to add because it thinks it’s not enough. One way of doing that is by craving validation from others. We want to feel smart, pretty, successful and so on. And the validation makes you feel good for a while. But soon you need a new fix.
And the problem with being dependent on validation from other people is that you let other people control how you feel. This creates a rollercoaster of emotion in your life.
To find more emotional stability and to take control of how you feel you need to get your validation from to a more consistent source. Yourself. You can replace the expectations and validation of others by setting your own expectations and by validating yourself.
And so you validate yourself by thinking about how awesome you are. You don’t sell yourself short. You appreciate how far you have come and the positive things you have done. You appreciate your own value in the world. You set goals and you achieve those goals. This builds confidence in yourself and in your abilities. These things will help you to build a habit of inner validation.
Now, showing off. Why do we do that? To get validation from others. However, this need for validation often shines through and that is why a thing like bragging seldom works. Instead of seeing the cool and successful person you are trying to project people just see the insecure and needy person looking for validation. And your bragging falls flat.
6. Be proactive.
“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”
It’s easy to get locked into a reactive mindset. You just follow along with whatever is happening. You do what the people around you do. You react to whatever is going on.
And so you get lost in your circumstances. This way of thinking doesn’t feel too good. You tend to feel powerless and like you are just drifting along.
A more useful and pleasurable way of living is to be proactive. As Bruce says: to create opportunities despite the circumstances around you. This feels better and provides better results. But on the other hand it’s also more difficult. It’s easier to just drift along in the reactive stream of life. And if you want to be proactive then you may have to take the lead quite often. And that can be scary.
Still, living proactively is so much more rewarding and exciting.
7. Be you.
“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”
Just being yourself is a hard thing to do. You may do it sometimes. And other times you may forget or fall back into old thought patterns. Or you may imitate someone else.
And that comes through too. And it may work.
But I believe that being the real you will work better. Because there the genuine you is shining through. Without incongruency, mixed messages or perhaps a sort of phoniness. It’s you to 100%. It’s you with not only your words but you with your voice tonality and body language – which some say is over 90% of communication – on the same wavelength as your words. It’s you coming through on all channels of communication.
So I’m not saying: “yeah man, you should just be yourself because it’s the right thing to do etc.” I’m saying that I think being your authentic self – the one where you do little dividing, the one that needs little validation from others, the one where your ego is not running the show and trying to get something from someone – will give you better results and more satisfaction in your day to day life because you are in alignment with yourself. And because people really like genuine and people really like authenticity.
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