Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten » Fun http://bomega.com Internet Entrepreneur, Public Speaker, Blogger Mon, 05 Dec 2011 10:21:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 As we both know… http://bomega.com/2009/07/15/as-we-both-know/ http://bomega.com/2009/07/15/as-we-both-know/#comments Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:48:15 +0000 Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten http://bomega.com/?p=1216 A friend of mine had an argument with his girlfriend about who should do what in the house. She told him she was doing all the laundry and that maybe he should help out with that. He replied that he always took care of dinner. He bought groceries, prepared the meal, served it and then cleaned the dishes. She replied “Yeah, but that’s not fair. You ‘like’ cooking”.

They were both right, of course.

It is easy to discard anything you are good at as nothing special. You make something and when someone praises you it sounds unfair. You reply “Well, I don’t deserve credit for that. It didn’t take any effort. I just happen to know how to do that”

If you are talented (and everybody is) the things you ‘know’ don’t seem that special. You just know things and they seem to come natural. Why brag about it?

Please do brag about it. Make a list of things you can do. Brag all you want.

You might think “everybody knows how to do that”. Chances are you are wrong. What you know (and the combination of things you know) is special and extraordinary. Often we say “As we both know…”. In most cases, we DON’T both know. Even when it seems logical to you that what you know is common knowledge, it probably isn’t.

The girlfriend in the story above knows her boyfriend very well. One of his talents is that he knows how to prepare a good dinner. Didn’t seem to take much effort. Doing what you like doing never feels like work. Although she was dividing what had to be done by input (the chores that take effort) he was diving by output (the result of all the chores put together).

What are your talents, skills and what unique knowledge do you possess?

Jumping Mother and Father

My parents….

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Multiple Personality Disorder

The original article can be read here, in Dutch.

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Check out the website: MTV Shorts

Photo: Daniel J. Ashes.

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You can imagine how extremely jealous I am of my best friend Daniel J. Ashes who traveled to the US a few weeks ago with a few friends (Joey Elgersma, Achmed Akkabi, Jim Aasgier and Nasrdin Dchar)  to meet with Obama. I begged him to take me with him but that just wasn’t possible. The only thing left for me to do is watch these photos and dream:

All the photos:

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Today I was featured as an ‘expert’ on stock markets in a Dutch TV show. They asked my opinion and I said “Opinions are just like assholes… everybody has one” and they used that in the show. Check it out, in Dutch only…

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