Imran Yussuff
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Imran Yussuff
Not addressing insecurity
Addressing insecurity via a temporary measure is unsustainable. Life gets more difficult, and not developing the mental resilience and focus to deal with those feelings. If you do, that will be translatable to others areas of your life
Reinforcing unrealistic beauty standards
Focus and waste of resource on vanity, rather than
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archive.phInstagram face article
This was an optimistic way of looking at the situation. I told Smith that I couldn’t shake the feeling that technology is rewriting our bodies to correspond to its own interests—rearranging our faces according to whatever increases engagement and likes. “Don’t you think it’s scary to imagine people doing this forever?” I asked.
Well, yeah, it’s obviously terrifying,” he said.
In 2011 more than 900,000 plastic surgery operations were carried out in Brazil, a number second only to the United States. New class C customers were a key factor in the increase in procedures, which were up nearly fivefold since 2001.
Richard Lapper • Beef, Bible and bullets: Brazil in the age of Bolsonaro
One way of transforming services like dentistry, surgery, or injections from a need that is not wanted into a want-need would be to market them as an aid to improving appearance and self-confidence.
Dr. David Lewis • The Brain Sell: How the new mind sciences and the persuasion industry are reading our thoughts, influencing our emotions, and stimulating us to shop
Marketing services as needs
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Comments about multi step agents reducing cost
Optimizing for the edge
Winston Churchill hit the nail on the head when he said, “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
"I understand there's a guy inside me who wants to lay in bed, smoke weed all day, and watch cartoons and old movies. My whole life is a series of stratagems to avoid, and outwit, that guy.”
— Anthony Bourdain