CULTURAL QA 02-2024-05 All the below QA arefrom Quora DIGEST to me on 05-02-2024.
Selected quora answers generallyinteresting are included .Still they need not be 100%correct answers. Compiled and posted byR. Gopala Krishnan, 80, on 05-02-2024. Q1 What are the important lessons you learntin life? A1 FlavianMwasi, Entrepreneur | Life Coach | Mentor at Life and Living Updated 4y You learn nothing from life if you think you know everything. My note- What a beautiful quote. Education is not the key. Relevant education is thekey. Money gives you the power to become more selfish thanyou already are. Whatever you give is what comes back to youmultiplied. The universe doesn't know whether it’s good or evil. You can be very rich but not live a rich life. Love and hate are two sides of the same coin. Don’t get into the habit oftossing the coin eachtime people annoy you. My note- What a beautiful quote. If you are aperson given to thinking each time before you make a move, you may probablymake fewer mistakes in life but you will also greatly limit your chances. Developing instinct is more powerful than acquiringany amount of knowledge. Friendship isn't about who you’ve known the longest.It’s about who was there when you needed them most. If you don’t do stupid things while you’re young,you’ll have nothing to brag about when you’re old. My note- What a beautiful quote. We actually fall in love and hate many times, but ourminds are not equipped to record every transaction that takes place in ourlives. We only tend toremember the most impactful event that takes place in the present. Follow and trust your heart and it will lead you tothe one person from whom you will truly find the meaning of life. The best friend is not the person who praises youevery time when you’re right. The best friend is the person who rebukes you whenyou’re wrong. No amount ofmedicine can heal you more than a person who loves, cares, and supports youwhen you’re going through difficult times. The rich and thepoor live in the same neighborhood. The difference is in the way they think. One thinks about the future; theother thinks about the present. The future ofa person is defined by his/her present habits. My note- What a beautiful quote. Don’t marry the kind of person who does notunderstand the meaning of hardship. They’ll divorce you when you’re broke. Don’t define your success by the amount of money youhave. Money tends to grow wings just when you thought you have too much of it. Laugh as much as you can while you can, for a timecomes when you can’t even open your mouth. You never realize how lucky you were, until theperson who loved you most, leaves you for the guy you hated most at school. The best thing to hold onto in life is the person wholoved you even when you were at the bottom. Q2 What aresome of the most mind-blowing facts? A2 AdityaGund, Updated 7y More than 50% of the zippers in the world aremanufactured by one company calledYKK. Rest of them are made by other companies like Prym, Coats and over1000 Chinese manufacturers. Ever wondered what those letters YKK on your zippermean? They stand for the name of the company, Yoshida Kōgyō Kabushiki gaisha. Tadao Yoshidafounded this company in 1934. As of today they have manufacturing facilities in72 countries around the world. My note- I checkedmy hand bags. The zips are from SUN- some other company. Probably cheaper than YKK. However quality is good. Q3 What aresome small things that matter a lot? A3 SidharthSrivatsav, Updated 5y It was a hot summer afternoon in the month of May.Iwas riding on my bike to home. A man who may be in his early 50s asked me for a lift. He wassweating profusely and needed to reach home. As his house was on the way I wasgoing in, I gave him a lift. He explained to me that, his sugar levels are droppingand need to reach home fast. I dropped him off at his home and he thanked me wholeheartedly. I got back home and forgot about it. After a month, asmall hotel was opened nearby. I went there to try it out. I was checking outthe menu andsomeone tapped on my shoulder from behind. He was the same man whom I gave lift earlier. He asked me if I had recognized him. I said no. He explained that I gave himlift a month ago. Then, I recollected him. He asked me, what would Ilike to eat. I was surprised. He giggled and said that, he is the owner of that hoteland as a token of gratitude I can have anything for free. I politely refused it but hewas stubborn in his offer. So, I gave in. He asked the chef to make the best ofthe dish I ordered and was given for free. That day, I realized, the good you do however small, goesfar. Any small help you do to people will for ever beengraved in their minds forever and it comes back to you in the ways you cannever imagine. So, don't stopdoing good and spreading smiles! My note- Now itis 33 degree C in Chennai. It is very difficult to walk even with umbrella. Best – Blood sugarlevel may fall down. It isbest diabetics avoid any travel from 10 AM to 5 PM. Other wise to carry sugarpack/ glucose pack, and small water bottle in bag. Q4 What aresome interesting facts about elephants? A4 AnimalHealth Tips,Jan 20 Elephants kill gratuitously.Yes, the herbivorous elephant. It’s been observed that some youngbull elephants have got into the habit of raping and killing rhinos, buffaloand sometimes even other elephants, for what is clearly just for thehell of it. If you want pictures/videos though, I’ll let you Google them foryourselves. The reason?Poachers. It’s not unknown that elephants are prime targets forpoachers, as their ivorycommands a high price. Because older males have bigger tusks, though,they’ve been the preferred target for this callous bunch ever since the poundsigns rocked up in front of them, and as a result, their numbers out of allelephants have taken the biggest hit. Researchers have observed that the knock-on effect ofthis is that the younger males lack a role model, a sort of father figure, toinstil in them self-control and good behaviour. Without those boundaries set,some go wild and do some crazy and despicable things. This isn’t merespeculation either. Young maleelephants at national parks in parts of Africa exhibiting aggressive behaviour, particularly killing rhinosin ritualised combat, were shown to be less aggressive when bigger, older maleswere reintroduced. So what’s thecause? It’s believed that musth (pronounced “moost”) is thereason. It’s the name given to periods where a male elephant’s testosteronespikes by 40–60×, or even up to 140× in some cases, causing them to become highly aggressive to thepoint that controlling them becomes impossible. The studies have foundthat once the older males were reintroduced, it stopped the younger males fromentering musth in the first place. Of course in thewild, it’s not so simple. Killing the older males has invariably upset the social structureof elephants, and it’s already becoming clear what the results are going to beshould this continue. Q5 What isan incident that changed your life? A5 Sumit, FormerSenior Software Engineer (2017–2020)Updated 5y When we saw tears in my Dad’s eyes :- I stillremember the incident, when my dad came home with tears in his eyes. At thattime we (my elder brother and I) were in class 9, we asked dad, what happened? He said “I want to see youboth as successful people, just focus on your studies.” Later we came to know due to some family issue, myuncle hit my dad. We were not good students at that point of time. Inclass 9, my brother scored 40/100 in Mathematics, while I scored 48/100. Next year in 10th U.P boardexams, my brother scored 88/100 and I got 78/100 in mathematics. We both passedwith first division. After that, wenever looked back. 12 years later - Today I am working as a Senior Software Engineer in aleading Telecom company in Berlin, Germany and my elder brother is working as production manager in Shenzhen, China. Yes, happy ending. :) Edit 1 : Someone asked, how are my parents now &how are we taking care of them? My parents arepretty good & we are taking care of them very well, soon they will bevisiting me.Before moving to Germany, I worked in Malaysia with a leading American MNC.When I had to move to Germany, I called my Mom and Dad to Malaysia, I took themto Singapore and Cambodia too. This was the first time they travelled by plane.:) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/1078363.3301444.1707129554724%40mail.yahoo.com.
