Rakibul Hasan Shawon@shawonetc

There’s no such thing as small or big—given the opportunity, everyone can be a king.

Wherever I stand, my kingdom begins" sounds powerful. But reality is a little different.

A soldier does not become a king overnight.
A businessman does not become influential overnight.
A leader does not gain followers overnight.

Niccolò Machiavelli would probably say:

"A kingdom is not a place; it is influence."

Consider these examples:

🔹 Napoleon Bonaparte was n

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” - Murakami

When Jeff Bezos started Amazon, people laughed at him for years.

Because they were looking at profit.
But Jeff Bezos was looking at the future.

Today, one of the biggest companies in the world stands on those invisible years of hard work.

That’s how reality works.

Sometimes you will work for 5–8 years,
and nobody will even know your name.

But if you keep building s

When your life is so private,Even your parents don’t know who you really are!

The story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin is commonly read as a simple tale of revenge. In the German town of Hamelin, rats had overrun the city, tormenting its people. Then came a piper.

He walked through the streets playing his flute, and the rats, drawn out from every corner and crevice, followed him in a trance. At his direction, they leapt into the river an

Some books don’t just give you knowledge…
they teach you how to see people in a completely different way.

is one of those writers.

He doesn’t talk about “good” or “bad” people.
He shows how power actually works in real life.

From to
his writing can feel uncomfortable at times…
but strangely, it feels true.

Let me give you some examples

You’ve probably seen
someone doi

People share less stories now, and more data.

Instead of telling how we feel,
we show: last seen, online status, typing...

Our emotions have turned into emojis 🙂
Our memories are stored in the cloud,
and our stories?
They get lost in the noise of notifications.

There was a time when people told stories—
about pain, love, loss, and finding their way back.

Now, we jus

There’s a famous English proverb—
👉 “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.”

It means, when life gives you something sour,
can you turn it into something sweet? That’s the real game.

🍏 Steve Jobs was once fired from his own company, Apple.

For many people, that would be the end.
But he didn’t give up—
He started Pixar and NeXT
👉 Later, he returned to Apple a

Human behavior is an incredibly complex thing. Mark Zuckerberg spent around $80 billion trying to understand and reshape it.

He had everything—billions of users, unlimited funding, and some of the best talent in the world.

Yet even after all that, users didn’t adopt the metaverse the way he expected.

That’s why I have massive respect for the companies in the UA

Almost everyone asks this question at some point.
Some ask it out of frustration. Others ask it out of ambition.

But there is a hard truth many people miss:
Most people think about money the wrong way.

Some believe money comes from luck.
Some think it comes from shortcuts.
Others assume money only flows to people who are already rich.

Reality is different.

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