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What one thing has your career taught you for certain?















Sean Kernan, Son of Quora











Over and over again, I see people in corner offices who, on paper, are of pretty mediocre intelligence.
If they were pitted against you on an academic test, most of you smart Quorans would best them fairly easily.
And you know what?
It means nothing.
The moment you step out of academia and into the office, nothing you did in school matters anymore.
Your SAT score.
Your board rankings.
Your perfect grades.
They evaporate. Gone. They were the price of entry.
Being smart certainly matters. It helps.
But the longer you spend in the business world, the less you’ll see success manifesting itself as a product of smarts.
You’ll someday realize that it was always just a contest of who wanted it the most.

Which fruits should I stay away from?

Kurt Hadsall, Oilfield Wireline Field Specalist at Baker Hughes (2003-present)
My former career was retail grocer/produce manager. For over fifteen years I enjoyed the very best produce, because I had “pick of the litter” as the saying goes. I still to this day am very picky about produce.
Fruits are mostly seasonal. Apples, pears and citrus Fall/Winter. Berries and grapes Spring, and Soft fruit/melons Summer.
Transportation and processing of fresh food has improved and we are able to import more fruit from South America and beyond.
You still won’t find me eating warehouse apples in the summer or peaches, plums or melons from South America in the winter.
Picked early enough to extend shipment and warehousing time means, lack of flavor and or downright spoiling because ripening never happens.
Hybrids, crossbred and genetically modified strains of fruits and vegetables can be the exception to this in that they taste good, hold up better until eaten and can be grown in regions not native to their natural cousins.
A couple of examples that I enjoy are Fuji apples and Hothouse tomatoes harvested and sold still on the vine.
When shopping inspect, examine, observe, ask for a sample, read the stickers and boxes. Look, taste and smell, the nose knows.
No matter what fruit you reach for make sure to rinse throughly and it will be much better for you than Micky D’s or processed foods.
Hope this helps!

What are some of the greatest things humans have achieved that most people don’t know about?

Andrew Grimm
Ever wondered why the world was basically the Middle East and the tropics for many generations and then some people moved to the colder places like Europe and such?
I have an answer and its one you probably didn’t expect.
Hay.

yes, that dry bundle of grass that most farmers now take for granted is one of the most important reasons why people were able to move into colder climates.
You see, hay is durable dry feed for animals during the winter months (especially horses), and before that, if you moved to the colder areas, you may have had yourself to feed, but you couldn’t run any livestock.
Hay changed all that.
From the period when Hay was first cultivated and used, this enabled people to finally travel to some of the much colder climates and actually last through more than a single winter without preserves and pickles.
Freeman Dyson:
"My suggestion is not original. I don't remember who gave me the idea, but it was probably Lynn White, with Murray Gell-Mann as intermediary. The most important invention of the last two thousand years was hay. In the classical world of Greece and Rome and in all earlier times, there was no hay. Civilization could exist only in warm climates where horses could stay alive through the winter by grazing. Without grass in winter you could not have horses, and without horses you could not have urban civilization. Some time during the so-called dark ages, some unknown genius invented hay, forests were turned into meadows, hay was reaped and stored, and civilization moved north over the Alps. So hay gave birth to Vienna and Paris and London and Berlin, and later to Moscow and New York."
So the next time you visit a major European city and look around at its 500 plus year magnificence .. you can thank the use of Hay on a regular basis for that.

What seemingly strange question will reveal a lot about a person?

Paul Barends, lives in The Netherlands
Well, once during a job interview I was asked a strange question.
This was in the 1980s when unemployment was high. A small company advertised a sales position in a local newspaper. It wasn’t clear what they actually sold and I didn’t have much experience, but it was close to where I lived, so I applied by letter anyway, and to my surprise was invited for an interview.
The strange question must have at least revealed I was paying attention, because my immediate response was, “Why would you ask me such a question?”
“It reveals a lot about a person I’ve learned,” the business owner replied.
At that age I was totally unprepared. I was ready to explain sales strategies.
So I needed a moment. My first thought was that this might be an indirect way to learn about the religious convictions of a person, and that this might be a secret demand.
Still I managed to come up with a coherent answer, but I don’t recall what I actually said.
He had originally asked me, “What do you think the purpose of life is?” and that question definitely caught me off guard.
Eventually I didn’t get the job, which wasn’t a big deal. However I’ve always kept wondering whether the question was asked because of his religious beliefs, or that it was in fact an assessment relevant to sales positions.
Either way, the answer to such a question is always revealing.

Smart people: seriously, why aren't you breeding?







Blake Senftner, Mad computer scientist















Two reasons:
My “smartness” comes with a giant helping of anxiety, which I do not want to pass on. I suspect it’s genetic.
I feel like it is unethical to bring children into today’s world.
Plus, to have kids today, they are not yours , they are “owned” by society. Unless you can live/work at home and raise them with your interpersonal influences more than the influences of our popular and social media, your kids are imprints of society more than they are imprints of you and your values. And the values of our society are immature, short sighted, unrealistic, overall pretty bad…

What are some unspoken rules in the U.K.?




















Graham Short, Micro-artist, Supplier to the Royal Household,















When you park your car in the street close to the football ground and a local urchin asks for a fiver to look after your car… pay him! If you tell him, “There’s no need, I’ve got an Alsation in the boot,” don’t be surprised if you hear him say, as you walk away, “I bet he can’t put out fires.”
When watching the Jeremy Kyle Show you must always say,”Why don’t these people get their teeth fixed.”
When David Walliams comes on the TV, it is compulsory to say, “I can’t stand him, he’s creepy.”
When speaking to a Brummie, if you haven’t got the sheet music you will never understand him.
When the ad comes on TV and comedienne Jenny Eclair asks, “Have you got a bothersome vagina?” Don’t look at your mother, mother-in-law or granny. Keep your eyes fixed on your newspaper and pretend you haven’t heard it.
If you are a young slim woman, you must regularly visit the food store, Iceland. You will feel soooo good when you look around at those who shop there.
When you see a morbidly obese woman in the street wearing a tracksuit, never ask, “Are you on your way to the gym?”