What You Should Learn From The Drug Dealers

Oh yeah, they have plenty to teach, if you're really ready to learn. For every intelligent creature out there, every day is a self-development opportunity. So read this before you'll think that no yo could tell you anything you wouldn't know yourself, except maybe how to catch the bug in no time.

1. Don't get high on your own supply.

Marketers shouldn't believe themselves all the stories they're selling. That includes politicians, priests, and all kinds of middlemen and other make-believe con artists.

2. Either play or get played.

Most of the time you can't afford to be idle, as long as you don't want to be a pawn is some other dude's game. The game is out there, and it's not voluntary to get involved.

3. The count must be right.

You can't afford any leakage. Whenever you deal with money, you should count it right. The world is filled with players, and every day you're part of someone else's game. The money is used to count points most of the time.

4. Discipline is essential.

You get sloppy, you get busted. You try to steal from your boss; you get beaten with the baseball bat, or capped. Dope fiends will try to steal from you. Competition might try to ace you. You're surrounded by wolves, and if there's like two people you can trust, you are really lucky. If you really need a good friend, you can always buy a dog or two.

It's exactly the same way at any corporation.

5. The game is the game.

The rules of the game are eternal, primeval and invariable. You don't bet against gravity, you don't piss against the wind.

6. You can't show any kind of weakness.

If you're weak, you will be exploited. In the street, in every line of work, in life in general, you will be tested, for change, petty favors, and weak sides. And some people will use whatever they find vulnerable.

7. You're good; you're taking points on the package.

First you're paid hourly then you're on salary then we’re talking points.

8. Step on that.

All the producers of meat and soft drink and such steps on their products so many times you can’t even be sure there was some product in it.

9. Respect the Sunday Truce.

You need to rest some day with some amount of certainty that no one will try to stab you in the back.