Evening everyone. It’s a weird June isn’t it? Besides the fact it’s nearly July, it’s been an ambivalent month. Health reforms, the BBC making up stories, economic gloom ad nauseum; it’s not exactly Willy Wonka and ecstacy in good ol’ Blighty.
One of the strangest (yet tragically funny) news story of the week can be found here
It resonated for two reasons. Firstly, as a financier it seemed to me impossible that you could not notice that $8.7bn wasn’t where you wanted it to be. I mean, there’s one thing losing 20p behind the sofa, or a fiver in the washing machine but seriously - $8,700,000,000?
Secondly, it made me feel pretty laissez-faire about the fiver I lost in the wash last week.
The wider ramifications of this became obvious. No no, not the effect this has had on the Iraqi people, international migration patterns and the stability of the Middle East, but what’s missing in everyday life.
Straight men in fashion, cheap housing in Berkshire, honesty in politics, chivalry in football, credibility on The Apprentice...you get the gist.
I ask you to continue your daily grind but whilst doing so, to try and take note of anything suspiciously absent. It is harder, yet more rewarding to notice what is not, rather than what is.
If there is a gap in society, fill it and be fulfilled. If there’s a gap in the market, fill it and profit. See what others can’t and prosper. Listen to The Selecter’s ‘Missing Words’.
As Ghandi said: “Be the change you want to see in the world.”
‘Nuff said.
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