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Maturity, Exposure and Why being Millionaire is never Enough

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If you look at the rich and sophisticated, they always emanate a very limited set of expressions and movements with their body language. The rich, though practice that, with time and surrounding. But how is a limited expressive nature considered a better virtue? It generally attracts more praises than when being over-reactive to things does. The more the places and the people you meet, the more one gets used to various kinds of experiences and the deeper one's understanding of life; hence, naturally eliminating the element of curiosity/surprise/shock from various scenarios and also, thus generating a cold sort of response. When a person doesn’t react much he is deemed as matured because normally it is a case of “been there/done that”. When a guy A in a club, shows off his BMW M6, and all his friends react with an open mouth, shaking their hands in its awe, except one. This guy B stays just the same, only nodding his head in acknowledgement. Naturally, guy A will respect guy B...

Appeal in the "Tension of Anticipation"

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This feeling of anticipation coming from something which is fast advancing towards a certain goal of action always ignites a certain amount of tension. For example if a window is shutting down due to the wind, and we are at a distance watching it get closer and closer towards getting shut, at a good speed, it will give us a chill, a tension, because there is an anticipation towards the whole action which can be determined by the flow of the events. If the window closes with a strong shut without our attention, we will probably look at the window once and carry on, but if we keep looking at it advance closer and closer, we get a mild tension. It is in fact the predictability that gives the whole chill. Alfred Hitchcock Another example, when a couple is having sex and the male partner slowly advances his hands touching her stomach towards her vagina, it will give her a stream of electric shocks even before a few inches of getting there making her take a deep sigh. The antici...