From what I see, in the consumer market,
people tends to get results without putting effort.

This happens when thing are easily done with automation and getting thing done without any knowledge about it. e.g. Email and iPhone Apps.
We too get used to the fact that the only thing we do is paying, for a miracle service/product and then get our life changed.

While this is true for lots of thing, it’s hardly true for many areas, e.g. Habits, Skills.
Take an example of
1. “If you drink this product A everyday, you’ll be slim in two weeks, without any effort on exercise, take on a diet”
2. “With this new camera and lens, you can takes amazing photo with a click. And everyone will think you as a Pro Photographer.” (link)
3. “Taking this course will improve your English so fast that you’ll have a merry career lie ahead with in Three Months.”

Empty promises and yet people fall for it, or are those applications of the rule?

This is from one of my favorite Fantasy Novel:
“人們是愚蠢的, 給予適當的動機, 幾乎每個人都會相信幾乎所有的東西。因為人是愚蠢的, 他們會相信一個謊言, 因為他們願意相信這是真的, 或者是因為他們害怕它可能是真的。人們的頭腦中充滿了知識, 事實和信念, 而大部份都是假的, 但他們認為這都是事實。人們是愚蠢的, 他們很少能分出謊言和真理, 但他們卻有信心他們可以, 所以都很容易被欺騙…“
(翻譯 From http://anf.blogspot.com/2011/03/blog-post.html) 

“Wizard’s First Rule: people are stupid.” Richard and Kahlan frowned even more. “People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it’s true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People’s heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.”
Because of Wizards First Rule, the old wizards created Confessors, and Seekers, as a means of helping find the truth, when the truth is important enough. Darken Rahl knows the Wizard’s Rules. He is using the first one. People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose. It’s easy to lead people when they have a sense of purpose. Sense of purpose is more important by far than the truth. In fact, truth has no bearing in this. Darken Rahl is providing them with an enemy, other than himself, a sense of purpose. People are stupid; they want to believe, so they do.”
—Chapter 36, p.560, U.S. paperback edition

Note to self:

The responsibility to overcome barriers to communication normally rests with the sender. However, in a leadership situation, the responsibility falls to the leader in all cases, whether one is sending or receiving.

Working hard to keep thing on schedule, both work, personal projects and life.

It takes extra effort to squeeze time out and having balance life.
As I am still planning to have 2-4 hour gaming sessions each day, extra time is needed
I changed my working schedule a bit, so that I’ll wake up at 730 now.

Having the morning time for work is nice,
and I can even have more time on the book reading.

Then I’ll have enough time for my photo, blog, facebook etc etc as well
Hopefully everything will work out just fine

There are always up and down in our life,
Expectations, Fate etc influence our feeling…

To find out one’s position and what to expect is hard…
Recently I met lots of friends who parted for years,
each facing very different path of life.

Some get married, a class mate even gone to election.
It’s very strange, and everyone have their own problem and path.
And for me, there are lots of changes happened…

Tbh, I believe that I have been a better man from being an A$$ hole when I was much younger.
Thoughts and Seeing thing from more perspectives.

There are still much to learn of course, and I am still eager to learn