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Katalin Karikó, The Nobel Prize, & The Tall Poppy Syndrome -Part 2

You can call me Ray, you can call me mistreated, you can call me shunned, you can call me overlooked but you doesn’t hasta call me tall poppied.                                          Bill Saluga (paraphrase) If this title seems like deja vu, it is. I did a previous blog with the same title

Katalin Karikó, The Nobel Prize, & The Tall Poppy Syndrome -Part 2
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Jack Ma, Fortitude, & The Tall Poppy Syndrome

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.  William Shakespeare Fortitude. The cardinal virtues of classical philosophy and Christian theology are prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance. Aristotle stated that fortitude is the virtue of the man who, being confronted with a noble occasion of

Jack Ma, Fortitude, & The Tall Poppy Syndrome
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Jordan Peterson, Professional Licensing Agencies, & the Tall Poppy Syndrome - Part I

Tall trees catch much wind.                             Chinese Idiom Tall Poppies (TP) are not determined by a ballot box; it is very subjective. My TP may not be your TP. Government agencies, often three letters, cut down many people (The Tall Poppy Syndrome: The Joy of Cutting Others Down). Jordan Peterson is

Jordan Peterson, Professional Licensing Agencies, & the Tall Poppy Syndrome - Part I
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Livy, Tarquin the Proud, & The Tall Poppy Syndrome

This is the second animation of this two-part series regarding the Roman Kingdoms.  The first episode (see Rome's Founding, Familial Envy & The Tall Poppy Syndrome) involved twin brothers Romulus and Remus vying for leadership at the beginning of a new Rome and its First Kingdom in 753

Livy, Tarquin the Proud, & The Tall Poppy Syndrome
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Was Budweiser a Victim of the Tall Poppy Syndrome?

Can businesses be victims of the Tall Poppy Syndrome (TPS)? The answer to both questions is a resounding yes. After the storyline is recounted, I will take you through the TPS anatomy as described in Anatomy of the Tall Poppy Syndrome. Bud Light was a top-selling beer when it hired

Was Budweiser a Victim of the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
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Roses and The Tall Poppy Syndrome(TPS)

A Rose is a rose is a rose ~ Gertrude Stein Stein used the sentence in a poem (1913) but later modified it which some interpreted as "it is what it is." This could be construed as the law of identity. But she had other ideas as did many

Roses and The Tall Poppy 
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