What is your favorite color? - Don't Be A Wage Slave

What is your favorite color? This is a simple enough question but the answer is more nuanced. Color defines us for it impacts our personal brand, our style. You can quickly determine what kind of personality a person has from the way they interpret color. (1) Gold is easy: it suggests the desire for physical wealth or material abundance; green perhaps rebirth and fecundity; red the color of excitement and energy, and finally black. Black makes a statement of power — either good and strong, or evil and malignant

Additionally, the color we wear has a profound link to our success in the external world. If we choose a color scheme that enhances our body, we quickly feel powerful and valuable. (2) This is equally true of the opposite. Think of large people who wear the wrong color or perhaps linear designs on their clothing — ouch! (3) This would further suggest that the slovenliness of the modern age is a curse to our personal development and social advancement. If we look at our peers, we quickly see the gravity of this lack of understanding. (4)

So, because we live in a physical world, it is important we spend some time in improving our image. Why? Well in the current population — this is especially true of the post-Millennials — everyone is from a good family, has a little bit of money, all of their teeth (this is an attempt at humor), and a relatively healthy body — though weight gain in an ongoing issue. What makes me 100% plus, what makes me unique and marketable? It can only be my personal brand: how I dress and act. Personal branding is interesting because it is completely free. (5) The only precondition that exists is having a body and mind — and we all have these attributes.

Color is the physical statement that enhances my brand — think of the lady in a red dress or the man wearing a tailored blue suit. One can quickly see the power of this statement. Our natural partner, nature, is filled with color — from the birds that circle overhead to the flowers that carpet the forest floor.

Color is obviously everywhere. For example, Tyrian purple, as a color, did not exist until it was removed from the mucus of Mediterranean snails. (6) The myth is that Hercules’ dog bit into some snails thereby staining his lips and the rest is history. So, put some color in your life. It could change your future. What is your favorite color? Isaac Newton (7) leaves us with a thought: As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

A closing thought: We live in increasingly informal times. This is quite obliviously not a good thing. The only quality that can differentiate each of us is how we dress and what we say. To reinforce what I said previously, these are totally created phenomena and are related to education and choice. As a result, your individuality is literally of your own making. It therefore behooves each of us to create the style that truly represents us. Failure to do so is only related to sloth and a lack of understanding about how the world truly functions. We must and can take the intelligent option.

To sum up: This week, we spoke about color and how it has such an impact on our lives.

To be noted: From a Russian proverb — The riches in your heart cannot be stolen.

Just for fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0gB52MATpE&ab_channel=Constantinople

For reflection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8WZssOtAlI&ab_channel=ThePowerWithin

This week, on your colorful walk, please identify with the beauty around you.

Every day look for something magical and beautiful.

Don’t be a wage slave – critical thinking is great!

http://www.dbawageslave.com

Quote: Why not live a colorful life?

Footnotes:

1) https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/08/the-big-idea-why-colour-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder

2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taDdxF0T5B8&ab_channel=UCDavisCareerCenter