RE: Let's talk about “who inspired me to instruct myself.
For long advertisers used children to sell but these days are over since decennial at least where I live. My children could never manipulate me to buy anything. It's my believe that it makes way happier to work and saver for something yourself.
It's impossible to always make a child, any person happy. and even with you wouldn't notice happiness any longer, since this feeling is a permanent state, which shows in many younger than me.
@almaguer asked lately how come people in a world where everything is available are without skills, don't create and above all (I added this) bored.
BTW, most commercials I don't like. The focus is on buying, adding more waste, and I can't rhyme that with the "fight" against pollution, C02 and the rest of the nonsense parents preach.
As a parents, we should learn children how to deal with disappointments in a positive way, a NO, not being able to get everything you lay your eyes on. This is the main problem people have.
That's precisely the point, parents decide when to say NO, it's never good to give everything to their children, we who work in this sector look for clients, if there are no sales there is no profitability.
The products go to market, the consumers decide, we CANNOT influence this, we only try to make the products be accepted.
You make me laugh when you say that your child wouldn't make you buy anything for him, DO NOT tell me that, I have seen a tender look from a child to his parents, they DO NOT have to ask for anything, children are innocent and ignorant, something that adults DO NOT have, it is NOT easy to refuse a look like that
You have a lot to learn about the "innocence" of children. And no, my children never made me buy anything. They also know the value of money and it can only be spent once but hey my children are for sure from a different generation. By now children buy themselves, get into debt and let their parents pay for it.
Trust me that look is easy to ignore. Parents who get into debts to give their children everything who then throw it with a spoiled face into a corner are idiots. The same idiots we see in the US, spending a fortune on Christmas presents, always feeling miserable and never satisfied. And that should be a sign of love?
It is difficult for human beings to get bored. The life of a millionaire must be hard. Unless their aspirations are intangible, such as going to Mars or descending into the Mariana Trench. I don't know, ordinary people have more tangible aspirations, which keep you busy and developing. If you already have almost all your desires fulfilled, you start to get bored.
Motivation is the fuel of personal development. I would say that good artists have almost all been poor for most of their lives, which is good creative fuel. The opposite would be to have all the tools available to create. And then I wonder. Does creativity decline? Does access to everything make you want to lie on the couch and watch life go by?