TITLE: The Wire’s Hidden Business Code: How Street Rules Outsmarted Stringer’s Books
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On60XMXkzU0

[music] Before you start doing business, you should watch The Wire [music] and look at the relationship between Stringer Bell and Avon. >> What's up? Take care of business string. >> Me too, man. Me too. So to give you an example, if you listen to Guru, who is Jay-Z's engineer, he speaks about playing chess. And this is the perfect example of the difference between Stringerbell and the way he thinks and Avon and the way he thinks. >> You realize that chess is a strategy game, not a life game. When you play chess, everybody start out with the same pieces. Mhm. >> That don't happen in real life. It's not a life game. There's no there's no war where everybody has the exact same resources. >> Number two, I get to see every move you make. >> That doesn't happen in real life. >> Yeah, you're right. >> Number three, every soldier you you're the general as the person moving the pieces. >> Mhm. >> Every soldier does exactly what you tell them to do. They can't do anything else. That doesn't happen in real life. You look how many generals have told a soldier to do something, he do something else. >> Thanks. >> Fourth, there's no emotion. >> I like to say Avon is a person who has great instincts. Stringer is someone who leans on his intellect. So, he's a thinker. But what the problem with thinkers is they might think too long in a situation where you need good instincts. You don't have time to think very long. So, that's the difference between the two. You know what the difference is between me and you? I bleed red, you bleed green. What you been building for us? Huh? You know what? I look at you these days, you know what I see? I see a man without a country. Not hard enough for this right here. And maybe, just maybe, not smart enough for them out there. >> Not hard enough. >> Avon and Stringer Bell together represent the way the brain works. that we have one side that leans on intellect and we have the other side that leans that um leans on um instincts. There are some books that they'll make reference to the rider and the elephant which is a reference to the parts of the brain that we use to make decisions. The rider and the elephant is a metaphor. It's basically saying if you're a person riding the elephant, it seems like you're in control, but the elephant could really go anywhere he wants and you wouldn't be able to control it. When we get in situations where we have to rely on instincts, at that point, we don't rely on intellect. If you want to know more about the brain and the mind and how it works in terms of making decisions, you can check out a book called Think Fast, Think Slow. If you could, if you see it differently than I do, leave a comment.