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[A98]A Tale Of Two

by Drew020, Dre

So here's what happened. A few days ago I was at ?eBay Live', the annual event for eBay sellers, which was held this year in Boston.

On the first day of the event, a Thursday, apparently no one had notified the taxi companies that there would be 8,764 people exiting the conference center simultaneously at 9pm after the keynote speech, and that most of them would need a taxi back to their ridiculously overpriced hotels (that's another story ? I paid $350 a night and considered myself lucky to get that rate!).

So imagine the scene, literally thousands of people standing in line for taxis that were nowhere to be seen - just an occasional passing blip on the horizon, far away. Taxis were as rare as a Nintendo Wii in a retail store.

As you know, I think differently to most people, and I avoid the lemmings mentality at all costs. There was no way I was going to stand in line for hours waiting for a taxi that may or may not eventually appear.

What did I do? I'll tell you exactly what I did. I went around the corner of the convention center to the Westin Hotel and discovered a line of taxis with drivers that apparently had been sitting there for several hours, desperately hoping that someone, anyone, would require their service.

Yes, I know - how ironic is that?

In I jumped, and immediately asked the driver to take us past the front of the convention center building to allow me to wave at the ever increasing line of people waiting for a taxi.

I'm not a mean person, I just couldn't help myself.

Actually, I wanted to see if many others would think to do what I had done. Guess? Nope. I counted just three people who strayed from the ?official' taxi line. And that's where the lesson lies in this story. The situation I encountered is a perfect analogy to describe how eBay is being used today.

You've probably heard me say before that some 95% of sellers follow the crowd and blindly stick together, all sharing the same antiquated, ineffective and costly methods for using eBay. They're standing in line for a taxi that might never come, and somehow they've convinced themselves that that's the best option. Come to think of it, they probably believe it's the ONLY option.

By contrast, there's a much easier way, a fast track to profits, and that's the taxi round the corner, just waiting to whiz you to your destination if you'll only seek it out. That's the key, right there: to benefit from it, you have to step outside your comfort zone, be willing to reject the familiarity and apparent safety of being with the crowd, and be unconventional, a renegade.

Diabetes comes in two forms. In Type 1 diabetes, the immune system destroys the beta cells in the pancreas. These are the cells that produce insulin and when the body ceases to produce insulin the result is diabetes. Type 1 diabetes generally appears early in life and progresses quickly. But fortunately Type 1 diabetes is relatively rare.

The majority of diabetics are afflicted with Type 2 diabetes. With Type 2 diabetes, the issue is not the lack of insulin, but rather the body’s reaction to insulin. Specifically the cells do not react as they normally should which causes glucose to accumulate in the blood.

Type two diabetes is generally thought of as a disease of aging. It generally comes on gradually and doesn’t appear in the diabetic until after the age of 50. As the body ages cells throughout the body become less sensitive to insulin and to compensate for this the pancreas produces more insulin. Eventually the pancreas is unable to produce insulin fast enough to keep up and the blood sugar level rises.

Until insulin treatment became available in 1922 a Type 1 diabetes diagnosis was like a death sentence as those afflicted generally passed within months of their diagnosis. In contrast, the symptoms of type 2 diabetes can be difficult to spot but include chronic fatigue, excessive urination, and slower healing of sores. The symptoms of type 2 diabetics are often so subtle that nearly a third of type 2 diabetics don’t even realize they have the disease.

The lucky ones are diagnosed with diabetes during a routine physical examination. Those not so fortunate may not discover they are diabetic until they develop severe complications such as suddenly blurred vision, heart attack, or stroke.

Another important distinction between type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes is in the treatment and possible cure. Type 1 diabetes is much more severe in that not only do we not know how to cure it, we don’t know how to prevent it either. Type 2 diabetes is not nearly so problematic in that it is strongly associated with excess weight. So by simply maintaining a healthy weight, individuals can reduce their risk of developing diabetes significantly. And if diabetes is caught in its early stages it can possibly be cured by simply losing weight and then maintaining that weight which proves to be more conducive to good health.

In adults, the vast majority of diabetics suffer from type 2 diabetes, but the opposite is true of younger people. Considering type 2 diabetes is considered a disease of aging and doesn’t normally appear until after the 50 it makes sense that most juvenile cases of diabetes are from type 1 diabetes and are more severe in nature. But even so type 1 diabetes when caught early and treated properly is still manageable and those with it can still lead fairly normal and productive lives.

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