I’m going to talk about a friend of mine which I have known for many years, more than 20 already. And we’ve been classmates. Actually, we sat together for ten years back then at school. And uh, unfortunately he couldn’t make it to the university. And despite of the lack of formal education, he’pretty successful in his life. Well, now he is a proud father of a six years old daughter. And the only breadwinner of his family. And he has a share of teatter blood in his veins. And probably his innate ability to negotiate thought from this part of, uh, his inherited abilities. Well, he works now as an entrepreneur, although he went through a lot of, uh, difficulties and harshness on. In his journey to uh, the present. And his business is being a middleman between owners of big premises like shopping centers or some malls and um, smaller firs. Who wants to rent a space in these shopping centers. And he really talented in negotiations between m. Two different types of people who want to rent and who want to give uh, this space. And he can convince both of them, uh, some long term benefits and uh, cut down some prices maybe, or expand a bit, uh, the space of.
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I'm going to talk about a friend of mine whom I've known for many years, over 20 actually. We were classmates, and we even sat together for ten years back in school. Unfortunately, he couldn't go to university. Despite the lack of formal education, he's been quite successful in life. He's now a proud father of a six-year-old daughter and the sole breadwinner for his family. He has a bit of a theatrical streak in him, and his natural ability to negotiate might come from that part of his personality. He currently works as an entrepreneur, though he's faced many challenges and hardships along the way. His business involves acting as a middleman between owners of large properties like shopping centers or malls and smaller businesses who want to rent space in these locations. He's incredibly talented at negotiating between these two different types of people, those who want to rent and those who want to lease. He can convince both parties of the long-term benefits, potentially lowering prices or expanding the space a bit.
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