We humans are very good at figuring out ways to make scarce things desirable.

They are adept at seeing the big picture, sensing patterns and the flow of existence from the past toward the future.

Political leaders everywhere in the Balkans are adept at exploiting such divisions.

But Chinese netizens are remarkably adept at using the limited tools available to them.

One obvious explanation is that Chinese officials are extremely good at seducing Western businessmen with friendly gestures and generous promises.

The great leadership theorist James McGregor Burns once argued that those who rely on coercion are not leaders, but mere wielders of power.

They sprinkle their conversations with linguistic qualifiers that limit the reach of their arguments but, however, although.

But politicians are good at repackaging, and, by some accounts, the new money is a small fraction of that amount, and even that will not get into the system immediately.

They range from experienced counselors with psychology degrees to people with a certificate from a training institute to non certified people who just happen to be good at it.

What I ask myself is, what's society is going to be like, when the kids today are phenomenally good at text messaging and spend a huge amount of on screen time, but have never gone bowling together?

And the extremists are good at jumping on the back of political grievances. But the soil in which they plant the seeds of hate is fertilized with ignorance.

But, as European Central Bank President Jean Claude Trichet likes to point out, market participants are good at thinking backwards if they can see where a Ponzi type scheme ends, everything unravels.

And yet we want more, feel resentful when we do not get it, and are self aware enough to know that luxuries turn into conveniences, and then into necessities and that we are very good at inventing new luxuries after which to strive.

Given the fact that the last president, Muhammad Khatami, was a supporter of the reform movement albeit a timid one who ultimately accomplished nothing only underlines how thoroughly the rulers turned around the political situation.

In monasteries, the basic structure of the diet was laid down by the Rule of Saint Benedict in the 7th century and tightened by Pope Benedict XII in 1336, but (as mentioned above) monks were adept at working around these rules.