The possibilities are endless. The dreams never fade. The reality of this place however, is harsh. Everyone struggles with what we call making it. The debate over what is considered success never ends. Ultimately I think every one of us lives out our days a little unsatisfied. Those who fail to cope tend to refer to this as regret but the truth is that no single person can make every individual happy. The ones that consider themselves happy are the people that live within their limitations and challenge the obstacles that penetrate a human’s inept demands.
I recently had a professor who asked what the basis is for someone to qualify as “smart”. Generally we measure intelligence by test results or by elitist methods such as I.Q. (intelligence quotient). While suitable for a common being raised under normal circumstance this is fine but his emphasis was formulated in the notion that no test can measure a person’s common sense and ability to work with people. I can’t remember the guy’s name but this man he told us of one day got an Ivy League education and was teaching college courses as a teen but was fired in less than a year because he could not communicate exceptionally with his students. This fellow was said to have ended up at a supermarket bagging groceries before dying in his mid forties.
So I keep asking myself, what is success?
I have concluded that there are four integral skills that encompass a person to gain value through actions. In no particular order they are social skills, emotional skills, intellectual skills and technical skills. They also signify the abilities to think, do, act, and react.
Technical skills (the ability to do) - When someone is dealing with daily functions or professional services. Usually a trade and someone can be considered talented in qualifications.
Intellectual skills (the ability to think) – When a person says something it usually put things in perspective regardless of the totality of the meaning. It’s not enough to just know something but to question it extensively.
Social skills (the ability to act) - When interaction with another mind is necessary for accomplishment of something mutually relevant. Compensating for lack of specifics to enhance overall knowledge is an excel point.
Emotional skills (the ability to react) – When everything occurs this person is able to keep their composure and realize what is necessary for a task to move forward. This is also a good judge of character.
These components combine to form human cognitive abilities in existence. Of course there is no perfect combination, but an individual tends to cling to one or two of these skills and form their priorities from the constant patterns their choices offer.
Clearly the right amount of each adjusted to a specific person is an obvious key to what would be to “succeed”, but these all feed into an overall life skill that can cause someone to rise or fall based on the surrounding environment and the way it is perceived.
Social persons tend to take the aggressive route to the top that incorporates a hit or miss approach towards personal achievement. With great leaps come equally huge drops. Most of us live or most of us die by the struggle to make the best of this skill. However the emotional aspect has a greater long term death or life sentence, hence why it’s not always best to act when you can’t conversely react to the unexpected turmoil your journey through time gives you.
Technical persons are the backbone of what keeps productivity moving. All the things built, all the things moved, all the things calculated and put into our daily usage, these are the forgotten heroes or the ones dumb enough to grunt their way through for a living. Opposite of that is the intellectual; lost in a world where gloves are never the right size for your hands. The ability to take a back seat and absorb all these doings is your strength even if watching doing is the only doing you do. The only sure thing is that nothing is certain.
Of course this is the most bizarre trial and error of all.
Why are we here, who knows? I don’t, you don’t, and no one before or after you ever will. Accept that and maybe meaning will hit you in the head the second you look down from the sky. If there is anything to take form this it’s that you can live without the oppression of religion. If that’s for you fine, I’m not here to bash it, I’m here to make sure it doesn’t bash you. I hate to see you abuse it and it in turn abuse us all back. Therefore I cannot conform to the normal circumstances this way of life offers. There is no end and so that may make faith the most trivial thing of all.
I believe in the freedom of the mind. That’s all anyone can really believe, and possibly it is something we can all agree upon.
Perhaps one day people will not be fickle when debating all that is good. It’s humanly correct to associate it with God. This is a bad judgemental habit that needs to stop. When will it be tolerable to let it be known this is not about an external power but an internal one? Why can’t it be done because it needs to be done because it is right. Aren’t these people’s miniscule things that are worth fighting for? Isn’t this something to do? Isn’t this something we can do?
So I reiterate that those four skills are the only truth we can be subject to. There are no more relevant laws in which we should adhere towards. I hate it too, but I accept it, and somehow I have grown to love it day by day; and it starts to love me back. The thought of dying and nothing happening gets easier to comprehend and the ability to be grows larger and denser to understand. In this lies the challenge, the opportunity of circumstance and chance, the reason to strive for more, the desire to succeed.
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
2009 Nobel Peace Prize Winners
PHYSICS
We live in a world designed by Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle, and George E. Smith. Their work on the physics of light made possible the fiber optic cables carrying this web page to your phone, and the digital camera on the other side. And on December 10th, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden will award them the Nobel Prize in physics for their work.
Boyle and Smith started their career together at Bell Labs, and in 1969, created the foundation of digital cameras. Utilizing the phenomena that won Albert Einstein his Nobel, Boyle and Smith devised a way to measure the electrons knocked lose when light strikes silicon. This essentially created the first digital camera pixel.
When Kao began working on fiber optics, the most advanced cables could only carry a light signal about 65 feet. By determining how the purity of the glass and the manufacturing methods influenced the transparency of a fiber optic cable, Kao laid down the principles that would lead to a half-mile-long cable within 4 years.
MEDICINE
Military leaders throughout history have supposedly goaded on their troops with the phrase, "You wanna live forever?" In 2009, the answer for many people is "Yes, please," and the Nobel Committee has today honored three U.S. scientists for discovering the genetic code that regulates aging in cells. The announcement comes as researchers race to develop anti-aging medicine or technology that can make humans immortal.
Merging humans with artificial intelligence remains some ways off, but there's also plenty of focus on extending the natural human lifespan. The latest Nobel Prize winners helped illuminate the aging process by discovering the repetitive genetic sequences on the ends of chromosomes known as telomeres. The telomeres serve as protective caps that gradually shorten as genetic material is copied many times over during cell division -- a process that parallels human aging, even if other factors also come into play.
The researchers who will receive this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and share $1.4 million are: Elizabeth Blackburn, a biologist at the University of California in San Francisco; Carol Greider, a molecular biologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore; and Jack Szostak, a geneticist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. This is the first time that the Nobel Prize in medicine has gone to more than one woman in a single year.
OTHER CATEGORIES TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON.
We live in a world designed by Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle, and George E. Smith. Their work on the physics of light made possible the fiber optic cables carrying this web page to your phone, and the digital camera on the other side. And on December 10th, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden will award them the Nobel Prize in physics for their work.
Boyle and Smith started their career together at Bell Labs, and in 1969, created the foundation of digital cameras. Utilizing the phenomena that won Albert Einstein his Nobel, Boyle and Smith devised a way to measure the electrons knocked lose when light strikes silicon. This essentially created the first digital camera pixel.
When Kao began working on fiber optics, the most advanced cables could only carry a light signal about 65 feet. By determining how the purity of the glass and the manufacturing methods influenced the transparency of a fiber optic cable, Kao laid down the principles that would lead to a half-mile-long cable within 4 years.
MEDICINE
Military leaders throughout history have supposedly goaded on their troops with the phrase, "You wanna live forever?" In 2009, the answer for many people is "Yes, please," and the Nobel Committee has today honored three U.S. scientists for discovering the genetic code that regulates aging in cells. The announcement comes as researchers race to develop anti-aging medicine or technology that can make humans immortal.
Merging humans with artificial intelligence remains some ways off, but there's also plenty of focus on extending the natural human lifespan. The latest Nobel Prize winners helped illuminate the aging process by discovering the repetitive genetic sequences on the ends of chromosomes known as telomeres. The telomeres serve as protective caps that gradually shorten as genetic material is copied many times over during cell division -- a process that parallels human aging, even if other factors also come into play.
The researchers who will receive this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and share $1.4 million are: Elizabeth Blackburn, a biologist at the University of California in San Francisco; Carol Greider, a molecular biologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore; and Jack Szostak, a geneticist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. This is the first time that the Nobel Prize in medicine has gone to more than one woman in a single year.
OTHER CATEGORIES TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON.
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