Beat The Russians One of the best examples of setting and achieving a goal was the US moon program back during the 60s. This has everything that all of the goal books have as to what you need to create a goal, but there’s one more thing that was included in the US moon program […]
Undersea Hallucination
Renting Skis A couple of months ago I was going skiing and so I had to go rent a pair of skis. I have been skiing ever since I was a kid or at least I learned how to ski when I was a kid and I’m been skiing off and on since I was […]
Motivational Killer
Lifetime Killer A couple of weeks ago I saw this lifetime movie about a guy. It started off after he had killed his first wife. The movie was about how he started to get his potential second wife to fall in love with him and then as she was falling in love with him she […]
Relationship Success
Rich Old Couple I met this interesting couple couple of weeks ago. They’re a very older couple very very wealthy there were several hundred million dollars. When I, before I met them, I had this kind of assumption the man was the successful business person and the wife more or less spousal support that […]
Original Entrepreneur
Networking Meetup I’ve been going to these networking meetings recently for the past couple of months. We meet twice a month every, other week. We meet in this bar restaurant place, a different place every every time. Sometimes there’s 15-20 people sometimes there are few as five people there. Recently I have noticed this […]
The Edison Metaphor
The Light Bult Invention There’s this really cool story about Edison. He was trying to invent the lightbulb. The lightbulb is very simple concept and whoever could come up with that first would stand to make a lot of money. That’s why Edison was so interested in creating a product. If you could make […]
The Necessity Of Risk
New Teaching Job I have a friend who just got this job at a high school. He’s a math teacher and when he went in for the interview he was a little bit nervous. There were so many other applicants applying for this job. It’s only a part-time job, but when he got the […]
Unintended Consequences
The Unpredictable Future The human brain is extremely limited in how we perceive things. Our sensory organs can only discern a very tiny window within the data that is hitting them. Even the idea of our conscious minds is not something we fully understand. Some studies indicate that up to 95% of our behaviors are […]
Childhood vs. Adult Mindset
The Two Mindsets Of Life There are plenty of ways to categorize things. People who are taller than me, and people who aren’t. People who are older than you, and people who aren’t. Things that are edible, and things that aren’t. Things you can afford, and things you can’t. Carnivores and herbivores. Those with loaded […]
The Myth Of Complacency
Why Risk And Uncertainty Is Scary We humans don’t like doing new things. Our brains very much like to settle into as many auto pilot situations as we can. Much of our thinking patterns and collections of biases evolved to cut down on thinking energy. Because our brains are a pretty expensive organ (operational calories […]