Quick thinking … and an excellent photo memory … helps.

Advanced Math, chess theory, philosophical essays are interesting to me to exercise my brain power. To understand the scope and the limits, the finite and the infinity, of Nature and various theoretical methods. The more knowledge the better.

Everyday business, chores as well, is not seldom a sort of "Lightning chess". Then the outcome, success or failure, depends mainly on what’s in the spine. No time for pondering and making a detailed analysis of anything at all. Just quick draws!

School kids, students, yes everybody, use a similar model of ‘Just quick draws’ to survive the all important next exam. Then after the exam they forget the whole previous mess to concentrate on the exam after that … It’s an important art to be able to drop things .. No one learns anything just for life .. The chase is on. Good marks, that’s what counts!

Guys have various arguments for their cognitive process, i.e. what, when and how to learn. The capability of the photo memory is very important for the selection of study method. It’s an elective principle. Compare the Essay called Morality and Art by Philippa Foot to which I refer to inform what an elective principle is supposed to be.

Some arguments students have during exam periods when they concentrate on essentials and refuse learning other things could be: There’s no time really just now for other matters! No use of learning other things just now, maybe later! The principle of necessity is applicable.

Most guys have good Rational thinking under very pressing conditions, the factor of time is always the limiting factor, that nearly bust them.

Knowing to use Power Point effectively is certainly more important.

When I visited Montreal in Canade I bought my first book of Samuel Beckett called MOLLOY, after that En attendant Godot, then COMMENT C’EST.

Montreal is the most interesting city I know.

The ladder of life

"Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall." Joseph Campbell

Campbell may have been referring to the career ladder but his statement applies to whatever "ladder" you are on. It may be the ladder of marriage or family. It may be the ladder of a unique goal you are pursuing. Or, it may be the ladder of personality development. If Campbell is right then a great many people in our society are soon to be frustrated as they near the top of this ladder and begin asking that all important midlife question, "Is this all there is?"

http://lessonsforliving.com/ladder_of_life.htm

I would prefer to say that the wall may be the right one, but the ladder wasn’t long enough. I would also tell that I am a different guy than Mr Campbell. Instead of the question, “Is this all there is?” , I would say that there is far too much here of everything. Bernard Shaw writes that we need to live here several hundred years to understand this complicated world. That’s true. I will not elaborate on this evidence.

Dreams and wishes are serious things...!

We have been made up of a dreaming material, says Shakespeare.

Wouldn't it be a good idea to realize Dreams and Wishes? Maybe it will be important for the future…?

What we achieve every day will disappear fairly quickly from our minds into eternal oblivion, but ... later on we will regret having left the Dreams unfulfilled. The things we will remember, our minds will be cramped by them, are the things we didn’t do, the opportunities we didn’t take or left, the Good Deeds we didn’t do. There are lots of them! Like old collectibles in the garage, in the basement or wherever we put them. It’s a kind of curse!

It’s a kind of blessing as well letting the Dreams and Wishes remain unfulfilled, though they make us feel ill at heart. It’s like having collections of statues, in black and white, in the mind. We will always remember them or rather, they will never let us forget them.

Our actions, thinking and sayings today will maybe decide what Fantasies will haunt us in the future.

Ref. Racine Bérénice and William Shakespeare

Advance… or be left behind…

I’ve learned, Veni, Vidi, Vici, that the Energy, Force, Momentum I need for my perpetual advancement is obtained from the Good Angel and Holy Godess named Interest.

But the Good Angel, in whose heels I’m, is followed by a shadowy ghost, a scary indescribable monster, now and then mumbling “You could be Left Behind”. I hate the thought of being left behind, alone by myself and the monster, in the dry and lifeless dessert. Just the thought scares me, it doesn’t matter whether the circumstance is bright or lousy, to advance, to go on steadily...from the dark into the unknown dawn.

The main heading is one aspect of the harsh realities of the principal of necessity within the labor market and various fields where knowledge and ability counts…Each individual must adapt to another principal, namely the principle of division of labor.

The only thing that stands between you and your highest ideals and every desire is Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (F.U.D.). Don't FUD your way to failure. Free yourself to success. By Warren Henningsen

People may forget what you have said, and people may forget what you have done, people however, will NEVER FORGET how you made them feel. :) ♥ By Nina Kovacs

The Myth of Sisyphus

The Myth of Sisyphus is a philosophical essay by Albert Camus. It comprises about 120 pages and was published originally in 1942 in French as Le Mythe de Sisyphe; the English translation by Justin O'Brien followed in 1955.

In the essay, The Myth of Sisyphus, Camus introduces his philosophy of the absurd: man's futile search for meaning, unity and clarity in the face of an unintelligible world devoid of God and eternal truths or values.

Does the realization of the absurd require suicide? Camus answers: "No. It requires revolt." He then outlines several approaches to the absurd life. The final chapter compares the absurdity of man's life with the situation of Sisyphus, a figure of Greek mythology who was condemned to repeat forever the same meaningless task of pushing a boulder up a mountain, only to see it roll down again. The essay concludes, "The struggle itself...is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."

The work can be seen in relation to other works by Camus: the novel The Stranger (1942), the play Caligula (1945), and especially the essay The Rebel (1951).

Albert Camus received The Nobel Prize in Litterature 1957.

Change habits … Advance…I

Hypothesis: To change habits and habitual thinking is nearly impossible, at least very difficult. That’s the real enemy to every type of change. The easiest way to change something is to consult a shrink or a therapist. The more educated and the older the more rigid.

Thoughts can be transcendental i.e. they can be transformed into practical actions. There are many ways to advance, and to get multiple benefit from it. I would like to become a coach of some sort, I imagine that, that would benefit my beloved ones very much. Here are som other examples.

Suddenly, without any warning whatsoever pcs might implode, crash, in a twinkle everything’s gone with the wind. My USB-memories backup the computer hard disk and the Word files I write before I copy them to my blog. Analogically, my own blog helps me to express my thoughts, ideas, modes of reasoning ... it’s a sort of personal backup…

Advance…instead of harping on the same old string… whatever harping there is. For instance learn to bargain and negotiate professionally before, before it’s really urgent. Sooner or later that skill will be needed.

I have discovered a great step to improve: I have finally decided to read "Getting to yes, negotiating agreement without giving in" By Roger Fisher and William Ury. I regret now I didn't read it long ago. There are several books by those gentlemen worth reading to get down to essentials. The effect of those books may be a beginning or continuation to reprogramming of the personal BIOS. Those genuine books are some sort of chemistry for crib-biters…!

Old people are nearly always right. Curiosity disappears with age, that’s for sure? Old people seldom expose others to embarrassment and they have learned the difficult art of social competence. For instance how to tell foreigners to pay heed to something or to inform them about interesting places, events etc...

Ref. See the book The Fall by Albert Camus.

About Art

I love beautiful and artful, natural and conceived, imagined and virtual, things and creations as well as designs. They are remarkable in my eyes, they astound me. They take my breath away. I call them true art. They inspire my sense of imagination and space, they live in my mind. Any person informed about Art would ask me: What do you mean? Then I would answer: I will show you when I perceive it.

A kaleidoscope is like that! The pearls, the small bits of multicolored glass, always form new enjoyable and surprising patterns.

In a sneak peak, in a blink of the eyes, with the speed of a lightning, everything is weighed and measured, estimated and valued. Then it’s completely certain what we prefer and even what we love. Instantly, but covertly, accepted or rejected. The sneak peak is completely out of the will power and checks uncontrollably everything popping up all the time. All the reasoning, talking, following afterwards is just nice entertainment to peak again or an excuse to get out of the place as quickly as possible. God help me out of here! Sometimes two different sneak peaks meet and weld together, that’s instant love.

The first sneak peak, during a nano-second, decides it all and it's impression and value stays, it will not be forgotten nor changed. However much you ponder it, tear and gnaw it, there will be no change...

The other day I saw a young Lady at the parking lot, she moved briskly and she looked like a fairy. Do you know the famous poem by Baudelaire? Gosh. It was perfectly like that.