learning math gives better brain...myagi and danielson style

All things are not as they seem in school.  I remember in high school people wondering why they had to learn geometry, algebra, and calculus.  While not to many people that I know got to learn the latter, the two fromers well I learned them and enjoyed it.  But not all things are what they seem.  Just like in the karate kid where Mr. Myagi had Daniel paint the fence, wash the car, and wax on and wax off, in order to teach karate, it seems that math in school teaches more than just match it also helps to develop the human brain in particular the frontal lobe where all higher cognitive functions take place.  In a recent study it showed that people are becoming more violent due to under developed front lobes caused by video games which only stimulate the eyes and the hands.  In contrast doing simple to answer match problems actually stimulates the frontal lobe more than video games. Frontal lobe is where planning, emotions, self control are all based.  So doing math actually helps you become a better person.  who knew.

Man talking about America

I'm talking about a time where America stood for something...DAMN IT...
not this fucking shit,
Mc Donalds, iPADS, BULL crap but freedom...the right side of the wrong.  We were the good guys everyone wanted to be us...now well we steered off course somehow...

The Essence of Taoism

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My oh my lenses

My oh my lenses, a photo by rymndhng on Flickr.

REAL LIFE

Beauty's trapping...Illusions

Zen will say all things are illusions since all things  happen in everyone's' minds.  Beauty for some can have a narcotic effect to the point were we can fall in love very quickly.  Very quickly be brain washed really.  Though there is no real magic like in Harry Potter one can say that falling in love in nothing more than a spell that is cast on us.  If we are one of those people who fall in love with beautiful things because we tend to romanticize everything and not see the reality then we are under a spell.  A spell that can lead to our down fall or just set us up for failure big time.


In the ODYSSEY Odysseus was coming home from  war and he fell victim to the Sirens, the naked women singing on the rocks that cast spell on sailors and then destroy their ships as they crash into the large rocks they sit on.  I beauty as this, not just a beautiful woman, but anything that creates a fantasy aspect in our lives.  Music, food, television, people, the list goes on and on.  We can become so hypnotized that we lose touch with reality and it affects our decision making.  How can we make good smart and effective decisions when really can't see what is going on or maybe we really don't want to see what is going on.
One would need to learn to counter act this dark magic that effects our judgement with something like occlumency.  

In Harry Potter, snape teaches Harry to block things from entering his mind by using a spell called occlumency. 
In real life we simply need to remind ourselves that what we see is not always what we get and that simply relying on fantasy will surely makes us unhappy in reality. 

courage...standing out amongst the drones

There are aspects of my job that I really enjoy.  In fact the job I have now is job I chose to do because it was something that I liked to do and wanted to do.  It wasn't a job that I had to take to make a living.  That was actually the job I left and  i had been there for four and half years and new it was time to get out.


I think the fact that I enjoy my job puts me at a different level than many others.  Sometimes I feel a bit of animosity from my co-workers because maybe:
they are old and could not find anything else to do
they are bitter and disappointed with life
they are not happy people
they feel intimidated by me
they are simply negative people
they don't like me because...(there could be a million reason why)


but in the end it doesn't matter.  In the end we all need to have the courage to stand out and be different if different is who we really are.
After watching xmen first class the message was pretty much loud and clear, accept yourself, be who you really are and don't give a damn what other people think because if you are so different then maybe you have special abilities that other don't and these special abilities can help others...change the world...save humanity...etc.
At my job I do have more abilities than others and I do feel a bit of alienation from it.  Whether it be my computer skills or my camera and photography skills sometimes I just feel like I have to dumb myself down in order to fit in.


I don't want to do that anymore.  I don't' want to have to live up to the lower standards of the drones around me.  If I am as odd as a mutant on xmen...I choose to be a wolverine...then I should be who I really am and stop trying to fit in with the dummies where I don't belong.  Be I left alone because of it so be it.  Why should I have to dumb myself down and pretend I am something that I am not in order to fit it.  We all want to fit it but are we brave enough to be ourselves to be all that we can be and live to our full potential.????!!!!!

Mac OS X Lion vs. Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, OS's all suck

Total Control...Perfectionism and failure

As a writer and creative person there is always some invisisble force the helps or hinders in the creative process.
As I have not written in a long time there is that initial inertia that keeps me from getting started.  Then there is my solid destructive belief that I need to control everything in life.  I want and need things to be perfect.  I suppose its nothing more than fear keeping me from experiencing the real life in an attempt to make things easy and avoid complications.  This fear to avoid the bad or the negatives of live really does keep us from living a free full life.  I have a lot of anticipation and expectation about what I am going to create, write, etc.  I have set idea of what it is going to be and seldom does it ever come out the way I wanted to or expected which leads to disappointment.

For me the greatest obstacle will have to learn to put perfectionism away and simply let remind myself that I can handle what ever comes along good or bad and I dont' have to control everything by having it to be perfect.  If I can just accept things as they really are and appreciate what I write or create no matter how bad I feel it is. 

Alternative

When going after what seems to be the normal, the right, the correct thing maybe you better choice is the going after the alternative. 


I'm not typical by any means even though I try to be.  I couldn't be ordinary if I tried and I do try and most of the I just feel like an outside even amongst a band of misfits I just don't fit. 


But I also realize there are those things that do work for me that I never thought they would.  Like going to school wasn't doing any thing for me.  So I became a writer, artist, photograper and it has worked out.


I notice with this people.  There are always those people that seem to be the coolest, the normals, the mainstream kids..  I don't click with those.  I like odd balls who walk to a different drum beat.  Sure i"m not going to get along with every lunatic out there because there are a lot of them out there but I am always going to find those people who are just a little bit off and whole lot of fun because they don't take life so serious.-


I tried nine to five, office, wearing a suit and tie, and having weekends off.  Hated it.  I left it to be a cab driver for a month.  Then almost became a dance instructor but settled for a retail job with more money and more areas to grow and learn.


So maybe when we, us humans, feel trapped by the lack of choices, maybe we need to seek alternatives to the normal and easy and overly done ones.  Trying something new and different might be just what we need.

Seelng all your opportunities

Gosh living in the world these days often seems so confusing with all the information and misinformation out there.  At times I am so bombarded with so many things going on that I fail to recognize, spot, see any if any all of the opportunities and doors to be opened that are in front of me.


I spend so much time focused, maybe a little tunnel vision, but many times it feels more like the zone. You know that place where runners and artists hit where reality disappears and all that is left is them and their action.  They or enjoying, loving, creating, being, etc all in one.


I think this definitely gets int he way of me knowing what is all around me.  Perhaps I am dumb to it, blind to it, or I'm just so our of touch with it that things just pass me by.


I love to work but at times I get so caught up in working that I fail to be human.  to simply have a chat with someone.  There are a lot of barriers in life.


Maybe its good to for a moment in your day to stop what you are doing and just see what is going on all around.  The people around you, the things going on all around.  YOu might notice something you never knew was there.
Children alwasy seem to be more opened to this type of awareness.  Sometimes it can lead them to trouble but most times it gives them a new path to explore that other wise would have been missed.


There is also the idea of the rabbit hole like in Alice in Wonderland.  Maybe there are times we are aware of new paths try but we are so scared to do anything new because we don't know what we will find.  It takes a bit of courage to change I guess.