If I could tap into my brain's full potential, what would I do? I think I would first go to Vegas and use my newfound math skills to rack up lots of cash. Then I would use my new nest egg to start and build my own non-profit organization. I would be able to maximize efforts and use minimal amounts of donor funding. This would draw donors to my company and would effect major change globally. I would also give back to my family who has always been supportive. And I'd be a little bit selfish and travel the world.
As we continued talking about how great it would be, I began to think about a smaller scale. What if I could train my brain to use 21 percent or even just 20.3 percent? How much better would life be then? It wouldn't be drastic, but it could effect meaningful change on a smaller scale. A favorite bible story of mine is in Mark 12:41-44 when a beggar woman donates her last 2 coins to the offering plate. Jesus commends her because she gave what she had.
We wouldn't require NZT (name of drug in movie) if each individual gave a larger part of themselves or devoted more time to the betterment of society and humanity than squandering our talents on video games, blogs, television, etc. Not saying that distractions are evil and that we shouldn't enjoy some down time, but what if we took 3o minutes everyday and instead of using it to mind numbingly surf the internet, we devoted it to making ourselves smarter or helping others? I think we'd eventually be much happier and benefit numerous people.
All that to say, I have decided that after Lent ends (40 days where you give up simple pleasures to remember the sacrifice Jesus made in the desert and to rely more on God) I am going to attempt to improve myself. I haven't decided exactly how I am going to accomplish this task, but I am going to try new things, talk to people I would normally bypass, help people more, and just do other small things to make me and the world I live in a better place. Maybe I will eventually function at slightly higher than 20 percent brain power. Wish me luck!
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Sorry about the absence of me not responding this weekend. I think I said wrong that I was going to the Ozarks this previous weekend after school. I meant to say after the semester ends. Because I don't want to have to worry about upcoming final exams. So what occupied my time this weekend was I had to help my father do taxes, which are due today. Whew, just glad that it is over, you have no idea how boring it was to be sitting there with him talking about dull things.
ReplyDeleteSo Audh V is a marine, ooh-rah! Thats very awesome and it is very honorable of him to have chosen to have become one. My father was a Navy squid. He never weilded a weapon or anything at least he never told me he did, but I don't think that he would ever had use of one if he did. He was a nuclear engineer for the Navy. Usually he spent most of his time serving on the aircraft carriers taking care of the nuclear reactors. The rest of his time he spent in Idaho on some base where they and the other branches of the military did experiments on prototype nuke stuff, I don't think that it was weapons they were building rather things to assist them in energy conservation crap like that. No, I could never wield a weapon either, but Audh V seems like a great guy.
You asked me what state I lived in last time. I wish I could say I live in the same city or at least the same state that I was born in, (Daytona, Florida) but somehow I ended up in this state, Tennnessee. Sometimes I wish I could have been a beach bum or something of the sort, but I guess not and I'll just have to stick with my Ol'Tennessean drawl and my love for iced sweet tea.
So this movie you saw must have been pretty good, huh? I might catch it on DVD some time. Not really wanting to go to theaters lately, just not a lot out I like, but I am waiting for the 22nd. The movie The Way Back comes out, and I really liked it you should try to watch it some time.
Now this stuff you said about the brain power usage in the movie, and if you could do it in reall life what would you do? I think that I don't even use 15% my brain as it is, but if I did use more than the 20% it still would seem to everyone that I was only using the 15%. But I have no doubt the you would use that power to better the lives of others and try to make a better world, but if you do try to see the world with whatever money, it isn't selfish. Just as long as you don't always stay at 5 star beach resort hotels and order the best damn dish on the menu. You also know that you really don't need to have a large sum of cash to see the world its reachable with just a teachers salary. Your intentions are good I hope that their are othes out their that think the same way you do. It'd be a much better world to live in. Wishing you luck.
Sorry about your Lakers, and yeah man to Boston. It was wierd the other day cause I was rooting for them, it was kinda sad. Maybe if you were a green four-leaved clover some of the luck will funnel to the Lakers and push them towards a win.
See You Later, Alligator.
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My great-grandfather worked at Oak Ridge back when they were working on the atomic bomb. And my grandfather was a Marine. Audh V is a Sergeant and he is a good guy! That's cool that your dad was a Naval Engineer! He must be really smart.
ReplyDeleteDon't hate on the Southern drawl and charm...it's wonderful. I bet it was fun growing up in Florida. I have lived in TN my whole life and just moved around the state. Ideally I would really like to live in North Carolina b/c it's still got good southern people, but it has mountains and the beach close (which I love).
Never heard of The Way Back...what's it about? I really love movies and I feel like the past few years the selection has been seriously lacking. I don't go to the theater nearly as often.
I plan on seeing the world on whatever dough I rake in haha. My dream is to backpack through Europe for a month. That would be magical. I really love to travel and can't wait til I'm finally done with school and have the free time and money to do so.
Lakers was a sad day and Kobe had me a little worried right before the half. I don't know if we have it in us this year. We are looking pretty tired here lately. Pretty sure if I wore a symbol representing our arch nemesis it would bring us bad luck. Hopefully we will get out of this slump!!
In a while, Crocodile :D
Wow, Oak Ridge, people must think your very interesting that your family was a part of a secret that big. So is that why you like Albert Einstein so much? I mean did your or was your great-grandfather a friend of Einstein? My great-grandfather was the first of our family born in America. They came over from Poland and setteled in Wisconsin. The rest of the original family moved out towards the border and named a city after themselves. Other than that I really don't know what my great-grandfather did, but my grandfather was a tramp clown/magician and I know he met and performed for Harry Houdini's wife. The trick that he did for her was called the Tears of Buddha. It has something to do with pulling needles out from under your eyes.
ReplyDeleteOk now this is sort of weird my father wanted to become a priest for a long time and then he decided that no he wanted a family instead. So he got into the Nuclear program and did that foro a long time. Right now he is an electical engineer supervisor for this steel mill, and among other stuff he is qualified for way to much crap. He really isn't emotional and if you ever try to ask him a question about anything you get way to much information and space out while he is talking, but if its math he can pretty much get you what you want but don't try to ask him again because he gets frustrated that you weren't listening the first time. Sometimes I think the radiation screwed some of his brain up, I dunno.
Ok, I came to Tennessee when I was nine and have lived in the same town since. I never got to see the ocean or at least I can't remember what it looked like. Lived back and forth growning up in Memphis and Little Rock.
No, there isn't anything wrong with the southern accent Its just whenever we go north the rest of the family has that yankee accent they say things like "Hey, you guys!" or " Gee whiz, don'cha now." And whenever you want a Dr. P or Coke they call it a "soda-pop" with a high pitch sound to it. Also sugar iced tea isn't reall up there its warm and sweetless. It feels like another world up there sometimes. I would like to live down on the gulf shores of Alabama with a lot of land and a platation house, I just love the look of them. I heard the mountains out there are really beautiful during the fall. I've only been as far as Bristol, Tennessee and it was during the summer so I never got to actually see all the colors.
The Way back very amazing story. Its a film for people who love epic lanscapes and enjoy the wild. It is a visual film, displaying the vulnerability of a few people struglling in a harsh, vast, beautiful landscape. The people escape this Russian prison and walk for 4000 miles of the Asia and Europe trying to find home. I loved the film don't really know if you would be into to it much, but you should give it a try when it comes out. Yeah most movies just repeat the same crap just better visuals every year. I like the old foreign Kung-fu and cowboy movies. I also have a guilty pleasure of watching chick flicks, shhh tell no one.
You seem the kinda person who likes to see stuff like old achitechual stuff I mean there isn't anything wrong with it. I on the other hand like to walk among the trees of a cloud forest or the Victoria waterfalls. Sometimes I think about just getting up and walking off into the great wide without ever saying goodbye to anyone kinda like Chris Mccandless. That guy was awesome you should read the book about him called Into the Wild. Only actual places I would like to see would probably be the Vatican and The Potala, dalai-lama's palace.
But do whatever you like its the world all the same.
Yeah whats up with Kobe he got P'od that one day. They need to get their act together I really want the Celtics to kick thier butts. Awe, no clover well your probably right about the bad luck I wouldn't want that until Championship game.
So long King Kong.
Anonymous ME
You misunderstood me...my Great-Grandad worked at Oak Ridge but he didn't work on the bomb or know Einstein. I love Einstein because he is brilliant and my Dad is a huge science buff and turned me onto all things science when I was younger. Wow a traveling clown/magician is badass. That's so cool that he performed for Mrs. Houdini! Polish? Ah, I am Irish and German.
ReplyDeleteI was born in Memphis, but only lived there unitl I was 4 and we moved to the metropolis of Dyersburg (if you know Dburg you'll get the sarcasm here). East Tennessee is absolutely gorgeous during the Fall months. My Mom's side of the family lives in Chattanooga.
I've wanted to see The Way Back now that I know what movie you're talking about. I love mostly comedies and action movies. My favorite movies are anything centered around WWII or French films. And I am going to tell everyone that you like girl movies!!
Haha I was thinking of Into the Wild as soon as you started talking about walking away and not returning. The movie and book are excellent. I love the soundtrack.
Kobe is having a bi-polar playoffs for sure. One game the rat face is on and he's in beast mode and the next game he'll score under 10 points for the first half. I don't know if we have a victory in us this season. Your Celtics are dominating...what what 4 and done.
In a few, Pepe Lepew!
Hey there, long time no see well sort of. I bet that Easter weekend kept you busy I know it kept me busy, whew and now all this rain blah.
ReplyDeleteOk but your Grandfather was a guard or something since he was a marine stationed there or was he already out of the armed forces. Either way its still cool cause that town was a part of a top secret government project. Dang, if only I knew earlier I would have asked you to help me with my calculus-based physics since your dad got you interested into science.
Yeah, my Grandfather was really good at coin tricks and he got put into a clown museum. I mean he isn't famous or anything, but the have some stuff of him when he was a part of the circus in Baraboo, WI. His clown name was Gee Whiz and he loved doing this stuff as much as much as ice fishing on Pewaukee Lake.
The polish side of me is my father, and on my mother's side is dominatly irish. If her side of the family was a tree some of the branches would look gnarled and jacked up big time. My Grandmother also said we had some ancestors back as far as the Revoloution and Civil wars. She even said we have some indian blood in us. A girl named America Maria, now the picture I've seen of her looks like any ol'regular white girl and sometimes its really hard to believe my Grandmother, but I really want to without all the hard evidence to back her claims. Maybe if I tried to contact a Mormon (you know since they keep records of everyones family history) they could sort it out, I dunno.
Memphis I love that town well 'cept for the crime and corruption, but besides that its great. I had two brothers that were born there and I went and saw Sesame Street on ice at the Pyramid when I was little.
I only go out East during the summer a lot because of bike season. I've been through Chattanooga twice once a night and the other right before tha sun came up when we were coming back from Atlanta, it was smokey going through those mountains and there were quite a lot of firework stands.
The Way Back is pretty good I like the ending, but everyone thinks its a bore just like Lord of the Rings movies you know because all the walking. I think there crazy cause those movies were awesome. Wow, I never knew a girl who liked action movies, awesome. Oh, since you like french films and (probably) don't mind subtitles have you seen Love Me If You Dare? I liked that movie.
You like Chris Mcandless too I think he was freakin incredible person. I absolutley loved the book, and I want to read the one his parents are releasing called Back To The Wild. You should read it too.
Yeah man my Celtics are on fire I think the apropriate song here would be Master P's "Make 'em say Ugh". Ya, UGGGGHHHHHHH UGGGGGHHHHHHHHH NA NA NA NAAAAAAAAA! That was great anyways yeah I really am rooting for your Lakers.
Peace out Fresh
Anonymous ME
Osama is dead. Lakers play tomorrow! Bet you can't guess which statement excites me more!! Haha It's the second one. How are you gonna let your Celtics lose to the Heat?!? Yall have to win so I don't have to watch Lebron play any more games this season. What about Memphis getting it?!? I'm impressed...and hopeful that they might do pretty well this year. Mavs better watch out cuz the rat face is on and Kobe is ready to play!
ReplyDeleteI have been loving this week b/c I'm super busy working subbing and Newk's and I am kind of pumped b/c tomorrow I sub for the Assistant Principal of the school. I hope they let me do super cool Principal-esque things! Haha
Are you stoked for summer yet? I can't wait for all this rain to be done and the beautiful weather be here to stay!
Well, adios!
Zup, freaking almost 2am I can't believe I still awake. Anyways sorry I haven't replied been busy with finals and the likes. Got another one in the morning and me up this late is totally unlike me. Yea the bad guy is gone, but what's up with the party at D.C. I mean it seemed kinda morbid don't you think. I know the guy was a mofo that deserved nothing but the end of a gun barrel sheesh me putting that down seemed a little sadistic. All I'm trying to say is that yeah its good that he is gone but the celebration of someone's death who's level are we on? I thought it kinda cool that he was killed on May 1 Hitler was also killed on May 1, coincidence? Ok enough of this crap I really don't like to talk about that kinda stuff.
ReplyDeleteYeah the Griz are lookin like they mean biz, but ugh what the hay is wrong with my celtics they need to do something pronto, lakers looking alright not to shabby. If anything goes wrong with the Cetic's I guess I'm gonna jump on the Griz bandwagon.
Cool the Assistant principal. So you almost the head honcho for a day ungh. What you going to do or what did you do? Whip bad kids, saturday schools, break any fights up? If I was assistant principal I would walk the halls with a mean mug face on like I was about to slap a detention on any kid that looked my way, ha. Anyway good luck.
Shikes we got a lot of water this past week, but the sun was shining today and I went for a bike ride with my bro. And thank Jesus that finals are almost over going out west this summer going to hit the west coast (Anahiem) the old road trip way for a while, never seen anything past Little Rock, Ark. Then when we get back taking a camping trip ( the one I was talking about ) with my bro down current river towards end of summer now though. What about you? Well right now its ungodly past my bedtime time for me to hit the sack.
Nightie noodle, kick a poodle
Anonymous ME
Lakers :(
ReplyDeleteI already was on the bandwagon for the Grizzlies since I was born in Memphis and my Mom used to share season tickets for them. I'll save you a seat in case yall can't get your act together.
California roadtrippin...awesome! My bestie (Maeg) and I have always wanted to do that. Roadtrips are just fun :D
I didn't actually get to impersonate the Assistant Principal...I was the gym teacher/coach for the day and it was awesome!! I am subbing there tomorrow and Tuesday as well.
I have my little sister's wedding this summer and other than that just school and randomness.
Adios amigo, eat a Cheeto