Being brilliant every single day.

Dr. Watkins connects to what I have read in Brain Rules - stress affects learning.  Our physiology, the pressure it perceives, affect our ability to process information and our thinking.  He says its a DIY lobotomy of the frontal cortex - much closer to evolutionary adaptation when the brain becomes binary in its function - fight/flight or play dead when confronted with threat.

A 200,000 year old software but we did not get the upgrade.  200k years after, our brains still function the way it perceives threat in the environment, the necessity for survival.

Breathe Rhythmically And Through the Heart Everyday - to get to the mid point but have to stay on the positive side and move people towards it.

So it's not just whether one has adrenaline (psyched) or ach-acetylecholine (relaxed) but also whether one is positive (DHEA-dihydroendeansterum--the elixir of youth) or negative emotional state (hormone cortisol).  see 23.35 of video (wonderful schema of performance).

Really brilliant insights.

How much is required of oneself - the challenge of leadership

One blogger wrote, "the work of a ... is as challenging as you want it to be.  If you want just to "maintain" then the load can just be normal and time required would just be much less.  However, if you want to do great things, it will have to take more time."

Aptly describes most situations I find myself in.  Once the vision and the passion merge, the challenges mount, and... I'm back to being the old man in the ugly mountain.

Nonetheless, they do not flatten mountain these days.  China, where the story came from, in fact showed the way by converting mountains into resorts.  Hotels at the summit of the world.  If the Himalayas were in China, they would have already built a hotel on it's peak.

The way to fire up self esteem is to have only yourself as benchmark or goal to beat-- what i was compared what i am.

measurable goals.

take up a challenge and succeed in it. then compare yourself, then and now, as a result of that achievement.

whew. August 3 is such a day!  it seems doing or accomplishing a lot of work means getting more work or new tasks unaccomplished.

Children are such images of innocence.  i got duped by jules just a while ago.  he said he'd buy a watch and asked for a hundred peso only to return with a baller band. huhum.

INFOwhelm

overwhelmed by information.

we just have so much information and so easy access to it. 500 exabytes of digital output! 500 billion gigabytes in all. wow!

What skills would we need in this kind of world we now live in?  What skills should education impart on students?

Punishment for mistakes in the exercise of Political power

Recently, we saw the film "singham", bollywood of course.  What was funny in the film is the punishment given to people who are in power who, in this case, singham's superior officer, did not exercise power according to what is just and honest.  Well, the idea stands a lot of relevance in this country where political power is used to enhance economic power, an endemic habit of the ruling class.  Singham kicked his superior in the butt, literally kick! The other personnel, singham's colleagues in the police force, also had their chance at kicking the bosses butt.

Consequence served well, I should say.  Had this been done to Gloria Arroyo, it would have made a good statement to political leaders. Arroyo admitted to at least the mistake of having called Garcillano during her election into power, she said sorry in national tv! But then, that was it.  There was no closure to it, so the sincerity remained questioned. That means she just said it in order to appeal to sympathy.

If she was really truly sorry for that mistake, she could have volunteered herself for butt kicking by anyone in Comelec. Sounds good di ba?  When people see that, then her sincerity is believable!

Any other political leader who follows would then be wary about making abuses of public trust, right?

Roanne Red.aim. Chubby faced girl, now on her second year and active.