We each have a unique set of talents ... many of which often go undiscovered. But once you suddenly REALIZE you have a special talent -- THEN that talent has the immediate potential to blossom and grow!
Make sense? For example: If you have a hidden talent for inventing, but never tried to invent, would you ever boost your inventing skill? Of course not! But if you make a commitment to invent something, your potential suddenly shifts. Your Potential for Genius So here's a wake up call about something you may have overlooked about yourself: Your brain contains the seeds of genius. You have personal potentials so far beyond what you're are achieving today, it's virtually staggering! Yes. I am talking about YOUR amazing brain … and YOUR amazing yet-untapped potential!
Once you contemplate the following facts, your brainpower WILL be permanently altered. The new neural tracts that will be build while absorbing the implications of this knowledge WILL change your physical brain -- forever.
I can compare this to my personal experience walking on fire for the first time. You are NEVER again the same.
So take a few minutes and immerse yourself in the implications ofwhat follows. You are about to change your mind forever about who you are, and your natural potential for genius.
1. Your brain has an unlimited potential to learn. It absorbs an estimated 7 to 10 new pieces of information every second - and can continue to do so for the rest of your life, yet still have plenty of room left to learn more. And each time you have a new experience or learn something, your brain physically grows new inter-neural (brain cell) connections. Your brain is actually so growth-friendly, that this now has a new scientific term - “brain plasticity.”
2. Your cortex is wrinkled for a reason. Ever wonder why our grey matter is a mass of "wrinkles?" It's nature's answer to housing huge capacity. You have billions and billions of brain cells packed into your 3-pound brain. If all of your brain cells were laid out end-to-end, they would stretch at least 800,000 kilometers (496,000 miles). This is roughly the distance to the moon and back.
3. Your brain is not limited to your skull. Your intelligence is actually distributed throughout the cells of your body. The body-mind barrier does NOT exist. We are thinking beings on every level. There is even a current scientific theory that our brain is holographic - and is duplicated right down to a sub-molecular level. You (all of you) is intelligence in action!
4. You actually have TWO centralized brains. You have more brain cells in your second brain than you do in the portion encased in your skull. Where is that second brain? In your gut. And those two brains are connected by a huge nerve (the Vagus nerve) that carries messages back and forth between those two brains.
5. YOUR brain is as unique as your fingerprint. Of the six billion people currently living, and the ninety billion people who have ever walked the Earth, there has never been a brain quite like yours. YOU are truly unprecedented and totally unique. You are! Think about that!
6. Your brain is capable of unlimited thought patterns. Back in 1968 a student of the great scientist Pavlov shocked the scientific community when his research proved the smallest number of potential thought patterns an average brain can create is the number 1 -- followed by 10.5 million kilometers of typewritten zeros.
7. Intelligence has very little to do with your IQ score. Neuroscientists and neuropsychologists now know that IQ tests only measure very limited “rational and logical” thinking skills. Such skills are in many ways the most limited portion of your intelligence. We now know that there is also your emotional intelligence (EQ), and your all-important higher intelligence (HQ). And many researchers now identify as many as 25 sub-intelligences.
8. You can learn to think like Einstein. Recent research clearly demonstrated that the basic thing that set Einstein’s brain apart was the number of connections between his neurons. This is not a birth condition. Such a densely packed brain is actually created by challenging yourself mentally!
9. You are NOT born smart or dumb. Your intelligence is NOT fixed at birth. A recent in-depth review of more than 200 scientific studies of IQ performed by Bernard Devlin (published in the Nature journal) established that your genes account for only about 48 percent of your IQ. The remaining 52% percent is a function of your prenatal care, environment, and education. And, it should be added, this includes education at any age!
10. Your intelligence can be raised through appropriate training. Although your early upbringing and genetic background may predispose you to have certain natural talents -- many researchers have shown that intelligence scores can be raised significantly through appropriate training.
11. This knowledge has already changed your brain. Now here's a real surprise for you! Just reading this information created immediate synaptic changes in your brain. Now if you actually spend a little time contemplating what this information means to you, you will then immediately strengthen those new neural connections. And the stronger they get, the more easily they will override any old limiting thoughts you may have about your own mental potential!
Monday, 26 January 2009
Tuesday, 20 January 2009
Intelligence Gathering: The Study of How the Brain Evolves Offers Insight into the Mind
s there really life out there? Was a kinder, wetter Mars once dotted by bacterial blooms whose progeny now await our discovery? Do unseen, alien microbes swim in the buried oceans of Europa, Callisto, or Ganymede? What about Titan's sub-zero methane lakes?
We still don't know whether any of these nearby worlds houses living things. But the smart money is betting that there are countless alien landscapes, both around our star and others, where conditions are not only ripe for life, but biology has actually burst forth.
The odds for extraterrestrial life, in other words, are reckoned to be good.
But when it comes to intelligent life -- life that could invent science and technology -- the bookmakers hesitate. After all, the road to Homo sapiens was snaky. There were myriad forks in the evolutionary road, and not a few biologists have suggested that if the history of this planet had been only slightly different, humans would never have made the scene. Intelligence was a highly improbable accident, they say.
The only way to thoroughly disprove this rather conservative notion would be to find intelligence elsewhere. That's what SETI tries to do.
But there's another line of research that could give us important insights: we could investigate how species become intelligent. If the process that drives species to higher IQ depends on contingency and happenstance, we might infer that thinking is a rare talent. If not, then we can confidently expect plenty of sophisticated galactic brethren.
Regrettably, we still don't know how our own intelligence arose. What prodded our ancestors to evolve from simple simians to cogitating creatures? One theory says it was all a consequence of mating behavior that selected for reproductive fitness, but there are other possibilities.
As little as we know about our own intellectual history, we know even less about other, clearly brainy species, such as dolphins.
Correction: make that past tense. Some research just published by behavioral biologist Lori Marino (of Emory University and the SETI Insitute), together with her colleagues Dan McShea and Mark D. Uhen, has, for the first time, mapped out the intelligence of toothed whales and dolphins over the past 50 million years. This map may lead us to some real research treasure: uncovering just what it is that provokes evolution to select for high intelligence.
How could Marino and her team measure the IQ's of animals that breathed their last millions of years ago? She used what has become an accepted standard for gauging the intelligence of animals both dead and alive: the so-called 'encephalization quotient', or EQ. Simply put, this is the mass of the brain, as a fraction of body weight. If you have an average-sized brain for your body weight, then your EQ is one. If you have twice as massive a brain as the average species your size, then your EQ is two - and you move, if not to the head of the class, then at least a few rows forward.
For example, cougars, whose body weight is comparable to yours, have EQ's of one. Humans have an EQ of seven, which means that your brain is roughly seven times more massive than those of these big cats (which is why you can invariably beat them at Scrabble).
Marino's team spent four years prowling the dusty collections of museums, tracking down fossil crania of toothed whales and dolphins. They then determined their brain volumes with the help of computer tomography. The animals' weight was estimated by measuring the size of some of the bones where the spinal cord enters the skull, a parameter known to be strongly correlated with body mass. With data in hand, they could then compute the EQ's of more than 200 specimens, representing 37 families and 62 species.
What did they find? To begin with, cetaceans had a big jump in EQ about 35 million years ago, quadrupling from EQ = 0.5 to EQ = 2.1. No one knows what caused this cerebral shift, but one possibility is that it was the consequence of developing echolocation -- "seeing" their surroundings by voicing high-pitched chirps and analyzing the reflected sounds.
However, in the last 35 million years, these creatures have produced descendants with a wide range of EQ's, some quite average with EQ's around 1.0, and others with EQ's of 4 and 5, rather close to our own. Indeed, as Marino says, "The smarter cetaceans may not be far behind us; they can do a lot of the things that only humans and great apes can do. They might be a good example of a complex, but largely non-technological intelligence."
What does this show? We're not closely related to dolphins in an evolutionary sense. And yet they developed intelligence comparable to our own. That suggests that there is real survival value in intelligence, and that there are many ways that nature can produce it.
"Here you have four or five different animal groups that, from an evolutionary standpoint, are very different," says Marino. "But there's clearly a higher order selection effect that has created similarities in function. It might be the consequence of some aspect of social interaction."
"And keep in mind," Marino points out, "brains don't all just get bigger over time. You'd better have a very good reason for having a big brain, because they're metabolically very expensive. You'll have the brain that you need, no more."
But for those creatures inhabiting an ecological niche where intelligence pays off, it sounds as if high IQ's could be reached via many roads. "Cetaceans and primates are not closely related at all, but both have similar behavior capacities and large brains -- the largest on the planet. Cognitive convergence seems to be the bottom line."
So what about the likelihood of extraterrestrial intelligence? Marino waxes philosophical: "I think this research is a piece of the puzzle, although we still have a long way to go."
"It does tell us something about how intelligence developed on this planet, so the more we learn about that, the better we can estimate the likelihood of it developing elsewhere. And it also gives us a better understanding of what the range of possibilities is."
Humans are not the only brainy game in town. And that statement may extend to the cosmos.
We still don't know whether any of these nearby worlds houses living things. But the smart money is betting that there are countless alien landscapes, both around our star and others, where conditions are not only ripe for life, but biology has actually burst forth.
The odds for extraterrestrial life, in other words, are reckoned to be good.
But when it comes to intelligent life -- life that could invent science and technology -- the bookmakers hesitate. After all, the road to Homo sapiens was snaky. There were myriad forks in the evolutionary road, and not a few biologists have suggested that if the history of this planet had been only slightly different, humans would never have made the scene. Intelligence was a highly improbable accident, they say.
The only way to thoroughly disprove this rather conservative notion would be to find intelligence elsewhere. That's what SETI tries to do.
But there's another line of research that could give us important insights: we could investigate how species become intelligent. If the process that drives species to higher IQ depends on contingency and happenstance, we might infer that thinking is a rare talent. If not, then we can confidently expect plenty of sophisticated galactic brethren.
Regrettably, we still don't know how our own intelligence arose. What prodded our ancestors to evolve from simple simians to cogitating creatures? One theory says it was all a consequence of mating behavior that selected for reproductive fitness, but there are other possibilities.
As little as we know about our own intellectual history, we know even less about other, clearly brainy species, such as dolphins.
Correction: make that past tense. Some research just published by behavioral biologist Lori Marino (of Emory University and the SETI Insitute), together with her colleagues Dan McShea and Mark D. Uhen, has, for the first time, mapped out the intelligence of toothed whales and dolphins over the past 50 million years. This map may lead us to some real research treasure: uncovering just what it is that provokes evolution to select for high intelligence.
How could Marino and her team measure the IQ's of animals that breathed their last millions of years ago? She used what has become an accepted standard for gauging the intelligence of animals both dead and alive: the so-called 'encephalization quotient', or EQ. Simply put, this is the mass of the brain, as a fraction of body weight. If you have an average-sized brain for your body weight, then your EQ is one. If you have twice as massive a brain as the average species your size, then your EQ is two - and you move, if not to the head of the class, then at least a few rows forward.
For example, cougars, whose body weight is comparable to yours, have EQ's of one. Humans have an EQ of seven, which means that your brain is roughly seven times more massive than those of these big cats (which is why you can invariably beat them at Scrabble).
Marino's team spent four years prowling the dusty collections of museums, tracking down fossil crania of toothed whales and dolphins. They then determined their brain volumes with the help of computer tomography. The animals' weight was estimated by measuring the size of some of the bones where the spinal cord enters the skull, a parameter known to be strongly correlated with body mass. With data in hand, they could then compute the EQ's of more than 200 specimens, representing 37 families and 62 species.
What did they find? To begin with, cetaceans had a big jump in EQ about 35 million years ago, quadrupling from EQ = 0.5 to EQ = 2.1. No one knows what caused this cerebral shift, but one possibility is that it was the consequence of developing echolocation -- "seeing" their surroundings by voicing high-pitched chirps and analyzing the reflected sounds.
However, in the last 35 million years, these creatures have produced descendants with a wide range of EQ's, some quite average with EQ's around 1.0, and others with EQ's of 4 and 5, rather close to our own. Indeed, as Marino says, "The smarter cetaceans may not be far behind us; they can do a lot of the things that only humans and great apes can do. They might be a good example of a complex, but largely non-technological intelligence."
What does this show? We're not closely related to dolphins in an evolutionary sense. And yet they developed intelligence comparable to our own. That suggests that there is real survival value in intelligence, and that there are many ways that nature can produce it.
"Here you have four or five different animal groups that, from an evolutionary standpoint, are very different," says Marino. "But there's clearly a higher order selection effect that has created similarities in function. It might be the consequence of some aspect of social interaction."
"And keep in mind," Marino points out, "brains don't all just get bigger over time. You'd better have a very good reason for having a big brain, because they're metabolically very expensive. You'll have the brain that you need, no more."
But for those creatures inhabiting an ecological niche where intelligence pays off, it sounds as if high IQ's could be reached via many roads. "Cetaceans and primates are not closely related at all, but both have similar behavior capacities and large brains -- the largest on the planet. Cognitive convergence seems to be the bottom line."
So what about the likelihood of extraterrestrial intelligence? Marino waxes philosophical: "I think this research is a piece of the puzzle, although we still have a long way to go."
"It does tell us something about how intelligence developed on this planet, so the more we learn about that, the better we can estimate the likelihood of it developing elsewhere. And it also gives us a better understanding of what the range of possibilities is."
Humans are not the only brainy game in town. And that statement may extend to the cosmos.
Thursday, 15 January 2009
There's a trick to using the MacBook/Pro with the Lid Closed.
There's a trick to using the MacBook/Pro with the Lid Closed.Even thougt I dont't have it but I want to share. I discovered this morning throug internet that the differences between MacBook and MacBook Pro boot sequences were due to a difference in procedure. In other words, using Apple's procedure (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3131) for booting the MacBook when it's hooked up to the 24 inch display was causing a lot of the sleep/hang/disconnect problems we'd been experiencing. Here's the procedure I've been using with my MacBook Pro and the new LED display that gives me a clean boot up, i.e., the exact same experience I'd have if I were doing the whole thing on an iMac:
(1) With the machine off, hook up all your connectors to your MacBook/MacBook Pro(power, USB/keyboard/mouse, mini-Display Port).
(2) Slide the machine forward so you can crack open the display enough to reach the Power button on the MB/MBP.
(3) Push the Power button and IMMEDIATELY close the lid.
(4) Slide the MB/MBP into place.
If you've done this right, you'll get the grey boot screen you'd see if you were booting up the MB/MBP on its native display. This procedure will also work for both the MB/MBP whether the power connector for the notebook is hooked to it or not. You can use this procedure to boot and run the MB/MBP on its battery while using the LED and an external keyboard and mouse with it, helping to extend the notebook's battery life.
The trick to this is to push the power button enough to ensure the boot is occurring and then to get the lid closed as early in the boot sequence as you can. It might take you a few trials to get it right, but once you do, I think you'll find that using the MB/MBP with your new LED display will be the great, hassle-free experience you were looking for.
(1) With the machine off, hook up all your connectors to your MacBook/MacBook Pro(power, USB/keyboard/mouse, mini-Display Port).
(2) Slide the machine forward so you can crack open the display enough to reach the Power button on the MB/MBP.
(3) Push the Power button and IMMEDIATELY close the lid.
(4) Slide the MB/MBP into place.
If you've done this right, you'll get the grey boot screen you'd see if you were booting up the MB/MBP on its native display. This procedure will also work for both the MB/MBP whether the power connector for the notebook is hooked to it or not. You can use this procedure to boot and run the MB/MBP on its battery while using the LED and an external keyboard and mouse with it, helping to extend the notebook's battery life.
The trick to this is to push the power button enough to ensure the boot is occurring and then to get the lid closed as early in the boot sequence as you can. It might take you a few trials to get it right, but once you do, I think you'll find that using the MB/MBP with your new LED display will be the great, hassle-free experience you were looking for.
Tuesday, 13 January 2009
How to plan Income and Expense every month
How to plan Income and Expense Every month.
Here I want to share it to you which I cut from another blog
and I feel this is knowledge who can change our thinking.
Here we go..
1 Plan your income and expense every month
Starting right now, plan when you will get your salary, how much its amount, and when you will spend your money, what the posts and how much the amount of expenses. The plan called Budget.
In example, you will receive this much on your salary on 27th, then from that amount you will use this much for this expense, that amount for that expense, and so on. So, if you make a budget first, you will detect on the first place whether there will be deficit or not in the middle of the month. If yes, you can revise the budget to avoid deficit.
Composing budget is very easy. If you have already known the amount of average income and expense every month, you could also predict how much income and expense for the next coming months.
Budget function
Many people feels uncomfortable to draw up and have budget. They think budget is the same with restrain their shopping desire.
NO. The function of a budget is to inform if your expense surpass your income or not. If yes, you ocan revise the budget so deficit can be avoided.
But, if you do not have budget, you will be difficult to know if your family expense has surpassed the income. So, if there is deficit at the end of the month, you just realize it at that time, after all has happened.
IMPORTANT
Include saving in your budget. Usually people save their money later, after their money was spent. So, sometimes they cannot save their money because all of their money was spent for shopping.
Thereby, it would be better if saving is not included later but earlier. Therefore, when you draw up a budget, insert saving as one of the posts that you must do earlier, at least after you repay your loan.
# Do the plan strictly.
A plan is useless if it is not done. In here, plan of income and expense as much as Rp250,000, if you strictly obey and want to do according the budget, at the end of the month the discrepancy between income and expense of your family will be certainly figured out, namely Rp250,000.
Thereby, it would be easier to make another plan froward, because you have already known that every end of the month you surely have discrepancy of Rp250,000, which can be used for another purpose.
However, sometimes people, although have already made up a simple budget, is still unable to meet their budget. If he, i.e. allocated Rp500,000 per month for shopping, the figure could expand to Rp750,000.
This can be prevented with a harder system, namely 'envelope system'. If you have already drawn up a budget, you should allocate the amount right away according to each post. Each post is represented by one envelope. If the money in the envelope is empty, you don't have to try opening the other envelopes, because you have already known that budget for the related post has touched its limit. Envelope system is a little complicated, but perhaps it is the sacrifice that you should doso that you will not experience deficit. The most important, your expense now is more controllable.
Here I want to share it to you which I cut from another blog
and I feel this is knowledge who can change our thinking.
Here we go..
1 Plan your income and expense every month
Starting right now, plan when you will get your salary, how much its amount, and when you will spend your money, what the posts and how much the amount of expenses. The plan called Budget.
In example, you will receive this much on your salary on 27th, then from that amount you will use this much for this expense, that amount for that expense, and so on. So, if you make a budget first, you will detect on the first place whether there will be deficit or not in the middle of the month. If yes, you can revise the budget to avoid deficit.
Composing budget is very easy. If you have already known the amount of average income and expense every month, you could also predict how much income and expense for the next coming months.
Budget function
Many people feels uncomfortable to draw up and have budget. They think budget is the same with restrain their shopping desire.
NO. The function of a budget is to inform if your expense surpass your income or not. If yes, you ocan revise the budget so deficit can be avoided.
But, if you do not have budget, you will be difficult to know if your family expense has surpassed the income. So, if there is deficit at the end of the month, you just realize it at that time, after all has happened.
IMPORTANT
Include saving in your budget. Usually people save their money later, after their money was spent. So, sometimes they cannot save their money because all of their money was spent for shopping.
Thereby, it would be better if saving is not included later but earlier. Therefore, when you draw up a budget, insert saving as one of the posts that you must do earlier, at least after you repay your loan.
# Do the plan strictly.
A plan is useless if it is not done. In here, plan of income and expense as much as Rp250,000, if you strictly obey and want to do according the budget, at the end of the month the discrepancy between income and expense of your family will be certainly figured out, namely Rp250,000.
Thereby, it would be easier to make another plan froward, because you have already known that every end of the month you surely have discrepancy of Rp250,000, which can be used for another purpose.
However, sometimes people, although have already made up a simple budget, is still unable to meet their budget. If he, i.e. allocated Rp500,000 per month for shopping, the figure could expand to Rp750,000.
This can be prevented with a harder system, namely 'envelope system'. If you have already drawn up a budget, you should allocate the amount right away according to each post. Each post is represented by one envelope. If the money in the envelope is empty, you don't have to try opening the other envelopes, because you have already known that budget for the related post has touched its limit. Envelope system is a little complicated, but perhaps it is the sacrifice that you should doso that you will not experience deficit. The most important, your expense now is more controllable.
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