This is truly the expression of a wide variety of charismatic characters.
The trend is story telling on video … yet you have brought eclectic impact.
As you said these are a bunch of people that do not hesitate to take the lead…pathfinders.
This is the reason that I searched for the live streaming and want to understand the trends. My innate curiosity and thirst for knowledge.
Real time info…your conference, Iran, a hug around Jerusalem,
The difference between watching the news and taking part in real time info is that it is real, by real people, less manipulated by the powers that be!
Communication taken to the next level and the ability to converse with anyone that is willing to do so.
My circle has increased; the ability to impact on the community, this connection has given us all infinite possibilities.
Jeff you are a visionary and I appreciate what you do.
Thanks for sending out this content.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Thursday, June 11, 2009
The right to search for happiness
Inspired by David Brooks and Gail Collins who wrote an article in the new York times called “Advice for High school graduates”
I have been trying to think of some wisdom I have acquired over the past three decades.
I used to believe life got better as you got older, but now I realize this is untrue. I grew up in a upper middle class suburb in South Africa. We lived in a diverse and well connected community. We all had help at home and everything that one needed to live an extremely comfortable life.
I, too, could mention to them that high school mediocrity is no impediment to leading a happy life. In fact formal education is not necessarily the thing that will bring a person success. I was an extraordinarily mediocre student. I did not graduate in the top third of my high school class. My school books were beautiful. The letters perfectly formed, illustrated with the eye of an artist and a person whose talents led to doing some sort of research.
Writing exams were not my thing and this is the point that brought my marks down. There wasn’t a kind of hysteria that I was not able to cope with exams and I went through school mostly happy but under performing.
Age, and life gave me a certain perspective that has enabled me to upgrade my skills enormously. I learned that I do not need permission to try something new, nor do I need to judge myself too harshly if I fail and carry on trying until I do achieve my goal. That is the point.
School did not teach me to be persistent. Life did!
But I don’t think this message would go over well with the current faculty, or with the younger brothers and sisters in the audience — or at least their parents.
“At the moment, I’m thinking of talking about the chief way our society is messed up. That is to say, it is structured to distract people from the decisions that have a huge impact on happiness in order to focus attention on the decisions that have a marginal impact on happiness.”David Brooks
How true a statement, in fact where to we learn that we have an innate right to happiness.
The most important decisions any of us make is who should be our friends, who we marry, how to choose a good profession and how to choose a good environment to work in. Yet there are no courses on how to choose these practical issues.
There are no Institutions of higher learning devote more resources to semiotics than all relationship and love.
The most important talent any person can possess is the ability to make and keep friends. And yet here too there is no curriculum for this.
What young people really need is a lesson in how to choose a spouse and how to make and keep friends. One needs relationship coaching and life skills more than one needs a university.
One needs to know how to use the internet …everything one needs to live and learn is there.
I have been trying to think of some wisdom I have acquired over the past three decades.
I used to believe life got better as you got older, but now I realize this is untrue. I grew up in a upper middle class suburb in South Africa. We lived in a diverse and well connected community. We all had help at home and everything that one needed to live an extremely comfortable life.
I, too, could mention to them that high school mediocrity is no impediment to leading a happy life. In fact formal education is not necessarily the thing that will bring a person success. I was an extraordinarily mediocre student. I did not graduate in the top third of my high school class. My school books were beautiful. The letters perfectly formed, illustrated with the eye of an artist and a person whose talents led to doing some sort of research.
Writing exams were not my thing and this is the point that brought my marks down. There wasn’t a kind of hysteria that I was not able to cope with exams and I went through school mostly happy but under performing.
Age, and life gave me a certain perspective that has enabled me to upgrade my skills enormously. I learned that I do not need permission to try something new, nor do I need to judge myself too harshly if I fail and carry on trying until I do achieve my goal. That is the point.
School did not teach me to be persistent. Life did!
But I don’t think this message would go over well with the current faculty, or with the younger brothers and sisters in the audience — or at least their parents.
“At the moment, I’m thinking of talking about the chief way our society is messed up. That is to say, it is structured to distract people from the decisions that have a huge impact on happiness in order to focus attention on the decisions that have a marginal impact on happiness.”David Brooks
How true a statement, in fact where to we learn that we have an innate right to happiness.
The most important decisions any of us make is who should be our friends, who we marry, how to choose a good profession and how to choose a good environment to work in. Yet there are no courses on how to choose these practical issues.
There are no Institutions of higher learning devote more resources to semiotics than all relationship and love.
The most important talent any person can possess is the ability to make and keep friends. And yet here too there is no curriculum for this.
What young people really need is a lesson in how to choose a spouse and how to make and keep friends. One needs relationship coaching and life skills more than one needs a university.
One needs to know how to use the internet …everything one needs to live and learn is there.
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