4 Ideas You Weren't Taught in School

          4 Ideas you weren’t taught in School.

                                                                           By Zane Smith

                This won’t be another attack on our academic system. This WILL be a crash course on painfully practical topics you and I weren’t offered in class. Through the past few decades the system has absorbed some streetwise curriculum that are, at times, even required. Life Management Skills, Sex Ed, Critical Thinking , etc… [Even with] the additions in curriculum, a star pupil will still feel like some gold mine of information was left out when he/she finally enters the grown-up arena.

                Here are four simple lessons that would have opened our eyes years sooner. This list is not the end all be all, I’m sure there are buckets of street-smarts we could all have benefited from.

Lesson 1

Free thinking

                Almost nothing you ever read or hear from another person will be entirely factual.

Opinions aside, nearly all information we spew at each other is dripping with bias and miscommunications. Sprinkle some emotional attachment on that, and you’ve got a good old fashion soap-box-sandwich.

                You read an article in the news stating a local political official is being accused of embezzlement and fraud. GASP! My precious tax dollars! Another entry just beside it says local high-dollar lawyers have been roaming around throwing important people’s names in the dirt with no evidence to back up the allegations. GREAT SCOT! THE POLITICAL GUY IS INOCCENT!

Get the point? This is where the saying “two sides to every story” spawns from. People may be telling you the truth, but leave out the parts they don’t like, and capitalize on the items they do, giving a lopsided spin. Not even your expensive text books or crusty grandmother are 100% real.

This might dismay you into believing there is just so much bullshit the truth is not worth digging for. But Lo! The facts are present! We usually just need to clean off the glup and grime of human interjection to harness them.

Keep an OPEN MIND , be a POSITIVE SKEPTIC , don’t believe all the niose.

Lesson 2

Mistakes are good

                Mistakes show you what doesn’t work so you can develop as a person. Live and learn.

                Getting an F on an important test sure doesn’t seem like a good thing. But the positivity comes from the way you respond to the mistake. Remain the same, or change your behavior to make sure the flub doesn’t recur. Those are essentially our options.

                A laser guided missile uses a computer to constantly calculate where its current trajectory will take it. If the predicted destination is off, it makes the slight adjustments to ensure success. The projectile runs this program loop thousands of times before it decimates the bullseye; victory. The human brain operates on the same principles: “Ouch, that stove is hot. In the future, I’ll refrain from setting my hand on a stove.” Pain>>Learn>>Grow.

Now if you’ll all turn to chapter 2, you’ll read that all failures are opportunities to grow. Next time there is a test, try cracking the book open for a couple of minutes the night before. Then maybe your F will turn to a C, and you would’ve gain a little bit o’ book learnin.

Lesson 3

Entrepreneurship          

                You don’t have to work for your money, you can make your money work for you. Working for somebody else is not your only option. You live in a country that is powered by, and promotes Free Enterprise. Business owners (and investors) are the wealthiest people in the world.

Tell me if this sounds familiar: get good grades in high school; go to a good university; get a good job; 401K your way to retirement at 65. Life succeeded! Right?

Wrong. I’m not saying this is a bad route to travel, but understand that people you see with million dollar homes and Ferraris didn’t get those things by following the formula above. Maybe 1% of them did, all of them CEOs at top corporations. But you know what those CEOs don’t have? Time to enjoy their mansions and supercars.

People fall into 4 sectors of money making, according to market guru Robert Kyosaki: Employment, Self-employment, Investing, and Big Business. The first two eat up your clock, the last two make you wealthy, if you play your cards right.

But we don’t hear this in school do we? We are asked “what do you want to be?”, when we should be hearing “how do you want to live?”

Lesson 4

Shit Gets Real  (Ladies, pardon the French)

                Life is not a T.V. show. Sometimes the girl gets away, the main character loses, or the ending isn’t happily ever after. This is OK because life goes on. It’s all good.

Most of us who have walked the Earth for more than 15 years already learn this intuitively, but in modern western civilization we can be coddled all throughout high school and college. We feel safe inside our warm cocoon of student-ness.

But eventually metamorphosis leaves the egg. The cosmos snaps back and shows it’s seemingly chaotic side. As a wise man once said: “in life, there is suffering”. This may seem very stoic and negative, however undeniable. There’s also a lot of happiness and rainbows, but that isn’t the problem, is it?

The point is to recognize the universe is not necessarily always on your side, and when it shows you this, you will probably not enjoy it. “Things don’t always work out”, “life isn’t fair”, “dog eat dog”, “box of chocolates”….the list goes on. But in the end it’s all good.

                This Lesson list is incomplete, I’m sure. I hope that what I did provide gave you some insight and practical knowledge for the days ahead. And if not: shit happens.

Yours Truly

Zane Smith

Gen Y in Space

                                                                                      By Simon S.

                Apart from sounding like a low budget Sci-Fi Original, this topic is going to be more relevant as time unravels, possibly making George Lucas look like Nostradamus.

                                                       MARS ONE

"Large living quarters are over-rated"

                In 2011, a team of people devised a plan of Inter-stellar proportions to make Mars a new home. According to the mandate, humans will be living (permanently) on the Red Planet by 2023, after which new groups of four will be sent every two years.

 The people who will be sent are most likely to be from Gen Y. Because of our age now, we will be seasoned enough to offer valuable experience, but still spry to manage the frights of space travel.

               This is the part where we all say “then what?” We’ve successfully colonized our neighboring rock with a few dozen souls. Why are we doing this and how will it benefit the Human race?



*Virgin Galactic™ is not liable for any

cosmic Radiation you may absorb.



               I don’t know! All I know is your children may be taking an internship on Mars before you know it. YOU might even mozy on over to the planet for a job or vacation. When you see those commercials for a luxury stay at the Martian Marriot, you’ll know I wasn’t just blowing cosmic smoke up your Astral Disc.

               

 

BEYOND THE SOLAR SYSTEM

                There are Planets we’ve been eyeing for over a hundred years that could potentially harbor and sustain Human life. It is very likely that the generations directly proceeding us will be born on other celestial bodies. Mankind may call quite a few planets home by that time; maybe Earth no longer one of them.

Most of these planets look cozy on the outside, but it takes only one small factor for them to be uninhabitable.

Planet: Gliese 667Cc! Perfect we’ll take it! Oh what’s that? It’s 4 times the size of the Earth? Hmmm… that would make the effect of gravity on this planet equal to giving a 400lb ape a piggy back ride on Earth.

Each "fiber" represents a string of hundreds of millions of Galaxies. The bright spots are Super Clusters.
Where's Waldo?

                So the search continues, but soon enough we will discover a Terrestrial-like planet, and the means to beam over to it.

                The days of “the whole World” being confined to our pale blue dot are numbered. We are headed out to the cosmos at warp-speed, and expanding the grasp of Human-kind to unknown worlds.

~Simon S.

Don't Be a Rebel, You Conformist!

                                                                        By Tony Y.
                                                                                 

It leaves a tart flavor in my mouth to bear a title so crass, but you know it’s true.

People want to be unique. We all understand that scientifically speaking no two human beings are exactly the same (even identical twins), but somehow that isn’t enough for a majority of us, and we push for grander, more apparent differences.

We are attracted to renegades because they’re hip and romantic. Not soap opera romantic, but Charlie-Sheen-in-Ferris-Bueller’s-day-off romantic. (See below)

Are we mavericks because we dress glitzy or disrespect authority? Colored hair? Gauged ears? Black coffee? Tight pants? “Underground” music?

 

No!

 

I have nothing against any of these lifestyles, except when we trick ourselves into believing these actions and veneers turn us rebel.

This style of “fighting the system, man” is a trend. The clothes, attitude, and demeanor all morph over time, but every generation has its counter-culture of choice.

BEING A TRUE MOLD-BREAKER

What follows is a quote from SLC Punk, another movie with confused young people and innocence lost, but with tremendous heart and wisdom.

 

Brandy: “Wouldn't it be more of an act of rebellion…if you didn't spend so much 

time buying blue hair dye…and going out to get punky clothes? It seems so petty.” ”…You wanna be an individual, right? You look like you're wearing a uniform. You look like a punk. That's not rebellion. That's fashion.”

Steve-O: “Then what's rebellion?”

Brandy: “Rebellion happens in the mind. You can't create it. You just are that way.”

IT’S IN THE MIND

Spoiler Alert: do things because you want to.

Chasing a movement of flair and fashion is not wrong. But assuming that assimilating with that crowd will make you untraditional is right out. Having loud jackets and kaleidoscopic locks makes you something, but not rebellious. Wear those holey jeans because you like to. Dye your hair red because it’s your favorite color. Drink black coffee because cream and sugar isn’t your fancy. Do things because you want to.

Another pertinent quotation from the movie-box:

 

Troy: “Let me ask you something. People have been clowning me about this jacket since I got here. But if I take it off to make them happy, I’m weak, right?”

Jeff :(shrug) “Troy, what’s it matter. You lose the jacket to please them, you keep it to piss them off...either way, it’s for them, that’s what’s weak.”

 

SIDE NOTE

This has the potential to fold back on itself, when we ask “what if I want to be a conformist?”

            My answer: Go for it. If you are at peace with your intentions, then who is anyone (especially me) to tell you off?

            Moral of the story?  Be yourself. Cliché as a love poem about the Moon, I know. But as wise man George Watsky once said “...stereotypes start with a grain of truth, clichés begin with a boulder”

Yours Truly,

Tony Y.

Being Extraordinary

                                                                              By Jake F.

You want to be the superhero of your field, but your Genie lamp hasn’t found you yet. Fear not! Radioactive spiders or child-prodigy status are not necessary in clinching the title of awesome in anything you do.  The answer you are looking for is much more mundane: time & energy.

                Before you Einsteins debate me that time is energy, or that literally everything requires the two ingredients, hear me out.

The Method

 

                Now I'm not talking about being really good at what you do, I'm talking about being freakishly phenomenal. You may even get to the point where people know you by name. Tiger, Beyonce, Lennon, Jordan.

There is a scant observed formulary for achieving elite standing in any vocation: 10,000 Hours of practice. According to research by braniac Dr. K. Anders Ericsson of Florida State University, this many hours training in any single discipline will inaugurate you to Commander and Chief of your work. Bill Gates, The Beatles, Wayne Gretzky, Jimi Hendrix, and countless others have all fallen down that 10,000-hour rabbit hole, for the better.

                Before you begin fleshing out a healthy time-diet to acquire the needed hours to lock in your stardom, here are some common trumps to avoid.

Trumps to avoid

                Kicking a soccer ball against the side of a building every week for 40 hours will not make you Beckham in five years. You will just be really good at passing to a wall. The point is you need to practice correctly.  A great fencing Master once said “Practice does not make perfect, it makes permanent.”  Makes sense right?

 To sidestep wasted time and energy you need two things: first, you need to push yourself, and second, you must have coaching/instruction.

Growth

Pushing yourself to grow in your arena will offer you well-rounded skills. The guy from before who kicked a ball dumbly for five years didn’t push himself. That may have been a great starting point for a beginner, but after a while we all need to move on.

 

Mentorship

Finding guidance is more intuitive. It could be anything from a coach in sports or music, to reading a book about your topic of interest .This is essential because you need to know what your mistakes are and in what direction you should strive for next. If I may run our soccer analogy to the dirt, a deft coach may have had the idiot practice running with the ball or passing to teammates. Mentorship is pretty duh when you think about it. Assistance or instruction could mean merely going to school and learning about the subject or your passion.

 

So if your goal is to be on the A-list of your game, make out a weekly plan to harness this success law. It could be 20 hours a week, for 10 years, or 40 hours a week for 5. You have the freedom to choose the path, just remember to work your tail off.

 

Yours Truly,

Jake F.

Why Gen Y Rules The World

                                                                                                                                By Jim M.

If you popped out of your mother after 1977, there is a solid chance you rule the world. You are a Millennial (Gen Y). Culture, Trends, the economy… they are all your playthings. Let me expound. 

SIZE

Generation Y engrosses a fat 20% of all people in our Western jungle. This makes us 70+ million firm. I drag this to attention foremost because it assists in understanding our totality of influence.

TRENDS

Music, fashion, technology, food, cars… What do these have in common? They trend like the ebb and flow of a Shakespearean sonnet. And who doth scribe this sonnet?

You do.

It’s in vogue to boast the new badge of “Millennial Club”. Nothing is fresh unless we say so, and because we talk, text, and Facebook like manic squirrels, what’s hot and popping waves through the pipes faster than Tetris on level 80. Regardless of what is trending, you decide it. Wall Street titans anxiously predict where we will dump money next. Throwback shoes? Bands nobody has heard of? $5 sunglasses?  SO ten minutes ago Mr. Market.

ECONOMY

The financial resources of this society are in the palm of your hand. We are the Chi behind the Kung-Fu-Punch of modern consumerism (Remember all those industries we chirped about in Trends?).

According to the Motion Picture Association of America(2011) , our age group amasses 30% of all movie goers, and 50% of all “frequent” cinema junkies.

I could gang a posse of statistics like these, but you know how to Google. My point is, the big-money-brands follow your lead more closely than any other demographic.

VALUES

It makes no difference what your morals are. Understand that your children’s values will be guided by your beliefs, similar to how your ideas came about.

You have the wheel. Generation Y will doubtlessly intercept the reigns of society and culture. They will not be the Xerox of what we inherited, but isn’t that the point?

Enjoy the view from the top, and never disquiet your aptitude to mold the future.

Yours truly,

Jim M.

Gen Y: The Positive Skeptic

                                                                          By Matthew L.

This topic rides hand in hand with a previous blog : Open Mindedness. I won’t get into that now.

What is a “positive skeptic”? It means you are a lover of the truth, but you don’t spend your time trying to disprove everything. Let me explain.

I used to think being skeptical meant being cynical, or critical. But this is not true. Skepticism is simply not assuming that you know everything. We’ve all had those moments where the science teacher states: “One hundred bajillion Earths could fit inside of the Sun.”  Wow! That’s a lot! Wait a second…is that even a real number? Your first instinct might lean toward agreeing. Often times we accept information as uncensored truth, and this is hardly the case. Even the well meaning geology instructor could have misinterpreted an article or blurb on the internet.

As people, we often tell others what we “know” to be true. We say it with zest and enthusiasm, and they believe us. Later we may find we were incorrect! Albert Mehrabian’s “7% - 38% - 55% rule” tells us that only 7% of our communication is based on the content of what we say. The other 93% is body language and tone. Essentially, this means we are susceptible to trust people based on things that can have nothing to do with what they are actually saying. This is something we must be on our toes about. I don’t mean to call people liars, not at all. I want you to be aware that there are other things going on in your mind when you choose to accept news.

If you honestly enjoy knowing real data, hard facts, and general truth, then you will keep an open mind and a skeptical heart. Going out of your way to be a devil’s advocate is NOT being skeptical, only pessimistic. Also avoid researching a subject to get confirmation. If you want to find out if the president is a liar, don’t Google search “Barack Obama lies.” You will obviously find what you are looking for, truth or not.

Yours Truly,

Matthew L.

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How To: Work All Day, Party All Night

                                                                       By James M.

Draw a line, remain honest with yourself, and have your goals and dreams clear in front of you, all the time. Partying is not inherently evil. Just like video games aren’t. However both can be used as tremendous time wasters, and thus life ruiners. You have to assess what you want out of your life. If partying will get in the way, then I suggest that you keep it to a minimum. For those of us that want it as a regular part of our time diet, then I have some more tips for you. I’m not passing on this knowledge out of intuition. I know because I made the mistake of ignoring all of the tips I’m giving you now. I would “cross the line” just before work, or during. I was without a goal or purpose. And worst of all I frequently lied to myself about having an issue at all.

                          

Draw the line. This is important, because it is the difference between an addict and a partier (sorry for the seriousness). Showing up to work stoned is not the end of the world, just possibly a poorly thought out decision, depending on your circumstances. But being wasted, plastered, baked, ripped, torn, up-for-three-days-manic, “oh Zeus please strike my creative cortex with a flash of brilliance that will keep me home from work today” sort of mind set  is crossing the line. At least it is for me. There is no defined line, except the one you define for yourself. If you think being extremely intoxicated at work is acceptable, then who am I to judge. The thought is that having a line that you never cross is an asset that will keep you in the clear. It’s like wearing certain cloths at appropriate events. You wouldn’t show up to a funeral with your pajamas on, and you wouldn’t show up to work with your club fit on. The First Rule of “getting down”, is knowing when to get up. Having Self discipline is no easy task, but so worth it.

Practical tips:

-Make an alarm on your phone. This will be when you have previously decided (under NO influence) the moment to stop drinking, smoking, drugging, raving… what ever, and go home! Drugs are a special case. Sometimes the effect lasts quite a while. Be aware of this. Also give yourself a time to be in “work mode”. During this time you will remain sober and focused (again, within your own guidelines. I’m not your mother). I don’t care if all you can think about is getting off work. That’s natural, and controllable. Just please make sure you are responsible, punctual… all that jazz.

-Your “line” is probably going to change over the course of your work-party spree, as you learn more about what you can handle. I am a big fan of tweaks. Maybe you realize you can sleep in a little later and still make it to work on time, or that the alarm you set before is not going so well. The sweet spot is whatever works, so don’t stick stubbornly to one way when there is a possibility it could be improved.

Be honest with yourself. There will be a time when you are drunk/tired/well-off and having so much fun, you look down at your phone, and oh bummer, its already time to call it quits. But I just started!! I know I know, its sucks having your cake and eating it too. This is when you will have to summon the power of trust. That is, trusting you. You set that alarm yourself! Don’t you think you are a trustworthy person? If you don’t listen to you, how can you ever expect anyone else to? Trusting you stems from being honest with yourself. So you say “naaaah I can drink till 4 am, I don’t have to be at work until 8 am”. Ok, try that on for size. Hmmm… What’s that? You showed up to work on time, but you still smell like alcohol, and you have a restless hangover that would cripple superman. Hey, if you can function normally, your job doesn’t suffer and the boss is ok, by all means, 4 am all week baby. But for the normal human being, that’s a little much. (Did I mention you got only a few hours of sleep? That’s hardly sustainable, for more than a few days, trust me) Point being, be honest, be realistic.  Then when the time comes and you question a past decision you made, (and it isn’t obviously incorrect) you can safely say, “I trust myself”, and follow your own lead.

Practical Tips:

 -Plan ahead! You will be among the worlds most brilliant minds if you do this one simple thing. If by nature you’re a “go with the flow” sort of person, then plan a time when you can safely be blasé.

Lastly, have clear goals. If partying is killing your dream, then it isn’t for you! But if partying does mesh with your life goals and ambitions, then ROCK ON. In Dr. Maxwell Maltzs’ book The New Psycho Cybernetics, he explains how the human brain is like a laser guided missile. It is locked in on a target, and must constantly correct itself. It literally makes thousands of mistakes, and still nails the target, within maybe a few feet (who cares? It’s explosive!) If a laser guided missile has no target, it is a large dumbbell. Don’t be a large dumbbell. Find your goals and dreams. Excuse me for the cliché, but it’s so true. This will also help you in making the decisions of when to party, and when to work (your line). Are you going to have time to build that business if you always spend time watching the games and BS-ing with friends? If so, how much? Maybe your goal is not completely life encompassing yet. Maybe you just want to move to New York or something. Move out, get a car. The idea is you tailor your partying time according to how much your goals can afford you. If you party all the time, then expect to reach none of your goals (unless they have something to do with partying!)

Practical tips:

-Find out what you want. It doesn’t need to be a Life-goal, as I said before.  The main thing is to have one, and to work toward it.

-Don’t miss out on fun to do nothing. When you decide a bash with friends is too lacking in productivity, make sure you actually fill those spare hours with something that is!       

    

-Write down your goals, think on them, and solidify them into your cranium constantly.

-View your mistakes as learning opportunities to make you more awesome.

           

Yours Truly,

James M.

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Open Mindedness And Gen Y

                                                            By John S.

Open mindedness is a beautiful thing. How does it pertain to our generation? First we shall define what that means. There is a myth that being open means that you are bisexual, you take drugs and want them legal, you are pro choice, you believe in aliens…etc. This is a fallacy. No specific opinion makes you more accepting or open. Only having tolerance and respect for the opinions of others, while being receptive to new ideas that may change your current perspective. Liberal, Conservative, Anarcho-Primitivist… it makes no difference.

So how does this pertain to you?

This era of young minds is more connected than anyone else. We’ve discussed this before, so I won’t belabor the topic. Globalization created a deep diversity of people being able to communicate with each other. That means you have friends from all over the world, of different colors, cultures, and creeds. Because we are surrounded by diversity, we don’t think Asian food is weird or Mexican dancing odd. If you live in an urban zone, you understand this intuitively. Gen Y has the privilege of living in a time when variation is embraced and encouraged. With every new trend there are those that follow it, are neutral, and openly loathe it. Neither side is correct. Your dad thinks that guy you know with gauges in his ears is strange, but it means nothing more to you than if he were wearing a tie-dye t-shirt.

Now, I’m sure you find some things a little far out to comprehend (gauges maybe?), and that’s ok. Remember that you aren’t required to enjoy someone or something to have an open mind. Just be ok with the fact that people are dissimilar. I’m positive your ideas and lifestyles are peculiar to at least one other person. Keep that in the front of your mind the next time you see a nudist on T.V. (or in a café).

That was a joke. You catch my drift.

Yours Truly,

John S.

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Why And How Gen Y Connects

                                                                          By Mark H.

Nothing has been used more frequently (other than when we were born) in describing our Generation than “connected”.  Hell, we literally invented social networking. But it goes much deeper than poking a friend of a friend that was tagged in the same photo album you were once. I’m not against it, let’s just be real for a hot second. Why are we so connected?  Even if you’re that guy that stays at home all day and night surfing the web, I bet my right hand you are on forums and message boards peering at what others write and, dare I say it, posting comments! Yes, this indeed is another way we connect. My point here is this: no matter who you are, you long for human connection. This age, the information age, has given us the glorious high-speed internet, cell phones, and far out computers. These things make it way easy to click-click-type our way into a conversation, or base relationship with someone living who knows where. We are connected because we have the tools, and we have the desire.

How We Connect

We are catching on that Facebook and others are the new mingling, but creates no real value in relationships. It is a great way to accent an existing one, but not to exclusively establish the new. You meet an old friend at a party, hey it’s all good, but you don’t make old friends in the time span of a few drinks or a house rave (Unless you have some serious life-story-telling skills that I should know about). We are constantly on our toes about that true “relationship”, and keep our hunters eye out for it. Let’s not get too deep though. When I say “relationship” I don’t necessarily mean dating. You have a relationship with your Starbucks barista, even if only for a short time every few days (or hours). You have an accord with your parents, your friends, maybe your dog or cat. You find common ground with someone (or something?), and you spend time there. The best example that comes to mind is sports fans. Seeing a peer with your teams’ jersey on instantly puts Him or Her on your good side. Now you have something to gab and laugh over. Try to think of just one friend that has nothing in common with you. I’ll wager against it. Now that you are aware how you connect, you can refine your skills and make new friends more seamlessly…or not.

Yours Truly,

-Mark H.

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Being Generation Y, And What That Means

                                         By Paul M.

We are awesome. We are young and dynamic. We are Generation Y: The quasi-technical term for people under thirty (or so).  But what does that actually mean? Ok so we were born in the late 80’s early 90’s, but this gives no real connection or definition. Being of this generation myself, I will explain exactly what it means. I may not cover the whole truth in one short article, but nothing I say will be irrelevant to every one of you.

So as a Gen Y-er, we are connected, friendly, social, slightly insecure (like everyone), open-minded, nostalgic, smart, spacey, ambitious, fun, out to have a good time, real sort of nerd-hippie do-over’s with more brain cells and nicer clothes. We are also more presentable and thus harder to spot. (Keep up the good work my friends) we are like chameleons, adaptable, and flexible. We get a kick out of that stuff others call trouble, we enjoy the spicy things in life; risk. And if none of these attributes describe us, then we long to make it so they do. We think we know it all, because we do! But we don’t, and that’s a flaw. We are open-minded enough to think we don’t know everything, but we aren’t sure if we don’t know everything, because we don’t know if we know or don’t know that we know or not. This creates uncertainty. And that’s what I think sums us up, and almost explains our actions. We are uncertain, so we “drink our drinks” (wink wink) and have a good time, because the s*** could hit the fan at anytime. It might not though, so we blend in and become those day-walking vampires that come out at night and hunt for our answers, scattering and scurrying all over each other like our destiny is hiding inside the person we haven’t met yet. It isn’t, probably, but it’s there some where. Waiting to be found, waiting to be bitten and devoured. Some of us lurk the internet and find ourselves Google-ing things like “what is the meaning of life?”,” what should I do if…”, or other life questions.

Now I understand every generation has had this “uncertainty”, but ours is different, much different, because it’s happening NOW. Also, because our societies’ “progression” (tech, knowledge, self-understanding) telescopes forward. It changes faster and faster. That whole “exponential growth” thing all networking guru’s get hot and bothered talking about. It’s beginning to reach a crescendo, my friends; a deafening roar is just over the horizon, rolling its beautiful, chaotic wave right this way, and we feel it.

How does this help me? Maybe some of this is applicable to my life, now what?

I wouldn’t lie to you; I don’t know. I don’t know what will work in your life or in your mind, but I do know what has worked and is working in mine. After all, isn’t that all we can really share with each other? Our personal experiences?

I plan to continue this blog and record those for you. My hope is to help you understand the times you live in and more importantly, understand yourself, if that’s your MO.

Goodbye for now friends

-Paul M.

P.S. - Apologies for not having any pretty pictures this time, my computer is acting up.