Emily Esfahani Smith.
I was wildly stirred the other day when I read that someone has written a book titled The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life that Matters.
Secret of the Gods Part 3
Final Song
Strong spine. Determined by the skeletal muscles that are attached to the bones.
Secret of the Gods Part 2
Second Song
In Part 1, I revealed that the secret is energy. And that ultimately, if we do this right, we should be brimming with energy in all our 16 waking hours per day.
So what is this energy?
Between choice and circumstance
Scenario – 2 people of similar background but one rises to the occasion while the other falls into despair. What would you attribute the cause to? Choice? Circumstantial/ contextual influence (i.e one person is being ‘lucky’ being at the right place, right time?). What is your belief of the scenario of what actually happened?
Ghosts Of The Past
Dealing with one’s past requires courage but it is the best way to move forward in life. Lucky are those who realized it earlier than later. The enlightenment is usually triggered by an external event or by a close relationship.
Grit, talent and effort
Every now and then by some chance encounters, I will meet some interesting characters. The recent friend I met is one that overcame adversity.
Syllogistic reasoning and dialectical thinking
How would you group these items into 2 distinctive groups, e.g. cow, chicken and grass. Which one comes natural to you? i.e. cow and chicken, cow and grass or chicken and grass? (click here for the post).
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Did the Chinese get the periodic table wrong?
The recent completion of the periodic table’s 7th row (elements 113,115,117 and 118) alongside elements 114 and 116 (discovered earlier) is no easy feat as this means we can expect greater understanding of our universe moving forward. Let us give them a couple of months to decide on the names and have some mini celebrations etc before meaningful works resume. As a baseline to compare, Mendeleev’s first periodic table in 1860s only identified 88 elements (talk about human progress!)
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Secret of the Gods Part 1
“Then the LORD God formed a man…and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.” Genesis 2:7(b)
Music can tell you about your personality
According to one research, we are exposed to music for nearly 20% of our waking lives. That’s like approximately 82K hours of music assuming you live for 70 years and sleep 8 hours per day. (70 years of life is about 600K hours of life).
Which of the following describes your taste in music?