Sunday, March 31, 2019

Stay ahead of the curve by preparing for success

Mountain climbing is a sport that requires careful forethought, appropriate gear as well as physical and intellectual preparation. Acclimatization prevents insomnia and ensures motivation and fitness. At high altitude, where the weather can shift in an instant, waiting for the best conditions can make the difference between life and death. Mistakes resulting can be deadly.

Deviations from our habits can be taxing. The diagnosis of a terminal disease, loss of a loved one may take a long time to fully accept. Adjusting to personal and career changes requires saving money, intellectual or physical training, planning, and forethought. Even winning the lottery or getting a promotion takes a psychological adjustment. Do not let the sense of inadequacy derail your plans.

Summiting Mount Everest is a significant challenge. Likewise, life’s significant changes require many months or even years of intellectual development. In sports, music, and the arts, years of preparation produces a professional performance. That preparation effectively reformulates the mind. Performing at a high level in any field requires confidence, which takes time to build.

ACCLIMATIZATION Acclimatizing to your field of interest is a time-consuming but essential step. Without proper preparation, insufficient confidence will demoralize and collapse your ambitions. Start big projects slowly and increase your confidence by accomplishing simple tasks. Experiencing failure uncovers the areas that need more work. Like ascending a high mountain, gradual advancement allows you to adopt the mindset and habits of your field. For example, writers must get into the habit of writing regularly, preferably every day. Artists must set aside time to sketch daily.

Schools' curriculums develop professional and personal confidence gradually. When graduates receive their diploma, students suddenly become doctors, engineers, or teachers. Faith in their expertise is supplied on a piece of paper with nice lettering and the signatures of influential people. The many small victories of achievement over years of hard work gradually transformed the temporal field, which allows the confidence of an expert at the time of graduation.

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Thursday, March 14, 2019

How to prepare for change

THE TEMPORAL FIELD Deviations of the temporal field, which forms our psychology, can be taxing. The diagnosis of a terminal disease, loss of a loved one may take a long time to fully accept. Adjusting to personal and career changes requires saving money, intellectual or physical training, planning, and forethought. Even winning the lottery or getting a promotion takes a psychological adjustment. Do not let the sense of inadequacy derail your plans.

Schools' curriculums develop professional and personal confidence gradually. When graduates receive their diploma, students suddenly become doctors, engineers, or teachers. Faith in their expertise is supplied on a piece of paper with nice lettering and the signatures of influential people. Over the years, the many small victories of achievements gradually transformed the mind, giving it the confidence of an expert at the time of graduation.

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Friday, March 1, 2019

The importance of goals in achievement

A goal act as a little compass that operates in our lives even without conscious intentions. Accomplishments toward them produce positive feelings because it makes goals seem immediate and approachable. When you solve a puzzle, get a joke or win the game, the mind takes ‘hold’ of the object. On the other hand, negative sentiments create a sense of postponement, a never-ending time trap.

A goal is like a glistening faraway mountain, promising and approachable, but do not let it mislead you. Big goals, like big mountains, are challenging to conquer. Climbers, who wish to the ascent of Mount Everest, must develop stamina, determination, and discipline. Likewise, achieving a goal is as much a mindset as the visible trappings of success. Working for a purpose reformulates the mind, which then manifests those goals. Because significant changes require substantial intellectual upgrading, expect to work at it for a long, long time. Small, but persistent changes in thinking and behavior are the most powerful ways to move the mind out of its periodicity and achieve transformation.

COMPOUND INTEREST Dreams are the products of youthful optimism, paper tigers of a mirage, crowded with fancy details of the imagination. Goals solidify ideas, turning them into the realities of the future. Have discipline in visualizing the essence of your aim; this allows you to recognize the necessary steps to get there. Goals are like a compass, which focuses energies toward the future. Goal orientation supplies appropriate attitude, confidence, and keeps spiritual independence against disturbances. Focusing on future regulates motivation, thoughts, and behavior at all times, even in sleep. Because food, water, muscle strength, memory capacity, and ability to focus are not instantly expandable, biological systems always have to contend with limited energy supply and the necessity to budget. Our life lasts until the next breath, next rain or the next meal. Cacti or camels prepare for the future by storing water in the desert, many mammals grow fat and thick fur before winter, and humans save emergency funds against misfortunes.

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Sunday, February 24, 2019

The fundamental structure of the universe

My latest YouTube video introduces our cosmic neighborhood.

The incompatibility among string theory, quantum mechanics, and general relativity suggests we are missing a good world model. However, separating the cosmos into compact dimensions by an information-blocking horizon offers a path to coherence. Because an information-blocking horizon confines particles (Figure 1), interactions exchange energy and information in ways that modify spatial volume (Figure 2).

Figure 1. The proposed view of ‘space-time.’ The compact dimensions (horizontal lines) are isolated by an information-blocking horizon, limiting particles to discrete frequencies. Interaction is an energy–information exchange between the micro and macro-dimensions. Thus, the field, which forms the smooth topology of space and the particle wave function, evolves in parallel.

Every interaction modifies space and the particle. Information accumulation generates time (Figure 1, horizontal lines). The wave function's insulation leads to quantum phenomena such as entanglement and the double-slit experiment. It is also the source of cosmic self-regulation and the parallel evolution of the wave function and the field curvature. The micro-dimensions form a closed minimal surface (Figure 1), but entanglement enhances curvature differences (Figure 2).

Figure 2. Volume changes in entangled particles b, Particle before entanglement a) Spin-down, c) Spin-up particle.

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Wednesday, February 13, 2019

A novel and economical plan to clean the oceans of plastic trash

A paddle steamer

Plastic waste is a major problem that affects every environment on Earth, including wildlife, their habitats, and humans. The Great Pacific garbage patch is a massive collection of marine debris that has accumulated in the North Pacific Ocean due to ocean currents. It contains plastic, chemical sludge, and other debris that are harmful to the environment. The patch is made up of microscopic particles and larger objects, covering 1.6 million square kilometers and comprising 1.8 trillion pieces of debris.

Research has shown that the patch is growing rapidly and needs to be cleaned up. The following is the outline of a two-step process for cleaning up the trash.

Step 1: A modern, high-efficiency engine moves a paddle steamer slowly through the water, while the paddle wheels reverse to catch the garbage.

The paddle wheel picks up garbage as it turns and drops collected pieces onto the boat's moving platform. Image attribution: Malcolm Boura

Step 2. The collected plastic can be safely baled by a baler on the ship and stored for transportation to a recycling facility. A baler compresses the material into bales that are easy to handle and store. Industrial balers that are used in recycling facilities prepare plastic for transport.

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The two-step process described above is an innovative approach to cleaning up the garbage patch on the world's oceans. Plastic collection can be fully automated as a mobile factory in the middle of the sea. Servicing the operation would require regular transportation of the collected trash for recycling.

Please contact me at this link if you would like to help with moral support, financial assistance, or technical know-how in turning this idea into a real-world solution for the world! Also, please share the post with others. By acting together, we can solve the problems humanity faces.

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Monday, January 28, 2019

Intellect is not fixed: a new understanding of cognitive abilities

Spatial navigation, decision-making, sociality, and creativity are essential measures of intelligence. Brain structures and neuronal networks mediate cognitive ability, turning intellect into a flexible trait. Mice growing up in a stimulating environment show higher problem-solving skills later in life. Environmental factors, such as place of residence, physical exercise, family income, parents' occupation, and education, significantly influence a child's IQ.

Food scarcity was probably a significant factor that drove cognitive evolution. However, the continuous availability and consumption of energy-rich foods in relatively sedentary modern humans might, in turn, affect mental changes. For example, high-calorie intake negatively affects intelligence and cognitive abilities. Obesity impairs cognition and increases the risk of some psychiatric disorders and dementia. Moreover, maternal and paternal obesity predispose offspring to poor cognitive development by epigenetic molecular mechanisms.

Intermittent food deprivation seems to enhance cognition on the cellular level. Epigenetic molecular DNA and chromatin protein modifications can be inherited by future generations. Paying attention to bioenergetic-based eating and exercise patterns can improve cognitive health and resilience. Read the whole article.

Amazingly, a virtual reality experience can modify intelligence. For example, being a virtual Einstein improves cognitive function and decision-making and reduces elderly bias. Impersonating psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud fosters personal problem-solving and social understanding. Brain modulation technology can artificially create or cancel memories, opening new, noninvasive avenues to treat mental disorders, depression, PTSD, and others.

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