An angel just walked into the classroom. My heart started beating faster. She had long beautiful blond hair with the face of a goddess; pure perfection. My breath caught in my chest. She walked across the front of the room like she owned the place.
I glanced around and saw most of the guys trying unsuccessfully to inconspicuously look at her. Many of the ladies were doing the same!
How could one person make such an impact?!
There was an energy emanating from her. You could almost see an aura around her.
She started walking down the isle that I happened to be sitting in. My heart was about to burst and I was thinking wouldn't that be funny if she sat next to me. I'd be the envy of everyone present. I could feel my face getting warm. And then it happened....
She sat right next to me! I couldn't breathe. I couldn't move, I couldn't get comfortable. And for goodness sake I couldn't do what I wanted to do most, which was look deeply into her eyes and pour out my soul!
I looked out of the corner of my eye. Her arm was less then 4 inches away from me!
I forgot about even trying to take notes that class. Instead I wanted to take notes on her! I struggled throughout the whole class trying to think of something smart to say. I figured if I put my mind to it an hour would be plenty of time.......I was SO wrong. Not only did I not learn anything during those minutes (which passed at light speed), before I knew it people were packing up. Class was OVER!?!??!!?!??!?!
I couldn't fathom how it'd happen. Did I just disobey the law of physics and travel through time? I stumbled while getting up, and noticed that she was already GONE!!!
I don't even know what to say....
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Friday, February 23, 2007
The Psychology Behind Love.
In a psychology class I heard that fear, love, excitement can all be mistaken for each other. All of these emotions are closely related to each other.
The psychologists did one study where a group of young guys had to walk across a old rickety bridge that was miles off the ground. After the completion of the task they were immediately given a phone number by an attractive lady.
The psychologists then had another group of young guys who were given the phone number from the same attractive lady without any bridge crossing.
Those that had crossed the bridge previously, overwhelmingly called the lady. The psychologists believe this is because their heart was beating fast from the fear of crossing bridge, and then when they saw the lady, their minds mistook the faster beating for love.
I believe the same is true for watching scary movies.
When a girl is watching a scary movie, her heart rate is up, and they can mistake the increased heart rate as love, or attraction for those around them. Namely you!
Random words of wisdom,
"There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works."
The psychologists did one study where a group of young guys had to walk across a old rickety bridge that was miles off the ground. After the completion of the task they were immediately given a phone number by an attractive lady.
The psychologists then had another group of young guys who were given the phone number from the same attractive lady without any bridge crossing.
Those that had crossed the bridge previously, overwhelmingly called the lady. The psychologists believe this is because their heart was beating fast from the fear of crossing bridge, and then when they saw the lady, their minds mistook the faster beating for love.
I believe the same is true for watching scary movies.
When a girl is watching a scary movie, her heart rate is up, and they can mistake the increased heart rate as love, or attraction for those around them. Namely you!
Random words of wisdom,
"There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works."
The funny toilet
Today I saw the most AMAZING thing ever!
What is it?
When I went to the public restroom, (I know that this is almost a cardinal sin!, but I really had to go..) I noticed a sticker on the toilet.
It said,
"Designed for Microsoft Windows XP"
Buahahaahaha, it was one of those stickers that they put on computers!
Someone is a genius.
Random words of wisdom,
"Never test the depth of the water with both feet."
What is it?
When I went to the public restroom, (I know that this is almost a cardinal sin!, but I really had to go..) I noticed a sticker on the toilet.
It said,
"Designed for Microsoft Windows XP"
Buahahaahaha, it was one of those stickers that they put on computers!
Someone is a genius.
Random words of wisdom,
"Never test the depth of the water with both feet."
Thursday, February 22, 2007
The Best of Murphy's Law
Murphy's First Law
The facetious proposition that if something can go wrong, it will.
Murphy’s Second Law
Even if something can’t possibly go wrong, it will
Murphy’s Fourth Law
If it is possible for several things to go wrong, the one that will cause the most damage is the one that will actually go wrong
Murphy’s Law of Thermodynamics
Things get worse under pressure.
This is the best part :). O'Toole is a genius! or a very depressed man....(sometimes it's really hard to distinguish the two)
O’Toole’s Belief
Murphy was an optimist.
The facetious proposition that if something can go wrong, it will.
Murphy’s Second Law
Even if something can’t possibly go wrong, it will
Murphy’s Fourth Law
If it is possible for several things to go wrong, the one that will cause the most damage is the one that will actually go wrong
Murphy’s Law of Thermodynamics
Things get worse under pressure.
This is the best part :). O'Toole is a genius! or a very depressed man....(sometimes it's really hard to distinguish the two)
O’Toole’s Belief
Murphy was an optimist.
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Steps to Improve Your Memory.
Have you ever wanted to Improve your memory?
I know I certainly did!, and I'm still working on it.
My interest in this subject took hold when I heard about a book in psychology class and then I promptly borrowed it from the library and read it within the next two days. It's a really short book and only takes a couple of hours to get through. Here's the title and author if interested:
The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory.
by Aleksandr R. Luria
It describes a man with a seemingly limitless memory who describes how he memorizes. They called him "S" in the book. S was able to remember lists of any number of items and then with total recall recite the items backwards or forwards. Even years later he was able to remember the useless lists.
Take a look at the following list of words. They appear to have no relation whatsoever, and if I were to ask the average person to memorize the list, they would have a very very difficult time doing so, because they would attempt to memorize from repetition. This is NOT the way to go about doing it. The way to memorize is to use association. Make the items link together in some bizarre way. The more bizarre it is, the better you'll remember it. In some way you need to use the imagination of a child in order to create the associations.
Who knows, you might even find it fun! I know I did.
Here's the list:
Toe
Toad
Peanut
Pencil
Road
Meatball
Four
Twirl
Box
Food
Card
Kitchen
Tooth
Foosball
Apartment
Argentina
Turtle
Beach
Basketball
Myself?
I memorized this list in about 90 seconds, although this isn't accurate because I also came up with the list....
Here's how I did it.
In my mind I imagined an image of a toad with a HUGE toe (it's easy to memorize because it rhymes) and this toad is currently eating a peanut. In my mind all of this is taking place in a forest even though I don't know why. This is a very weird image if you take the effort to imagine it, which will make it stick in your mind and you'll easily remember the first three items.
The peanut then turns into a pencil. The toad, who was eating the peanut, gets upset at not being able to eat and throws the pencil up over all the trees and it happens to land on a road. In one's mind these images only take a fraction of a second to visualize. The hardest part is coming up with images that stick. And images that work for me may well not be the best images that will work for you. These are just examples of how to do it.
I then see a giant meatball; the meatball is as large as a car, and he runs over the pencil. I look again at the image and see that not one, but four meatballs are present. They all stop to see what they ran over. The leader, who was also the first meatball I see, picks up the pencil and begins to twirl it.
As the meatball twirls the pencil, it gains speed and then the pencil suddenly turns into a box! The meatball then lowers the box and looks inside. Inside the box is a bunch of food.
I had a hard time finding a connection from food to card. This is where I took the longest in memorizing the list. I just couldn't think of one. Take a moment and see if you can come up with one as practice.
After many seconds had passed I had to make a complete change in background. Rather then an empty highway with meatballs rolling down it, I went into a kitchen. Inside the kitchen, there was a party where everyone was eating cards rather than food. After they noticed what they were eating they hurt their teeth. (I had to remember that it was tooth and not teeth when saying the list) This was a bad connection for me because I had an extremely hard time remembering what was first; the kitchen or cards.
If you thought of a better connections please use it.
Next I created an image of people playing foosball, but instead of using a ball, they are using a tooth. I then imaged the people playing to be dark skinned college students with which I could get the connection of apartment and Argentina.
Next I imaged that one of the students loses and yells. I see the sound waves of the yell traveling to a beach where a turtle was sleeping. The yell woke the turtle up!
My final image was of people playing basketball, but instead of using a regular ball, they were using turtles! I could see them dribbling the turtles and shooting them through the hoops.
Once I had all these images, which took a decently quick time to come up with, I could recite the 20 random words both forwards and backwards. This method takes practice, and I would suggest making your own list, or having someone make one for you, and then trying to come up with your own associations between the objects.
Have fun with it and restore your imagination!
I know I certainly did!, and I'm still working on it.
My interest in this subject took hold when I heard about a book in psychology class and then I promptly borrowed it from the library and read it within the next two days. It's a really short book and only takes a couple of hours to get through. Here's the title and author if interested:
The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory.
by Aleksandr R. Luria
It describes a man with a seemingly limitless memory who describes how he memorizes. They called him "S" in the book. S was able to remember lists of any number of items and then with total recall recite the items backwards or forwards. Even years later he was able to remember the useless lists.
Take a look at the following list of words. They appear to have no relation whatsoever, and if I were to ask the average person to memorize the list, they would have a very very difficult time doing so, because they would attempt to memorize from repetition. This is NOT the way to go about doing it. The way to memorize is to use association. Make the items link together in some bizarre way. The more bizarre it is, the better you'll remember it. In some way you need to use the imagination of a child in order to create the associations.
Who knows, you might even find it fun! I know I did.
Here's the list:
Toe
Toad
Peanut
Pencil
Road
Meatball
Four
Twirl
Box
Food
Card
Kitchen
Tooth
Foosball
Apartment
Argentina
Turtle
Beach
Basketball
Myself?
I memorized this list in about 90 seconds, although this isn't accurate because I also came up with the list....
Here's how I did it.
In my mind I imagined an image of a toad with a HUGE toe (it's easy to memorize because it rhymes) and this toad is currently eating a peanut. In my mind all of this is taking place in a forest even though I don't know why. This is a very weird image if you take the effort to imagine it, which will make it stick in your mind and you'll easily remember the first three items.
The peanut then turns into a pencil. The toad, who was eating the peanut, gets upset at not being able to eat and throws the pencil up over all the trees and it happens to land on a road. In one's mind these images only take a fraction of a second to visualize. The hardest part is coming up with images that stick. And images that work for me may well not be the best images that will work for you. These are just examples of how to do it.
I then see a giant meatball; the meatball is as large as a car, and he runs over the pencil. I look again at the image and see that not one, but four meatballs are present. They all stop to see what they ran over. The leader, who was also the first meatball I see, picks up the pencil and begins to twirl it.
As the meatball twirls the pencil, it gains speed and then the pencil suddenly turns into a box! The meatball then lowers the box and looks inside. Inside the box is a bunch of food.
I had a hard time finding a connection from food to card. This is where I took the longest in memorizing the list. I just couldn't think of one. Take a moment and see if you can come up with one as practice.
After many seconds had passed I had to make a complete change in background. Rather then an empty highway with meatballs rolling down it, I went into a kitchen. Inside the kitchen, there was a party where everyone was eating cards rather than food. After they noticed what they were eating they hurt their teeth. (I had to remember that it was tooth and not teeth when saying the list) This was a bad connection for me because I had an extremely hard time remembering what was first; the kitchen or cards.
If you thought of a better connections please use it.
Next I created an image of people playing foosball, but instead of using a ball, they are using a tooth. I then imaged the people playing to be dark skinned college students with which I could get the connection of apartment and Argentina.
Next I imaged that one of the students loses and yells. I see the sound waves of the yell traveling to a beach where a turtle was sleeping. The yell woke the turtle up!
My final image was of people playing basketball, but instead of using a regular ball, they were using turtles! I could see them dribbling the turtles and shooting them through the hoops.
Once I had all these images, which took a decently quick time to come up with, I could recite the 20 random words both forwards and backwards. This method takes practice, and I would suggest making your own list, or having someone make one for you, and then trying to come up with your own associations between the objects.
Have fun with it and restore your imagination!
Saturday, February 17, 2007
A Story of Misinterpretation.
This is a story that I heard from my cousin, that she remembered as a little girl, which is phenomenal because at the time she was too young to talk.
The Mom and her cute little girl went to McDonald's. After ordering they went and sat down to enjoy their inexpensive meal.
The little girl was eating her fries when she came across the largest french fry she had ever seen! And so, like any little girl feeling very proud, she held up the fry and showed it to her Mom.
"mama, Eishd ciemc" (She was too young to be able to speak) She just made some sounds.
The parent smiled and simply said "thank you sweetie." The Mom then took and ate the french fry mistaking the little girls action as kindness.
The little child promptly began to cry to which the mother scooped up her little child and held her close while bearing a puzzled look on her face, but making soothing sounds.
The little girl looks up with a wet streaked face at her mothers face and wishes she could explain to her Mom.....but she is unable to.
Sometimes in life there are things we simply can't understand.
The Mom and her cute little girl went to McDonald's. After ordering they went and sat down to enjoy their inexpensive meal.
The little girl was eating her fries when she came across the largest french fry she had ever seen! And so, like any little girl feeling very proud, she held up the fry and showed it to her Mom.
"mama, Eishd ciemc" (She was too young to be able to speak) She just made some sounds.
The parent smiled and simply said "thank you sweetie." The Mom then took and ate the french fry mistaking the little girls action as kindness.
The little child promptly began to cry to which the mother scooped up her little child and held her close while bearing a puzzled look on her face, but making soothing sounds.
The little girl looks up with a wet streaked face at her mothers face and wishes she could explain to her Mom.....but she is unable to.
Sometimes in life there are things we simply can't understand.
Gaining Confidence
Confidence
The Key to gaining confidence is in the realization that the possible outcomes of the action are not as scary as you make them out to be. Truly, in the considerations of the outcomes, you'll see how silly it is for you to be balked by fear.
What is this fear caused by?
-Some say it's the fear of rejection. But after thinking about being rejected the fear is gone. At worst you'll just be negated and shunned for the rest of you're life by one out of six billion. Actually it's possible a group of people will shun you, but highly doubtful.
-It's the fear of action. DOING something is a lot harder then just sitting back and NOT doing something. It takes EFFORT, which is something many of us groan at doing. And it takes energy. Some of your own personal energy that could be spent doing other things.... like making money.
Time IS money and energy is related to time, therefore ENERGY is related to money.
~Q.E.D.
But even if you ARE using this energy to make money, one has to think which path is the MOST beneficial.
There is a great quote that I can't remember exactly and I apologize to the author in advance if it's mistaken a little, but the gist of it is that strangers are just FRIENDS waiting to happen.
Even if it doesn't work out, nine times out of ten you'll make a new friend, or at least a new acquaintance.
When walking someplace, you want to FEEL like you own the place, and everyone in there is EQUAL to you. (Not lower and not higher, whether pretty or not) You have two pistols in your waist and are the COOLEST, baddest dude ever! Play an UPLIFTING song in your head if you're able and let it work it's MAGIC. Let the music FLOW through ever part of your being, right down to the very core.
With enough of a boost, you'll feel like you can do anything. And you CAN!
Go get them tiger! gRRR.
The Key to gaining confidence is in the realization that the possible outcomes of the action are not as scary as you make them out to be. Truly, in the considerations of the outcomes, you'll see how silly it is for you to be balked by fear.
What is this fear caused by?
-Some say it's the fear of rejection. But after thinking about being rejected the fear is gone. At worst you'll just be negated and shunned for the rest of you're life by one out of six billion. Actually it's possible a group of people will shun you, but highly doubtful.
-It's the fear of action. DOING something is a lot harder then just sitting back and NOT doing something. It takes EFFORT, which is something many of us groan at doing. And it takes energy. Some of your own personal energy that could be spent doing other things.... like making money.
Time IS money and energy is related to time, therefore ENERGY is related to money.
~Q.E.D.
But even if you ARE using this energy to make money, one has to think which path is the MOST beneficial.
There is a great quote that I can't remember exactly and I apologize to the author in advance if it's mistaken a little, but the gist of it is that strangers are just FRIENDS waiting to happen.
Even if it doesn't work out, nine times out of ten you'll make a new friend, or at least a new acquaintance.
When walking someplace, you want to FEEL like you own the place, and everyone in there is EQUAL to you. (Not lower and not higher, whether pretty or not) You have two pistols in your waist and are the COOLEST, baddest dude ever! Play an UPLIFTING song in your head if you're able and let it work it's MAGIC. Let the music FLOW through ever part of your being, right down to the very core.
With enough of a boost, you'll feel like you can do anything. And you CAN!
Go get them tiger! gRRR.
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