Hydrangea繡球花 (common names Hydrangea and Hortensia) is a genus of about 70–75 species of flowering plants native to southern and eastern Asia (China, Japan, Korea, the Himalayas, and Indonesia) and North and South America. By far the greatest species diversity is in eastern Asia, notably China, Japan, and Korea. Most are shrubs 1–3 m tall, but some are small trees, and others lianas reaching up to 30 m by climbing up trees. They can be either deciduous or evergreen, though the widely cultivated temperate species are all deciduous.
其性喜陰濕，且對二氧化硫等有害氣體抗性強。不可接受過強之直射陽光，否則葉片易灼傷。繡球花的花色可隨土壤的pH值而改變。若在酸性土壤種植(pH值比7小)，花色是藍色；若在中性土壤種植(pH值大約等於7)，花色是乳白色；若在鹼性土壤種植(pH值比7大)，花色是紅或紫。因此可通過調節土壤的pH值來改變花色。可用扦插法繁殖。
其全株有毒，誤食會導致疝痛、腹痛、腹瀉、呼吸急促、嘔吐、便血等中毒癥狀。
花語： 希望、家族的團聚
變花色：
藍色
* 夏秋時期，每週施用一次稀釋硫化鐵溶液（1000倍以上），當花萼細胞鐵元素增加，花色便會漸漸轉為藍色。
* 植株旁埋幾根生鏽鐵釘。
* 換盆時混入少量硫化鋁或硫化鎂。
土壤ph值大於7是鹼性.花開變藍色.
紅色
換盆時壤土依盆土多寡加入少於1/3茶匙以下的碳酸鈣(即石灰石)的粉末。土壤ph值小於7是酸性.花開變桃紅色.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
蛋糕 CAKES
倒轉煎菠蘿蛋糕，也叫倒扣菠蘿蛋糕，是將蛋糕倒轉放在平底鍋上煎，切好的菠蘿和櫻桃放在煎好的蛋糕上。
An upside-down cake is a cake usually made in a pan with a curved bottom. Once cooked, turned over and allowed to set, the cake is eaten upside-down. Usually, chopped fruits such as apples, pineapples and cherries are placed at the bottom of the pan before the batter is poured in, so that they form a decorative topping once the cake is inverted.
Turning the cake upside-down is a critical process; if done improperly, part of it can remain attached to the pan, ruining the final product. To allow for an easier detachment, the bottom of the pan is usually covered with butter or sugar.
Traditional upside-down preparations include the American Pineapple Upside-down Cake, French Tarte Tatin, and Brazilian Bolo de Banana.
Castella卡斯提拉 is a popular Japanese sponge cake made of sugar, flour, eggs, and starch syrup, very common at festivals and as a street food.製作好的卡斯提拉通常為一大片方形，主體呈淡黃色，上層有一層約0.2公分厚的棕色餅皮，底部也有一層薄糖皮，之後再切成長條形販賣，而食用時則再橫切為數小片。It is a type of cake associated with the festival of Epiphany in the Christmas season in a number of countries. The cakes have a small trinket (often a small plastic baby, sometimes said to represent Baby Jesus) inside, and the person who gets the piece of cake with the trinket has various privileges and obligations (such as buying the cake for the next celebration).
年輪蛋糕(Baumkuchen)是歐洲多個國家的知名點心，是一種多層蛋糕，被視為「蛋糕之王」。當對其作橫斷切開時，年輪蛋糕呈現了特徵性的金色環圈，而使之得「年輪」之名——Baumkuchen直譯即為「樹木蛋糕」(Tree Cake)。要得到一圈圈的效果，需將一層薄薄的蛋奶糊均勻地刷上炙叉(spit)，讓它烤到金黃色。富經驗的烘培師傅會重複這項動作多次，一些師傅甚至可以做出三呎長的年輪蛋糕，切開來有25層，重量超過100磅(45公斤)。
年輪蛋糕也可澆上糖汁或者熔化的巧克力覆蓋表面。年輪蛋糕的烘培需要技巧，按照傳統在炙叉上的烘培法可能會弄得一團糟；不過也有改良的食譜用到的是平底鍋。
紙包蛋糕(Paper wrapped cake)是一種起源於香港的蛋糕，以牛油紙包裹著雪芳蛋糕，主要在香港的麵包西餅店，以及部份茶餐廳發售。此外，各地的唐人街通常也有這種蛋糕。
莎莉雪藏蛋糕，是一隻超市有零售的甜食西餅，含濃厚的牛油、雞蛋和麵粉的香味，分為原味、香蕉味多種選擇。
莎莉雪藏蛋糕的牌子，出品人是莎莉Sara Lee Corporation，它是紐約證券交易所上市公司，成立於1939年，初時主要售賣食糖、咖啡和茶葉等。其後，生意橫向擴展至家庭日用品、內衣內褲、食物和飲品等。現在Sara Lee的總部設於芝加哥，子公司分佈於5多個國家，職員人數約15萬，總收入港幣1,377億元，盈利港幣157億元。
莎莉，Sara Lee，是一定數量冷凍包裝食物的品牌，在東南亞廣告口號是「莎莉多謝您」。
雪芳蛋糕（Chiffon cake），又稱戚風蛋糕，是一種乳沫類蛋糕，主要用蛋白、蛋黃、發粉、麵粉及植物油焗製而成。雪芳蛋糕最大特色是口感鬆軟，採用分蛋打發的技巧，使組織包有充分空氣而爽口細緻，同時因為以植物油取代牛油，空氣也較易藏於蛋糕之內。此外，這亦使蛋糕的熱量較低。然而，雪芳蛋糕沒有了牛油蛋糕獨有的香味。
馬德拉島蛋糕（Madeira cake），是一個普遍的老英國傳統食品，是一種簡單的磅蛋糕，加入檸檬味材料加入烘烤。馬德拉島蛋糕像長方形的大麵包。
黑森林蛋糕（德語：Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte，又称“黑森林樱桃蛋糕”）是一种鲜奶蛋糕，20世纪30年代起风行于德國，并逐渐成为全世界最著名和最受欢迎的蛋糕之一。黑森林蛋糕的主要成分有：脆饼面团底托、鲜奶油、樱桃酒、黑櫻桃和巧克力碎末。
An upside-down cake is a cake usually made in a pan with a curved bottom. Once cooked, turned over and allowed to set, the cake is eaten upside-down. Usually, chopped fruits such as apples, pineapples and cherries are placed at the bottom of the pan before the batter is poured in, so that they form a decorative topping once the cake is inverted.
Turning the cake upside-down is a critical process; if done improperly, part of it can remain attached to the pan, ruining the final product. To allow for an easier detachment, the bottom of the pan is usually covered with butter or sugar.
Traditional upside-down preparations include the American Pineapple Upside-down Cake, French Tarte Tatin, and Brazilian Bolo de Banana.
Castella卡斯提拉 is a popular Japanese sponge cake made of sugar, flour, eggs, and starch syrup, very common at festivals and as a street food.製作好的卡斯提拉通常為一大片方形，主體呈淡黃色，上層有一層約0.2公分厚的棕色餅皮，底部也有一層薄糖皮，之後再切成長條形販賣，而食用時則再橫切為數小片。It is a type of cake associated with the festival of Epiphany in the Christmas season in a number of countries. The cakes have a small trinket (often a small plastic baby, sometimes said to represent Baby Jesus) inside, and the person who gets the piece of cake with the trinket has various privileges and obligations (such as buying the cake for the next celebration).
年輪蛋糕(Baumkuchen)是歐洲多個國家的知名點心，是一種多層蛋糕，被視為「蛋糕之王」。當對其作橫斷切開時，年輪蛋糕呈現了特徵性的金色環圈，而使之得「年輪」之名——Baumkuchen直譯即為「樹木蛋糕」(Tree Cake)。要得到一圈圈的效果，需將一層薄薄的蛋奶糊均勻地刷上炙叉(spit)，讓它烤到金黃色。富經驗的烘培師傅會重複這項動作多次，一些師傅甚至可以做出三呎長的年輪蛋糕，切開來有25層，重量超過100磅(45公斤)。
年輪蛋糕也可澆上糖汁或者熔化的巧克力覆蓋表面。年輪蛋糕的烘培需要技巧，按照傳統在炙叉上的烘培法可能會弄得一團糟；不過也有改良的食譜用到的是平底鍋。
紙包蛋糕(Paper wrapped cake)是一種起源於香港的蛋糕，以牛油紙包裹著雪芳蛋糕，主要在香港的麵包西餅店，以及部份茶餐廳發售。此外，各地的唐人街通常也有這種蛋糕。
莎莉雪藏蛋糕，是一隻超市有零售的甜食西餅，含濃厚的牛油、雞蛋和麵粉的香味，分為原味、香蕉味多種選擇。
莎莉雪藏蛋糕的牌子，出品人是莎莉Sara Lee Corporation，它是紐約證券交易所上市公司，成立於1939年，初時主要售賣食糖、咖啡和茶葉等。其後，生意橫向擴展至家庭日用品、內衣內褲、食物和飲品等。現在Sara Lee的總部設於芝加哥，子公司分佈於5多個國家，職員人數約15萬，總收入港幣1,377億元，盈利港幣157億元。
莎莉，Sara Lee，是一定數量冷凍包裝食物的品牌，在東南亞廣告口號是「莎莉多謝您」。
雪芳蛋糕（Chiffon cake），又稱戚風蛋糕，是一種乳沫類蛋糕，主要用蛋白、蛋黃、發粉、麵粉及植物油焗製而成。雪芳蛋糕最大特色是口感鬆軟，採用分蛋打發的技巧，使組織包有充分空氣而爽口細緻，同時因為以植物油取代牛油，空氣也較易藏於蛋糕之內。此外，這亦使蛋糕的熱量較低。然而，雪芳蛋糕沒有了牛油蛋糕獨有的香味。
馬德拉島蛋糕（Madeira cake），是一個普遍的老英國傳統食品，是一種簡單的磅蛋糕，加入檸檬味材料加入烘烤。馬德拉島蛋糕像長方形的大麵包。
黑森林蛋糕（德語：Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte，又称“黑森林樱桃蛋糕”）是一种鲜奶蛋糕，20世纪30年代起风行于德國，并逐渐成为全世界最著名和最受欢迎的蛋糕之一。黑森林蛋糕的主要成分有：脆饼面团底托、鲜奶油、樱桃酒、黑櫻桃和巧克力碎末。
Mille Feuille - Napoleon Cake
拿破崙蛋糕是一種普遍的千層酥。
傳統上，拿破崙蛋糕是由三層酥皮夾兩層奶油，但有時用果醬。頂部通常是交替白色（糖）和棕色（巧克力）條，並梳理。
由來１
法國甜點興起於西元1783年，當時，受命於拿破崙及皇后約瑟芬的御廚大師馬利-安東尼卡雷姆(Marie-Antonin careme)負責所有宴賓的御宴。西元1754-1838年間卡漢姆兼任法國外交餐會的總廚，享有第一位美食外交官的美譽，也因而將甜點料理由唇齒間的享受，推波成為視覺藝術的美食境界。
其中據說是拿破崙的最愛Mille Feuille千層派以草莓為主要材料，因此法國甜點中含有草莓的會以拿破崙命名，如拿破崙蛋糕、拿破崙派等。
由來２
拿破崙蛋糕跟拿破崙其實沒有關係，說法之一是由於它的英文名Napoleon，其實是Napolitain的誤傳，指一種來自意大利Naples的酥皮名字，至今被寫作Napoleon而已。我倒覺得它比較像一首歌曲，把叉子一舀下去，酥餅便應聲裂開，發出清脆的聲音，每吃一口，都像敲響一個音符。
拿破崙蛋糕的法文名為Mille feuille，即有一百萬層酥皮的意思，所以它又被稱為千層酥，它由三層啡色的千層酥皮，夾兩層吉士醬製成，材料雖然簡單，但酥皮的製作過程卻極繁複，師傅要把搓好的麵皮不斷重複對摺，這樣焗出來的酥皮才夠鬆化。
拿破崙蛋糕配上鮮果是最理想的組合，不少師傅愛在酥皮之間加上新鮮的士多啤梨或芒果，令味道更加豐富而清甜，甚至有人會用忌廉代替吉士醬，口感同樣不
俗。
傳統上，拿破崙蛋糕是由三層酥皮夾兩層奶油，但有時用果醬。頂部通常是交替白色（糖）和棕色（巧克力）條，並梳理。
由來１
法國甜點興起於西元1783年，當時，受命於拿破崙及皇后約瑟芬的御廚大師馬利-安東尼卡雷姆(Marie-Antonin careme)負責所有宴賓的御宴。西元1754-1838年間卡漢姆兼任法國外交餐會的總廚，享有第一位美食外交官的美譽，也因而將甜點料理由唇齒間的享受，推波成為視覺藝術的美食境界。
其中據說是拿破崙的最愛Mille Feuille千層派以草莓為主要材料，因此法國甜點中含有草莓的會以拿破崙命名，如拿破崙蛋糕、拿破崙派等。
由來２
拿破崙蛋糕跟拿破崙其實沒有關係，說法之一是由於它的英文名Napoleon，其實是Napolitain的誤傳，指一種來自意大利Naples的酥皮名字，至今被寫作Napoleon而已。我倒覺得它比較像一首歌曲，把叉子一舀下去，酥餅便應聲裂開，發出清脆的聲音，每吃一口，都像敲響一個音符。
拿破崙蛋糕的法文名為Mille feuille，即有一百萬層酥皮的意思，所以它又被稱為千層酥，它由三層啡色的千層酥皮，夾兩層吉士醬製成，材料雖然簡單，但酥皮的製作過程卻極繁複，師傅要把搓好的麵皮不斷重複對摺，這樣焗出來的酥皮才夠鬆化。
拿破崙蛋糕配上鮮果是最理想的組合，不少師傅愛在酥皮之間加上新鮮的士多啤梨或芒果，令味道更加豐富而清甜，甚至有人會用忌廉代替吉士醬，口感同樣不
俗。
Monday, July 19, 2010
對大部分同居的女生而言，她們的結局都是以分手收場
對女生而言，同居沒有任何好處，因為：
1. 同居等於「先上車、不願意補票」，這比「先上車、後補票」還要糟糕和自私。
2. 對男生而言，他要找妓女還要花錢，但是跟妳同居，卻可以不用花錢就有免費的性。他賺到了，妳賠到了！
3. 同居 = 沒有承諾的性生活(cohabitation = sex without commitment)。對男生而言，沒有在婚約的性行為是不用負責任的。也就是說，等到妳對他而言沒有利用價值的時候，他就可以把妳甩了、找更年輕的女生、甚至最好是處女。無論如何，同居賺到的都是他，賠到的都是妳！
4. 對女生而言，年紀愈大就愈嫁不出去。但是男生不一樣！對男生而言，年紀愈大，通常代表所存的錢愈多，他就愈有籌碼去換更年輕的女生同居。請妳認清楚這個事實，男生只賺不賠，女生只賠不賺！
5. 男女同居的目的不同。男生同居的目的是想要「性」(sex)！女生同居的目的是想要「被愛」。
6. 女生會誤以為：「只要我跟他同居，他就會更喜歡我、更愛我、一直跟我在一起，甚至有一天會把我娶回家。」當然，狡猾的男生也明白這一點，所以他一定會對你說：「若妳愛我，若你想跟我在一起，那妳就跟我做愛，這樣才能證明妳真的愛我。」但是別忘記，男生同居的目的是想要「性」。
7. 若那男生是真的愛妳，他就會在跟妳發生性行為之前，就願意委身、對妳忠心、給妳戴上戒指、把妳娶回家，並且只愛妳一個女人。若他沒有這樣做，這代表他沒有真正愛妳。
8. 大部分的男生都有獵人心態，所以他會把同居的女友當成是「性的對象」；但說難聽一點，就是把妳當作「性玩具」、「性發洩和情慾的對象」。所以，賺到的是他，賠到的是妳！
9. 要知道，若一個男人不尊重妳，他就不會愛妳；若他不愛妳，他就不會娶妳。即使妳逼婚，也沒有用。所以，若你的男朋友只把妳當作同居和性的對象，這代表說，他永遠不會娶妳。
10. 在各種男女同居又分手的故事中，通常受傷和痛哭的都是女生，然後女生就會去找朋友訴苦，然後大吃特吃，然後變胖。但是，你有聽過男生在同居又分手之後，受傷、痛哭流涕、又不想活的故事嗎？幾乎沒有！男生通常的反應都是：「太好了，謝天謝地，我自由了！畢竟，大海中還有很多美人魚，我終於可以換個口味了。」
11. 男生不介意同居不結婚。畢竟，他同居不結婚，就代表他還可以有機會去玩其他的女人。女生們，請妳仔細想清楚這個事實，不要作一個愚拙人。在私底下，男生通常會認為「可以被騙上床的女生沒有腦」，只不過男生們不會、也不敢公開說出來。
12. 對女生而言，同居不結婚就是在「浪費青春」，因為妳一年比一年老，被甩了之後會比較沒有人要。所以過了三十歲的單身女生很吃虧。然而，過了三十歲的單身男生反而吃香，因為他的錢多了，口才也好了，可以找到更年輕的女生跟他在一起。
13. 在法律上面，同居後分手男方不用給贍養費，因為沒有合法的「婚約」。但結婚後又離婚，男方卻有法律責任，要給贍養費。若一個男人分別跟10個女人同居又分手，他就不需要付10次贍養費，而我們不希望妳只是被某個男生玩過的10個女人之一而已。
14. 對男生而言，同居 = 免費的性free sex、不用委身的性、有人幫忙分攤房租和水電費、免費的廚師、免費的洗碗女工、免費打掃和洗衣的佣人。對男生而言，同居是穩賺不賠的事情，但是對女生而言，同居是只賠不賺的事實。
15. 對男生而言，同居不需要買戒指、不需要籌備婚禮、更不需要花錢請客，就可以有免費的性生活。
妳要完全避免犯同居的罪
女生必須醒過來，不要愚拙到被男生白白利用，聖經說：「婦女美貌而無見識，如同金環帶在豬鼻上」。每個女生都應該有智慧和貞潔，這樣才會贏得好男人的尊敬，又同時不會被壞男人利用。那麼，女生如何才會有智慧呢？
也就是說，你敬畏神愈多，你的智慧就會愈多。日後，我們還會有更多關於愛情和婚姻的教導。今天我們已經證明對女生而言，同居沒有任何好處。然而，我們相信有些無見識、又被假愛情衝昏頭的女生，她們仍然會選擇自我欺騙、自甘墮落，她們可能不見棺材不流淚，吃到苦頭才學乖。
1. 同居等於「先上車、不願意補票」，這比「先上車、後補票」還要糟糕和自私。
2. 對男生而言，他要找妓女還要花錢，但是跟妳同居，卻可以不用花錢就有免費的性。他賺到了，妳賠到了！
3. 同居 = 沒有承諾的性生活(cohabitation = sex without commitment)。對男生而言，沒有在婚約的性行為是不用負責任的。也就是說，等到妳對他而言沒有利用價值的時候，他就可以把妳甩了、找更年輕的女生、甚至最好是處女。無論如何，同居賺到的都是他，賠到的都是妳！
4. 對女生而言，年紀愈大就愈嫁不出去。但是男生不一樣！對男生而言，年紀愈大，通常代表所存的錢愈多，他就愈有籌碼去換更年輕的女生同居。請妳認清楚這個事實，男生只賺不賠，女生只賠不賺！
5. 男女同居的目的不同。男生同居的目的是想要「性」(sex)！女生同居的目的是想要「被愛」。
6. 女生會誤以為：「只要我跟他同居，他就會更喜歡我、更愛我、一直跟我在一起，甚至有一天會把我娶回家。」當然，狡猾的男生也明白這一點，所以他一定會對你說：「若妳愛我，若你想跟我在一起，那妳就跟我做愛，這樣才能證明妳真的愛我。」但是別忘記，男生同居的目的是想要「性」。
7. 若那男生是真的愛妳，他就會在跟妳發生性行為之前，就願意委身、對妳忠心、給妳戴上戒指、把妳娶回家，並且只愛妳一個女人。若他沒有這樣做，這代表他沒有真正愛妳。
8. 大部分的男生都有獵人心態，所以他會把同居的女友當成是「性的對象」；但說難聽一點，就是把妳當作「性玩具」、「性發洩和情慾的對象」。所以，賺到的是他，賠到的是妳！
9. 要知道，若一個男人不尊重妳，他就不會愛妳；若他不愛妳，他就不會娶妳。即使妳逼婚，也沒有用。所以，若你的男朋友只把妳當作同居和性的對象，這代表說，他永遠不會娶妳。
10. 在各種男女同居又分手的故事中，通常受傷和痛哭的都是女生，然後女生就會去找朋友訴苦，然後大吃特吃，然後變胖。但是，你有聽過男生在同居又分手之後，受傷、痛哭流涕、又不想活的故事嗎？幾乎沒有！男生通常的反應都是：「太好了，謝天謝地，我自由了！畢竟，大海中還有很多美人魚，我終於可以換個口味了。」
11. 男生不介意同居不結婚。畢竟，他同居不結婚，就代表他還可以有機會去玩其他的女人。女生們，請妳仔細想清楚這個事實，不要作一個愚拙人。在私底下，男生通常會認為「可以被騙上床的女生沒有腦」，只不過男生們不會、也不敢公開說出來。
12. 對女生而言，同居不結婚就是在「浪費青春」，因為妳一年比一年老，被甩了之後會比較沒有人要。所以過了三十歲的單身女生很吃虧。然而，過了三十歲的單身男生反而吃香，因為他的錢多了，口才也好了，可以找到更年輕的女生跟他在一起。
13. 在法律上面，同居後分手男方不用給贍養費，因為沒有合法的「婚約」。但結婚後又離婚，男方卻有法律責任，要給贍養費。若一個男人分別跟10個女人同居又分手，他就不需要付10次贍養費，而我們不希望妳只是被某個男生玩過的10個女人之一而已。
14. 對男生而言，同居 = 免費的性free sex、不用委身的性、有人幫忙分攤房租和水電費、免費的廚師、免費的洗碗女工、免費打掃和洗衣的佣人。對男生而言，同居是穩賺不賠的事情，但是對女生而言，同居是只賠不賺的事實。
15. 對男生而言，同居不需要買戒指、不需要籌備婚禮、更不需要花錢請客，就可以有免費的性生活。
妳要完全避免犯同居的罪
女生必須醒過來，不要愚拙到被男生白白利用，聖經說：「婦女美貌而無見識，如同金環帶在豬鼻上」。每個女生都應該有智慧和貞潔，這樣才會贏得好男人的尊敬，又同時不會被壞男人利用。那麼，女生如何才會有智慧呢？
也就是說，你敬畏神愈多，你的智慧就會愈多。日後，我們還會有更多關於愛情和婚姻的教導。今天我們已經證明對女生而言，同居沒有任何好處。然而，我們相信有些無見識、又被假愛情衝昏頭的女生，她們仍然會選擇自我欺騙、自甘墮落，她們可能不見棺材不流淚，吃到苦頭才學乖。
婚姻不只是一張紙，它包含了法律上的權利與義務
婚姻的法律效益：說到就要做到，否則就是犯法
首先，我們要讓你認識什麼是婚約。婚約其實就是婚姻的約定。若是想要把婚姻的權利和義務定得更詳細，男女雙方可以在達成共識之後簽立「婚姻契約」。無論是「婚姻」本身或「婚姻契約」在法律上都是有效益的。
婚姻不只是一張紙，只要你把這張紙簽下去，就代表要負責任。這代表什麼呢？代表「說得出口的事情，就要做得到」，而法律就是用來抵制出爾反爾的人。在法律婚姻的見證之下，婚姻要求互相的權利和義務，任何違約都是犯法、就要承擔後果(如：金錢賠償、罰金、或判刑入獄)。
比如說：法律上要求婚約雙方都要以誠相待、互相扶持、互相照顧，這就是婚姻的義務。婚姻中也要求雙方有照顧子女的義務。而男女雙方都有「自己的權利」來要求對方忠心，這就是婚姻的權利。當你違反婚姻的規定時，你就犯法了。例如：
l 婚姻當中，積極或消極的不照顧配偶，就會造成「惡意遺棄罪」。
l 假設惡意遺棄的過程當中，造成被遺棄的一方死亡，就是罪上加罪。
l 「婚約以外的性行為」會造成「通姦罪」。
l 若有一方想要同時再娶或再嫁其他人，就造成了「重婚罪」。
l 婚姻暴力會夠成「傷害罪、恐嚇罪、或妨害自由罪」。
l 離婚之後，一方要付另一方的贍養費。
l 離婚之後，子女要有人監護和扶養，要打官司。
若犯了上述所提到的罪，可能會涉及金錢賠償、罰金、甚至是判刑入獄。這就是為什麼「願意結婚」代表「願意負責」，而違反承諾就要付上代價。若你在男女關係當中不想要被遺棄、被第三者介入、被傷害、被恐嚇、你希望雙方共同照顧小孩等等，婚姻就是一個保障。請注意，它不僅保障單一方的權利義務，它乃是保障雙方的權利義務。
同居不算婚姻關係，在法律上不用負責任
有婚姻關係就有法律上的權利和義務。婚姻契約更是把細節定在白紙黑字上面。比起海誓山盟、九百九十九朵玫瑰、金鑽金項鍊，婚姻契約是更真實、更堅定、更負責任的承諾。
那麼，在男女同居卻不結婚的情況之下呢？會有什麼不同的結果嗎？是的，結果截然不同。「同居」在法律上完全沒有責任問題。他(她)口說無憑，對方說要永遠跟你在一起，要愛你一輩子，那些都不真實。
l 同居關係當中，消極的不照顧對方，無罪。
l 即使惡意遺棄、造成被遺棄的一方死亡，無罪。
l 「婚約以外的性行為」，也就是劈腿，無罪。
l 若有一方想要同時給其他對象承諾，無罪。
l 分手之後，不用付贍養費。
l 分手之後，若要雙一起扶養小孩，要打官司，會面臨對方逃避的問題。
所以，婚姻不只是一張紙，你敢負責任就要結婚。真愛就要負責，真愛就要結婚。你不願意結婚，說穿了就是為自己留一個「可以出爾反爾的後路」。這就是為什麼你經常會聽到男生說：「我不想結婚，因為我不想被套住」。換句話說，男生的意思是：「我不想因為這個女生而在法律上負任何責任。」因此，婚姻的地位是無法被「同居」而取代的。
不願意結婚，再多甜言蜜語都是空白支票
你必須有一個觀念，婚姻並不是一種限制，婚姻乃是一種保障，它同時保障男女雙方的權利和義務。法律規定丈夫不能有通姦行為，同時也規定妻子不能有通姦行為。女人不喜歡被欺騙，男人也不喜歡戴綠帽。婚姻乃是同時保護2個人的權利，但也同時規定2個人的義務。
無論戀人立下什麼海誓山盟，這些仍然不如「婚約」來得「實在」。因為只要對方不願意結婚，再多甜言蜜語都只是空白支票。過30歲、甚至過40歲不結婚的女人最吃虧，因為你的外貌已經大不如前。會願意跟妳在一起的男人變得很有限。正常而言，若你過了40歲還有男人願意跟妳同居，妳會變成像是「被施捨」的角色----因為已經沒有人要妳了，他竟然還願意可憐妳。
首先，我們要讓你認識什麼是婚約。婚約其實就是婚姻的約定。若是想要把婚姻的權利和義務定得更詳細，男女雙方可以在達成共識之後簽立「婚姻契約」。無論是「婚姻」本身或「婚姻契約」在法律上都是有效益的。
婚姻不只是一張紙，只要你把這張紙簽下去，就代表要負責任。這代表什麼呢？代表「說得出口的事情，就要做得到」，而法律就是用來抵制出爾反爾的人。在法律婚姻的見證之下，婚姻要求互相的權利和義務，任何違約都是犯法、就要承擔後果(如：金錢賠償、罰金、或判刑入獄)。
比如說：法律上要求婚約雙方都要以誠相待、互相扶持、互相照顧，這就是婚姻的義務。婚姻中也要求雙方有照顧子女的義務。而男女雙方都有「自己的權利」來要求對方忠心，這就是婚姻的權利。當你違反婚姻的規定時，你就犯法了。例如：
l 婚姻當中，積極或消極的不照顧配偶，就會造成「惡意遺棄罪」。
l 假設惡意遺棄的過程當中，造成被遺棄的一方死亡，就是罪上加罪。
l 「婚約以外的性行為」會造成「通姦罪」。
l 若有一方想要同時再娶或再嫁其他人，就造成了「重婚罪」。
l 婚姻暴力會夠成「傷害罪、恐嚇罪、或妨害自由罪」。
l 離婚之後，一方要付另一方的贍養費。
l 離婚之後，子女要有人監護和扶養，要打官司。
若犯了上述所提到的罪，可能會涉及金錢賠償、罰金、甚至是判刑入獄。這就是為什麼「願意結婚」代表「願意負責」，而違反承諾就要付上代價。若你在男女關係當中不想要被遺棄、被第三者介入、被傷害、被恐嚇、你希望雙方共同照顧小孩等等，婚姻就是一個保障。請注意，它不僅保障單一方的權利義務，它乃是保障雙方的權利義務。
同居不算婚姻關係，在法律上不用負責任
有婚姻關係就有法律上的權利和義務。婚姻契約更是把細節定在白紙黑字上面。比起海誓山盟、九百九十九朵玫瑰、金鑽金項鍊，婚姻契約是更真實、更堅定、更負責任的承諾。
那麼，在男女同居卻不結婚的情況之下呢？會有什麼不同的結果嗎？是的，結果截然不同。「同居」在法律上完全沒有責任問題。他(她)口說無憑，對方說要永遠跟你在一起，要愛你一輩子，那些都不真實。
l 同居關係當中，消極的不照顧對方，無罪。
l 即使惡意遺棄、造成被遺棄的一方死亡，無罪。
l 「婚約以外的性行為」，也就是劈腿，無罪。
l 若有一方想要同時給其他對象承諾，無罪。
l 分手之後，不用付贍養費。
l 分手之後，若要雙一起扶養小孩，要打官司，會面臨對方逃避的問題。
所以，婚姻不只是一張紙，你敢負責任就要結婚。真愛就要負責，真愛就要結婚。你不願意結婚，說穿了就是為自己留一個「可以出爾反爾的後路」。這就是為什麼你經常會聽到男生說：「我不想結婚，因為我不想被套住」。換句話說，男生的意思是：「我不想因為這個女生而在法律上負任何責任。」因此，婚姻的地位是無法被「同居」而取代的。
不願意結婚，再多甜言蜜語都是空白支票
你必須有一個觀念，婚姻並不是一種限制，婚姻乃是一種保障，它同時保障男女雙方的權利和義務。法律規定丈夫不能有通姦行為，同時也規定妻子不能有通姦行為。女人不喜歡被欺騙，男人也不喜歡戴綠帽。婚姻乃是同時保護2個人的權利，但也同時規定2個人的義務。
無論戀人立下什麼海誓山盟，這些仍然不如「婚約」來得「實在」。因為只要對方不願意結婚，再多甜言蜜語都只是空白支票。過30歲、甚至過40歲不結婚的女人最吃虧，因為你的外貌已經大不如前。會願意跟妳在一起的男人變得很有限。正常而言，若你過了40歲還有男人願意跟妳同居，妳會變成像是「被施捨」的角色----因為已經沒有人要妳了，他竟然還願意可憐妳。
Sunday, July 18, 2010
A Lifespan Model Of Cognitive Development
Acquisitive Stage
- childhood and adolescence
- children and adolescents acquire info and skills mainly for their own sake or as preparation for participation in society.
Achieving Stage
- late eens or early twenties to early thirties
- young adults no longer acquire knowloedge merely for its own sake; they use what they know to pursue goals, such as career and family.
Responsible Stage
- late thirties to early sixties
- middle-aged people use their minds to solve pratical problems associated with responsibilities to others; such as family memebers or employess
Executive Stage
- thirties or forties through middle age
- people may overlap with the achieving and responsible stages, are responsible for societal systems. They deal with complex relationship on multiple levels.
Reorganizational Stage
- end of middle age, begining of late adulthood
- people who enter retirement reorganize their lives and intellectual energies around meaningful pursuits that take the place of paid work.
Reintegrative Stage
- late adulthood
- older adults, who may have let go of some social involvement and whose cohnitive functioning may be limited by biological chnage, are often more selective about what tasks they expend offort on. They focus on the purpose of what they do and concentrate on tasks that have the most meaning for them.
Legacy-creating Stage
- advanced old age
- near the end of lfie, once reintegration has been completed, older people may create instructions for the disposition of prized possessions, make funeral arrangements, provide oral histories, or write their life stories as a legacy for their loved ones. All of these tasks involve the exercise of cognitive competencies within a social and emotional context.
- childhood and adolescence
- children and adolescents acquire info and skills mainly for their own sake or as preparation for participation in society.
Achieving Stage
- late eens or early twenties to early thirties
- young adults no longer acquire knowloedge merely for its own sake; they use what they know to pursue goals, such as career and family.
Responsible Stage
- late thirties to early sixties
- middle-aged people use their minds to solve pratical problems associated with responsibilities to others; such as family memebers or employess
Executive Stage
- thirties or forties through middle age
- people may overlap with the achieving and responsible stages, are responsible for societal systems. They deal with complex relationship on multiple levels.
Reorganizational Stage
- end of middle age, begining of late adulthood
- people who enter retirement reorganize their lives and intellectual energies around meaningful pursuits that take the place of paid work.
Reintegrative Stage
- late adulthood
- older adults, who may have let go of some social involvement and whose cohnitive functioning may be limited by biological chnage, are often more selective about what tasks they expend offort on. They focus on the purpose of what they do and concentrate on tasks that have the most meaning for them.
Legacy-creating Stage
- advanced old age
- near the end of lfie, once reintegration has been completed, older people may create instructions for the disposition of prized possessions, make funeral arrangements, provide oral histories, or write their life stories as a legacy for their loved ones. All of these tasks involve the exercise of cognitive competencies within a social and emotional context.
Kopi luwak
Kopi Luwah is coffee made from the beans of coffee berries which have been eaten by the Asian Palm Civet and other related civets, then passed through its digestive tract. A civet eats the berries for their fleshy pulp. In its stomach, proteolytic enzymes seep into the beans, making shorter peptides and more free amino acids. Passing through a civet's intestines the beans are then defecated, having kept their shape. After gathering, thorough washing, sun drying, light roasting and brewing, these beans yield an aromatic coffee with much less bitterness, widely noted as the most expensive coffee in the world.
Kopi luwak is produced mainly on the islands of Sumatra, Java, Bali and Sulawesi in the Indonesian Archipelago, and also in the Philippines (where the product is called motit coffee in the Cordillera and kape alamid in Tagalog areas) and also in East Timor (where it is called kafé-laku). Weasel coffee is a loose English translation of its name cà phê Chồn in Vietnam, where popular, chemically simulated versions are also produced.
Background:
Kopi is the Indonesian word for coffee. Luwak is a local name of the Asian palm civet in Sumatra. Palm civets are primarily frugivorous, feeding on berries and pulpy fruits such as from fig trees and palms. Civets also eat small vertebrates, insects, ripe fruits and seeds.
When coffee plants are put into civet habitats, the civets forage on only the ripest and sweetest berries. Hence, farmers would often find their best coffee berries missing in the morning after civets had been feeding and they were seen as pests. Meanwhile farmers hoping to save their crop gathered the civet droppings and found these beans, which were darkened and more brittle, yielded a coffee with unusual taste and lack of bitterness.
Production:
Early production began when beans were gathered in the wild from where a civet would defecate as a means to mark its territory. On farms, civets are either caged or allowed to roam within defined boundaries.
Coffee cherries are eaten by a civet for their fruit pulp. After spending about a day and a half in the civet's digestive tract[3] the beans are then defecated in clumps, having kept their shape and still covered with some of the fleshy berry's inner layers. They are gathered, thoroughly washed, sun dried and given only a light roast so as to keep the many intertwined flavors and lack of bitterness yielded inside the civet.
Cultivars, blends, and tastes:
Kopi luwak is a name for many specific cultivars and blends of arabica, robusta, liberica, excelsa or other beans eaten by civets, hence the taste can vary greatly. Nonetheless, kopi luwak coffees have a shared aroma profile and flavor characteristics, along with their lack of bitterness. Coffee critic Chris Rubin has said, "The aroma is rich and strong, and the coffee is incredibly full bodied, almost syrupy. It’s thick with a hint of chocolate, and lingers on the tongue with a long, clean aftertaste."
Kopi luwak tastes unlike heavy roasted coffees, since roasting levels range only from cinnamon color to medium, with little or no caramelization of sugars within the beans as happens with heavy roasting. Moreover, kopi luwaks which have very smooth profiles are most often given a lighter roast. Iced kopi luwak brews may bring out some flavors not found in other coffees.
Sumatra is the world's largest regional producer of kopi lowak. Sumatran civet coffee beans are mostly an early arabica variety cultivated in the Indonesian archipelago since the seventeenth century. Tagalog cafe alamid (or alamid cafe) comes from civets fed on a mixture of coffee beans and is sold in the Batangas region along with gift shops near airports in the Philippines.
Economics:
Kopi luwak is the most expensive coffee in the world, selling for between US $100 and $600 per pound. It is sold by weight mainly in Japan[citation needed] and the United States and served in Southeast Asian coffeehouses by the cup. Sources vary widely as to annual worldwide production.
Sales by the cup
In November 2006 Herveys Range Heritage Tea Rooms, a small cafe in the hills outside Townsville in Queensland, Australia, put kopi luwak coffee on its menu at AUD50.00 (US $33.00) a cup, selling about seven cups a week, which gained nationwide Australian and international press. In April 2008 the brasserie at Peter Jones department store in London's Sloane Square began selling a blend of kopi luwak and Blue Mountain called Caffe Raro for £50 (US $99.00) a cup.
Simulated civet coffee:
Civet coffee is a popular coffeehouse drink in Vietnam, where producers make simulated civet coffee.
In 1996 German scientists hired by Trung Nguyên Coffee Company in Vietnam isolated six digestive enzymes in the civet's digestive tract and a patented synthetic soak with these enzymes was developed to simulate the natural effect. Trung Nguyên's simulated product is called Legendee and is often the first kopi luwak-like coffee tasted by tourists in Southeast Asia.
Other kopi luwak simulations are not enzyme soaks but rather, roasts of high quality beans with added flavorings.
Kopi muncak:
Kopi muncak (or kopi muntjak) is made from the dung of barking deer (muntjac) found throughout Southeast Asia. Unlike civet coffee, Kopi muncak is mostly gathered in the wild, chiefly in Malaysia and the Indonesian Archipelago.
Kopi luwak is produced mainly on the islands of Sumatra, Java, Bali and Sulawesi in the Indonesian Archipelago, and also in the Philippines (where the product is called motit coffee in the Cordillera and kape alamid in Tagalog areas) and also in East Timor (where it is called kafé-laku). Weasel coffee is a loose English translation of its name cà phê Chồn in Vietnam, where popular, chemically simulated versions are also produced.
Background:
Kopi is the Indonesian word for coffee. Luwak is a local name of the Asian palm civet in Sumatra. Palm civets are primarily frugivorous, feeding on berries and pulpy fruits such as from fig trees and palms. Civets also eat small vertebrates, insects, ripe fruits and seeds.
When coffee plants are put into civet habitats, the civets forage on only the ripest and sweetest berries. Hence, farmers would often find their best coffee berries missing in the morning after civets had been feeding and they were seen as pests. Meanwhile farmers hoping to save their crop gathered the civet droppings and found these beans, which were darkened and more brittle, yielded a coffee with unusual taste and lack of bitterness.
Production:
Early production began when beans were gathered in the wild from where a civet would defecate as a means to mark its territory. On farms, civets are either caged or allowed to roam within defined boundaries.
Coffee cherries are eaten by a civet for their fruit pulp. After spending about a day and a half in the civet's digestive tract[3] the beans are then defecated in clumps, having kept their shape and still covered with some of the fleshy berry's inner layers. They are gathered, thoroughly washed, sun dried and given only a light roast so as to keep the many intertwined flavors and lack of bitterness yielded inside the civet.
Cultivars, blends, and tastes:
Kopi luwak is a name for many specific cultivars and blends of arabica, robusta, liberica, excelsa or other beans eaten by civets, hence the taste can vary greatly. Nonetheless, kopi luwak coffees have a shared aroma profile and flavor characteristics, along with their lack of bitterness. Coffee critic Chris Rubin has said, "The aroma is rich and strong, and the coffee is incredibly full bodied, almost syrupy. It’s thick with a hint of chocolate, and lingers on the tongue with a long, clean aftertaste."
Kopi luwak tastes unlike heavy roasted coffees, since roasting levels range only from cinnamon color to medium, with little or no caramelization of sugars within the beans as happens with heavy roasting. Moreover, kopi luwaks which have very smooth profiles are most often given a lighter roast. Iced kopi luwak brews may bring out some flavors not found in other coffees.
Sumatra is the world's largest regional producer of kopi lowak. Sumatran civet coffee beans are mostly an early arabica variety cultivated in the Indonesian archipelago since the seventeenth century. Tagalog cafe alamid (or alamid cafe) comes from civets fed on a mixture of coffee beans and is sold in the Batangas region along with gift shops near airports in the Philippines.
Economics:
Kopi luwak is the most expensive coffee in the world, selling for between US $100 and $600 per pound. It is sold by weight mainly in Japan[citation needed] and the United States and served in Southeast Asian coffeehouses by the cup. Sources vary widely as to annual worldwide production.
Sales by the cup
In November 2006 Herveys Range Heritage Tea Rooms, a small cafe in the hills outside Townsville in Queensland, Australia, put kopi luwak coffee on its menu at AUD50.00 (US $33.00) a cup, selling about seven cups a week, which gained nationwide Australian and international press. In April 2008 the brasserie at Peter Jones department store in London's Sloane Square began selling a blend of kopi luwak and Blue Mountain called Caffe Raro for £50 (US $99.00) a cup.
Simulated civet coffee:
Civet coffee is a popular coffeehouse drink in Vietnam, where producers make simulated civet coffee.
In 1996 German scientists hired by Trung Nguyên Coffee Company in Vietnam isolated six digestive enzymes in the civet's digestive tract and a patented synthetic soak with these enzymes was developed to simulate the natural effect. Trung Nguyên's simulated product is called Legendee and is often the first kopi luwak-like coffee tasted by tourists in Southeast Asia.
Other kopi luwak simulations are not enzyme soaks but rather, roasts of high quality beans with added flavorings.
Kopi muncak:
Kopi muncak (or kopi muntjak) is made from the dung of barking deer (muntjac) found throughout Southeast Asia. Unlike civet coffee, Kopi muncak is mostly gathered in the wild, chiefly in Malaysia and the Indonesian Archipelago.
Treatment of Breast Cancer and Prostate Cancer
Treatment of breat cancer:
- lumpectomy 【the tumor and a small amount of the surrongding tissue are removed】
- mastectomy 【all or part of the breast is removed】
Surgery may be combined with chemotherapy, radiation therapy (uses high-energy rays to shrink or kill remaining cells), or hormone therapy (uses estrogen-blocking drugs to help prevent cancer from coming back), If chemotherapy is used before surgery, its purpose is to shrink the tumor.
Treatment of prostate cancer:
- radical prostatectomy 【the prostate gland and some of the tissue around it are removed】
- transurethral resection 【cuts out cancerous tissue】
- orchiectomy 【removes the testicles or through hormone reducing or blocking drugs】
- lumpectomy 【the tumor and a small amount of the surrongding tissue are removed】
- mastectomy 【all or part of the breast is removed】
Surgery may be combined with chemotherapy, radiation therapy (uses high-energy rays to shrink or kill remaining cells), or hormone therapy (uses estrogen-blocking drugs to help prevent cancer from coming back), If chemotherapy is used before surgery, its purpose is to shrink the tumor.
Treatment of prostate cancer:
- radical prostatectomy 【the prostate gland and some of the tissue around it are removed】
- transurethral resection 【cuts out cancerous tissue】
- orchiectomy 【removes the testicles or through hormone reducing or blocking drugs】
Thursday, July 15, 2010
説話 -- Speaking
The way you speak decided your destiny
I'd say many people definite hear this somewhere before
學說話就是學做人
為何要談「說話」？貴人不一定能改變人生，外表不一定會決定魅力，但生活種種：報告、開會、道歉、要求加薪、演講、傾聽訴苦，都只跟一件事情有關，就是你會不會說話，你有沒有能力去想像，聽你講話的人是什麼心情，想聽到什麼。
You are what you say （你怎麼說話，決定你是誰）
說話形塑自我。說話謹慎，或注重說話品味，才能因此成為謹慎或有品味的人；嘴上愛抱怨，久而久之也將愈來愈像「怨女」。說話既然決定你在人生中扮演的角色與命運，當然要在乎。連帶地，他詮釋「說話之道」時，也從人性出發。
掌握說話技巧幫你少奮鬥30年
该说话时大胆说话
改掉说话絮絮叨叨没完没了的毛病，要学会选择发言的时机。比如，在下蛋之后，就要勇于发言，善于发言，要及时把自己取得的成绩理直气壮地宣扬出去，不必有任何顾虑。
不要在不该说的时候说话
言多必失，我算是有深切的体会了。我们公鸡除了凌晨报晓可以引吭高歌外，其他时间还是闭紧嘴巴的好，尤其不能对主人说三道四。早几天我们一个兄弟就因为乱说话挨了刀子，教训深刻啊。
随机应变
坚持人云亦云的原则，只认主人，不认真理。坚持谁喂养就学谁说话的既定方针不动摇，逢人说人话，见鬼讲鬼话。随时调控好自己的舌头，主人换了，说话就要及时转换。
乱说无用
我们的问题主要是爱抢着说话，逮住机会了，大家一通乱说，只讲不听，结果乱成一团。要学会聆听，尤其是领导说话的时候一定要鸦雀无声，确保领导的话语权威。
说话的方式很重要
说话的腔调要改变可能很难了，说话的内容和说话的方式一定要调整。要向喜鹊学习，坚持以说好话、好听的话为主的原则，不好的事情宁愿烂在肚子里也不要说出来。
多说好话
坚持说好话，说好听的话。不但要坚持当面说好话，说好听的话，还要坚持背后说好话，说好听的话。要坚信，这些好话、好听的话一定会传到当事人的耳朵里去的。
言出必行
任何时候，都要维护自己说话的权威性和严肃性，确保自己说出去的话“一句顶一万句”。为此宁愿少说，说则要不折不扣地贯彻执行。
9 ways to learn for communicate
第一：不要認為停留在心靈的舒適區域內是可以原諒的。
每個人都有一個舒適區域，在這個區域內是很自我的，不願意被打擾，不願意和陌生人交談，不願意被人指責，不願意按照規定的時限做事，不願意去思考別人還有什麼沒有想到。這在學生時代是很容易被理解的，有時候這樣的同學還跟”冷酷”" 個性”這些字眼沾邊，算作是褒義。然而相反，在工作之後，你要極力改變這一現狀。否則，你會很快變成雞尾酒會上唯一沒有人理睬的對象。但是，如果你能很快打破之前學生期所處的舒適區域，比別人更快的處理好業務、人際、輿論之間的關係，那就能很快的脫穎而出。
第二：不要把”好像”：”有人會……”：”大概”：”晚些時候”：”或者”：”說不定”之類放在嘴邊。
尤其是和上級談論工作的時候。
第三：不要拖延工作
很多人喜歡在學習和娛樂之間先選擇後者，然後在最後時間一次性趕工把考試要復習的東西突擊完成。但是在工作中請不要養成這樣的習慣，因為工作是永遠做不完的，容不得你”突擊”。又或者，當你在徘徊和彷徨如何實施的時候，你的主管已經看不下去，自己去做了。–這是一個危險的信號。
第四：不要認為理論上可以執行就大功告成了
這點太重要了，往往當真正執行的人開始做了才會發現計畫完全等於鬼話。如果不親自實行，做計畫的人會早晚被實施的鄙視。永遠需要提升自己的辦實事的能力，而不是空談。
第五：不要讓別人等你
在任何情況下都不要讓別人放下手頭的工作來等你。在大學中可能只是同寢室的人的幾句半開玩笑的抱怨，在工作上很可能導致你的潛在合作夥伴的離去。你在做一個工作的同時要知道別人的進度，而永遠不要落後。
第六：要重視細節
在求學過程中，往往做事粗枝大葉，看看差不多就行了。相反，在企業裏管理的精髓就在於將簡單的事情做到細節。一個慌忙尋找保險箱鑰匙的動作就很有可能喪失你晉升財務主管的機會。
第七：不要表現得消極，僅僅因為你所做的事情不是你的興趣所在。
很顯然，在學生時代，當做到自己喜歡的時候，我們會付出 200%的精力去創造，但如果是枯燥的事務，我們便懶得理睬，最好能有辦法應付過去。但在工作上80%你所做的事情都是繁瑣而看似機械的，如果僅僅為此而表現的悶悶不樂，那麼你會鬱悶更久。要知道你的上司已經為這個事務夠煩惱了，你還想讓他看到你的表情嗎？
第八：絕對不要把改善工作能力僅寄託在公司培訓上
人絕對不可能經過一次培訓就脫胎換骨。相反，集體培訓上學到的東西往往是最用不上的資訊。就像食堂燒大鍋菜一樣，總沒有你最想吃的菜，因為這樣做容易，並且不容易得罪人。很多學生很看重所選的公司有沒有培訓，這說明，你不但不知道這個公司做什麼，你甚至不知道怎樣學習這些技能。
第九：不要推卸責任
推卸責任是害怕的條件反射。不要認為別人看不出這點。
Most infos were copying from somewhere...
I'd say many people definite hear this somewhere before
學說話就是學做人
為何要談「說話」？貴人不一定能改變人生，外表不一定會決定魅力，但生活種種：報告、開會、道歉、要求加薪、演講、傾聽訴苦，都只跟一件事情有關，就是你會不會說話，你有沒有能力去想像，聽你講話的人是什麼心情，想聽到什麼。
You are what you say （你怎麼說話，決定你是誰）
說話形塑自我。說話謹慎，或注重說話品味，才能因此成為謹慎或有品味的人；嘴上愛抱怨，久而久之也將愈來愈像「怨女」。說話既然決定你在人生中扮演的角色與命運，當然要在乎。連帶地，他詮釋「說話之道」時，也從人性出發。
掌握說話技巧幫你少奮鬥30年
该说话时大胆说话
改掉说话絮絮叨叨没完没了的毛病，要学会选择发言的时机。比如，在下蛋之后，就要勇于发言，善于发言，要及时把自己取得的成绩理直气壮地宣扬出去，不必有任何顾虑。
不要在不该说的时候说话
言多必失，我算是有深切的体会了。我们公鸡除了凌晨报晓可以引吭高歌外，其他时间还是闭紧嘴巴的好，尤其不能对主人说三道四。早几天我们一个兄弟就因为乱说话挨了刀子，教训深刻啊。
随机应变
坚持人云亦云的原则，只认主人，不认真理。坚持谁喂养就学谁说话的既定方针不动摇，逢人说人话，见鬼讲鬼话。随时调控好自己的舌头，主人换了，说话就要及时转换。
乱说无用
我们的问题主要是爱抢着说话，逮住机会了，大家一通乱说，只讲不听，结果乱成一团。要学会聆听，尤其是领导说话的时候一定要鸦雀无声，确保领导的话语权威。
说话的方式很重要
说话的腔调要改变可能很难了，说话的内容和说话的方式一定要调整。要向喜鹊学习，坚持以说好话、好听的话为主的原则，不好的事情宁愿烂在肚子里也不要说出来。
多说好话
坚持说好话，说好听的话。不但要坚持当面说好话，说好听的话，还要坚持背后说好话，说好听的话。要坚信，这些好话、好听的话一定会传到当事人的耳朵里去的。
言出必行
任何时候，都要维护自己说话的权威性和严肃性，确保自己说出去的话“一句顶一万句”。为此宁愿少说，说则要不折不扣地贯彻执行。
9 ways to learn for communicate
第一：不要認為停留在心靈的舒適區域內是可以原諒的。
每個人都有一個舒適區域，在這個區域內是很自我的，不願意被打擾，不願意和陌生人交談，不願意被人指責，不願意按照規定的時限做事，不願意去思考別人還有什麼沒有想到。這在學生時代是很容易被理解的，有時候這樣的同學還跟”冷酷”" 個性”這些字眼沾邊，算作是褒義。然而相反，在工作之後，你要極力改變這一現狀。否則，你會很快變成雞尾酒會上唯一沒有人理睬的對象。但是，如果你能很快打破之前學生期所處的舒適區域，比別人更快的處理好業務、人際、輿論之間的關係，那就能很快的脫穎而出。
第二：不要把”好像”：”有人會……”：”大概”：”晚些時候”：”或者”：”說不定”之類放在嘴邊。
尤其是和上級談論工作的時候。
第三：不要拖延工作
很多人喜歡在學習和娛樂之間先選擇後者，然後在最後時間一次性趕工把考試要復習的東西突擊完成。但是在工作中請不要養成這樣的習慣，因為工作是永遠做不完的，容不得你”突擊”。又或者，當你在徘徊和彷徨如何實施的時候，你的主管已經看不下去，自己去做了。–這是一個危險的信號。
第四：不要認為理論上可以執行就大功告成了
這點太重要了，往往當真正執行的人開始做了才會發現計畫完全等於鬼話。如果不親自實行，做計畫的人會早晚被實施的鄙視。永遠需要提升自己的辦實事的能力，而不是空談。
第五：不要讓別人等你
在任何情況下都不要讓別人放下手頭的工作來等你。在大學中可能只是同寢室的人的幾句半開玩笑的抱怨，在工作上很可能導致你的潛在合作夥伴的離去。你在做一個工作的同時要知道別人的進度，而永遠不要落後。
第六：要重視細節
在求學過程中，往往做事粗枝大葉，看看差不多就行了。相反，在企業裏管理的精髓就在於將簡單的事情做到細節。一個慌忙尋找保險箱鑰匙的動作就很有可能喪失你晉升財務主管的機會。
第七：不要表現得消極，僅僅因為你所做的事情不是你的興趣所在。
很顯然，在學生時代，當做到自己喜歡的時候，我們會付出 200%的精力去創造，但如果是枯燥的事務，我們便懶得理睬，最好能有辦法應付過去。但在工作上80%你所做的事情都是繁瑣而看似機械的，如果僅僅為此而表現的悶悶不樂，那麼你會鬱悶更久。要知道你的上司已經為這個事務夠煩惱了，你還想讓他看到你的表情嗎？
第八：絕對不要把改善工作能力僅寄託在公司培訓上
人絕對不可能經過一次培訓就脫胎換骨。相反，集體培訓上學到的東西往往是最用不上的資訊。就像食堂燒大鍋菜一樣，總沒有你最想吃的菜，因為這樣做容易，並且不容易得罪人。很多學生很看重所選的公司有沒有培訓，這說明，你不但不知道這個公司做什麼，你甚至不知道怎樣學習這些技能。
第九：不要推卸責任
推卸責任是害怕的條件反射。不要認為別人看不出這點。
Most infos were copying from somewhere...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Steps to think like a Genius
There are 7 steps to think like a Genius:
1. The first step is to expand your consciousness as well as your perspectives.
The genius mind will look at a problem from many different perspectives. They are literally able to place themselves completely in someone else’s shoes in order to experience a new way of looking at things. By doing this, they expand their knowledge and consciousness of the world around them.
Look at problems from a variety of different perspectives. Most people only rely on their own perspective, and therefore always have a very narrow view of the world.
Leonardo da Vinci believed that, to gain knowledge about the form of a problem, you must begin by learning how to restructure it in many different ways. He believed that the first way you look at a problem is entirely too biased. You are only seeing the problem from one perspective: yours.
You can find new solutions to the problem by looking at it from a variety of different perspectives. According to Einstein, “You cannot solve a problem with the same type of thinking that is creating it.”
Einstein insisted that the secret of his genius was his ability to look at problems in a childlike, imaginative way.
To expand his view of the world, Einstein developed a mastermind group that he called the Olympiad. This group held intensive discussions on topics ranging from mathematics and physics to philosophy and literature.
These forums provided the stimulus needed for higher-level thinking and were often combine with camping trips involving hiking, swimming, and a good dose of humor.
The genius lives at a high level of consciousness about the world around them. They are receptive to new ideas, which provide them with even greater opportunity. The person who clings to their comfort zone is living in a low level of consciousness. Their experiences each day are often a repetition of the previous day.
You reach a higher level of consciousness when you reach new levels of understanding, experience a major growth experience, or embrace new ways of thinking.
When you were eight years old, you had a different view of the world than you do today. This is because you are now living in a higher consciousness/awareness of the world around you. You must constantly seek to expand your awareness if you want to grow.
Your consciousness determines how you experience life.
To expand your awareness, you must consistently seek opportunities for growth. Look for new relationships. Expand your knowledge. Step out of your comfort zone. Experience life to the fullest.
2. Once you have begun seeking your greatest aims in life, you must also persist…
The most successful people in life are the ones who are the most persistent. Interestingly, enough the most successful people in life are also the ones who have experienced the most failure.
The rest are too afraid to try and therefore never experience success or failure.
In fact, I would argue that failure is the quickest path to success. The greatest success is always preceded by a long list of failures.
Think of Thomas Edison, who after 10,000 attempts at creating the electric lightbulb, said, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Failure is a prerequisite for success; embrace it as a learning experience that brings you one step closer to your ultimate goal.
To truly be great, you must not be afraid of failing.
The leaders in life don’t fear failure. Like most, you probably learned in elementary school about the accomplishments of Christopher Columbus. However, you probably don’t know that the likely result of his journey was humiliation, financial ruin, or even death. He was making a journey, which most people believed would cause him to fall off the edge of the Earth.
All previous efforts to cross the Atlantic had been made by sailors who clung to the European coast in order to ensure a means of return. Columbus, however, sailed perpendicular to the shoreline. He was venturing into the unknown, without knowing what, if anything, lay ahead.
In the end, it turned out that Columbus, was, in fact, a visionary genius.
Even after six weeks at sea with no sight of land, he maintained unwavering belief in his goal. Most people would have given up at this point, but Columbus kept going. This was one of the most important factors in determining his success.
Most of what people refer to as failure is simply a lack of persistence.
How many times do we hug the coastline in our own lives, latching onto the familiar? Growth is always preceded by change. For us to improve and grow, we must embrace change and constantly step out of our old familiar comfort zones. When we do, we will find that we begin to live a life full of adventure and increased opportunity.
3. The third step to thinking like a genius is to Visualize!
Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Walt Disney, Nikola Tesla, and even Mozart all ascribed their creative genius to their ability to visualize.
Einstein said that all of his most important and productive thinking was done by “combinatory play” with “images” in his mind. Einstein used images, visual patterns and associations to discover more about the world around him.
Einstein believed that the spirit of learning and creative thought were lost in strict rote learning. Instead, he turned to his own imagination and visualization.
Visualization is an incredibly powerful tool in solving problems. Often times much more powerful that simply using words or numbers.
Visual thinking is done in the right side of the brain, presenting new problem solving and big-picture thinking. Visualization goes hand in hand with our next genius principle…
4. Imagination
Einstein was well acquainted with the childlike sense of play, possibility, and humor. His ability to remain in a childlike state of wonder and curiosity is the essence of his genius.
Dr. Jacques Hadmard spent much of his life studying the thought processes of great scientists and mathematicians. He found that their thinking process was characterized not by words or standard mathematical symbols, but instead by visual imagery.
The same was true for Einstein, who said, “The words of the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanisms of thought.”
He also wrote that his thought processes instead “rely, more or less, on clear images of a visual and some of a muscular type.”
These few sentences give us a rare insight into one of the greatest minds. Einstein teaches us the importance of thinking visually.
Dr. Marian Diamond and her colleagues at the University of California at Berkeley published a paper entitled “On the Brain of a Scientist: Albert Einstein.” Their research showed that Einstein’s brain contained 400 percent more “glial” cells per neuron than average. They also found that his brain was especially well developed in the area of the brain used for association.
However, we will never know whether Einstein’s brain was highly developed as a result of his thought processes and stimulating environment or from an extraordinary neuro-anatomical gift?
Much of our brainpower is due to the interconnection between brain cells. We know now that these interconnections - glial cells, dendrites, axons, and synapses - can continue to increase in number throughout the course of an individual’s life.
Dr. Diamond’s research suggests that combinatory play and a stimulus-rich environment are two of the keys to increasing the minds to make these internal connections within the mind from which genius is born.
Much of Einstein’s creativity was found in his ability to make unfamiliar and unexpected relationships.
Einstein coined the term, “combinatory play”. Although it had always existed, Einstein used this powerful way of thinking in his daily thought processes.
According to Einstein, combinatory play is sifting through data, perceptions, and materials to come up with combinations that are new and useful.
Einstein himself believed that you could stimulate ingenious thought by allowing the imagination to run freely, forming associations at will.
Einstein also performed what’s referred to as thought experiments.
As a young man, Einstein imagined himself running alongside a beam of light. He then asked himself what it would look like. This was one of his first thought experiments.
A thought experiment is carried out in the mind. It requires you to ask yourself a question. You then visualize a situation and perform some kind of experimental action and see what happens. These types of thought experiments provide a method for understanding nature without performing a direct experiment on it.
Try this out in your own life by asking yourself the following questions:
* What would happen if we found a way to use 100% of our brain potential?
* What our the possible solutions to world hunger?
* How would Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, or Newton approach this problem?
* What if I could hold infinity in the palm of my hand? (This has been a popular thought question among poets as well as quantum physicists.)
5. The next key, and one of the most important elements, to genius thinking is that of curiosity: the courage to ask questions.
Why do kids ask so many questions? They are naturally curious about the world around them. They discover the world through questioning others as well as themselves. In the process, they are creating neuro-associations that will guide their futures.
As we grow older, however, we become passive to the world around us. We stop asking questions, lose our much of our curiosity, and the learning comes to a screeching halt.
Without questions, we cannot grow.
Albert Einstein once said,
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of the mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.”
Socrates, Aristotle and Plato were some of the first great minds to develop the importance of questions. The entire Socratic method, which is a way of teaching that dates back to the Ancient Greeks, is based upon the teacher asking nothing but questions. These questions direct the students’ focus, enabling them to discover their own answers to life’s questions.
Successful people are simply those who have asked better questions. Instead of asking, “How will I ever get out of debt?” They asked themselves, “How can I learn from this experience?”
When computers were still taking up entire rooms, Bill Gates asked himself, “How can I get a computer in every household?”
When the automobile first emerged on the scene, hundreds of people started to build them, but Henry Ford asked, “How can I mass-produce them?”
As a young boy, Albert Einstein asked himself, “”What would it be like to run beside a light beam at the speed of light?”
Plato believed that skilled questions could lead not only to the discovery of geometry, science, and philosophy, but also to the realization of virtue, justice, beauty and truth.
Start to ask yourself and others empowering questions. Develop an unbound curiosity. Practice wonder.
6. You become what you think about.
Pay close attention now as we come upon the sixth principle that leads to genius. It is the Law of Attraction, which says you become what you think about.
The Law of Attraction says that what you think about, you bring about. Therefore, you become what you think about most. In addition, you also attract what you think about most.
In other words, Thoughts Become Things.
Your life is a physical manifestation of the thoughts that go on in your head.
Michael Jordan focused on perfecting every aspect of his game. This definite desire turned his weaknesses into strengths and made him one of the greatest leaders in basketball.
Wrigley concentrated his mind on the production and sale of a five-cent package of chewing gum and turned this one idea in to millions of dollars.
Edwin C. Barnes had a burning desire to go into business with Thomas Edison. He focused himself completely on this desire until it finally came to fruiting and he retired, while still a young man, with more money than he needs.
Lincoln concentrated his mind on freeing the slaves and became our greatest American President while doing it. Gillette concentrated on a safety razor, gave the entire world a “close shave” and made himself a multimillionaire.
George Eastman concentrated on the Kodak and made the idea yield him a fortune while bringing much pleasure to millions of people.
The Wright Brothers concentrated on the airplane and mastered the air.
Bill Gates concentrated on the personal computer, now a PC is found in nearly every home to help educate, entertain and enrich people’s lives.
All of these people were well adept in the Law of Attraction.
There is evidence that the law of attraction was also used by Einstein, Beethoven, and even Jesus. This same power is available to you. In fact, you are experiencing the Law of Attraction at this very moment whether you know it or not. This is because the law of attraction is always at work. Your life experience is in line with the thoughts that reside in your mind.
You create your own reality. What you think about, you bring about. What you emotionalize in thought, you bring about in reality.
Recent research is in support of this law. For example, research on optimism has shown that optimists enjoy better health, greater happiness, more success in life, and a longer life. The optimist focuses on success and minimizes their failures.
Pessimists, on the other hand, experience far more disease, depression, and a shorter life span.
What you focus on with thought and feeling is what you attract into your life.
The genius exercises this same law in their everyday life. The genius expects success and puts complete faith in their goal. They expect more out of life and therefore, they receive it.
You can do the same. Expect success and persist until you have found it.
7. The last and final step in thinking like a genius is to Have Fun!
No person has achieved massive success by doing what they hate. Pablo Picasso once said, “When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.”
In addition, Dale Carnegie said, “People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”
The most successful people in life find work that inspires and excites them.
I’ll leave you with a fitting poem Christain D. Larson:
When you work simply for yourself or for your own personal gain your mind will seldom rise above the limitations of the undeveloped personal life; but when you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break bounds; your mind transcends limitations; your consciousness expands in every direction; and you find yourself in a new world, a great world, a wonderful world; dormant powers, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a larger man by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.” -- Christian D. Larson, Business Psychology, 1912
1. The first step is to expand your consciousness as well as your perspectives.
The genius mind will look at a problem from many different perspectives. They are literally able to place themselves completely in someone else’s shoes in order to experience a new way of looking at things. By doing this, they expand their knowledge and consciousness of the world around them.
Look at problems from a variety of different perspectives. Most people only rely on their own perspective, and therefore always have a very narrow view of the world.
Leonardo da Vinci believed that, to gain knowledge about the form of a problem, you must begin by learning how to restructure it in many different ways. He believed that the first way you look at a problem is entirely too biased. You are only seeing the problem from one perspective: yours.
You can find new solutions to the problem by looking at it from a variety of different perspectives. According to Einstein, “You cannot solve a problem with the same type of thinking that is creating it.”
Einstein insisted that the secret of his genius was his ability to look at problems in a childlike, imaginative way.
To expand his view of the world, Einstein developed a mastermind group that he called the Olympiad. This group held intensive discussions on topics ranging from mathematics and physics to philosophy and literature.
These forums provided the stimulus needed for higher-level thinking and were often combine with camping trips involving hiking, swimming, and a good dose of humor.
The genius lives at a high level of consciousness about the world around them. They are receptive to new ideas, which provide them with even greater opportunity. The person who clings to their comfort zone is living in a low level of consciousness. Their experiences each day are often a repetition of the previous day.
You reach a higher level of consciousness when you reach new levels of understanding, experience a major growth experience, or embrace new ways of thinking.
When you were eight years old, you had a different view of the world than you do today. This is because you are now living in a higher consciousness/awareness of the world around you. You must constantly seek to expand your awareness if you want to grow.
Your consciousness determines how you experience life.
To expand your awareness, you must consistently seek opportunities for growth. Look for new relationships. Expand your knowledge. Step out of your comfort zone. Experience life to the fullest.
2. Once you have begun seeking your greatest aims in life, you must also persist…
The most successful people in life are the ones who are the most persistent. Interestingly, enough the most successful people in life are also the ones who have experienced the most failure.
The rest are too afraid to try and therefore never experience success or failure.
In fact, I would argue that failure is the quickest path to success. The greatest success is always preceded by a long list of failures.
Think of Thomas Edison, who after 10,000 attempts at creating the electric lightbulb, said, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Failure is a prerequisite for success; embrace it as a learning experience that brings you one step closer to your ultimate goal.
To truly be great, you must not be afraid of failing.
The leaders in life don’t fear failure. Like most, you probably learned in elementary school about the accomplishments of Christopher Columbus. However, you probably don’t know that the likely result of his journey was humiliation, financial ruin, or even death. He was making a journey, which most people believed would cause him to fall off the edge of the Earth.
All previous efforts to cross the Atlantic had been made by sailors who clung to the European coast in order to ensure a means of return. Columbus, however, sailed perpendicular to the shoreline. He was venturing into the unknown, without knowing what, if anything, lay ahead.
In the end, it turned out that Columbus, was, in fact, a visionary genius.
Even after six weeks at sea with no sight of land, he maintained unwavering belief in his goal. Most people would have given up at this point, but Columbus kept going. This was one of the most important factors in determining his success.
Most of what people refer to as failure is simply a lack of persistence.
How many times do we hug the coastline in our own lives, latching onto the familiar? Growth is always preceded by change. For us to improve and grow, we must embrace change and constantly step out of our old familiar comfort zones. When we do, we will find that we begin to live a life full of adventure and increased opportunity.
3. The third step to thinking like a genius is to Visualize!
Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Walt Disney, Nikola Tesla, and even Mozart all ascribed their creative genius to their ability to visualize.
Einstein said that all of his most important and productive thinking was done by “combinatory play” with “images” in his mind. Einstein used images, visual patterns and associations to discover more about the world around him.
Einstein believed that the spirit of learning and creative thought were lost in strict rote learning. Instead, he turned to his own imagination and visualization.
Visualization is an incredibly powerful tool in solving problems. Often times much more powerful that simply using words or numbers.
Visual thinking is done in the right side of the brain, presenting new problem solving and big-picture thinking. Visualization goes hand in hand with our next genius principle…
4. Imagination
Einstein was well acquainted with the childlike sense of play, possibility, and humor. His ability to remain in a childlike state of wonder and curiosity is the essence of his genius.
Dr. Jacques Hadmard spent much of his life studying the thought processes of great scientists and mathematicians. He found that their thinking process was characterized not by words or standard mathematical symbols, but instead by visual imagery.
The same was true for Einstein, who said, “The words of the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanisms of thought.”
He also wrote that his thought processes instead “rely, more or less, on clear images of a visual and some of a muscular type.”
These few sentences give us a rare insight into one of the greatest minds. Einstein teaches us the importance of thinking visually.
Dr. Marian Diamond and her colleagues at the University of California at Berkeley published a paper entitled “On the Brain of a Scientist: Albert Einstein.” Their research showed that Einstein’s brain contained 400 percent more “glial” cells per neuron than average. They also found that his brain was especially well developed in the area of the brain used for association.
However, we will never know whether Einstein’s brain was highly developed as a result of his thought processes and stimulating environment or from an extraordinary neuro-anatomical gift?
Much of our brainpower is due to the interconnection between brain cells. We know now that these interconnections - glial cells, dendrites, axons, and synapses - can continue to increase in number throughout the course of an individual’s life.
Dr. Diamond’s research suggests that combinatory play and a stimulus-rich environment are two of the keys to increasing the minds to make these internal connections within the mind from which genius is born.
Much of Einstein’s creativity was found in his ability to make unfamiliar and unexpected relationships.
Einstein coined the term, “combinatory play”. Although it had always existed, Einstein used this powerful way of thinking in his daily thought processes.
According to Einstein, combinatory play is sifting through data, perceptions, and materials to come up with combinations that are new and useful.
Einstein himself believed that you could stimulate ingenious thought by allowing the imagination to run freely, forming associations at will.
Einstein also performed what’s referred to as thought experiments.
As a young man, Einstein imagined himself running alongside a beam of light. He then asked himself what it would look like. This was one of his first thought experiments.
A thought experiment is carried out in the mind. It requires you to ask yourself a question. You then visualize a situation and perform some kind of experimental action and see what happens. These types of thought experiments provide a method for understanding nature without performing a direct experiment on it.
Try this out in your own life by asking yourself the following questions:
* What would happen if we found a way to use 100% of our brain potential?
* What our the possible solutions to world hunger?
* How would Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, or Newton approach this problem?
* What if I could hold infinity in the palm of my hand? (This has been a popular thought question among poets as well as quantum physicists.)
5. The next key, and one of the most important elements, to genius thinking is that of curiosity: the courage to ask questions.
Why do kids ask so many questions? They are naturally curious about the world around them. They discover the world through questioning others as well as themselves. In the process, they are creating neuro-associations that will guide their futures.
As we grow older, however, we become passive to the world around us. We stop asking questions, lose our much of our curiosity, and the learning comes to a screeching halt.
Without questions, we cannot grow.
Albert Einstein once said,
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of the mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.”
Socrates, Aristotle and Plato were some of the first great minds to develop the importance of questions. The entire Socratic method, which is a way of teaching that dates back to the Ancient Greeks, is based upon the teacher asking nothing but questions. These questions direct the students’ focus, enabling them to discover their own answers to life’s questions.
Successful people are simply those who have asked better questions. Instead of asking, “How will I ever get out of debt?” They asked themselves, “How can I learn from this experience?”
When computers were still taking up entire rooms, Bill Gates asked himself, “How can I get a computer in every household?”
When the automobile first emerged on the scene, hundreds of people started to build them, but Henry Ford asked, “How can I mass-produce them?”
As a young boy, Albert Einstein asked himself, “”What would it be like to run beside a light beam at the speed of light?”
Plato believed that skilled questions could lead not only to the discovery of geometry, science, and philosophy, but also to the realization of virtue, justice, beauty and truth.
Start to ask yourself and others empowering questions. Develop an unbound curiosity. Practice wonder.
6. You become what you think about.
Pay close attention now as we come upon the sixth principle that leads to genius. It is the Law of Attraction, which says you become what you think about.
The Law of Attraction says that what you think about, you bring about. Therefore, you become what you think about most. In addition, you also attract what you think about most.
In other words, Thoughts Become Things.
Your life is a physical manifestation of the thoughts that go on in your head.
Michael Jordan focused on perfecting every aspect of his game. This definite desire turned his weaknesses into strengths and made him one of the greatest leaders in basketball.
Wrigley concentrated his mind on the production and sale of a five-cent package of chewing gum and turned this one idea in to millions of dollars.
Edwin C. Barnes had a burning desire to go into business with Thomas Edison. He focused himself completely on this desire until it finally came to fruiting and he retired, while still a young man, with more money than he needs.
Lincoln concentrated his mind on freeing the slaves and became our greatest American President while doing it. Gillette concentrated on a safety razor, gave the entire world a “close shave” and made himself a multimillionaire.
George Eastman concentrated on the Kodak and made the idea yield him a fortune while bringing much pleasure to millions of people.
The Wright Brothers concentrated on the airplane and mastered the air.
Bill Gates concentrated on the personal computer, now a PC is found in nearly every home to help educate, entertain and enrich people’s lives.
All of these people were well adept in the Law of Attraction.
There is evidence that the law of attraction was also used by Einstein, Beethoven, and even Jesus. This same power is available to you. In fact, you are experiencing the Law of Attraction at this very moment whether you know it or not. This is because the law of attraction is always at work. Your life experience is in line with the thoughts that reside in your mind.
You create your own reality. What you think about, you bring about. What you emotionalize in thought, you bring about in reality.
Recent research is in support of this law. For example, research on optimism has shown that optimists enjoy better health, greater happiness, more success in life, and a longer life. The optimist focuses on success and minimizes their failures.
Pessimists, on the other hand, experience far more disease, depression, and a shorter life span.
What you focus on with thought and feeling is what you attract into your life.
The genius exercises this same law in their everyday life. The genius expects success and puts complete faith in their goal. They expect more out of life and therefore, they receive it.
You can do the same. Expect success and persist until you have found it.
7. The last and final step in thinking like a genius is to Have Fun!
No person has achieved massive success by doing what they hate. Pablo Picasso once said, “When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.”
In addition, Dale Carnegie said, “People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”
The most successful people in life find work that inspires and excites them.
I’ll leave you with a fitting poem Christain D. Larson:
When you work simply for yourself or for your own personal gain your mind will seldom rise above the limitations of the undeveloped personal life; but when you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break bounds; your mind transcends limitations; your consciousness expands in every direction; and you find yourself in a new world, a great world, a wonderful world; dormant powers, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a larger man by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.” -- Christian D. Larson, Business Psychology, 1912
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