This past weekend I was browsing through my RSS reader, and I came across an interesting post titled What is success? Impact.
The author is basically questioning what should be considered success (on a professional level), and he comes to the conclusion that success should be measured as the positive impact his work will have upon the lives of other people.
The article caught my attention because I have the exact same opinion.
Obviously I don’t think there is right or wrong as to how we define success. The term itself is a subjective thing, so what success means to you might be different from what it means to me or other people, and this is perfectly fine.
That being said, I think it is useful to discuss about such definitions, because it helps us to analyze whether or not we are moving in the right direction.
For example, most people tend to equate success with money. That is, the more money you make, the more successful you are. But under this definition one could argue that a drug dealer who makes millions of dollars annually is a very successful person. I don’t agree with this. I could give you that such drug dealer is a savvy businessman, but I wouldn’t call him successful, because the impact he has on the life of other people is actually a very negative one. The same thing could be said about online spammers, scammers and so on.
Now take Linus Torvalds as another example. He is the founder of the Linux movement, which created one of the most successful open source projects to date, and enabled millions of people to use a free and very reliable operating system. I am not sure how rich he is, but even if he was broke I would call him a successful person, because he had a huge impact on the lives of people from around the world.
Note that these things are not mutually exclusive either. In other words, it is possible to make a lot of money and have a positive impact in the lives of many people at the same time (and often times they go together). Just think about Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Larry Page and Sergei Brin.
But, I suspect that these folks were first and foremost motivated by the possibility of making something big that would impact many people. As Steve Jobs say, by the possibility of putting a dent in the universe. Sure, they were no philanthropists, so the money was welcome too, but I don’t think it was the only nor the main thing they were pursuing.
Which leads us to one question: are you working to make as much money as possible, or to make as big an impact as possible?
Monday, January 16, 2012
AV3 - QUOTES OF SUCCESS
"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."
-Dale Carnegie
"Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand."
-- Bruce Barton
"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that?s where you will find success."
- Thomas J. Watson
"The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight."
-Mark Caine
?There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."
- Christopher Morley
?There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."
- Christopher Morley
"When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success."
Orison Swett Marden
Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire.Here's what would be pitiful,if your income grew and you didn't.
"The great successful men of the world have used their imagination?they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building."
Robert Collier
"Success doesn't come to you?you go to it."Marva Collins
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will." Vincent T. Lombardi
-Dale Carnegie
"Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand."
-- Bruce Barton
"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that?s where you will find success."
- Thomas J. Watson
"The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight."
-Mark Caine
?There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."
- Christopher Morley
?There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."
- Christopher Morley
"When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success."
Orison Swett Marden
Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire.Here's what would be pitiful,if your income grew and you didn't.
"The great successful men of the world have used their imagination?they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building."
Robert Collier
"Success doesn't come to you?you go to it."Marva Collins
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will." Vincent T. Lombardi
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Errors made with comparatives
Common mistakes in the use of the comparative and the superlative
July 31st, 2011 · No Comments · English Grammar
Incorrect: He is worst than I.
Correct: He is worse than I.
Incorrect: Mumbai is hot than Jammu.
Correct: Mumbai is hotter than Jammu.
We use comparative adjectives with than.
Incorrect: From the two he is the taller.
Correct: He is the taller of the two.
Incorrect: From the three he is the tallest.
Correct: He is the tallest of the three.
Incorrect: Of the two plans this is the best.
Correct: Of the two plans this is the better.
When a group has only two members, we use the comparative instead of the superlative.
Incorrect: I am the happiest man of the world.
Correct: I am the happiest man in the world.
After superlatives, we do not usually use of with a singular word referring to a place or group. But of can be used before plural nouns / pronouns.
He is the fastest of them all.
Incorrect: There is a best singer in that class.
Correct: There is a very good singer in that class.
We do not use the superlative when no comparison is implied.
July 31st, 2011 · No Comments · English Grammar
Incorrect: He is worst than I.
Correct: He is worse than I.
Incorrect: Mumbai is hot than Jammu.
Correct: Mumbai is hotter than Jammu.
We use comparative adjectives with than.
Incorrect: From the two he is the taller.
Correct: He is the taller of the two.
Incorrect: From the three he is the tallest.
Correct: He is the tallest of the three.
Incorrect: Of the two plans this is the best.
Correct: Of the two plans this is the better.
When a group has only two members, we use the comparative instead of the superlative.
Incorrect: I am the happiest man of the world.
Correct: I am the happiest man in the world.
After superlatives, we do not usually use of with a singular word referring to a place or group. But of can be used before plural nouns / pronouns.
He is the fastest of them all.
Incorrect: There is a best singer in that class.
Correct: There is a very good singer in that class.
We do not use the superlative when no comparison is implied.
Monday, January 9, 2012
Hyperactivity related to food Additives
Science News
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Food Additives Linked To Hyperactivity In Children, Study Shows
ScienceDaily (Sep. 9, 2007) — A study by researchers at the University of Southampton has shown evidence of increased levels of hyperactivity in young children consuming mixtures of some artificial food colours and the preservative sodium benzoate.
See Also:
Health & Medicine
* Children's Health
* Attention Deficit Disorder
* Nutrition
Mind & Brain
* Child Psychology
* Child Development
* ADD and ADHD
Reference
* Hyperactivity
* Adult attention-deficit disorder
* Fertility
* Gluten-free, casein-free diet
The possibility of food colours and preservatives affecting children's behaviour has long been an unresolved question for parents. This significant new research by a team from the University of Southampton's Schools of Psychology and Medicine provides a clear demonstration that changes in behaviour can be detected in three-year-old and eight-year-old children.
The research, which was funded by a £0.75m grant from the Food Standards Agency and is published in The Lancet online today (6 September), involved studying levels of hyperactivity in 153 three-year-olds and 144 eight-year-olds living in the city of Southampton. The children were selected from the general population to represent the full range of behaviour, from normal through to hyperactive, and not for any previous behavioural problems or known sensitivities to particular foods.
The children's families were asked to put them on a diet free from the additives used in the study. Over a six-week period the children were then given a drink each day which either contained one of two mixtures of food colours and benzoate preservative, or just fruit juice - with all the drinks looking and tasting identical.
Hyperactivity is a behaviour indicated by increased movement, impulsivity and inattention. The results of the Southampton study show that when the children were given the drinks containing the test mixtures, in some cases their behaviour was significantly more hyperactive. These results replicate and extend previous FSA-funded research by the team in Southampton.
The research team used a combination of reports on the children's behaviour from teachers and parents, together with recordings of the children's behaviour in the classroom made by an observer, and, for the older children, a computer-based test of attention. None of the participants - teachers, parents, the observer, or the children - knew which drink each child was taking at any one time.
Professor of Psychology, Jim Stevenson, who led the research, comments: 'We now have clear evidence that mixtures of certain food colours and benzoate preservative can adversely influence the behaviour of children. There is some previous evidence that some children with behavioural disorders could benefit from the removal of certain food colours from their diet. We have now shown that for a large group of children in the general population, consumption of certain mixtures of artificial food colours and benzoate preservative can influence their hyperactive behaviour.
'However parents should not think that simply taking these additives out of food will prevent all hyperactive disorders. We know that many other influences are at work but this at least is one a child can avoid.'
The Food Standards Agency is an independent Government department set up by an Act of Parliament in 2000 to protect the public's health and consumer interests in relation to food.
The FSA provides advice and information to the public and Government on food safety from farm to fork, nutrition and diet. It also protects consumers through effective food enforcement and monitoring.
The study 'Food additives and hyperactive behaviour in 3 and 8/9 year old children in the community': Donna McCann*, Angelina Barrett* , Alison Cooper *, Debbie Crumpler*, Lindy Dalen* , Kate Grimshaw**, Elizabeth Kitchin*, Kris Lok*, Lucy Porteous* , Emily Prince* , Edmund Sonuga-Barke*, John O. Warner***, and Jim Stevenson*
*School of Psychology and ** School of Medicine, Department of Child Health at the University of Southampton, *** now at Department of Paediatrics, Imperial College, London, is published online by The Lancet on Thursday 6 September and will shortly be published in the printed edition.
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Blog Cite
Food Additives Linked To Hyperactivity In Children, Study Shows
ScienceDaily (Sep. 9, 2007) — A study by researchers at the University of Southampton has shown evidence of increased levels of hyperactivity in young children consuming mixtures of some artificial food colours and the preservative sodium benzoate.
See Also:
Health & Medicine
* Children's Health
* Attention Deficit Disorder
* Nutrition
Mind & Brain
* Child Psychology
* Child Development
* ADD and ADHD
Reference
* Hyperactivity
* Adult attention-deficit disorder
* Fertility
* Gluten-free, casein-free diet
The possibility of food colours and preservatives affecting children's behaviour has long been an unresolved question for parents. This significant new research by a team from the University of Southampton's Schools of Psychology and Medicine provides a clear demonstration that changes in behaviour can be detected in three-year-old and eight-year-old children.
The research, which was funded by a £0.75m grant from the Food Standards Agency and is published in The Lancet online today (6 September), involved studying levels of hyperactivity in 153 three-year-olds and 144 eight-year-olds living in the city of Southampton. The children were selected from the general population to represent the full range of behaviour, from normal through to hyperactive, and not for any previous behavioural problems or known sensitivities to particular foods.
The children's families were asked to put them on a diet free from the additives used in the study. Over a six-week period the children were then given a drink each day which either contained one of two mixtures of food colours and benzoate preservative, or just fruit juice - with all the drinks looking and tasting identical.
Hyperactivity is a behaviour indicated by increased movement, impulsivity and inattention. The results of the Southampton study show that when the children were given the drinks containing the test mixtures, in some cases their behaviour was significantly more hyperactive. These results replicate and extend previous FSA-funded research by the team in Southampton.
The research team used a combination of reports on the children's behaviour from teachers and parents, together with recordings of the children's behaviour in the classroom made by an observer, and, for the older children, a computer-based test of attention. None of the participants - teachers, parents, the observer, or the children - knew which drink each child was taking at any one time.
Professor of Psychology, Jim Stevenson, who led the research, comments: 'We now have clear evidence that mixtures of certain food colours and benzoate preservative can adversely influence the behaviour of children. There is some previous evidence that some children with behavioural disorders could benefit from the removal of certain food colours from their diet. We have now shown that for a large group of children in the general population, consumption of certain mixtures of artificial food colours and benzoate preservative can influence their hyperactive behaviour.
'However parents should not think that simply taking these additives out of food will prevent all hyperactive disorders. We know that many other influences are at work but this at least is one a child can avoid.'
The Food Standards Agency is an independent Government department set up by an Act of Parliament in 2000 to protect the public's health and consumer interests in relation to food.
The FSA provides advice and information to the public and Government on food safety from farm to fork, nutrition and diet. It also protects consumers through effective food enforcement and monitoring.
The study 'Food additives and hyperactive behaviour in 3 and 8/9 year old children in the community': Donna McCann*, Angelina Barrett* , Alison Cooper *, Debbie Crumpler*, Lindy Dalen* , Kate Grimshaw**, Elizabeth Kitchin*, Kris Lok*, Lucy Porteous* , Emily Prince* , Edmund Sonuga-Barke*, John O. Warner***, and Jim Stevenson*
*School of Psychology and ** School of Medicine, Department of Child Health at the University of Southampton, *** now at Department of Paediatrics, Imperial College, London, is published online by The Lancet on Thursday 6 September and will shortly be published in the printed edition.
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