Month: June 2014

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The Man In The Arena

The Man In The Arena is an excerpt from Theodore Roosevelt’s now famous speech ‘Citizenship In A Republic‘ delivered at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France on 23 April, 1910.
It is one of my favourite quotes as it acts to both strengthen resolve in adversity and celebrate success in victory:
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt
It is almost impossible not to be stirred by such powerful words. So, who will you be today? The critic – or the Man In The Arena?
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Where are Memories Stored?

I was just reading a health newsletter talking about a brain with more memories filling up faster than one that did not store as much information.
Absolute claptrap! No wonder people find it hard to get the true data on what it takes to optimally run a body when so much false data surrounds us at every turn!
Well here’s something I wrote to the editor for you to throw back at people who push the “brain theory” to you.
The first article here is based on the completely disprovable hypothesis that memories are stored in the brain.
A person takes 32 pictures per second, every waking moment of their life.
These are full visio, sonic, smell, taste, touch as well as 52 other perceptics that the medical profession completely overlook we have when they say we have 5 senses.
Perceptics like sense of balance, sense of salinity and hydration of the body, sense of hunger, sense of direction.
I could go on but you get the point.
Wikipedia reports the brain as having 200 billion neurons. A neuron is a nerve cell.
So 32 pictures per second
If a person sleeps 8 hours a day that means they are awake for 16.
In theory. There are the walking asleep but let’s not go there.
And we’ll exclude those all nighters we used to pull in our youth.
So, 16 hours by 60 minutes = 960 minutes.
960 minutes is 57,600 seconds a day.
A person living for 75 years therefore has 365 (we’ll exclude leap years) days by 75 = 27,375 days.
27,375 days by 57,600 seconds = 1,576,800,000 seconds a waking lifetime.
Multiplied by 32 pictures per second = 50,457,600,000 pictures.
A researcher estimated the amount of space that would be needed to store all the perceptics an individual can recall and he calculated that if they were stored in the brain then the brain would be full to capacity within three months.
So, I hear you ask, if it is not the brain, what stores the pictures?
The answer is you – the being.

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Swiss Competence

Swiss Competence
As one of my friends put it:
I don’t like violence.
But if it comes looking for you, be ready to deal with it.
The more competent you are in life, the less you are the adverse effect of any of it.