The More I Learn, the more I learn that I have more to learn

The More I Learn, the more I learn that I have more to learn

For Christians, today is a Good Friday but whatever the day is when the calendar flips over, my thirst for learning remains unabated, unrestrained, unperturbed.  So I concocted this kilometric-long quotation [hehehe, I can secure my copyright for this]:  THE MORE I LEARN, THE MORE I LEARN THAT I HAVE MORE TO LEARN.  But this is exactly how I feel, how I breath life, how I lead my life.  Everyday that dawns upon me is another opportunity I grab and leverage on BECAUSE I am fully cognizant that if that slips past me, that is a LOST OPPORTUNITY I cannot recoup by all means.  BTW, I don't take TRAININGs simply for compliance.  No Senor.

Albert Einstein, one of the greatest physicist ever, said: 'ONCE YOU STOP LEARNING, YOU START DYING'.  I'm sorry, this is neither a THREAT nor a WARNING.  Do take this as a 'WAKE-UP CALL'.  Unfortunately, this pandemic is used as a reason by many to stop learning.

If you're in a very bad shape, if your house is 'on fire' [figuratively speaking], you could be facing ten top burning priorities all at the same time but hey, we're just humans, we can just execute one task at a time.  BTW, even those supercomputers who swag and swank their MPP [massive parallel processing] but from a technical jargon, their multi-threading still means one execution at a time.  Difference is, their execution is a thousand times faster.

If there's one major DON'T, DON'T FOCUS ON WHAT YOU CAN'T FIX.  That simplifies the equation and that restores order to the mess you're now in.  Akin to that picture where you're caught up in a ring of fire, the TOP PRIORITY is NOT to fight that fire but rather, how to extricate and wiggle yourself out of that inferno.  It's all SETTING PRIORITIES.

Borrowing the favorite keyword of Former US President Bill Clinton, it was 'KISS' [i.e. keep it simple, shit].  In a topsy-turvy world, you gotta clear things up before you clear things up.  Where there are one too many priorities pulling you across different directions, first things first, you gotta take things in control.

Problem is, some [or rather, MANY] of us, just think too much, OVERTHINKING in fact.  But as Chinese martial arts expert Bruce Lee said, IF YOU SPEND TOO MUCH TIME THINKING ABOUT A THING, YOU'LL NEVER GET IT DONE.  In two blunt sarcastic words, that is ANALYSIS PARALYSIS no less.  Before you know it, it's GAME OVER, zero time left for you.

On the other hand, there are times when we want to just do one too many things which is laudable and understandable especially when there are multiple TOP PRIORITIES.  Hmmmm, let's look how those tournament standings are all tied in total points and they had to break up those ties.  But you might ask me, when we're at home, locked out because of this pandemic and we got ten priorities, how do we break up those ten very top priorities ?  In basic accounting, we call that the 'T' account wherein I use the 'T' table to list all benefits on the left, disadvantages on the right.  Obviously, you factor-in the impact to either side of the 'T' table.  And that's when you can simplify a rather complex equation.

At the end of the day, you gotta 'MAKE THE GRADE'.  Don't settle for something less than the best performance you can give but as the old cliche goes, 'IF YOU AIM FOR THE SKY, IF YOU FAIL, YOU WILL FALL ON THE TREE TOP.  IF YOU AIM FOR THE TREE TOP, YOU WILL FALL ON THE GROUND'.  BTW, 'falling on the ground is spelled "M-E-D-I-O-C-R-I-T-Y' and that's a blot of ink we should avoid because eventually, that blot can become an stigma.  You might get tagged for that MEDIOCRITY.  And this brings us full circle back with LEARNING LEARNING LEARNING because that is a life-long process we can't just get away with folks. ✅✅✅

Are You Just Humming [in Life] ?

 Are You Just Humming [in Life] ?

Not too bad, everyone hums I guess. And now, with Google Assistant, you can find that song by just humming.  Indeed, that kind of song search is a quantum leap.  BUT, we deter and discourage everyone to end up humming in life.  Why ?  Because a lot more stuff in our lives needs a stellar approach, a focused approach in everything we undertake.  Humming is fine BUT you shouldn't be humming every step of the way.  That 'humming' attitude has always been flagged down as one of the distractions in our lives, distractions that help us and instead, resulting in us veering away from the focus we need in life.

Work ethics, anyone ?  Obviously, every culture will defend its own work ethics.  My very first job was with one of the biggest global entities till to date.  And lucky enough, I had the edge of having bosses from The Netherlands, U.K., Venezuela and even a U.S.-bred Filipino.  With such a basket of cultures exposed to, I had to roll with the punches and dance with the tune BUT if there's one thing that's non-negotiable, it is your work deliverables.  NO ROOM FOR COMPROMISE.

Oh, we luv Mr. Bean but we just don't like everything about his traits, behaviors and discipline.  In one curt and blunt word, we loathe MEDIOCRITY.  In the hoops game, if you allow a score for every score you make, you're a moot point.  Your efforts will simply go for naught because it's negated.  And that's MEDIOCRITY.

You can even be a dancer but to be a professional one is least expected of you.  You can't be less than that.  You can't just be riding on, buying time so when a dancer calls sick, you could fill in.  You could be a worker or a student, if there's something common both must have, it's that fire in the belly because you must be able to lit a fire.  You can't just be going through the motions.  And by the way, we're not in a galaxy because we're in the universe though.

Life is beyond semantics. At the very least, we gotta 'walk the talk'.  We gotta live on what we preach.  We need to manifest everything we are pushing for.  And if there are dominoes to tip, just don't leave a single domino un-flipped. If there's a common culprit in our mediocrity, it is DISTRACTION DISTRACTION and DISTRACTION. 

In our digitally connected worlds today, researchers in cognitive science and neuroscience have concluded that media multitasking interferes with one's attention and memory.  We tend to be shallower, spottier.  Multi-tasking and other demanding tasks draw on that same region of our brain called 'prefrontal cortex'.  To quote clinical studies, "UNDER MOST CONDITIONS, THE BRAIN CAN'T CARRY OUT TWO COMPLEX TASKS SIMULTANEOUSLY'.  What's the fix for this conundrum ?  Social scientists advice that we intentionally remove 'extraneous devices' from one's workspace because that will drastically limit distractions and resist that 'itching urge' to respond to the device's every buzz or ping. Final fix? FOCUS FOCUS FOCUS in life folks❗❗❗