Friday, December 31, 2010

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Plato Quotes!

"For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions."

"He was a wise man who invented beer."

"Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty."

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

worry

I wish that worriers, or people who worry, would realize a few simple things...

When you are meeting with a person, the way you approach them will affect their response to you.

When you worry about what the other person is going to do, you project that energy to them. Their decision will be partly based on the worry that you possess.

When trying to predict future events, we can only understand the possibility of an individual event in terms of a percentage. Think about how a weather man predicts the weather [40% chance of rain].

While you can't know for sure what the person will decide, remember that if you expect a certain response, the energetic dynamic will make that response more likely.

Don't worry, understand that there won't be absolute certainty, and your expected outcome will be more likely simply because you are expecting it.

Much Love

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Speed it up Dwight!

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=5955838

Howard is shooting a horrible percentage and the league is trying to force him to speed up. He refuses because he thinks it will make him shoot with worse form.

Dwight, if you happen to read this: speed it up for your own sake! You're thinking too much! Whatever you're doing is NOT working, so your resistance to change is foolish.

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Winning is Contagious



Take a look at these winning streaks. 5 of the 6 Division leaders are in the middle of winning streaks of 5 games or longer including the Heat and Celtics winning 12 and 13 respectively. Mentality can be "contagious." When an athlete or team observes another athlete or team do something, it can lead to them attaining similar feats.

Saturday, December 18, 2010

A bit about why sunglasses are cool

Wearing sunglasses makes the wearer appear "cool." Why is this?

The primary reason is that it hinders the collapse of the wave function of the wearer's eye focus. When a person observes a sunglasses wearer, he or she cannot determine if the wearer is observing them or not. Since the person can't determine this, the wavefunction does not collapse, resulting in all possibilities. schroodinger might say that The wearer is both observing the other person and not observing the other person AND NOT observing the other person AND IS observing the other person.

From the sunglasses wearer's perspective, he or she feels more comfortable either looking or not looking at a subject because their observation cannot be observed. (there are cases when the sunglasses wearer believes that $he (he/she) is not able to be observed, when $he actually can be observed and vice versa.



Saturday, December 11, 2010

A couple gems for the day

A book that applies quantum theory to social life. Helped me write my thesis.

http://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Society-Danah-Zohar/dp/0688142303/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1292106109&sr=8-1



Second, an introduction to the idea of the collapse of the wave function.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKioZfRw2-Y

Much Love!


UPDATE:

Here is a cool glossary of terms relating to waves. The concepts can be applied to the concept of wave functions.

http://www.servias.org/?p=83