No Topic Tuesday

I used to do No Topic Tuesday on here (alright, so I did it twice... and one of the times was on a Wednesday), so let's bring it back this week. I've got a small smattering of things to talk about. The first thing is about girls, and one of the large characterizations of their kind. I'm not sure if it's a confidence issue or a preconditioning issue, but it really doesn't seem to like a girl ever goes out of her way to show a guy that she's interested. Girl might react positively when guy reaches her way, but it doesn't seem that girl will ever...

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Philosophy

I took one philosophy class in college, and I pretty much hated it. I think the reason that I hated it was because it was my first semester of college and I was this really close minded Christian kid who didn't like to hear people give their world opinions that didn't match up to mine. I thought anyone who believed in the big bang was stupid and couldn't teach me anything. That was one of the reasons I went to a Christian college, to try and avoid a lot of that stuff, so I was pretty surprised when my philosophy teacher would preach how we all...

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Thomas Edison's Lightbulb Test

Read this story today, think it teaches a valuable lesson: incandescent bulb, was an incessant inventor. When he needed to expand his staff, he employed an unusual technique for interviewing the engineers for positions on his staff. Every prospective applicant who came in for an interview was handed a light bulb. Edison then asked the engineer to determine the exact amount of water the bulb could hold. Edison knew very well that there were two basic ways an applicant could determine the correct answer to his question. The first,...

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Authenticity

Came across a quote in this Dale Carnegie book I was reading today: "Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody and something other than the person he is in body and mind” I've basically said that myself a few dozen times in my life, but maybe just not with such profound wording. Maybe this blog is becoming just a bullhorn for me to say the same thing in two to three times a week, but I just feel so strongly about this one general topic that it's all I can ever end up writing about. Nothing is worse than someone who lacks originality,...

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Unwinnable Argument

I have spent a lot of time focusing on sports in my life. From my last year of high school to my last year of college, a large amount of my free time was dedicated to studying and writing about sports. While it didn’t really get me all that much, it did teach me a few things. One thing that has recently started to annoy me about sports and sports writers is when they criticize the fans of sports teams. First of all, I think people that take their sports fanhood super serious are kind of pathetic. While I was guilty of being one of those people...

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Forever is terrifying

I try to go to church every week, although often times I'm not very successful at that. Through my four years at Waynesburg I could never really find a church I really liked so there were a lot of weeks I didn't go at all. This summer was a bit tough to because for the first four months I was working every Sunday. But now I have a new job and I don't work weekends often and my old church now has a campus in the city, so I'm back to going regularly. The church formerly known as Pittsburgh East is now called Amplify Church and they have services...

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Squishy Lemons by Anthony Cooper

My good friend Anthony Cooper wrote this up and sent it to me, and I wanted to share it on the blog. Coop's one of the more advanced thinkers I know, so it might be kind of tough for us weaker minds to get a grasp on his advanced thought processes, but it's worth trying. For more of Cooper's genius, you can follow him on Twitter @acoop13.  Everyone has heard the cliche, "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade." Most people have also heard the alternative saying that was brought to life in the movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall, "When...

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Rescripting

This is another post inspired by the book I'm currently reading, The Seven Characteristics of Highly Effective People. Spoiler alert, the second habit in this book is "begin with the end in mind", although what I want to talk about doesn't directly fall under that umbrella. What I'm writing about tonight is what Covey calls rescripting, which doesn't really tell you much. A huge part of what this book tries to impress on its readers is the presence and impact of paradigms and paradigm shifts. Paradigm: a theory or a group of ideas about how...

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Confidence

It's really hard to get to know a person, and I think that's both a good thing and a bad thing. On the one hand, it would be really lame to talk to someone for a couple hours and then know everything about them. It would be boring and there would be less reason to continue to pursue relationships with said person. On the other hand, it kind of sucks that you really can't gauge much of anything until you're really comfortable with the other person. I wish it was easier to tell what a person is really like the first time spending time with them....

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