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  • May 25
    The Endless Knot Podcast ep 91: Roman Gardens, with Victoria Austen (audio only)

    Aven: Welcome to the endless knot podcast where the more we know Mark: the more we want to find out Aven: tracing serendipitous connections through our lives Mark: and across disciplines Aven: Hi, I’m Aven Mark: And I’m Mark. 00:19 - Aven: And today we’re talking about Roman gardens, but first, a couple of Patreon patrons to think, Mark: first of all, thank you to Dan Pugh of Bunny Trails, Will Fox of Exploring History on YouTube and the folks at Lexitecture.
  • May 25
    Mass Effect 2 Broke the Franchise

    So the Legendary Edition of Mass Effect is here. 00:08 - This means that millions of us will be taking yet another trip through Shepard’s universe, all the way from our initial drop point on Eden Prime to the baffling and disjointed conversation with the Star Child at the end of the third game. 00:21 - It’s a long journey and the voyage is filled with adventure, discovery, friendship, and brilliant character moments.
  • May 25
    LEVEL (Flat Earth Film) 2021

    So there it is. the earth from outer space. 00:33 - Do you believe this is a real live recording? [Do you believe?] How about now? Does this make it more believable? Ask yourself. 00:48 - [Is this real? Do you believe] Let’s try this another way. - Breaking news NASA finally did it. 00:56 - They finally did it. They’re finally live-streaming the earth spinning from outer space.
  • May 25
    Yuri Tschinkel, Height zeta functions

    RACHEL PRIES: Hello. Welcome to the VaNTAGe Seminar. 00:05 - We’re still in this series of talks on rational points and Manin conjectures. 00:12 - And today, we’re very happy to have Yuri Tschinkel speaking to us about height zeta functions. 00:19 - And is it all right if we record your talk today? YURI TSCHINKEL: Yes. 00:24 - RACHEL PRIES: Oh, thank you. All right. 00:26 - Well, go right ahead.
  • May 25
    Lead the Field by Earl Nightingale Audiobook

    you are about to hear the new lead the field by earl nightingale performed by earl nightingale copyright 2015 bn publishing online at bnpublishing. com this is earl nightingale with the new edition of lead the field this program is about 12 ideas that will bring order and success into our lives these ideas will work wonders regardless of what we choose as the main thrust of our lives for these are the great ideas that have evolved over the centuries and together they form a constellation by which you and i can safely and successfully navigate the great spanish philosopher ortega reminded us that we human beings are the only creatures on the planet earth that are born into a natural state of disorientation with our world that is while all other creatures are guided by instinct of which they’re neither aware nor have the capacity to question each of us as human creatures was given the godlike power to create his or her own life and each of us does exactly that all the years of his or her life every day we put in place actions and ideas that will determine the shape and substance of our tomorrows for some those ideas and actions lead inevitably to extraordinary achievement and rewards for most they tend to lead to a kind of middle ground in which great numbers of people take their cues from each other without question or consideration and for some those actions and ideas lead to repeated frustration and problems as they spend their lives in the bottom layers of the socio-economic pyramid successor failure as a human being is not a matter of luck or circumstance or fate or the breaks or who you know or any of the other tiresome old myths and cliches by which the ignorant tend to excuse themselves it’s a matter of following a common sense paradigm of rules guidelines anyone can follow this program lead the field has changed more lives brought about more success stories helped create more millionaires saved more careers important jobs and marriages than any other program ever produced and the rules we talk about here don’t change they apply to any situation under any and all circumstances we never have to say i wonder what’ll work in this particular situation all we have to do is make these ideas our own and we begin with what i call the magic word we all want good results from life in our home our work and in all our contacts with other people and the most important single factor to guarantee good results day in day out all the months and years of our lives is a healthy attitude attitude is the magic word attitude is defined as the position or bearing as indicating action feeling or mood and it is our actions feelings or moods which determine the actions feelings and moods of others our attitude tells the world what we expect in return if it’s a cheerful expectant attitude it says to everyone with whom we come in contact that we expect the best in our dealings with our world you see we tend to live up to our expectations and others give to us as far as their attitudes are concerned what we expect our attitude is something we can control we can establish our attitude each morning when we start our day in fact we do just that whether we realize it or not and the people in our family all the people in our world will reflect back to us the attitude we present to them it is then our attitude toward life which determines life’s attitude toward us cause and effect everything we say or do will cause a corresponding effect if we’re cheerful glad to be experiencing this miracle of life others will reflect that good cheer back to us we are the kind of person others enjoy being around you and i are responsible for our lives you and i produce causes all day long every day of our lives the environment can only return to us a corresponding effect that’s why i see each of us determines the quality of his or her own life we get back what we put out here’s a way to test the past quality of your attitude would you say people tend to react to you in a smiling positive manner with friendly greetings when you appear your answer to that question will tell a story i remember the time when a man and his wife bought a home across the street from me in florida they had moved there from minnesota they had planned the move for years they were tired of the northern winters and he was an avid fisherman several months passed after their move and one day i was surprised to see them packing i walked across the street and asked the man if they were leaving so soon after they made the move he nodded my wife hates it here he said we’re going back home i asked him how in the world his wife could hate it there what his wife didn’t like about the place and with a few questions the truth came out she hasn’t been accepted here he said the other women of the community have left her strictly alone she’s made no friends she hasn’t been asked to participate in any of the community activities so i asked him has she let the other women know she’s interested in participating in community activities he stopped what he was doing and looked at me no he said no she hasn’t she’s been waiting for the women to ask her and since she stayed in the house waiting for them to come to her they’ve thought of her as reclusive as a person who’s not interested in making friends so they’ve left her alone well there was a long silence and he began nodding yes that’s exactly what’s happened he said yes the women of the neighborhood should have come to her and introduced themselves or invited her to a tea or luncheon but they were reacting to her she didn’t know that the community could only give her back a reflection of her own attitude he was a woman in her 60s who had never learned the first important rule for successful living that our surroundings will always reflect us that our environment is a mirror often a merciless mirror of ourselves as soon as a person begins to change his or her surroundings will change and it works like this great attitude great results good attitude good results fair or average attitude fair or average results poor attitude poor results so each of us shapes his or her own life and to an altogether unexpected extent the shape and texture the quality or the lack of quality of our lives is determined by our habitual attitude that sounds simple doesn’t it but it’s not quite that easy for most of us learning this new habit takes time but once it becomes a habit knit part of our lives our world will change as dramatically as would walking from a dark cave into the bright light of day most people never think about their attitudes at all for most of them it’s a matter of beginning each day in neutral their attitudes are neither good nor bad but are poised to react to whatever stimuli they encounter if the stimulus is good they’ll reflect it if it’s bad they’ll reflect that too they’re chameleons and they go through their days reacting to whatever confronts them and these are the people of our environment that’s why it’s so important for us to control our attitudes to make sure they’re excellent or good a person with a poor attitude toward learning for example isn’t going to learn very much i know you can think of examples of this in your own life if we take the attitude that we can’t do something we generally will not do it an attitude of failure and we’re whipped before we start it was william james of harvard the founder of psychology in america who said human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind in trying to describe the attitude that’s worked so well for me over the years i found myself using two important words gratitude and expectant first i’m grateful for the opportunity to live on this beautiful and astonishing planet earth i wake up with a sense of gratitude in the morning secondly i expect the best i expect to reach the goals i establish for myself about which we’ll talk a good deal more later in the program i find the idea of fulfilling those goals agreeable hence the attitude of expectancy i know the world will give me back what i put out in the way of attitude so it’s up to me i’m responsible there are millions of human beings living narrow darkened frustrated lives living defensively simply because they take a defensive doubtful attitude toward themselves and as a result toward life in general a person with a poor attitude becomes a magnet for unpleasant experiences when those experiences come as they must because of his attitude they tend to reinforce his poor attitude thereby bringing more problems and so on the person becomes an example of self-generating doom-fulfilling prophecy and it’s all a matter believe it or not of attitude we get what we expect and our outlook on life is a kind of paintbrush and with it we paint our world it can be bright and filled with hope and satisfaction or it can be dark and gloomy lugubrious it’s hard to convince people sometimes that the world they experience is a reflection of their attitude they take the attitude that if people would only be nice to them they’d be nice and return they’re like the person sitting in front of the cold stove waiting for the heat until they put in the fuel there’s not going to be any heat it’s up to them to act first it has to start somewhere let it begin with us attitude is the reflection of the person inside consider for a moment the people who go sailing through life from one success to another and who when they occasionally fail at something shrug it off and head right out again no matter what a person does wherever you find a person doing an outstanding job in getting outstanding results you’ll find a person with a good attitude these people take the attitude toward themselves that they can accomplish what they set out to accomplish they take the attitude that achievement is the natural order of things and it is that there’s no good reason on earth why they can’t be as successful as competent as anyone else they have a healthy attitude toward themselves and as a result toward life and the things they want to accomplish and because of that they accomplish some remarkable things and come to be called successful and outstanding and brilliant and lucky and so on they’re quite frequently no smarter or more talented than most other people but they have the right attitude they find their accomplishments not too difficult simply because it seems so few others are really trying or really believe in themselves as to luck forget it luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity and opportunity is there all the time a person can be very efficient at his or her work but if the corresponding excellent attitude isn’t present well the person’s a failure a robot can do a great job but only a human being can a noble work with a great attitude and by so doing touch it with the magic of humanness make it come alive and sing make it truly worthwhile that my friend makes the difference successful people come in all sizes shapes ages and colors and in widely varying degrees of intelligence and education but they have one thing in common they expect more good out of life than bad they expect to succeed more often than they fail and they do now there are things you want worthwhile things take the attitude that there are a lot more reasons why you can reach those goals than fail in the attempt go after them work at it keep your attitude positive cheerful and expectant and you’ll get them and as you do you’ll grow to new plateaus and be able to accomplish still more and remember this our environment the world in which we find ourselves living and working is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations if we feel that our environment could stand some improvement we can bring about that change for the better by improving our attitude the world plays no favorites it’s impersonal it doesn’t care who succeeds or who fails nor does it care if we change our attitude toward life doesn’t affect the world and the people in it nearly so much as it affects us it would be impossible to even estimate the number of jobs that have been lost promotions or good grades missed sales lost or marriage is ruined by poor attitudes but you can number in the millions the jobs which are held but hated the marriages which are tolerated but unhappy the parents and children who fail to understand and love one another all because of people who are waiting for the world and others to change toward them they don’t understand that what they’re getting is a reflection of themselves nothing can change until we do when we change our worlds will change the answer is attitude how does one develop a good attitude the same way one develops any other factor practice one good way is to stick a small sign on the bathroom mirror on which is printed the word attitude that way you’ll see it first thing every morning you might have another one in your car and at your place of work we need to smile more speak to people go out to people everything in the world we want to do or get done we must do with and through people every dollar we will ever earn must come from people everything worthwhile the person we love and with whom we want to spend the rest of our life is a human being with whom we must interact our children are individuals each different from any other person who ever lived and what affects them most is our attitude the loving kindness they see and feel whenever we’re around them if you begin to develop and hold an attitude that says yes to life and the world you’ll be astonished at the changes you’ll see someone once said life is dull only to dull people it’s true of course it’s also true that life is interesting only to interesting people and life is successful only for successful people we must be the epitome the embodiment we must radiate success before it’ll come to us we must first become mentally from an attitude standpoint the people we wish to become many years ago a famous los angeles restaurateur was asked by a newspaper reporter when did you become successful and he replied i was successful when i was dead broke i knew what i wanted to do and i knew i’d do it it was only a matter of time he had a successful attitude long before the success he sought had become a reality the greek german philosopher and writer gerta put it this way before you can do something you must be something but let me prove my point by giving you a test if you will conscientiously go about the test i’ll outline and concentrate on it every day you’ll find yourself becoming lucky as the uninitiated call it all sorts of wonderful things will begin happening in your life and it’ll show you what a great attitude can mean so here’s the test treat every person with whom you come in contact as the most important person on earth now you do that for three excellent reasons one as far as every person is concerned he or she is the most important person on earth two because that’s the way human beings are to treat each other and three by treating everyone this way we begin to form an important habit there’s nothing in the world that men women and children want to need more than self-esteem the feeling that they’re important that they’re recognized that they’re needed that they count and are respected they will give their love their respect and their business to the person who fills this need even if it’s a short encounter have you ever noticed that the higher you go in any organization of value the nicer the people seem to become it works this way the bigger the people the easier it is to talk to them to get along with them and work with them so they naturally matriculate to the top it’s their attitudes and the people with great attitudes just naturally gravitate to the top of whatever business or department they’re in they don’t have great attitudes because of their positions they have their positions largely because of their great attitudes for the purposes of this test act toward others in exactly the same manner that you want them to act toward you treat the members of your family as the very important people they really are the most important in the world carry out into the world each morning the kind of attitude you’d have if you were the most successful person on earth notice how quickly it develops into a habit and almost immediately a change will be noticed irritations that used to frustrate you begin to disappear when some less informed person gives you a bad time don’t let his poor attitude infect yours keep yours in hand keep it good keep cool above it all and smiling if someone cuts in front of your car or acts in any other manner that shows a lack of courtesy don’t react as he would smile it off destructive emotions such as anger hatred or jealousy don’t hurt others they hurt you they can make your life miserable they can make you sick forgive everyone who ever hurt you really forgive them and then forgive yourself that’s all past stewing over it exhuming it can only make you sick forgive and forget it get rid of it you’ve risen above that sort of thing and as you develop a great attitude you’ll probably realize that you’ve already placed yourself on the road to what you seek you’re well on your way it makes no difference how successful you may have been in the past you’ll be delighted with the ease and comfort of your new life the bad or poor attitudes of others can be as infectious as the common cold it’s important that we look on them in this light as infectious conditions that can only end by hurting and annoying us if we allow ourselves to catch them like the doctor often working with people with infectious conditions we must keep ourselves healthy we simply don’t have time for that sort of thing whoever started the cliche life’s too short certainly knew what he or she was talking about it really is too short much too short to spend any of our valuable time mimicking the attitudes of others unless they’re good a great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change maybe that’s what people mean when they say we’re lucky suddenly we do find ourselves getting the so-called breaks but it’s really nothing more than this new connection with the world that comes with a great attitude we find ourselves doing more and doing it in less time we put ourselves directly in the path of all kinds of serendipitous happenings when you begin to develop a better attitude you should realize that you’ve already placed yourself in the top five percent of the people the most successful people on earth you’ve placed yourself on the road to what you seek you’ve prepared the ground you’ve only to plant the seed now in summing up here are a few points to keep in mind first it’s our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which more than anything else will bring about its successful outcome secondly our attitudes toward others determine their attitudes toward us we’re all interdependent the success we achieve in life will depend largely on how well we relate to others thirdly before you can achieve the kind of life you want you must think act talk and conduct yourself in all of your affairs as would the person you wish to become keep a mental picture of that person before you as often as you can during the day and fourthly remember that the higher you go in any organization of value the better the attitudes you’ll find and that attitudes are not the result of success success is the result of great attitudes and finally the deepest craving of the human being is for recognition and self-esteem to be needed to feel important to be recognized and appreciated that includes our loved ones and all the people with whom we come in contact during our days to make these important principles a habit knit part of our lives here are some suggestions since our minds can hold only one thought at a time make the thoughts you hold constructive and positive look for the best in people and ideas be constantly alert for new ideas you can put to use in your life don’t waste time talking about your problems to people who can’t solve them or your health unless it’s good or you’re talking to your doctor it won’t help you it cannot help others radiate the attitude of well-being and confidence the attitude of the person who knows where he or she’s going you’ll find all sorts of good things happening to you and lastly treat everyone with whom you come in contact as the most important person on earth start this habit practice it consistently and you’ll do it and benefit from it for the rest of your life thank you in the year 1843 a man was born who was to have a profound effect upon the lives of millions of people his name was russell herman conwell he became a lawyer then a newspaper editor and finally a clergyman it was during his church career that an incident occurred which was to change his life and the lives of countless others one day a group of young people came to dr conwell at his church and asked him if he’d be willing to instruct them in college courses they all wanted a college education but lacked their money to pay for it he told them to let him think about it and come back in a few days after they left an idea began to form in dr conwell’s mind he asked himself why couldn’t there be a fine college for poor but deserving young people and before very long the idea consumed him why not indeed it was a project worthy of 100 dedication complete commitment and almost single-handedly dr conwell raised several million dollars with which he founded temple university today one of the country’s leading schools he raised the money by giving more than 6 000 lectures all over the country and in each one of them he told a story called acres of diamonds it was a true story which had affected him very deeply and it had the same effect on his audiences the money he needed to build the college came pouring in the story was the account of an african farmer who heard tales about other farmers who had made millions by discovering diamond mines these tales so excited the farmer that he could hardly wait to sell his farm and go prospecting for diamonds himself so he sold the farm and spent the rest of his life wandering the african continent searching unsuccessfully for the gleaming gems which brought such high prices on the markets to the world finally the story goes worn out and in a fitted despondency he threw himself into a river and drowned meanwhile back the ranch or farm in this case the man who had bought his farm happened to be crossing the small stream on the property when suddenly there was a bright flash of blue and red light from the stream bottom he bent down picked up the stone it was a good sized stone and admiring it later put it on his fireplace mantle as an interesting curiosity several weeks later a visitor picked up the stone looked closely at it hefted in his hand and nearly fainted he asked the farmer if he knew what he’d found when the farmer said no that he thought it was a piece of crystal the visitor told him he had found one of the largest diamonds ever discovered while the farmer had trouble believing that he told the man that his creek was full of such stones not as large perhaps as the one on the metal but well they were sprinkled generously throughout the creek bottom needless to say the farm the first farmer had sold so that he might find a diamond mine turned out to be the most productive diamond mine on the entire african continent the first farmer had owned free and clear acres of diamonds but had sold them for practically nothing in order to look for them elsewhere while the moral is clear if the first farmer had only taken the time to study and prepare himself to learn what diamonds looked like in their rough state and since he had already owned a piece of the african continent to thoroughly explore the property he had before looking elsewhere all of his wildest dreams would have come true now the thing about this story that so profoundly affected dr conwell and subsequently millions of others was the idea that each of us is at this moment standing in the middle of his or her own acres of diamonds if we’ll only have the wisdom and patience to intelligently and effectively explore the work in which we’re now engaged to explore ourselves we’ll usually find the riches we seek whether they be financial or intangible or both before we go running off to what we think are greener pastures let’s make sure that our own is not just as green or perhaps even greener it’s been said that if the other guy’s pasture appears to be greener than ours it’s quite possible that it’s getting better care besides while we’re looking at other pastures other people are looking at ours there are few things more pitiful to my mind than the person who wastes his life running from one thing to another forever looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and never staying with one thing long enough to find it no matter what your goal may be perhaps the road to it can be found in the very thing you’re now doing it wasn’t until he was completely paralyzed by polio and forced to reach into the rich resources of his mind then a courageous farmer got the idea of producing exceptionally good meat products on his farm from that idea one of the country’s most successful meat packing companies was born his farm contained acres of diamonds too he just never had to dig for them before your mind is your richest resource let it thoroughly explore the possibilities lurking in what you’re presently doing before turning to something new i see that because there were probably good reasons for your having chosen your present work in the beginning if there weren’t and if you’re unhappy in the field you’re in well then perhaps it’s time for some serious exploration dr russell conwell’s life is a living example of the importance of a willingness to change once one’s own pasture has been thoroughly explored i said that dr conwell began as a lawyer then later changed to become a newspaper editor before he finally found his true calling as a clergyman and the founder of a great university one of the best examples of a person finding acres of diamonds hiding in his work is stu leonard of connecticut he began as a dairy root delivery man as he worked his rounds he began to think of all the products connected to the dairy business that his customers really needed he bought a working dairy with very little down and a lot of hard work and began building his business around it keeping the working dairy intact in the center of his operations and surrounding it with windows through which his customers could watch the process he began adding other products today his dairy store is the largest in the world and it sells everything in the food line people come from all over the entire area to shop at stu leonard’s dairy store and they love it and he loves them people who are too old infirmed to come to his store on their own are picked up in stool energy buses and brought to the store he has a multi-million dollar business that grew out of a delivery route the diamonds were there and stu leonard made the most of them every kind of work has such opportunity lurking within it the opportunities are there now clamoring to be noticed but they cannot speak or print signs for us to read our part of the bargain is to look at our work with new eyes with the eyes of creation tyrande said it is our duty as men and women to proceed as though limits to our abilities do not exist we are collaborators in creation man i knew in arizona began with a small gas station one day sitting at his desk and watching through the window while one of his young attendants filled a man’s gas tank he watched the customer while he stood about waiting for the job to be finished it dawned upon him that that man had money in his pockets and there were things he needed or wanted that he’d paid for if they were conveniently displayed where he could see them so he began adding things fishing tackle then fishing licenses hunting and camping equipment rifles shotguns ammunition hunting licenses he found an excellent line of aluminum fishing boats and trailers he began buying up the contiguous property around him then he added an auto parts department he’d always carried cold soft drinks and candy but now he added an excellent line of chocolates in a refrigerated case before long he sold more chocolates than anyone else in the state he carried thousands of things his customers could buy while waiting for their cars to be serviced all the products he sold also guaranteed that most of the gas customers in town would come to his station he sold more gas he began cashing checks on friday and the bonanza grew and grew it all started with a man with a human brain watching a customer standing around with money in his pockets and nothing to spend it on others would have lived and died with a small service station and they do my friend saw the diamonds both my friend in arizona and stu leonard in connecticut are customer oriented serve the customer serve the customer better than anyone else is serving the customer stu leonard has his company policy conspicuously displayed in his store for all to read and it goes like this rule number one the customer is always right rule number two if you think the customer is wrong read rule number one again many service station operators upon seeing a wealthy customer drive in might say to themselves i ought to be in his business not so there’s just as much opportunity in one business as another if we’ll only stop playing copycat with each other and begin to think creatively begin to think in new directions it’s there believe me and it’s our job to find it take the time to stand off and look at your work as a stranger might and ask why does he do it that way has he noticed how what he’s doing might be capitalized upon or multiplied if you’re happy with things as they are then by all means keep them that way but there’s great fun in finding diamonds hiding in ourselves and in our work we never get bored or blase or find ourselves in a rut a rut we’re reminded is really nothing more than a grave with the ends kicked out some of the most interesting businesses in the world grew out of what was originally a very small idea in a very small area if something is needed in one town then the chances are it’s also needed in all towns and cities all over the country you might also ask yourself how good am i at what i’m presently doing do you know all there is to know about your work would you call yourself a first class professional at your work how would your work stand up against the work of others in your line the educator and author jb matthews wrote unless a person has trained himself for his chance the chance will only make him ridiculous a great occasion is worth to a man exactly what his preparation enables him to make of it i’m sure dr matthews intended to include the female half of the world in that statement i’m often appalled by how little people know about the business they’re in that’s not my department they’ll say i suppose if they see a fire starting in someone else’s department they wouldn’t report it most real estate people don’t sell homes and property they show homes and property something a six-year-old child could do they often know nothing at all about selling or marketing it they call themselves real estate professionals they’re actually tour guides this is the living room they say to intelligent men and women who already know what a living room looks like someone come to think of it i think it was me once wrote that the human race is much like a convoy in time of war the whole menagerie is slowed down to protect the slowest ships and they march on in that dusty valley unmindful of the diamonds beneath their feet the first thing we need to do to become a diamond miner is to break away from the crowd and quit assuming that because people in the millions are living that way it must be the best way it is not the best way it’s the average way the people going the best way are way out in front they’re so far ahead of the crowd you can’t even see their dust anymore they’re the people who live and work on the leading edge the cutting edge and they mock the way for all the rest we have a choice to make really you and i it takes imagination curious imagination to know that diamonds don’t look like cotton polished gemstones in their rough state nor does a pile of iron ore look like stainless steel to prospect your own acres of diamonds develop a faculty we might call intelligent objectivity the faculty to stand off and look at your work as a person from mars might look at it within the framework of what industry or profession does your job fall do you know all you can about your industry or profession isn’t it time for a refreshing change of some kind how can the customer be given a better break each morning ask yourself how can i increase my service today there are rare and very marketable diamonds lurking all around me have i been looking for them examining every facet of my work and of the industry or profession in which it has its life there are better ways to do what i’m presently doing what are they how will my work be performed 20 years from now everything in the world is in the state of evolution and improvement how can i do what will eventually be done anyway now think of what street leonard did with his dairy route and my arizona friend with his small service station what famous amos did with his chocolate chip cookies what procter gamble did with soap sure there’s risk involved there’s no growth of any kind without risk we start running risks when we get out of bed in the morning risks are good for us they bring out the best that’s in us they brighten the eye and get the mind cooking they quicken the step and put a new shining look on our days human beings should never be settled it’s okay for chickens and cows and cats but it’s wrong for human beings people start to die when they become settled we need to keep things stirred up back in 1931 lloyd c douglas the world famous novelist who wrote the robe magnificent obsession and other best-selling books wrote a magazine article titled escape in that article douglas asked who of us has not at some time toyed briefly with the temptation to run away if all the people who have given that idea the temporary hospitality of their imagination were to have acted upon it few would be living at their present addresses and of the small minority who did carry the impulse into effect it’s doubtful if many ever disengaged themselves as completely as they had hoped from the problems that hurled them forth more often than otherwise it may be surmised they packed up their troubles in their old kit bags and took them along the point of the article was simply don’t try to run away from your troubles overcome them prevail right where you are what we’re really after is not escape from our perplexities and frustrations but a triumph over them and one of the best ways to accomplish that is to get on course and stay there restate and reaffirm your goal the thing you want most to do the place in life you want most to reach see it clearly in your mind’s eye just as you can envision the airport in los angeles when you board your plane in new york or like a great ship in a storm just keep your heading and your engines running the storm will pass although sometimes it seems that it never will and one bright morning you’ll find yourself passing the harbor light then you can give a big sigh of relief rest a while and almost before you know it you’ll find your eyes turning seaward again you’ll think of a new harbor you’d like to visit a new voyage upon which to embark and once again you’ll set out and that’s just the way this funny-looking two-legged curious imaginative tinkering fiddling dreamer called a human being operates he escapes from problems not by running away from them but by overcoming them and no sooner does he overcome one set of problems but he starts looking around for new and more difficult pickles to get himself into and out of so if you find yourself looking at travel folders and thinking of running away go ahead think about it it’ll get your mind off things for a while then zero in on your goal more about that later and get busy take one thing at a time and before you know it you’ll start seeing those diamonds scattered all over your world and you’ll be out in the clear again if you feel like running away from it all once in a while you’re perfectly normal if you stay and get rid of your problems by working your way through them you’re a successful citizen start taking an hour a day with a legal pad and dissect your work take it apart and look at its constituent parts there’s opportunity there that’s your acre of diamonds do the stories of people achieving unusual success despite all manner of handicaps never failed to capture our attention they’re inspirational to be sure but they’re much more than that if we study them closely the boy whose legs were terribly burned and who was told he’d be lucky to ever walk again becomes a champion track star the woman blind and deaf from birth becomes one of the most inspirational figures of the century and the poor children who rise to fame and fortune have nearly become commonplace in this age of unprecedented immigration we read and see on television examples of people who arrived in this country without any money and without knowing a word of english and who within a surprisingly short time have become wonderfully successful in fact the typical korean family that is immigrated to the united states during the past 20 years has a higher average income than the average american family that was born and went to school here now how does that happen freedom personal liberty is the most precious thing on earth it is also one of the rarest hence its great value people who manage to get to america despite mountainous problems and miles of red tape often find themselves free for the first time in their lives it’s a joyous wonderful experience for them and in this newfound freedom they set to work to find a place for themselves they go to work serving their new country and its people time means nothing to them but being free to pursue their own ends in the richest freest country on the planet is everything they all go to work and they work hard and their work is excellent first class as good as they can do it and is priced fairly you don’t see them marching demanding higher pay or shorter hours all they want is the opportunity and once that’s theirs they make the most of it in new york city a korean family managed to buy a small convenience grocery store in midtown manhattan the first thing they did was clean it it sparkled with cleanliness then they stocked it with everything they felt the people in their area wanted in the way of things you find in a grocery store they were open early in the morning they stayed open late at night they never failed to smile and give a friendly greeting to their customers naturally they became wonderfully successful they were open seven days a week one day customers coming to the store found it closed and on the door was a sign giving the reason why it read we’ve gone to yale university to watch our son graduate that’s an american story the true story of people who found joy and freedom and in the opportunity to serve their fellow man and make the most of it what sets these people with such vast handicaps such as not knowing the language not knowing the right people not having any money or the boy with the burned legs who becomes the champion runner or a helen keller blind and deaf at birth what in the world is the answer the answer if fully understood will bring you and me anything and everything we truly want and it’s deceptively simple we touched on it in our last message perhaps it’s too simple the people we’ve talked about here and the thousands currently doing the same thing all over the country are in possession of something the average american doesn’t have they have goals they have a burning desire to succeed despite all handicaps they know exactly what they want they think about it every day of their lives it gets them up in the morning and it keeps them giving their very best all day long it’s the last thing they think about before dropping off to sleep at night they have a vision of exactly what they want to do and that vision carries them over every obstacle this vision this dream this goal invisible to all the world except the person holding it is responsible for perhaps every great advance and achievement of humankind it’s the underlying motive for just about everything we see about it everything worthwhile achieved by men and women is a dream come true a goal reached it’s been said that what the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve it’s the fine building where before there was an empty lot or an ancient eyesore it’s the bridge spanning the bay it’s landing on the moon and it’s that little convenience store in midtown manhattan it’s the lovely home on a tree shaded street and the young person accepting the diploma it’s the new baby in its mother’s arms it’s a low golf handicap and a position reached in the world of business it’s a certain income attained or amount of money invested what the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve we become what we think about and when we’re possessed by an exciting goal we reach it that’s why it’s been said be choosy there for what you set your heart upon for if you want it strongly enough you’ll get it amen to that it’s been said that americans can have anything they want the trouble is they don’t know what they want oh they want little things they want a new car they get it they want a new refrigerator they get it they want a new home and they get it the system never fails for them but they don’t seem to understand that it is a system nor that if it’ll work for a refrigerator or a new car it will work for anything else they want very much just as well perhaps that’s best people come in all shapes and sizes and with goals of infinitely varying specifications if they have goals at all once a person fully and emotionally understands that the goals that are important to him or her can become real in his or her life while it’s like opening a jack in the box all sorts of interesting and exciting things begin to happen quite often we become truly alive for the first time in our lives we look back at our former lives and realize we were shuffling along the kind of lockstep that we were actually taking our cues from those about us in the unspoken assumption that we’re all alike when nothing could be farther from the truth we are not all alike each of us is quite different with different abilities different genetic profiles different wants in life what will wonderfully satisfy one particular family and represent complete success for them would be considered failure for another family all because of their different aspirations their different plateaus in life the difference in their lifestyles upbringings education every facet of our environment as youngsters has an effect upon us and helps to set our course in life the youngster who knew poverty as a child might aspire to be rich he might overcompensate because of the desolation of his youth while another young man raised in an upper middle-class family who always had just about everything he wanted might settle for a very middle-class adulthood things we’ve always had aren’t as important to us as they are to those who’ve been without them we talked about freedom on the preceding message and how dear it is to those who never had it while most americans take it for granted and never even think about it if you ask most americans what the most important thing in the world is for a human being chances are they’d seldom come up with freedom yet as archibald mcleish wrote in his fine play the secret of freedom the secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom courage to understand the subject and the importance of goal setting we have to realize that it’s the very basis of any success it is in fact the very definition of success the best definition of success i’ve ever found goes like this success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or in some cases the pursuit of a worthy ideal if you give these definitions some thought i think you’ll agree with me success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal it’s a beautiful definition of success it means that anyone who’s on course toward the fulfillment of a goal is successful now success doesn’t lie in the achievement of a goal although that’s what the world considers success it lies in the journey toward the goal we’re successful as long as we’re working towards something we want to bring about in our lives that’s when the human being is at his or her best that’s what cervantes meant when he wrote the road is better than the inn quite often romantic stories end with the loving couple getting married that’s just the beginning of the real story when the young person stands before his school’s president or principal and receives the diploma that’s called commencement that’s the beginning it’s an important milestone to be sure and congratulations are certainly in order but where are you going from there once a person has realized the goal for which he or she has so assiduously toiled that’s wonderful it’s time for a rest and some self-congratulations time to savor the achievement but we’re no longer successful by my definition until we set a new higher goal toward which to work we’re at our best when we’re climbing thinking planning working when we’re on the road towards something we want to bring about i don’t mean by this that we should become workaholics far from it in fact it’s been well established that the most successful men and women managed to live in a wonderful state of balance with lots of recreation take that word recreate a part when you’ve got some time and you’ll find it interesting and they get lots of rest the mind works best when we’re properly rested and our minds are the best and most important parts of us regardless of what we choose to do did you ever hear an athlete say it’s about 90 mental whatever the percentage really is in a good game of golf or tennis it’s very large as we pointed out in the magic word our mental attitude could make all the difference between winning and losing with our definition success being the progressive realization of a worthy goal we cover all the bases the young person working to finish school is as successful as any person on earth the person working toward a particular position with his or her company is just as successful if you have a goal that you find worthy of you as a person a goal that fills you with joy at the thought of it believe me you’ll reach it but as you draw near and see that the goal will soon be achieved begin to think ahead to the next goal you’re going to set it often happens that a writer halfway through a book will hit upon the idea for his next one and begin making notes or ideas for a title even when he’s finishing work on the one in progress that’s the way it should be one of my favorite poems is by rabindranath tagore the distinguished calcutta poet and it goes like this i slept and dreamt that life was joy i woke and saw that life was duty i acted and behold duty was joy we are at our very best and we are happiest when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves it gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep it makes everything else in life so wonderful so worthwhile most people when they think of the word success tend to equate it with lots of money sometimes that’s a natural part of the goal and tells us how well we’re doing but not always by any means success is whatever we want it to be that is worthy of us that’s why i commented earlier that success may also be defined as the pursuit of a worthy ideal for example i can’t imagine anyone being more successful than an outstanding teacher who’s striving to know more about the art of teaching and the subject matter that will catch the interest of his or her pupils who understands that every student is different and learns at a different rate of speed joy and satisfaction come to us from serving others and there are literally millions of ways of doing that for those whose goals involve the serving of great numbers of people chances are they’ll be richly rewarded indeed in fact for many a goal is a certain level of income or a certain amount of money in an investment account a goal is an individual thing as individual as the person him or herself since no two people are exactly alike it stands to reason that no two of us will have exactly the same goals one thing a goal must do however is fill us with positive emotion when we think about it it must be something we want very much to bring about the more intensely we feel about a goal the more assuredly the idea buried deep in our subconscious will direct us along the path to its fulfillment i once used the quotation no one gets rich without enriching others i received a letter from a man in utah who wrote how about those who get rich in the drug trade are those who produce and sell pornography how do they enrich others it was a good question especially in these times i wrote back to him and told him that my definition of success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal certainly people in the drug and pornography business would not qualify as successful what they’re doing is counterproductive destructive and involves in the case of drugs the enslavement and death of thousands and i went on to say that while our needs are few and relatively simple our ones in this incredibly affluent society are virtually endless by meeting those wants whatever they may be we serve others not always to their benefit nor to our own nor would i call those in drugs and pornography successful nor do their riches amount to much if they’re apprehended and sent to prison but i did stop using that quotation it is possible to get rich without enriching others but for most of us it’s not the way we want to go it’s nothing to take pride in why bother when there are so many positive excellent and productive ways to serve others but whatever our goal happens to be if we stay with it if we’re fully committed to it we’ll reach it that’s the way it works it’s estimated that about five percent of the population achieves unusual success for the rest averages seem to be good enough most seem to just drift along taking circumstances as they come and perhaps hoping from time to time that things will get better i like to compare human beings with ships as carlisle used to do it’s estimated that about 95 percent can be compared to ships without rudders subject to every shift of wind and tide they’re helplessly adrift and while they fondly hope that they will one day drift into some rich and bustling port you and i know that for every narrow harbor entrance there are a thousand miles of rocky coastline the chances of their drifting into port are a thousand to one against them our state lottery is wax rich on such people so do the slot machines in las vegas and atlantic city they look to luck but don’t seem to realize how steeply the odds are stacked against them someone wins from time to time to be sure but the odds are still there but the five percent who have taken the time and exercised the discipline to climb into the driver’s seat of their lives who decided upon a challenging goal to reach and fully committed themselves to reaching it sail straight and far across the deep oceans of life reaching one port after another and accomplishing more in just a few years than the rest accomplish in a lifetime if you should visit a ship in port and ask the captain for his next port of call he’ll tell you in a single sentence even though the captain cannot see his port his destination for fully 99 of the voyage he knows it’s there and that barring an unforeseen and highly unlikely catastrophe he’ll reach it all he has to do is keep doing certain things every day if someone asks you for your next port of call your goal could you tell him is your goal clean and concise in your mind do you have it written down it’s a good idea we need reminding reinforcement if you can get a picture of your goal and stick it to your bathroom mirror it’s an excellent idea to do so thousands of successful people carry their goals written on a card in their wallets or purses when we ask people what they’re working for chances are they’ll answer in vague generalities they might say no good health or happiness or lots of money that’s not good good health should be a universal goal we all want that and do our best to achieve and maintain it but happiness is a byproduct of something else and lots of money is much too vague it might work but i think it’s better to choose a particular sum of money the better the clearer our goal is to find the more real it becomes to us before long the more attainable happiness comes from the direction in which we’re moving for example children are happier on christmas morning before opening their presents than they are christmas afternoon no matter how wonderful their presence may be it’s after christmas they’ll enjoy their gifts to be sure but we often find them queryless and irritable christmas afternoon we’re happier on our way out to dinner than we are on the way home we’re happy you’re going on vacation than we are coming home from it and we’re happier moving toward our goals than even after they’ve been accomplished believe it or not that’s why it’s so important to set new goals as soon as the current one is realized and we should never stop this process all the days of our lives we should be engaged in moving toward earning and looking forward to a new plateau on which to stand a new goal to accomplish if you like so many millions of americans don’t know what it is you want sufficiently to name as your primary goal i recommend you make out a want list take a notepad go off by yourself and write down the things you’d really like to have very much or do one might be a beautiful new home or a trip around the world a visit to some special country or place you might be yearning for a sailboat or a motor yacht or if you’re an avid fisherman you might want to go salmon fishing in alaska or trout fishing in new zealand it might be a business of your own or a particular position with your company it might be a certain income that will permit you to live the way you’d like to live or as i said earlier a certain amount of money in good investments or in a savings account how about a special make of car or an addition to your present home just write down everything you can think of that you would really like to see come about in your life then when you’ve exhausted your wants go over the list again and number the items in the order of their importance then make number one your present goal listen to this message often as i hope you’ll listen to all the messages until they become a habit way of thinking and doing things believe me the system works it works every time life plays no favorites if anyone can succeed and millions do so can you of one thing you may be sure you will become what you think about if your thinking is circular and chaotic your life will reflect that chaos but if your thinking is orderly and clear if you have a goal that’s important for you to reach then reach it you will one goal at a time that’s important that’s where most people unwittingly make their mistake they don’t concentrate on a single goal long enough to reach it before they’re off on another track then another with the result that they achieve nothing nothing but confusion and excuses i started looking for the so-called secret of success when i was 12 years old i read every book i could find on the subject i studied psychology and sociology i studied the great religions of the world and i read the world’s greatest philosophers and all of a sudden many years later i realized that in the hundreds of lives i’d studied in the countless books i’d read a plain and simple truth had kept appearing it’s believed that no one can learn anything until he or she is ready for it and apparently i was finally ready in my late twenties to finally see for the first time the secret i had searched for so long it was simply this we become what we think about you see you are at this moment the living embodiment of the sum total of your thoughts to this point in your life you can be nothing else similarly five years from now you’ll be the sum total of your thoughts to that point in time but you can control your thoughts you can decide upon that on which you wish to concentrate about what you think about from this point forward and you’ll become mad you’ll realize that goal as sure as anything on earth can be sure that’s why having a goal toward which to work is so very important it gives our minds a focus in our lives direction by thinking every morning every night and as many times during the days again about this exciting single goal we’ve established for ourselves we actually begin moving toward it and bringing it toward us when we concentrate our thinking it’s like taking a river that’s twisting and turning and meandering all over the countryside and putting it into a straight smooth channel now it has power direction economy speed several billions of human beings would give anything they have to enjoy the freedom and personal liberty you and i take for granted to have the right to choose their work and their goals to enjoy our bountiful standard of living our educational system to know the peace and privacy of our homes and to have laws which protect the citizen rather than persecuting we have it all yet in the midst of our plenty millions lead unhappy aimless lives they live in tiny prisons of their own fashioning these are the people who don’t know that each of us each one of us not the economy or fate or luck or the breaks each one of us is in charge of his or her own life each one of us is completely responsible as carlisle put it the person without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder have a purpose in life and having it throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as god has given you he also said a person with a half volition goes backward and forward and makes no way on the smoothest road but the person with a whole volition advances on the roughest and will reach his or her purpose if there be even a little wisdom in it and munger said there is no road to success but through a clear strong purpose nothing can take its place a purpose underlies character culture position attainment of every sort so decide upon your goal insist upon it look at your goal card every morning and night and as many times during the days you conveniently can by so doing you’ll insinuate your gold into your subconscious mind you’ll see yourself as having already attained your goal and do that every day without fail and it will become a habit before you realize it a habit will take you from one success to another all the years of your life for that is the secret of success the door to everything you will ever ever be you are now and you most certainly will become what you think about do all creatures at birth are supplied with everything they need for successful survival all creatures except one are supplied with a set of instincts that will do the job for them and because of that they don’t need much of a brain take the magnificent bald eagle for example my wife and i saw dozens of them on a recent fishing trip in alaska to see one of them come swooping down and pluck alive and sizable fish from the water on a single pass is astonishing more astonishing still is the eagle’s eyesight and because of its need to see small rodents moving in the grass from high altitudes or a fish just inches under the surface of the water its incredible eyes take up just about all of the space in its head for the eagle its eyes are the most important thing and everything else works in unison with them its brain is tiny and rudimentary it doesn’t think or plan or remember it simply acts in accordance with stimuli and it’s the same with most other living creatures even the beautiful porpoise with a much larger brain and the chimpanzee are easily tamed and taught only one takes 20 years to mature and has dominion over all the rest of the earth itself and has today the power to destroy all life on earth in a couple of hours only one is given the godlike power to fashion its own life according to the images it holds in its remarkable mind everything fashioned by human beings is a result of goal setting we reach our goals that’s how we know that the diseases that plague us will be conquered we’ve set goals to eradicate every disease that plagues us and eradicate them we will one by one we have never set a goal that we have not reached even landing on the moon or are now in the process of reaching no one ever made a purposeful accomplishment without a clear goal toward which to work i hope you’ve established yours and that you’ve begun to think about it frequently every day to impress it into your mind particularly your remarkable subconscious where forces greater than we can imagine can come to your aid for a moment consider the things your mind has brought you everything you have your work your relationship with your family and others your philosophy of life all come to you as a result of using your mind your religion now consider the estimate made by experts you have probably been operating on less than 10 percent of your mental capacity and probably much less than that in an article for the saturday review our old friend herbert otto psychologist educator and chairman of the national center for the exploration of human potential reminded us that many well-known scientists such as the late abraham maslow margaret mead gardner murphy oh spurgeon english and carl rogers subscribe to the hypothesis that man is using a very small fraction of his capacities margaret mead quotes a six percent figure herbert auto writes my own estimate is five percent or less neurological research has shed new light on man’s potential work at the ucla brain research institute points to enormous abilities latent in everyone by suggesting an incredible hypothesis they said the ultimate creative capacity of the human brain may be for all practical purposes infinite to use the computer analogy man is a vast storehouse of data but we have not learned how to program ourselves to utilize these data for problem solving purposes the following appeared in soviet life today a ussr english language magazine it said the latest findings in anthropology psychology logic and physiology show that the potential of the human mind is very great indeed as soon as modern science gave us some understanding of the structure and work of the human brain we were struck with its enormous reserve capacity writes yep eminent soviet scholar and writer he continues man under average conditions of work and life uses only a small part of his thinking equipment if we were able to force our brain to work at only half its capacity we could without any difficulty whatever learn 40 languages memorize the large soviet encyclopedia from cover to cover and complete the required courses of dozens of colleges end of quote that statement is hardly an exaggeration it’s the generally accepted theoretical view of man’s mental potentials now how can we tap this gigantic potential it’s a big and very complex problem with many ramifications but as herbert otto points out it’s clear that persons who live close to their capacity who continue to activate their potential have a pronounced sense of well-being and considerable energy they see themselves as leading purposeful and creative lives the way most people use their minds can be compared to the time back in the early 19th century when just the eastern coast of the north american continent was settled just a strip along the east coast to the west stretched the raw undeveloped great bulk of what was later to become the incredibly rich ninety percent of the economy 90 which resulted in the standard of living enjoyed today by americans if everything you have is the result of using just five percent of your mind consider for a moment what it will mean to you and your family if you can increase this percentage this cassette will show you how to use infinitely more of your mental powers how to develop some of that more than 90 virgin territory none of us as a rule has the slightest notion of the real capabilities of his or her mind but believe me when i say that your mind can be compared to an undiscovered gold mine and it makes no difference whether you’re 17 or 70.
  • May 23
    ENTP VS ENFP | 10 BIGGEST Differences

    hey hey it’s erik the thor here straight out of vikings or straight out of the shower rather an infj here to talk to you about the difference between enfps and entps and now without stereotypes and without needlessly complex cognitive function jargon let’s jump right on to it these are my 10 questions to help you figure out if you are an enfp or an entp question number one are you an idealist enfps they are true at heart idealists entps are true at heart innovators as an enfp you care about idealistic impossible scenarios you dream without worrying about how you think you idealize and you envision and you see the best possible outcome or a dream or an idea or something that just feels great and looks beautiful to you and you don’t think about the problems you don’t think about the issues of this idea or how to realize it or how to make it happen you just think about how you want this and how great this situation would be and how amazing it would be entps they’re not idealists entps can find themselves doubting what ideology is best and what worldview works best they can see the pros and cons of any political stance as an entp you can identify both with the rich and the poor you can see that everyone can and has their benefits and their issues to work on when you hear an impossible idea you go uh-huh but how your mind starts spinning you start questioning you start criticizing you start saying but that’s not possible and if you want to do that then you first have to do this and you’ve got to see that that’s not going to work right and so that’s the core difference at heart nf or nt as an nf you’re going to feel the strong pull towards the impossible and you’re gonna try to get there no matter what and you are not gonna worry as much about how you’re gonna get there you’re just gonna push with shear force will question number two do you have introverted feeling enfps they have introverted feeling as their secondary function entps have introverted thinking as their secondary function introverted feelers they are most focused on themselves their own identity and their own feelings enfps you know with your gut what is right and wrong you trust yourself you know who you are and you have a strong feeling or instinctive feeling of who you are and what you want that means it’s easy for you you just feel this is right this is what i want this is good in the moment you can feel it and it’s relative for you because from situation situation it changes you can feel that in this situation i want this and in that situation with that person i prefer that you can feel in different moments relatively okay i’m a lot more like that there and i’m more like that there and that can make it difficult when you’re taking personality tests entps you have feelings too sorry to say it but you do tend to approach your feelings more intellectually you want to analyze and figure out your emotions you need to get yourself and so you spend a lot of time processing your own feelings and decisions but why am i angry or why do i care about this and why does this upset me realistically rationally why i don’t understand so entps they like to explain themselves to themselves and they’re good at explaining themselves a lot of time when i watch entp videos i hear entps talk about themselves and their emotions with extremely high self recognition when i hear enfps talk about themselves it’s more matter of fact this is what i feel dot when i hear entps talk about themselves it’s i don’t know what i feel but i can tell you why i feel it and that’s the conundrum of these two types and now before we get into the next point don’t forget to like and subscribe and of course if you feel like it why not change the speed to 1.
  • May 22
    Karmic gone. DM no longer tempted by the devil 👹. Being yourself is a powerful statement!!

    hello my last namaste this is going to be your twin flame weekly reading let’s get started okay so we’re going to get into the masculine side of the divine counterpart here to see what’s going on with your masculine and i think today i’m going to pull some karmic energy to see what’s going on as well so this is my heart chakra meditation bowl and i’m going to play it this morning let’s see if it wants to sing for us okay let’s get started it’s my energy oracle card so i’m gonna get some overall energy into the divine masculine part divine masculine’s overall energy we have patience and temple path okay so i’m gonna look up 16 here just get some cliff notes i really like the way this book describes um the cards so it says peaceful presence and letting go of desperation so it’s basically letting go and being patient and being flexible open and present and then the temple path the spiritual purpose and support receiving this card represents your own spiritual evolution the winding path you are on leads to a blessed temple in a lovely garden symbolizing the spiritual destiny your soul has had in mind for this lifetime the affirmation is i open my heart to my spiritual truth and a deeper connection with spirit guidance and inspiration come freely and easily to me okay so i’m going to leave these here all right so let’s go tarot so we have dedication here this is a card about um work and working hard and being loyal and dedicated um aids are also about opportunity and being a good judge so so if this so the divine masculine part of this connection is very dedicated at this point um to being patient and being on this this sacred journey so i feel like um there’s a different perspective here and the fear that obviously was in the past the anxiety and the fear takes on a different perspective here because perspective is is in reverse it’s a 12.
  • May 22
    2021 Goldenritt Sketchwriter Victoria Fountain Pen with Bock Titanium Nib Unboxing and Review

    are you going to discover tears hello there and welcome to my channel my name is doug and i’m back with another fountain pen review and thank you in advance for liking and subscribing to my channel make sure you click on that bell to get instant notifications of new videos i’m really excited about today’s fountain pen review today we’re going to look at a pen i knew absolutely nothing about until just last week subscriber and pen friend dean andreoli contacted me through my instagram account and asked me if i wanted a fountain pen he had just purchased a few on sale at a store local to him in maine called martins and he was so excited about them he wanted to gift one to me i think i responded with my usual erudite and sophisticated manner by saying duh bring it on bro also i do modeling so i’m just throwing that out there all right peace out st louis and within 10 days i have this incredibly generous gift in my hand this is the golden writ sketch writer victoria with a bach titanium nib holy titanium batman holy understatements batman i told dean i had been itching to try a titanium nib and been toying with the idea of getting a rango model 5 with a number 8 size titanium nib for a while now those of you that know these bach titanium nibs will no doubt be totally green with envy and understand the magnitude of dean’s generosity here i’ve never heard of golden rit before and i had to do a little research on the company and the pen so join me as i learn about this very interesting fountain pen right now just a couple of weeks ago a pen friend named dean andreoli contacted me on instagram and asked me if i’d be interested in a fountain pen he was getting a couple on sale apparently and wanted to get me one as well i’d never heard of the pen uh but i said sure if you want to send me a pen that’d be great and uh here it is just about a week 10 days later i get a package in the mail from dean and let’s find out what this is first off there’s a lovely sketch here done by dean nib test golden rit xf titanium bach with roshizuku fugu shiogun and dean custom purple i love it greetings doug here’s the panel i promised you i’ve done a couple of doodles with mine and i’m really loving the nibs i hope you will too the reverse side of this paper is a line pile that’s how i test and get to know my nibs as i mostly use them for drawing cheers to you and your wonderful channel thank you for all you share with us sincerely dean isn’t that lovely thank you dean i’ll put that right there under my guitar and see what’s in the package and here we are it’s a golden rit sketch rider fountain pen and this one is the victoria for artists writers calligraphers equipped with a triple section titanium nib making this fountain pen a delightful option for both writing and sketching so it’s in a rigid foam box and it has a converter three ink cartridges standard international and there’s the pen it’s got a brushed stainless steel or aluminum brushed metal cap and body and really interesting springy clip nice acrylic finial and end knob with those threads i assume this is going to post unscrew almost four turns to unscrew and we have a an acrylic section concave long and a titanium nib this is a number five size bach titanium nib standard international cartridge converter which doesn’t fit interesting looks like some kind of a plug down inside there that’s sticking out it’s keeping the converter from going in this is a very very interesting unique pen and has some lovely qualities to it and we shall ink it up and do a review and what i’d like to do today is go over the parts and features of this pen show some size comparisons some measurements and then provide a writing sample after the writing sample please stay tuned as i’ll talk about what i like and what i don’t like so much about this fountain pen there isn’t a lot of information on golden writ on the internet short of the developer’s own videos at jerry’s arterama the website is www jerry’s arturo the president of jerry’s arterama ira goldstein has a youtube video from december 20th 2019 where he demonstrates the two main models of the golden rit the rockwell and the victoria i’ll link that video in the description he describes the golden writ pens as being developed by himself after quote a lot of research unquote to offer a fountain pen that you can write with and sketch with he goes on to discuss the titanium nib as the focal point of the pen’s ability to sketch on a variety of writing surfaces from vellum to watercolor paper the rockwell is a heavier longer more cigar shaped pen where the victoria model is shorter has a more tubular shape with flatter end finials and screws onto post so let’s take a look at the victoria from the top we see a domed plastic finial with a white gray and purple swirl we’ll see this material again on the end finial and on the section the victoria also comes in a teal swirl with the silver trim and this purple again with a flat black trim there’s a little bit of sparkle to the purple areas and the silvery areas of the plastic i’ve looked and looked at this and it feels a lot softer than acrylic more like soft plastic than acrylic the parts do look like they are turned rather than molded however we see a chrome metal ring which attaches the clip and the clip is a very pleasing ski jump shape and very nicely springy and usable the cap is made of a brass tube jacketed with a brushed aluminum which has a great texture and feel to it it is dead straight all along the length of the cap and the barrel separated by a chrome ring at the top of the barrel which is stamped golden writ in script on one side and laser etched sketch writer on the other i find this interesting it’s stamped golden red and then laser etched sketch writer those are two different processes you’ll find that happening with a pen that’s made for a company to put their own brand on locally i think that’s what’s happening here the pen cap barrel section and converter are all sourced in the east the nib units are purchased from bach the pens arrive at the reseller and they laser etch sketch writer on them locally and install the nib unit that’s just a guess of course the barrel is straight until another chrome ring and then a big step down to a bunch of chrome threads and then an end finial of the same purple swirl plastic with a slight dome on the very end the cap unscrews with an incredible one two three and a bit turns that’s a lot and the threads are plastic on plastic as there is an inner plastic bit on the inside of the cap but the threads are really sloppy with a lot of play in there and it moves around and slops around when it’s not tight and that worries me that they’ll cross thread or they’ll wear out as that plastic is very soft the section is the same purple swirl as the finials which is nice the section is long and thin with a concave shape and here we see the number five size box titanium nib let’s look closer at this nib because we’ll see that this is the whole point and best part of this pen the nib and feed are part of a nib assembly that unscrews easily from the section and the nib and feed are also friction fit inside that collar the nib has no golden writ branding at all and it is called an extra fine there on the packaging the nib has the typical bach bordering scroll work the bach logo bach and then titan which i assume is not in size but titanium phenomenon and they’re all deeply engraved into this uh textured gray titanium in the ira goldstein video goldstein claims the nib has a triple feed and the website says the pen is quote equipped with a triple section titanium nib now i have no idea what any of that means and i don’t think they know either you keep using the horde i don’t think it means what you think it means i suspect what they mean is the nib is flexible and reversible so it will give a variety of line width for writing and sketching regardless of what they say this part as we will see is correct the nib is bouncy and reversible it does however concern me when the designer of the pen doesn’t know a nib from a section from a feed is it is that my ass the section unscrews to reveal a standard international converter of the absolute cheapest quality when i did the unboxing i was confused as to why the converter wouldn’t fit into the barrel now the box has space for three cartridges and the converter so i didn’t suspect there was yet another cartridge in the barrel itself that was blocking that converter even looking at it with a loop i couldn’t figure out what the obstruction was and it took a bit of effort to get the upside down cartridge out of that barrel as it was as it was wedged in there really tight so the converter does indeed fit in the pen inside of the cap shows no cap liner to help seal the nib the cap posts by screwing it onto the back of the barrel the good news is it only takes two turns to get it on the back of that barrel the bad news is it makes the pen very long and very back weighted to be fair though if you’re sketching with it you might want to hold the pen further back along the barrel the longer section makes that possible unposted the pen is a good length the section is just a tad too thin for me and a thicker section here would make the pen much more comfortable for longer writing sessions i don’t know what dean’s price on this pen was but it’s available from jerry’s artarama website for the quote super price of 79.
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