Daily Archives: April 19, 2014

THE TRUTH ABOUT DETERMINATION

Determination: n. having very intense persistence and perseverance

A determined human puts in much energy, effort, frequently tries to achieve a goal, sometimes suffers many failures, and frequently perseveres or does so for a long duration until a goal(s) is achieved. You can even think of a determined human as one who is sometimes stubborn about reaching a goal(s).

Stubborn: adj. refusing to change when an objective fact(s) demands change

Persistence: n. frequently trying to achieve a goal(s) and is a subset of perseverance and the deviation from the perseverance norm is rather large and frequently much less than a lifetime.

Perseverance: n. extreme persistence in trying to achieve a goal(s) and pursuing it much beyond the point where cloose to100% of people would stop

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THE TRUTH ABOUT DECEPTION

Deception: n. communicating a fiction(s) causing a belief in an untruth(s) and/or (an irrelevant action(s) mixed with a relevant action(s) and/or (an omission(s)) and/or a concealment(s)) which causes a belief in an untruth(s)

Deceptions with omissions frequently come in the form of promises too good to believe and don’t tell you that you are being suckered into a no win situation. A Power Ball lottery promising 100 million dollars doesn’t tell you that the odds against you are a 175 million to one and effectively you can’t win for all practical purposes.

Stocks with yearly returns of 18 percent or more don’t tell you that at any moment they can go belly up and you lose all your money or that they are in fact hidden Ponzi schemes which will destroy your investment when new suckers run out.

Not stating all the relevant facts is a form of concealment but a more popular business deception is putting in unwanted obligations in fine print which is an attempt at concealing important facts.

Deceptive communications are not the only way to deceive. Sometimes a deceptive business man or woman will show their expensive home, cars, and yachts which are actually rented to convince you that an investment in his or her idea is a good deal with large payoffs. An irrelevant display of wealth makes you more likely to do something stupid out of sheer greed or excessive desire to get a big payoff for minimum effort.

Magicians using deceptive hand and body motions, mirrors, and other technological means can trick you into believing what seems impossible to do at first glance.

Authors of fiction using some facts and much imagination may actually convince you that certain plots are believable and exist with high frequency in society. Fiction can actually cause you to believe in an altered reality filled with miracles or highly improbable events and correspondences.

Because there are so many deceptions, myths, and lies in society, everyone is a victim of some of them and the predators are probably laughing all the way to the bank or have been successfully elected to political office.

Big lies are not really deceptions but they can convince humans of untruths with miraculous claims. Claiming that a salve is just as good as a surgical face lift and that you can lose 10 pounds in one week on a special diet are just a few of the blatant lies used by the cosmetics and exercise industry to con you out of your money.

If an offer sounds too good to be true then seriously check for inflated claims, omissions, concealments, and lies which are probably deceptive attempts at parting you from your hard earned money.

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THE TRUTH ABOUT QUALITY

A quality product is reliable, durable, and functional or utilitarian. If it is a machine then it should be efficient too or use the least amount of energy per unit time to do work or perform a function.

The only time that efficiency does not play an important role is in fast sports cars where speed is a measure of how good a car is and factors such as reliability and durability are not that important.

A home which is passive, efficient, comfortable, reliable, durable, easy to clean, optimizes natural light, and has efficient appliances is a quality home.

A quality tool is reliable, durable, efficient, and functional or gets the job done in the least amount of time for which it is designed. If a multifunctional tool is used then it should be one which performs many functions in the most efficient time saving way possible.

Sometimes and aesthetically beautiful or ornate product is considered a quality product but looks can be deceiving and the product may not be reliable, durable, or very functional or utilitarian.

In food a quality food is one which tastes good, is as organic as is possible with a minimum of processing, and is healthy or nutrient rich.

Organically fed bloody meat and organs, eggs, and raw milk are nutrient rich as well as nuts, seeds, beans, fruits, and grains. Vegetables are not that nutrient rich but are good for fiber and minerals.

Food polluted with pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, antibiotics, growth hormones, and GMO’s is not quality food!!!!!!

Finally, a quality human is a healthy and smart one with a good memory and we should make society reproduce the healthy and smart ones with good memories in greater quantity than the unhealthy and not so smart ones with bad memories.

Quality: n. a scale of goodness and/or value for a subset(s)

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