Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Khan Academy (dot com)

I'm ecstatic! And you should be too!

"The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit educational organization created by Salman Khan. With the stated mission of "providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere", the website supplies a free online collection of over 2,150 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching mathematics, history, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, and economics.[1]"

Now, if you don't know me personally, I hate the education system. I’m in my second year of university and it’s the third semester in a row that has made me cringe and want to shed tears. I loathe it and I’m thinking to perhaps become a yoga teacher, since I love hot yoga, and it would allow me to do my own studies on the side.

Although TED waited a year to present Khan Academy, it could not have arrived at a better time.

There are infinite possibilities with this.

I’ve been meaning to finish my advanced math’s so that I could get into calculus and whatnot, but now, I don’t have to pay a dime, nor do I have to travel anywhere or deal with a half assed teacher to learn what I want. I can do it all on Khan.

This makes me wonder. Because of Khan’s features: measuring how many videos you’ve watched, how many exercises you’ve done, as well as which you’ve accomplished and failed, will this be a new measure for job prerequisites? Because it should.

Imagine.

Rather than having to get a degree at school, on somebody else’s time, you do it on you’re OWN time, for FREE.

Job employers can then see what you know, see what you’ve learned, and pick you out from there.

My stats:


This is going to change everything, EVERYTHING.


Here is Salman Khan's TED talk.



[1] - Michels, Spencer (2010-02-22). "Khan Academy: How to Calculate the Unemployment Rate". PBS NewsHour. PBS. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2010/02/khan-academy-how-to-calculate-the-unemployment-rate.html. Retrieved 2011-01-05.

Monday, January 10, 2011

If you’re not getting laid, or simply blowing it at life.

Obviously I’m not the first to write about this, nor is it an unfamiliar concept (or perhaps for some it is), but constant masturbation (without regularly having sex) is like giving the horse its carrot before it arrives at its destination. This goes both for men and women.

That sexual energy, that innate drive for reproduction, is our motivation in life. When we “rub ourselves out” we lack the chemicals and energy produced by the contact of a partner which gives us that sense of accomplishment. We release that tension, but we didn’t work for it. That creates a habit of laziness.

Now let me state, personally, I have a huge sex drive, huge I tell you (I’m almost 22 years old). I could masturbate several times a day if I wanted to, sometimes I do (insert mental image for those who know me), but it doesn’t help me. And what doesn’t help me, doesn’t help you either.

What makes you win in life, what shows strength, is the ability to produce content (assuming its good, which is a whole other topic itself). How do you produce content? By delaying gratification: working hard to create something.

By masturbating, you become more focused on instant gratification. Because you gave in to you’re desires you weaken you’re will power to delay gratification. And it makes you focus directly on what you want in that moment: sex – thus being incompetent around the opposite sex.

What I would recommend is to masturbate at most once a week. If you can, go for longer.

Not only will this make you stronger around the opposite sex, but it will make you stronger as an individual, helping you out in all areas of you’re life.

If you agree, disagree or have any comments, let me know!