More New Words for Us!

While working with heat press as part of my job in making mens graphic t shirts, a friend asked me about online topics. One of his questions, “Do you remember the search engines that came before google?”

Personally, I don’t. Ever since I’ve discovered the massive world that is the internet, I have already been using Google as my primary and only search engine.

Before the internet, information was really cluttered; books, documents, articles, photos, they were simply unorganized and hard to come by especially if there was only one copy for a specific place, date, and time!

When all these information was stored digitally, people could freely access them. Because of the massive amount of data, surely, there had to be a way to sort through them all!

Thus, Google the search engine was born. Because of it’s reliability and really good search algorithms, a lot of people has considered it their new best friend!

Google has even become a commonplace word that people use as an adjective to describe an on line search.

Facebook has taken the world by it’s figurative storm and it has dominated much of the social media mania nowadays, even encompassing the holiday photo cards markets.

Recently however, Google launched their very own social network to compete with all the other existing social networks on line. They call it Google +.

Google’s popularity however has spurred an unexpected but exceedingly high demand of users who want to register and try it out. It is no doubt becoming a fast internet sensation as exhibited when Google was forced to suspend the sending of invites due to the insane demand.

Currently, the launched version is still at it’s beta phase. Even so, this new social network is already making it’s mark as it proves that it’s here to stay.

Almost all educated people say that knowledge is power. Those who have knowledge are usually better off than those who don’t because they know things.

If you have knowledge and insurance and if you have intelligence on how to use it, then you definitely have power. There are a lot of things to know about in this world. Different areas that many specialize in which becomes an almost exclusive form of knowledge for those in a particular field.

If you know about history then you could surely analyze, compare, and contrast what happened before to what is happening today. If you know about sociology, then you can study the antecedents of culture that identifies cultures.

Knowledge is great power.

People specialize in the things they do for a reason. Of course this reason is apparent to everyone but is it really?

Over the years of discovery, the knowledge that our race built and has discovered has grown exponentially that specialized sectors became a must. Although sometimes it is also advised to not specialize exclusively, I personally have the urge to try and specialize over everything that I could grasp. It reminds of water softeners.

Knowledge is a great tool in the world and knowing a lot of things about some sectors can help you go a long way in life. People aren’t limited to knowing only what they’ve learned.

Knowledge is a free resource that can be grasped by anyone who seeks it.

Malcolm Gladwell’s book entitled Outliers: The Story of Success shares that in order for one to be considered an expert in a certain field (use ipod touch speakers for an ipod version) , one must first spend 10,000 hours doing it. Is there any credence to this premise, you might ask? As I’ve read the chapter, I am absolutely convinced that there is.

Spending this much amount of time mastering a skill will certainly help you doing that, like . It’s only logical. It’s like training your brain to be good at something by spending that amount of time.

The most successful people in the world were cited in the book to have done this and upon the author’s research, it certainly seems to be one of the rules to success. Bill Gates, The Beatles, you name it. They’ve spent 10,000 hours doing what they do best before they became the best.

There are a lot of words in the english language and many that aren’t commonly used. Although there’s not a lot of sense in learning all, most should still be learned and there’s really no harm in knowing a few more.

Do you know what a floor matt is? That’s not a new word but the buick lesabre custom floor mats is, if you don’t know what a buick lesabre is.
(It’s a car btw).

One great exercise in building vocabulary is to learn one new word each day and try to use it as much as possible. Filipinos are known to be one of the most fluent among Asian countries when it comes to the English language and why not live up to that by building an extensive vocabulary.

Learn a new word each day by randomly picking one in a dictionary.

There’s a very clear line that separates what you need and what you want.

People usually mistake want for need and I admit that I was once a victim of it.

The biggest downside in mistaking what you want for a need is ending up with things that you don’t really need. Take for example, thinking that you need more things or decorations to make your home prettier might lead you to spending an unnecessary amount of money. The next thing you know, you’re broke and struggling to make end’s meet.

If you have a business, a document scanning software is a need. So its ok to buy one.

One great way to avoid these things is to ask yourself first if you really need it or you just want it.

Everyone has a comfort zone like I do when it comes to preference. I’m not the type of person who goes out of the way to try new things. I am perfectly content where I am, what I do, and what I eat everyday.

Not everyone is as adventurous as those guys I see in discovery channel who try new things that are beyond their comfort zone. For me safe is good and it will keep me content for the foreseeable future.

A friend has suggested however that it’s good to try something new once in a while. With this thought, I am trying to find something to do that I usually don’t. It’s like listening music with wireless bookshelf speakers. Hopefully not something entirely too far fetched.