Topic: Daily Inspirations

[Skhilled (OP)]

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

~ Earl Nightingale

https://www.inspiringquotes.com/inspiration/6509e4584b8f94106401912c

[Ken]

In my younger years I might have disagreed with that statement, but now I may be able to see the wisdom in the thought.

[Skhilled (OP)]

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

~ Suzy Kassem

https://www.inspiringquotes.com/inspiration/6511e5001678ea96e70b755c

[Ken]

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

~ Suzy Kassem

https://www.inspiringquotes.com/inspiration/6511e5001678ea96e70b755c

Amen to that!
Through out my life I've found that when pushing through doubt the results where more often success than not. When using doubt to stop or not do a thing, failure was assured.

[Skhilled (OP)]

Failure doesn't mean you will not ever succeed. You need to learn from it and try again.

[Skhilled (OP)]

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

~ William Arthur Ward

https://www.inspiringquotes.com/inspiration/6511e58ebbb5d41705b0602f

[Skhilled (OP)]

Grant me courage to serve others; for in service there is true life.

~ Cesar Chavez

https://www.inspiringquotes.com/inspiration/6511e6eaced78f195294f102

[Skhilled (OP)]

Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time.

~ Hermann Hesse

https://www.inspiringquotes.com/inspiration/6511e67e1678eae2d00b7f76

[Skhilled (OP)]

I can be someone’s and still be my own.

~ Shel Silverstein

https://www.inspiringquotes.com/inspiration/6511e7e9bbb5d43e3ab06f31

[Ken]

I can be someone’s and still be my own.

~ Shel Silverstein

https://www.inspiringquotes.com/inspiration/6511e7e9bbb5d43e3ab06f31

I always enjoyed Siverstein's work, especially his drawings for the Playboy mag.
 

[Ken]

... ordinal people with extraordinary skills have always impressed and inspired me and this man in nothing short of amazing! 

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The Remarkable Brain of a Carpet Cleaner Who Speaks 24 Languages

In a city where interpreters can command six-figure salaries, Vaughn Smith was a savant with a secret.

The carpet cleaner heaves his machine up the stairs, untangles its hoses and promises to dump the dirty water only in the approved toilet. Another day scrubbing rugs for less than $20 an hour. Another Washington area house with overflowing bookshelves and walls covered in travel mementos from places he would love to go one day.

But this was not that day.

“Tell me about this stain,” 46-year-old Vaughn Smith asks his clients.

“Well,” says one of the homeowners, “Schroeder rubbed his bottom across it.”

Vaughn knows just what to do about that, and the couple, Courtney Stamm and Kelly Widelska, know they can trust him to do it. They’d been hiring him for years, once watching him erase even a splattered Pepto Bismol stain.

... I skipped ahead to this part where the reporter takes Vaughn to MIT for some studies of his brain.
It’s possible that Vaughn was born with his language areas being smaller and more efficient. It’s possible that his brain started out like mine, but because he learned so many languages while it was still developing, his dedication transformed his anatomy. It could be both. Until researchers can scan language learners as they grow, there’s no way to know for sure.

But even without that answer, even before we had the scan results back, Vaughn had what he came to MIT for.

“I got to practice Lithuanian today,” he says to a friend on the phone as we navigate Boston’s airport. “Catalan, Spanish, Russian and a little bit of Korean!”

He’s bouncing as he talks about all the connections he made in a single day with the researchers and the strangers he’d introduced himself to in a coffee shop. All the people who were, as he would say, “hit with a splash of happiness.” This is what I’d discovered getting to know Vaughn: By putting in the effort to learn someone’s language, you’re showing them that you value who they truly are.

I’m wondering if Vaughn will ever see that same value in himself.

And at that very moment, he tells his friend on the phone, “I just feel like, work wise, I gotta do something else. I need to figure out how and what to do. It’s not going to get better unless I do something.”

I’ve never heard him talk like that before. At our gate, I ask how he is feeling. He is thinking about the way the Harvard and MIT neuroscientists spent the day asking him questions. Not just for their research, but because they want to understand how, in their own language learning, they could be more like him.

“It’s really comforting,” Vaughn says. “I always wonder, it’s like, how do I compare on the larger scale? What if this is really nothing to be excited about?”

But they’d been excited, and now, he could be too.

“I’m not some worthless person,” he says.

[Skhilled (OP)]

You'd be surprised at how many people think that a person only do one thing well! Maybe it's because they themselves can only do one thing or only think with blinders on...Sad!

People can do many things and also be good at them. I can't tell you how many times people have said to me that I only thought you knew about music, or only about cooking, or about websites or photography. Makes me want to slap them silly! LOL They say it like I was lying to them about things. LMAO

[Skhilled (OP)]

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

~ Albert Einstein

https://www.inspiringquotes.com/inspiration/651b23ef3d50c959170f9b16

[Skhilled (OP)]

One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

~ Sigmund Freud

https://www.inspiringquotes.com/inspiration/651b29154b0d223d1f37658e

[Ken]

You'd be surprised at how many people think that a person only do one thing well! Maybe it's because they themselves can only do one thing or only think with blinders on...Sad!

People can do many things and also be good at them. I can't tell you how many times people have said to me that I only thought you knew about music, or only about cooking, or about websites or photography. Makes me want to slap them silly! LOL They say it like I was lying to them about things. LMAO

Once upon a time, many years ago, I worked in a machine shop and one of the machine operators held a PHD doctorate,  I don't remember what his field of study was, but his point of view was that even after all those years of schooling, he still preferred the manual, hands on labor of running a milling machine to whatever his PHD was about.