Category: Videos

What are we doing to our planet and what kind of parent would let kids play at this beach?  You can use Goo Gone to get the oil off…”yeah I brough some with us”.

Zach shows not taking yourself too seriously and believing in yourself goes a really long way in life (he is awesome).  Be sure and vote for him (he has 2.6 million votes already)!  “Zach Anner, who has cerebral palsy, made a hilarious audition video for Oprah who is searching for a someone to host their own show on her new network. The Internet went nuts over Zach’s video (which has over 2.5 millon votes), where he humorously outlined his idea for a travel show. John Mayer was so moved he made a video in support of Zack and even offered to write a theme song for the show if Zach wins.”  – Via LaughingSquid.com

From YouTube comments: “At about 0:25 he splits the deck and pockets cards. Probably everything but her card and hearts. Then he asks her for a suite – if she named hearts he’d say he got rid of everything buy the suite she named. She named clubs, so he says ‘gone’. Then the next time she names hearts – and he ‘keeps’ them.”  You’ll also see he is with @summertomato (good for them).

This is an oldie but goodie.  If you need a good laugh, this should do the trick.

There are 6 main time zones that people life in.

2 where people focus on on the past

• Remember all of the good old times
• Family records
• Birthdays
• Good times
• Bad times
• Family rituals

2 where people focus on the present

• Hedonistic: live for pleasure and avoid pain
• Seek knowledge
• Seek sensation
• It doesn’t pay to plan
• My life is fated by my religion, my poverty, my conditions that I’m living under

2 where people focus on the future

• To resist temptation
• To work rather than play
• Depending on your religion life begins after the death of the mortal body
• To be future oriented you have to have trust that the things you do to prepare for the future will be carried out
• The closer you are to your family the more likely you are present oriented

Italy has a La Lega movement where they want to cut the country in half.

• They feel the top half of the country (the northern portion) does the majority of the work where the southern half is “lazy”
• They found in general the northern half of the country is future oriented where people in the south tend to be present or past oriented

Book: Geography of Time – Robert Levine

• Went around the world doing experiments on the pace of life
  • How much time has elapsed when you do certain activities?
  • In different cultures people do things at different paces
  • You can identify cultures by their life pace
  • Cities with the highest pace of life: men have the most coronary problems

We all begin life as present hedonists

• We want pleasure and we want to avoid pain
• He believes schooling takes present oriented people and makes them future oriented people

American children

• In America a child drops out of school every 9 seconds
• Study: By the time a boy is 21 years old, he’s spent 10,0000 hours playing video games alone
• Brains are being digitally rewired and they will never fit in a traditional analog classroom
• Its boring
• They control nothing
• Its passive
• Learning in school is all about the delay of gratification

All addictions are addictions of present hedonism

• Food
• Drugs
• Sex
• Gambling
• Etc

If kids are future oriented

• They understand that they should not smoke
• Understand they should not have sex
• Understand they should not do drugs

Present oriented kids

• Know the consequences but that knowledge never feeds back to change their behavior

We are under estimating the power of technology in re-wiring young people’s brains

USA Today study asked how busy Americans are

• 50% busier now than I was last year
• Sacrificed friends, family, and sleep for my success
• Supposed you had an 8^th day
  • They said “I would work harder to achieve more”

Sit Down Dinners

• 20 years ago only 60% of American families had sit-down family dinners
• 5 years ago 1 in 5 had sit-down dinners
• You can’t have family values if you don’t have family meals together

If Nicholas White wasn’t claustrophobic before his ill-fated 1999 elevator ride, he probably is now. White found himself trapped alone in an elevator car for 41 hours, a horrifying ordeal more than 5 million people have shared in since the New Yorker posted time-compressed footage of White literally bouncing off the walls.

“There’s a unique school that’s giving kids from an inner-city neighborhood that only graduates 33 percent of its high school students a shot at college they never had before. Byron Pitts reports on the SEED school, the first urban, public boarding school.”