Enlightenment
‘Progress is due to the unreasonable person.
The reasonable person seeks to adjust to the world. The unreasonable person seeks to change it’. Shaw
http://www.thinkingmanagers.com/prewp/pwmani203
• Jack Welch created spectacular value at General Electric: How to create the culture and management behaviours that make for and maximise market leadership.
• Bill Gates built Microsoft into the enabling force of the software revolution: How to exploit your own vision of the future by taking tough, powerful decisions in the present.
• Andy Grove drove Intel to become a magnificent microprocessor machine: How to optimise the pay-offs from dynamic advantages - and from reacting to near-total failure.
• Warren Buffett created the greatest fortune ever derived from straight investment
• Peter Drucker created the genre of management writing and changed the way managers manage: How to master the crucial difference between the Efficient (good) and the Effective (critical).
• Stephen R Covey sold 10 million copies of The Seven Secrets of Highly Effective People: How to succeed in business by helping yourself to help other people to enjoy lasting success.
• Tom Peters sold 7 million copies of In Search of Excellence: How to keep pace with today’s changes in management that make performance fast, free and furiously good.
• Charles Handy has changed the way we think about management and society: How to transcend the traditional organisation and manager with better ways of life and thought.
I have read from the above people and they have affected me personally.
On another personal note I have a birthday today September 23. As a lot of people do as they “age” I started to go down memory lane. I looked at early pictures trying to “feel” the time when I got my “Davy Crockett” hat or my dog, bullet, or my first real girlfriend, or my first car. Then I started thinking about love, family, and work.
I have an appointment tomorrow to go over the sixteen medicines I take and review information from my twelve doctors with my DO.
I have spent the last week organizing the information for this visit especially areas that bother me most. Mental, polyneuropathy, poor balance, digestive processing are all equally disturbing. Some information follows:
My doctors explained my situation regarding affects of age, quality of life and expectations based on the genetics passed on from the “family tree”.
I was told that to some extent I could modify the affects of genetics by focusing on environmental aspects of living.
I tried to follow the above diagram but it became a little fuzzy so that appeared to look like the next picture.
The underlying information is that I am “pre” disposed to diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and triglycerides, stroke, heart attack, mental conditions, a pot belly, cataracts, skin problems, like stucco keratosis, pattern baldness, graying hair, nervous system or hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA axis) problems, neuroendocrinology, the inability to extract nutrients (process vitamins and minerals critical for health/maintenance) and last, but not least, the fact that hypothalamic development and response to an acute stressor is determined by pre-pubertal stress in early life.
One link I reference in trying to track the main “physic” aspects is http:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothalamus where I reviewed the connections and references.
Happy Birthday to me…..Have a nice day.