{"id":48,"date":"2011-10-30T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/2011\/10\/30\/bicycle-for-our-mind\/"},"modified":"2017-04-27T02:31:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T06:31:12","slug":"bicycle-for-our-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/2011\/10\/30\/bicycle-for-our-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Bicycle for our Mind&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">&#8220;Your time is limited, so don\u2019t waste it living someone else\u2019s life. Don\u2019t be trapped by dogma \u2014 which is living with the results of other people\u2019s thinking. Don\u2019t let the noise of others\u2019 opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.&#8221;<\/span><\/center><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: -webkit-auto;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UF8uR6Z6KLc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">&#8220;When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: &#8220;If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you&#8217;ll most certainly be right.&#8221; It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: &#8220;If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?&#8221; And whenever the answer has been &#8220;No&#8221; for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-csgPNAJ4M9M\/UVUsd3ipC7I\/AAAAAAAAWYI\/aLDSSH_xr_s\/s1600\/tassajara.han_.sm_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-csgPNAJ4M9M\/UVUsd3ipC7I\/AAAAAAAAWYI\/aLDSSH_xr_s\/s640\/tassajara.han_.sm_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Jobs\u2019 celebrated motto for the original Mac team \u2014 \u201cthe journey is the reward\u201d \u2014 could have been lifted from the pages of Zen Mind, Beginner\u2019s Mind. For Suzuki-roshi, the path was the goal: \u201cwith no gaining idea\u201d \u2014 that is, with no hope that your next session on the cushion would bring about a shattering, life-changing flash of satori. Suzuki-roshi didn\u2019t even claim to be enlightened himself, which was a shocking thing for a renowned Zen teacher to admit at the time (laughingly confirmed by his mischievous wife, Mitsu). You didn\u2019t sit zazen to become a Buddha, Suzuki-roshi used to say:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">\u201cYou\u2019re perfect just as you are \u2014 and you could use a little improvement.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><i><i><i><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plos.org\/neurotribes\/2011\/10\/28\/what-kind-of-buddhist-was-steve-jobs-really\/\">http:\/\/blogs.plos.org\/neurotribes\/2011\/10\/28\/what-kind-of-buddhist-was-steve-jobs-really\/<\/a><\/i><\/i><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6kalMB8jDnY\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I think one of the things that really separates us from the high primates is that we\u2019re tool builders. I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species on the planet. The condor used the least energy to move a kilometer. And, humans came in with a rather unimpressive showing, about a third of the way down the list. It was not too proud a showing for the crown of creation. So, that didn\u2019t look so good. But, then somebody at Scientific American had the insight to test the efficiency of locomotion for a man on a bicycle. And, a man on a bicycle, a human on a bicycle, blew the condor away, completely off the top of the charts.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\nAnd that\u2019s what a computer is to me. What a computer is to me is it\u2019s the most remarkable tool that we\u2019ve ever come up with, and it\u2019s the equivalent of<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #3d85c6;\"> a bicycle for our minds<\/span>.\u201d ~ Steve Jobs<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Your time is limited, so don\u2019t waste it living someone else\u2019s life. Don\u2019t be trapped by dogma \u2014 which is living with the results of other people\u2019s thinking. Don\u2019t let the noise of others\u2019 opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. 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