Steve Jobs Nobody Knew

What are the coolest gadgets that people wanted to have nowadays?

Of course Apple stuff.

Apple had come out with a variety of luxurious yet remarkable stuff such as Mac and its accessory for example Mac Mini, iMac, Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, plus  iPad, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, and Apple Software.

Apple has become the most popular brands in worldwide which provide software and gadgets with a tremendous that cannot be beaten by others.There is a man behind this splendid work which is being called as Steve Job.

Steve Job or also known as the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc was born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, California. His unwed biological parents, Joanne Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali, put him up for adoption. Steve was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs, a lower-middle-class couple, who moved to the suburban city of Mountain View a    couple of years later.

Steve however has a negative attitude which I did not expect him to be like that. As I read on the excerpt on The Steve Jobs Nobody Knew by Jeff Goodell, one of his friends says that as Apple ascended he also has change. His temper grows shorter and started to treating people around him badly.

Over the past several years, and even the average life of a worker at such a high-pressure environment would be unimaginable to most of the people who actually buy and enjoy Apple products. The workers work for 10 hours or more a day, with a lunch hour and a couple of brief 10-minute breaks, standing on an assembly line and performing the same task over and over.

Steve Job is a man that boasting with a lots of technology that can really makes us proud of him. However, the personal problem that he has is his own story. It is normal because as a human we carry our own story in our life. 

All The Cool Kids are Quitting Facebook

In this modernize era, people are living in a surrounding with full of high technology.  People get in touch to each other with the benefit of the technology that does not need people to spend much. Moreover, it is so much easier which it is just on your fingertips. So, that is why there are a lot of social networking sites that being created since people nowadays are really into socializing by using this kind of medium.

Our social networking statistics show that Facebook penetration in Malaysia is 46.76% compared to the country's population and 72.37% in relation to number of Internet users. The total number of FB users in Malaysia is reaching 12 231 940and grew by more than 74 1260 in the last 6 months.

Comparing these nearest countries by penetration of Facebook users shows that Malaysia has 1.10% higher FB penetration than Ireland and 0.19% lower Facebook penetration than Bahrain. As on February 2012, Facebook has more than 845 million active users’ worldwide.

Based on the excerpt All the Cool Kids Are Quitting Facebook by Jenna Wortham, the percentage of Facebook’s users is getting lower in the United States. As been stated on the excerpt, people are questioning about the privacy of using Facebook. The writers also include a respond with some people that being interviewed and they mentioned about the privacy pitfalls of Facebook.

However no matter how rigid you set your privacy settings, it is important to realize that nothing is fool proof and by joining Facebook you will lose a level of privacy. Always keep in mind you cannot control what interaction happens on your Facebook friends' pages and that you may end up in photos or comments you cannot control. Always be careful what you comment on.

Facebook has potential to go outside the scope of your control. However as long as you educate yourself on the disadvantages of Facebook, you can better protect yourself from the drawbacks and have a positive experience as a member.

Men and Women are Merely Players

Do people take advantage of you? Perhaps people use your ideas and claim them as their own? Maybe you've been misled about the facts? In extreme cases you might have been bullied, lied to and subject to the narcissistic ambitions of others.

Sometimes people are acted cruelly towards each other. Sometimes people do not have any sympathy toward the others and sometimes people just don’t realize that what they have done is not fair towards a person which they can just play fool on them. Day by day the sense of morality is getting lower and lower. 

People have a very poor of respectful practice. Since we are born we were being learned on how to love and care towards each of us. Somehow, when ages are change people also changed. Most of people are likely to act selfish and only think only about themselves.

People who take advantage of us are highly skilled at manipulating the situation we are in in order that we operate on false assumptions. So, one of the best ways of avoiding being taken advantage of is to critically look at the situation you are in and how that can be set up so that you are more easily duped, conned, or betrayed.

As what can I understand on my reading on the excerpt of Men and Women Are Merely Players by Robert Greene is that, outwardly people who like to take advantages on others will act nicely and respectfully but inwardly it is vice versa. The pretenders will master the naïve in order to make their job become easier. As stated by the author, you will able to make people bend to your will without their realizing what you have done. 

The time for generosity and kindness is when you are sitting at the top, otherwise its just a race to get there and the first one wins. Don’t get knocked down.

The Jews and Their Deceits

Based on the readings of ‘The Jews and Their Deceits’ by Adolf Hitler, what can I understand is, he is a dictator of Nazi Germany and politician who is a person that have a very deep seeded hatred for Jews.

He started to hate the Jews start from his childhood and with hatred he brings up the feelings to take revenge towards all Jews. Based on the excerpt that I have read from the Nazi’s sacred texts which is ‘Mein Kampf’ or ‘My Struggle’ the Jews are liars and they are fakers which they pretend to be nice with the Germans. Their way to survive is to pick the Germans who are master in the skills or creativity that they lacked in and asked them to work for them. However, at the same time all of the Germans productions were labelled under their name. That is how the Jews appear themselves as geniuses all around the world.

The reality is the Jews are exactly how the Germans or Adolf Hitler had said. They are a group of people who are always like to suppress on others without any feelings but somehow it does not mean that I’m totally agree for what have Hitler done. This is because their actions towards the Jews are unacceptable as well. Apart from that, Adolf Hitler is one of the most powerful people in German, as he is very influential towards his people. Every speech he made give deep affection to his people. That what makes him is a very calibre person.

In my opinion, what is the best about Adolf Hitler is his enthusiasm toward his nationality and pride. This attitude should be a practice among Malaysians. We should be proud with our country and do our best to protect Malaysia.

                                                                           

Thinking Folly

What one thing do all successful people have in common?

What one thing separates those who go to the top from those who never seem to get there?

The answer: Good Thinking! 

Those who embrace good thinking as a lifestyle understand the relationship between their level of thinking and their level of progress. They also realize that to change their lives, they must change their thinking.

Thinking is a process of using our brain to interpret something that we doesn’t know it well. Sometimes thinking process starts out with knowledge. All thinking starts with knowledge, whether a little bit or a good understanding of your thinking issues.

Individuals have their own way of thinking therefore different person may come out with different interpretation.

Based on my readings from the article ‘The Power of Now’ by Eckhart Tolle, he had also think the same as for him, he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement which is “ I think, therefore I am”.It is true that thinking creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions however for me it doesn’t blocks true relationship as the author said though it is hard for people to understand ones stand.

We've all had recourse to say: "My head tells me to do one thing, but my heart says do the other." Sometimes we are forced to make a decision but we feel ourselves to be pulled in opposite directions by reason and emotion. That is also the same as always happened to me as well.

I’m agreed as Eckhart Tolle said that “it is not much as you use your mind wrongly-you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you”. As for me, I also usually believe that I am my mind but is only the delusion. The instrument are taking me over as the author also believe that “you are unconsciously identified with it, so you don’t even know that you are its slave . Its almost as if you are being possessed without knowing it, and you take the possessing entity to be yourself." That is all that I can understand based on my thinking as a thinker about this thinking topic. 

'To do well in life, we must first think well.'

The Degree of Happiness

Life will be more meaningful if we live our life happily. Happiness is not only cheer our life but also it may affect our health.

Happiness is a mental state of well-being characterized by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. A happy person will have possibility to have a good health and longevity.

As I read on the article ‘The Degree of Happiness’ by Betrand Russell. What can I understand is they are two sort of of happiness. The first is open to any human being and the other only to  those who can read or write.

Example that had been given by the author gives us a view that we can be happy on whatever we do as it will not gives us a pressure but it will gives us a pleasure of doing it. As a human kind we are no exception of having a problem. However, a problem does not mean that we are having a time of losing our happiness. As well as been stated on the article that  the gardener are having a problem with rabbits that destroy his garden, but he speaks exactly as a policeman speak to a criminals and he consider them as dark, designing, and ferocious and like the knight of the round table he spent every day hunting his mortal foe.

Back day before, the happiest people are the men of science. This is because their work gives them self satisfaction as the public also can accept the fact even though they cannot understand it and conclude that their education has been insufficient. Different than artist and literary men consider it necessary to be unhappy in their life such as in marriage. The reason is when the public cannot understand a picture or a poem, they will conclude it as a bad picture or poem.

As my understanding, we should not think or care on any obstacles for us for having our own happiness. It is our freedom to do whatever we need in order to feel happy as long it is not over the limit.