To gain rainbow vision, combine the foundational roots of the above with the following lessons:
1. LESSON #1: determine what you want to accomplish where you have a natural advantage, and develop a sensible strategy. You won’t be able to, with distinction, compete in traditional fields. If you’re in Kansas, and water is running out, you must figuratively learn how to tame a tornado to produce water. In Hawaii, we are in the middle of the largest ocean, are endowed with a range of natural energy sources and rest at the interface of East and West. Clearly, an international sustainable resources project puts you at a distinct advantage.
1. LESSON #1: determine what you want to accomplish where you have a natural advantage, and develop a sensible strategy. You won’t be able to, with distinction, compete in traditional fields. If you’re in Kansas, and water is running out, you must figuratively learn how to tame a tornado to produce water. In Hawaii, we are in the middle of the largest ocean, are endowed with a range of natural energy sources and rest at the interface of East and West. Clearly, an international sustainable resources project puts you at a distinct advantage.
2. LESSON #2: invariably, other people will have better ideas than you. You must learn to listen and question, nicely. It is all in how you can synthesize the pieces and people to fit the situation and mandate. It will take a few mistakes, with small victories, gaining something called maturity and confidence, to recognize the value of doing the right thing in the right way most of the time. Fortunately for you, you can now start from here knowing all this, for this form of common sense generally needs to be learned, by cruel experience.
3. LESSON #3: optimize your social skills. Take politics, for example. The worst place to convince an elected official is in his office. You will not be able to change the mind of a legislator in a public hearing. Most of the effective selling, call it, even, lobbying, you will do needs to occur in a social setting. Consider golf, surfing, wine and karaoke to break the ice. Find your forte and apply it. Research awards are not only won by pure scientific brilliance, an academic corollary to LESSON 3. You've first got to get the money to do the work.
4. LESSON #4: work/volunteer for someone in Congress, the National Science Foundation, your State Legislature or an environmental group of your interest. A couple of years looking from the inside out, or, even, outside in, will give you a broader perspective, special connections and a competitive edge. Using politics again, LESSON 4B: go out of your way to help get someone elected. If that person loses, keep quiet and try again. A senator, any politician, will never turn down a sincere request for help, for the effort and effectiveness might suffer if there is no compelling need for them or their staff to want to really help you. There will be a hundred times more need than ability to deliver. Yours will be important enough only if they think you deserve it. It’s amazing how important you can be if you have done something for them.
5. LESSON #5: tolerate the small stuff, but ultimately, focus on something monumental. Why waste your time and that of others, for it only takes a little more effort to attain a higher goal than something too easy or simple. On the other hand, how can you be effective if you haven’t had some experience? #5 is on the surface not consistent with #1, but only you can resolve these apparent contradictions in life. Hint: start small and build.
6. LESSON #6: make your own luck. Bob Gibson, when he pitched, had incredible luck. Batters kept missing his ball. People still can’t believe how lucky Rod Carew was, for while other infielders were almost always only inches away when the ball passed them, somehow he made the play. While you accept any good fortune, many times you need to make your own luck through uncommon effort and good people relations. Gibson and Carew made their luck through talent and a lot of hard work.
7. LESSON #7: everyone has unique skills and friends. You must find something distinctive, with future utility, where you have a clear advantage. If you eventually undertake that monumental mission, find that niche or element ideal for you and your environment.
Thus, the Seven Lessons of Rainbow Vision.
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Well, the U.S. Senate passed the bailout bill 74-25, with a few add-ons for main street to the $700 billion rescue package. The DJI was stable, slipping 20 points to 10,831, and crude oil dropped below $100 to $99.35/bbl. Who knows what will happen in the House tomorrow, as the stock market has already stabilized. There are still concerns, however, about stuckiness of the loan market.
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Tropical Storm Kyle continues to live, now approaching New Brunswick with winds of nearly 70 MPH. Most unusual, being so far north and still cyclonic. Tropical Storm Laura, however, at 45MPH, is dissipating in the mid-north Atlantic and continues to move further north. Now there is Tropical Storm Marie, which popped up several hundred miles off the coast of Mexico, and with winds of more than 50 MPH, is heading straight for Hawaii. However, the current expectation is some weakening over the next few days.
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Tropical Storm Jangmi is weakening, and continues to loiter in the vicinity of Kyushu, bringing more rain. Tropical Storm Higos has alread moved west of the Philippines, and while with 40 MPH winds, is expected to strengthen, perhaps into a typhoon, as it moves either towards China or north to Taiwain.
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