One may have a supper fast and powerful computer, but it’s the person whom is operating the brain who is in charge of the outcome.

Meaning, the brain is simply a tool as well as all of our senses.

They are all means by which to engage with the world by feeding us data to become aware of.

Our consciousness should be in the driver’s seat making choices, not our impulses and emotions.

Instead of living like a robot, the practice using our consciousness to manage a grand overview from small topics to life changing questions, is easy to say, but sometimes difficult pull off, at lease it is for me…

Art cannot be made spontaneously, it takes both planning and execution. Primarily the former will dictate the artist’s success or, how topical, failure.

Just want to ask one thing to you.. how should we manage things to implement ideas? what is your approach?

For example , I had idea to create a simple WordPress theme ..something like wptouch… I thought I will code on Sunday.. that Sunday never came and someone worked hard and made it.

I get lots of crazy idea in my mind to start something, make something new.. a unique ..something like WordPress but at a time so many ideas and all looks important.. I start working on all at a time.. but none of them finished

I don’t know if I am not good in managing time… I work full day .. but at-last I see the result..looks like I am slower than tortoise.. quite depressing and after than other responsibilities.. I am fed up.. I read so many books time management, being successful blah blah…. but I don’t think knowledge from books works in it.

I am doing a job which I don’t like… can’t take a risk to quit.. due to personal money commitments…and I really can’t

leave it is becoming personal…I will be happy… if you can suggest what to do … I would like to know How can intelligent people get success? your opinion.

As Eldon (above) commented upon from the original list, a particular bright person may be doing something incorrectly. If you want to play the piano well you must usually use your fingers, using only your elbows will probably not increase your chances of playing a waltz let alone a ragtime.

Some people would immediately appreciate learning how to do something correctly. They could use this knowledge and then succeed. Others, however, can get defensive and even be dishonest when help is offered, and James P (above) may have been referring too. However, I think that to say that someone would prefer this response to humility, seems to disregard why that response occurs. If I burn someone, and they yell, do I ask why did that person choose to yell?

Maybe what is being expressed here is a need for nurturing. If someone was overly criticized as a child, there is little or no frame of reference to feel that outside help is not an attack, and as such defensiveness could even become reflexive.

Can you image how hard it could be to move from that point? This is perhaps were many fail as they cannot fully take advantage of the wisdom of others.

And unfortunately most people are not either willing to or able to nurture another person. Our culture sees this as something that is the responsibly of parents, ourselves, and maybe professional help.

Consider that intelligent people fail because of their own shortcomings AND ALSO because of the shortcomings of those people around them. When they fail, we fail, both as friends and also we fail as a society. And our contemporary western society, my friends, is to whom we should ask why is there an inability to properly support, nurture, and develop, its intelligent members successfully.

This is not their fault but ours.

It looks more like meta data people are used to have beneath the article.

You enabled non-technical people to get a website going producing ongoingly content in a at least semi-professional manner.

So called “professionals” and corporations use WordPress to have a “lean” (in terms of usage) CMS running their sites without drowning in misery for coping with ugly “Enterprise” CMS.

Well done.

“Tenacity beats brains seven days a week.”

Cognitive development alone cannot accomplish relative ‘success’ (and that is the only way to measure it: relatively).

It seems to me that a lack of motivation often results from personal development not having been even across multiple lines. (Ken Wilbur has some great insight into this topic.)

Funny though, how most people would rather get defensive than be humble and/or honest.

Cool site, Matt.

As for liking the people who you work with – that must work out great for you, since you get to pick them – in my case, I have no control over that factor!

However, you certainly empowered me and millions of other people to select their co-workers, if their blogs take off – something I am looking forward to.

Thanks for all of this!