How Smart Are You? Do You Hope to, or Want to Get Smarter?

 

According to a recent Neuroscience Analysis a focus on Education do matters. Similar to the on-going attention that has been given to Artificial Intelligence. However, in the case of the human mind Fluid Intelligence does matter.

 

When the question is asked what factors contributes the most to success-the answer chosen in most instances is intelligence.  Even though the science-of-the-matter says one has to be lucky with the advent of:

·        Right Place

·        Right Time

·        Right Person

·        Right Time w/Right Person

·        Right Idea, Right Market, Right Audience, at the right time

 

Yet Neuroscience goes on to say, even though there are ways to ‘create’ your own luck, one cannot control luck. But what can be control, to some degree, is how smart you already are.

 

A More Definitive Look at The Insights of “Smart”

 

There exist a plethora of different forms of Intelligence, Let us begin with a focus on two:

·        Crystallized Intelligence, is accumulated knowledge based on facts, figures, and thinks “educated”. Of course we are aware of people who are ‘book smart’-but not necessarily smart, smart-this ushers in>

·        Fluid Intelligence, the ability to learn and retain new Insights and Intel information and then to utilized to solve problems. Also to learn a new skill to recall existing memories and modify them with new knowledge. Think “applied intelligence”

 

During this instance is where one becomes more educated. In doing so, this serves to improve fluid intelligence-it is harder, and is one reason why ‘brain games are fairly popular, i.e. crossword puzzles, brain training apps, and Sudoku.

 

It has been proven that both of the afore-mentioned smart behaviors gives credence to increase in neural connections and learned capacity. They simply buttress and bulk up the brain and are benefactor of being smarter.

 

However, within a few weeks the cortical thickness and activity starts to decrease, and eventually returns to the pre-Tetris skill level of brain power. Unfortunately, it does not matter how much work it takes to learn new information or gain new skills, this does not help improve fluid intelligence. Once knowledge or skill is in your grasp of brain power, you certainly benefits from the increase in crystallized intelligence. But the fluid intelligence soon returns to the more baseline level.

 

 Be comfortable-stay easy and calm

 

Once you have mastered a new game, a new process, a new skill, or a new anything-move on to something new. No matter at home, at work, or anywhere Just keep challenging yourself. Not only will you pocket a constant flow of new information and skill, your brain will stay “bulked up” and forge new neural connections-making it easier to keep learning and growing.

 

Know this: The more you learn the more you can leverage the power of ‘associative learning’. This process serves to relate something new to something you already know. In the process of learning the relationship seemingly unrelated things. This simply means, whenever you say, ‘Oh that makes sense”: This is basically closely akin to the fact, you are using “associative learning”

 

Proceeding forth in the process to learn more, it is likely you will be able to associate ‘old’ knowledge to new things. This means you have only to learn the differences or the nuances. This shall give rise where you are able to apply greater context, which will help with memory storage and retrieval to new information you have learned

 

Thus you have arrived at the point that makes even easier. The research analysis shows will result in your being able to learn even quicker, and also retain a lot more. The key is keep pushing yourself to learn new things about:

·        Business

·        The markets
The Economy

·        The Community

·        Politics

·        News and World events

 

This shall most assuredly help to become more successful, while moving forth to improve both the Crystallized and Fluid Intelligence learning capacity

Such deliberate and intentional focus toward future achievements shall serve to lead to win-win sought after outcomes

 

Steve Braxton, CEO, Independent Board of Directors, Life Coach, Freelance Writer & Blogger, http://blog.feedspot.com/money_making_blogs/linked/in/steve-braxton-939aa420

 

KEEPING FIT IS ESSENTIAL: To Be and Stay Healthy

 

The quotient component of healthiness is being cognizant of the right things to do, by having such Insights and Intel-this can be prudent and wise concerning the proper exercise routines that are best for your age group.

 

Know that, as one gets older, the human body benefits from different types of exercises that serves to Promote Physical, and Mental Well-being to BE HEALTHY!

 

To be clear, the effects that a good exercise routine has on your health is simply awesome. Why? It has the propensity to protect your body from a wide range of unhealthy conditions, which might include:

·        Heart disease

·        Stroke

·        Type II diabetes

·        Some form  and type of cancer

 

The specific type and amount of exercise you need to change as the body ages. It would be a good idea to seek and find a guide for exercises to do that is appropriate for your age group. Meanwhile here are a few simple steps and tips to use as guidelines

 

The 20’s Chapter of Life

During this period you are at the absolute physical peak of life

You are at the maximum rate where the body pumps oxygen to muscles

So to build muscle mass and bone density now sustains and retains for later

Therefore, vary your exercise training-be consistent and keep it fun

 

Your 30’s Chapter of Life

It’s very important to maintain cardiovascular, fitness and strength

This slows normal physical decline-always ensure to maintain good posture

Biking, treadmill, elliptical, walking the stairs instead of the elevator helps

When at the computer get up and take a break often 30-45 min intervals

Work Smart: Try High-intensity interval routine training exercises

 

40’s Chapter of Life

This is the time when you tend to put on more weight

Resistance exercise routine would be prudent, proper, and wise

It’s a good way to optimize calorie burning and counteract fat

This also serves to reverse the loss of 3-8 percent of muscle mass

10 weeks: resistance exercise training increases lean weight and metabolic rate

This serves to decrease fat weight effectively; a good daily Walk helps too

 

Here come the 50’s Chapter

This is the time when the body begins to experience aches and chronic “joint

For women, estrogen begins to decline in the postmenopausal time of life

The risks of type II diabetes and heart disease increases

 

It shall be very important to do strength training to maintain muscle mass, at least, 2 x weeks

Weight bearing exercises is good-also Power Walking-fast enough that the breathing rate increases as you work up a sweat in the walking process

 

Also do some types of balancing exercises and routines

If possible try Tai Chi or similar for balance and relaxation

If not that for relaxation the art and practice of “meditation’ helps to relax

 

You’ve Reached The 60’s Chapter

More often than not, during the 60’s chapter, you tend to accumulate more chronic aches and joint pain, i.e., neck, shoulder, hip, lower back, knee, etc.

In addition, the risk factor for cancer becomes more prevalent

 

Here it is time to make the all-important efforts to maintain a high level of “Physical Activity,” that is extremely important, because it helps to prevent:

·        Forms of cancer

·        Reduces the risk of developing conditions, like heart disease, diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure and strokes

 

I hasten to add, at this juncture of life it becomes more and more difficult to maintain physical activity. But nevertheless, you must make every effort to buck or to reverse the trend and keep active. Your Life Depends On It.

 

The activities of Cardio, Strength, Stretching, Core muscle building and developing must be an ongoing activity, at least, 3 x weeks it also would be good to take up dancing, such as, “Stepping, and/or Ball Room.

 

70’s and Beyond

To keep physical and active at this level is so important it shall greatly help to prevent frailty and unnecessary accidents and falls. It is also a key component for “Cognitive Functions”, such as Dementia, and Alzheimer’s disease.

When Physical activities are not mobile Strength and Fitness begins to decline rapidly. Exercises: Walk & Talk, Cardio, Strength, Stretch, Core muscle building. Steve Braxton, Life coach, Prevention & Intervention, http://blog.feedspot.com/money_making_blogs//

 

TIMES OF UNCERTAINTIES-DISSIDENT VOICES-SEEKING THE QUEST FOR THE VOICE OF HOPE

 

Albeit, while in the midst of experiencing pain, frustration, and feeling out of sorts and being uncomfortable, it shall be wise and prudent to embrace knowledge and wisdom, that may serve to be the heightened focus for a resolute state of consciousness.

 

Moreover, It is given uncertainty inherently, are be riffed with anxiety and depressive disorders and problems that are overwhelming. While the dissident voices are weary, uneasy, frustrated and are caught up in the genre of a violent state of protest mode.

 

In deference to the afore-mentioned behavioral patterns of insensitivities, the selfishness of certain people, that has no sense of justice or Fairness for others that hold a different view than you.  How many acquaintances or friendships have you lost this year over politics?

 

I have recently learned and uncovered in on-going dialog and discussion, with followers on social media, family, friends, community members at large, and key members of my outreach ministry, who have been having many heated arguments, to the point, where there is no longer any desire to even want to talk to those, that is close to them or even those who may be in their inner circle anymore.

 

Hearing this sort of behavioral pattern of discontent is very saddened, dis-hardened and heartbreaking. Especially, when people who care about each other cannot seem to find common ground for important effective communication or a sense of the reason, be it politics or otherwise.

 

I hasten to add, if you find yourself in such a state of consciousness, in a stressful mode, being in frustration or discontent, and/or you know someone who may be in such a predicament. Be Not Dismayed! There is Good News...

 

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Steve Braxton, Behavioral Modification, Stress & Crisis Intervention Counselor, Life Coach, Ordained Clergy, Author, “The Road That Is Difficult To Travel” & Prayer For An Occasion” Impending Books: “The Road Of Swift Transitions” and “Creole Soup For The Soul” In addition: Provided Crisis Intervention & Stress Management inner action to The NASA Space Shuttle Columbia explosion, for the family members in Houston & Florida, Verifying communications contained the book, “Prayer For An Occasion” copyright@2006. http://blog.feedspot.com/money_making_blogs/, Linkedin/in/steve-braxton-939939aa320/

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 A FOCUS ON FAIRNESS & JUSTICE FOR ALL

Insights & Intel: A Focus on Fairness Justice for All Lives Matters

In particular, Black Lives that are under duress-due to being attacked

People of Color made appreciable gains in The Civil Rights Movement, during the 1960’s, Led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

However, in today’s modern times, not much attention, mention or rise is given to those happenings of the not-to-distant Civil Rights Gains

Seemly, all is fading away into the sunset in the loss and forgotten column. What is also apparent at the local, federal and national leadership levels of these United States, is the premise of an attitude-of-demise, toward anything that seems to be sensitive, or holds support or any semblance of fairness and justice for Civil Rights of people of color, in the Genre of Black Lives matters.

We currently live and/or exist in the throes of challenging circumstances & situations, when it comes to race relations. It occupy a place in a racial, racism diatribe of the manacles chains of discrimination. The time is now to call out and identify racist attitudes in real time behavior. The work to be done is not going to be easy. The Advent is “Change’. The Process is To Repent. And To Acknowledge.

Ask forgiveness, Be Forgiven, which is the connection to the Joy of Healing...

A focus is To Embrace unity, and harmony and togetherness, cause together we are better, not for the race of black, brown, yellow or white, being we are all good, right, and tight in God’s Sight. Be Ware, there is only one race, that of the Human Race.

Looking forward toward the Biblical Revelation; the focus shall be on those who was created in the image and likeness of God. “God said; let us make the man; in our image; and after our likeness; God created man in his likeness; in the image of God’, he created him; male and female he created them’ [Gen 1:26-27}

Steve Braxton, life coach. Honored, Top 60 internet Blogger by “FeedSpot News Network on the global WEB for 2020, 4 million members org w/10,000 daily views/http://blog.feedspot.com/money_making_blogs/

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ON THE EVE OF Nov 3, 2020 Presidential Election

-Evangelicals are seemly having a change of heart

 

During the 2016 Presidential Election a considerable number of the evangelicals strongly disapproved of Trump’s behavior but could not imagine voting for someone who would be a Democrat. Therefore, an expression was concocted: “The lesser of two evils”. As they looked toward the Democratic Party platform headed by Hillary Clinton, and its position on things such as:

.Abortion and LGBTQ Rights

 

The consensus was enough to render candidate Trump as the lesser of the two evils

 

According one of the popular evangelicals, Wayne Grudem, author and seminary professor, conceded in The Christian Post that candidate Trump was:

>Egotistical

>Bombastic and

> Brash

 

Albeit, that concluded consensus fact did exist, the thought of consciousness was, yes, such a plight is evident-but that he represented an “unusual opportunity” to defeat:

>Pro-Abortion

>Pro-Gender-confusion

>Anti-religious liberty

>Tax and spend

>Big Government liberalism uniquely associated with Hillary Clinton

 

However, now at this juncture, on the eve of the Nov 2020 election-there is an inadvertent concern over Trump’s perceived exploitation of Christianity. This has become a bone of contention, and is enough for a paradigm shift to change the minds of some evangelicals.

 

In addition, some theologians have argued that the appropriate Christianity for teaching purposes is contrary to the Southern Methodist University edits and beliefs. Factually speaking, one of the Southern Methodist Officials wrote an article for the paper titled” “Should we call Donald Trump ‘antichrist’?” The article further stated, that policies is being done that become a culture-infecting spread of the gangrene of sinful –exploitation of boasting and strife-stirring.

 

Even from a conservative evangelical perspective the so-called gains of Trump’s presidency are increasingly being weighed against the losses incurred. Also the editor of Christianity Today, wrote an article calling for Trump to be remove from office, his comments, “If we don’t reverse course now, will anyone take anything we say about justice and righteousness with any seriousness for decades to come”

 

As we now face the Nov 2020 election, the school of thought is that most conservative evangelicals will still vote for Trump. However, that being said, a significant group will not, and that minority group  have concluded he is, in fact, the worse of the two evils this time, and they will either not vote for Trump, and shall consider a vote for a candidate, not a Republican, perhaps for the first time ever in their lives, case and point Cindy Mc Cain the wife of the late Senator John Mc Cain has thrown her support toward the other political party

 

Steve Braxton, CEO, Business Adviser, Corporate Board of Director, Life Coach, Author and Freelance Writer & International Blogger, http://blog.feedspot.com/money_making_blogs/

 

THE KIDNAPPING CLUB-Asinine and Embolic Pro-slavery activities

 

This critical essay traces the facts of little known insights and Intel about selling freed Black New Yorkers into slavery by the City of New York cops. It is the recollection of an asinine outright act of racism met with financial opportunity by men like Isaiah Rynders, who accrued immense wealth, legally, but by nefarious ways and means.

 

As the nation’s most populist city amid most of its history, New York has been uniquely affected by such dynamic as this outrageous act of inhumane treatment of people of color. All during decades before the Civil War, when the Gotham’s police force was becoming regulated and professionalized, as the City of Manhattan erupted into riotous violence over the very meaning of diversity, inclusion and equality.

 

In a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled for the city’s soul: the abolitionists continued fighting for freedom. The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, and all in Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War

 

We need only look to and reflect on the current clashes between protestors and law enforcements officers in Illinois, Ohio, Portland, Atlanta, up to Kenosha, Minnesota and other cities and states that are but flashpoints in the annuals of history of policing in America. While today’s police emerge from a diatribes of a hodge-podge of national and international display of iterations of vituperative attacks of behavioral patterns

 

Looking back on the by-gone era of the earliest and most storied forces, that of New York City police officers, which tends to offer the free world of modern American real upfront and close lessons in the intricacies of the problems between the Black Community and officers are sworn to uphold the law. Which chronicles a long history that is the bleak, inhumane, and demoralizing treatment of the indigenous populist of America?

 

Paradigm Shift for change

Moreover, these past situations also vividly remind us that real genuine and authentic change must be a need and has  to be supported when systematic racism and  oppression are met by others who bravely battles against abject racial discrimination-working toward Diversity, Inclusion and Equality.

 

No one individual embodied the brawling roughness of New York policing like Isaiah Rynders who would rise to become the Captain of the U.S. Marshals. He was known for his thunderous voice, a powerful memory, and a penchant for histrionics, Rynders made an immediate impact on New York City. Black New Yorkers was his main target of attacks and destruction. For decades he patrolled the streets looking to apprehend runaways who had escaped enslavement in the south and found freedom in Manhattan. There was a Fugitive Slave Clause that required free cities like New York for self-emancipated slaves to be returned to their southern owners, and NYPD officers like Rynders was more than willing to comply. He very conveniently absorbed their malice and hatred for Blacks into the reference for the nation foundering document-as a compromise over self-emancipated slaves, for which he and his men were paid very handsomely to do so.

 

This was a long history of bleak and demoralizing instances during that by-gone era.  Such situations and circumstances serves as a reminder that real change will only happen by learning the collective American experience, one in which those who supported systems of oppression was met by others who bravely battled against such injustices of discriminatory tactics

 

 

I digress; Rynders became a Democratic elder statesman during and after the war. As a matter of fact, New York City stood at the ready to defend the cotton farming trade with the Southern States. Rynders embraced and embodied the newspaper like The New York Weekly Caucasian, considered one of the nation’s most prominent promoters of white supremacist, its ideology, and was a most unfriendly place and atmosphere for African Americans.

 

One hundred and fifty years later, policing has changed somewhat-but the tensions between the nation’s Black Communities and policing are still evident and cast in the same old mold. People of color have been fully aware of such history for generations, due to being the object of so much of the violent quest for “law and order”.

 

Currently, there seem to be more Americans of the other persuasion, who are now interested in learning more about the fraught of history of the inhumane treatment of browns and blacks by law enforcement officers in America.

 

For the first time they have come to realize that since the incidents and happening of the latest killings of George Floyd, Eric Garner, Breonna Taylor and other untold situations regard modern expressions of concern and sensitivity of the deeper and deadly struggles of oppressions being encountered by Brown and Black people stretching back to America’s earliest beginnings

Steve Braxton, freelance writer & blogger, storyteller, narrators & orator-hall-of-fame enshrined, linkedin.com/steve-braxton-939aa420,http://blogspot.com/money_making-blogs,

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)

I have been selected by the SPLC to be one of the National Representatives to participate in a data-gathering survey initiative for insights and Intel of Voter Suppression that now Permeates our Nation. This survey will give the SPLC the chance and purposes to respond with legal services for those who are victims of discrimination in the following ways:

.Voting Rights-Hate Groups-Discrimination and Intolerance

.Immigration Reform, and the Civil Rights Movement

Know This: The 1965 Voting Rights Act enfranchised millions of Black, Brown, Native Americans, Latinx, and Asian American citizens. In particular, those who were previously denied an equal opportunity to cast a vote at the ballot box. However, are you aware that in 2013, The Shelby vs Holder Act gutted and altered the initial version of the 1965 Voting Rights Decision?

That ruling suggested that the 1965 Voting Rights document and its people contained therein are considered "Post-Racial"  and that voters of color no longer needed protection.

And since then we have witnessed an avalanche and tidal wave of State Laws sweeping across the country with the specific purposes that are designed to suppress the vote of the very same communities that the 1965 Voting Rights Act was created to protect.  

Some States has gone so far as to deploy Voter Suppression tactics in the following ways:

.Purging Voter Rolls-Restricting Voting Rights-Block returning citizens 

.Instituting voter ID Laws-Limiting Access to voting by US Mail

.And other measures that disproportionately affect Low-Income, Black Brown, Latinx, and Asian American Voters

Moreover, the SPLC is destined, deliberately, and intentionally not going to let that happen. For over 50 years the SPLC had led the fight to turn the promise of the Civil Rights Movement into reality for people who face Systematic Racism and the manacles chains of Discrimination.

The intent is that all of the voter suppression laws can, and will be overturned. Because the SPLC shall continue to fight with every Fiber of their Being to grasp and muster the resiliency to make sure that every election is fair, honest, and that justice is served for all with regards to Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality.

I am asking all of you my social media family, friends, and followers to join in this extremely worthwhile noble cause for the sake of all humanity, in particular, Black, Brown, Latinx, and Asian Americans

You can view the SPLC website here: www.splcenter.org or drop them a note at 400 Washington Ave, Montgomery, Alabama 36104, (334)956-8200. Be sure to note and mentioned my name

Very important that you be an activist for justice-silence create fertile ground for hate and discrimination to grow. Let your voice be heard in these difficult and trying times

Steve Braxton, SPLC 2020, Illinois Take A Stand Rep, CEO, Business Adviser, freelance writer & blogger, Author of Non-Fiction books Linkedin.com/in/steve-braxton/939aa320,/www.facebook.com/steve-braxton2, http://blog.feedspot.com/money_making_blogs