Mindanao Bob

We all want to be smart, right?  We also all want to engage in good habits.  Today, I want to tell you about one habit that you can get into that will help make you smarter!  Well, at least it will help you gain more information, and be better informed.  It will also make you appear smarter to people. What am I talking about? Listening. That’s right, listening.  Nobody ever gained any knowledge while talking.  We can gain knowledge if we listen, though!  Not all information that we listen to will make us better informed, but it is our brains that can weigh the information and decide if the information is useful or not.  If we … [Read more...]

In all parts of our lives we need to focus on something.  If we don’t focus ourselves, our lives will be aimless, going on from one thing to another without any real effort to be the best we can be at any one thing. Being the best that you can be is important for many reasons.  For one thing, it will make you feel really good, and thus even make it possible to improve on your best.  But, probably the most important thing when it comes to focusing is that it gives us purpose.  When we have something on which to focus our efforts, it gives us a purpose, it gives us more drive, and we tend to try harder when we know on what we are focusing. Always … [Read more...]

A lot of people, even smart people, are confused about what being smart really means.  Many people don’t really understand what it means to have a high IQ.  A lot of confusion is out there, and many people think that if a person is smart, they know everything, or at least they know a lot.  There is also the misconception that if a person holds little knowledge, they are not smart.  Both of these thoughts would be misconceptions, though. In truth, you can be smart, yet also be ignorant.  Smart only entails the ability to learn, not that you actually have learned many things.  Having a high IQ would mean that you are able to learn, not … [Read more...]

In the past week or so, I had an opportunity to view a BBC TV Mini-series called Rebels and Redcoats, which focused on the American Revolutionary War in the 1770′s and 1780′s.  I have always been a fan of history and enjoy learning more on the subject.  I would not, could not, consider myself an expert on the American Revolution by any means, but I probably know more on the subject than the “average” American, I would say. Frankly, I had never heard of this TV mini-series before, but last week I was thumbing through a guide of TV shows, looking for something that I might enjoy viewing, and came upon a listing for this … [Read more...]

Personal responsibility is a very important concept that a lot of people seem to ignore.  When something is your fault, do you own up to your responsibility?  Or, do you try to pass the blame, or ignore it altogether? I want to tell you a story today about a time when a lady believed so much in personal responsibility that she even accepted responsibility when the event in question was not even really her fault.  I believe that this lady did a very honorable thing, even if it was far beyond what her true responsibility was.  This story revolves around a very painful event in my life. In September 1979, my younger sister was killed by a drunk … [Read more...]

I am sure that most readers have heard the old saying – “Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched.”  It truly is a bad habit to get into, without a doubt. I thought of this saying just this morning when I was reviewing my earnings from some advertising that I had placed on one of my websites.  I have been using this advertiser on a number of my sites for several years now, and the income that they produce for me is very good.  I would say that they are probably my best advertiser on any of my sites, without a doubt. Over the past two months or so, my earnings from this advertiser have really increased greatly, … [Read more...]

This site is about habits for smart people.  I do consider myself smart, and other people tell me I am smart. Smart people can have good habits, and we should strive to keep doing these good things.  We can also have bad habits, and we should work to try to overcome our bad habits. One bad habit is setting up a website, having good ideas on how to populate that site with informative and entertaining content, and then dropping the ball.  That is what I’ve done on this site.  I got it started, and wrote some articles, interesting ones, I hope.  But, I dropped the ball.  I stopped posting new content here.  That is something that is … [Read more...]