I'm addicted to knowledge. I read like crazy and love watching documentaries. I can't believe I've had to go to a fucking community college for the past two years while working full-time but at the same time I feel like I've grown a lot as a person because of it. I just can't wait to transfer to Stockton. I have a 4.0 GPA so hopefully scholarships will cover most of the tuition. I'm majoring in business administration and hope to start or otherwise run a business that will have a profoundly positive social impact in the world. Specifically, I would like to start a school on par with those run by Marva Collins, Dr. Lorraine Monroe and Dr. Steve Perry. I believe most schools fail to inspire students with a life philosophy of continually improving themselves and the world around them. They also pay very little attention to goal-setting and cultivating ambition.
Right now I work as an operating room transporter at the local hospital but the health care industry really isn't for me. While both callings are extremely important, I want to help inspire people to live a healthier life before they get sick as opposed to healing their physical ailments once the damage has been done.
Favorite Books
The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business - Josh Kaufman
The Next Evolution of Marketing - Bob Gilbreath
The Ambitious Generation - David Stevenson
The Science of Good and Evil - Michael Shermer
The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology - Ray Kurzweil
How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci - Michael J. Gelb
The Rights of Man - Thomas Paine
Seven Theories of Human Nature - Leslie Stevenson
Human Nature - Opposing Viewpoints
Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle
Neuroscience and Philosophy - Gerald Cory
An Introduction to Scholastic Philosophy - M. Wulf
The Essential Kierkegaard - Princeton University Press
Philosophy: Who Needs It - Ayn Rand
Truth in Virtue of Meaning - Russel Gillian
Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56 - Rafe Esquith
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge - Edward O. Wilson
The Science of Good and Evil - Michael Shermer
Myth, Lies and Downright Stupidity - John Stossel
The Rights of Man - Thomas Paine
Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzsche
Philosophy of Mind - Jerome A. Shaffer
Periodization Training for Sports - Tudor O. Bompa
Athletic Body in Balance - Gray Cook
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Revolution: A Manifesto - Ron Paul
Bad News: The Decline of Reporting - Tom Fenton
Favorite Quotes
"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions." - Aristotle
"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being." - Goethe
"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." - William Shakespeare
"Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth." - David Herbert Lawrence
"There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and the prejudices of their education." - John Locke
“Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.” - Proverb
"In a Republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of the first importance." - Thomas Jefferson
"Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things." Denis Diderot
“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.” -August Wilson
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” - Theodore Roosevelt
Favorite Documentaries
Visions of the Future (Part 1)
Visions of the Future (Part 2)
Visions of the Future (Part 3)
A Politically Incorrect Guide to American Politics
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