Beat Schindler on LinkedIn: #history #evolution #education #book #story (2024)

I’M ANSWERING THE TOP QUESTION I GET ASKED ABOUT WORDS: “HAVE WORDS NOT BEEN AROUND FOREVER?”The answer is “No, they haven’t”.The answer to what’s been around forever is in 4 parts. Part 1: Energy. Part 2: Earth. Part 3: Humanity. Part 4: You.Part 1: EnergyFomulised in “E=mc²” (by Albert Einstein), energy has been around forever and day. Practically speaking, nobody knows since when, but many pretend.Part 2: EarthOn our blue planet, words and word-users got invented 13,750 years ago. 13,750 years ago marks the time Before Words and After Words. The age was stone, the Sahara green, Northern Europe under 1-mile-thick ice, and writing hadn’t been invented yet.Before Words — the first 4.65 billion years or 99.9997 percent — Earth had been wordless. How on Earth it managed for its first 4.65 billion years without us, the word-users, is hard to believe, hence everybody’s guess.Part 3: HumanityLike everything you have a word for, humanity is a word.It’s not unlikely you’ve read or heard that in the beginning is the word. Humanity began when that word began, 700 years ago. You’ll decide between two humanity choices currently on offer, the traditional and the intelligent.The traditional humanity is what your smartphone is telling you, that humans have been around since 160,000–60,000 years ago.The intelligent choice is Before Words and After Words, which happened 13,750 years ago. Before we were animals without words, and After (also known as now) we’re animals with words.If you haven’t decided between traditional and intelligent, then you have already made your decision, haven’t you? This is as simple as it gets. “Plus simple tu meurs” (any simpler you die) as a French saying goes.Why every other animal hasn’t converted to words (do the non-word-users know something the word-users ignore?), and why we call each other human, rather than animal with words, beats me, practically speaking twice.Part 4: YouYour personal journey is also marked by the time Before Words and After Words.During the approximately 27 months Before Words (average), you had been wordless.You spoke your first (word) between the ages of 1 and 6 (average). “It is true that my parents were worried because I began to speak fairly late, so that they even consulted a doctor. I can’t say how old I was, but surely no less than three.” – Albert Einstein. Like Albert, you began when you realized that you was you for the first time. It’s not just about Albert and you of course. We’re all in this together, and I trust the above answers the TOP question I get asked about words: “Haven’t they been around forever?”>>> What’s your view on this?>>> Reshare if you agree#human #energy #earth #humanity

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Trying to STAND OUT in an interview?The best way I know of to stand out in an interview is this:Ask questions that will be remembered.It doesn’t matter whether you ask or if you’re being asked —for example in a job interview or on a date — as long as the questions will be remembered by either party. This isn't a way or method known to ever have failed yet to stand out in an interview.How about you? Do you know of better way(s) or method(s) to stand out in an interview? That’s what the comments section is for — thanks for letting me know.The questions that will be remembered, hence will make you stand out in any interview, are the following:Please tell me who you are.+ What you’re up to these days?+ Where online can I connect with you?What was it like around your family dinner table?+ Were there topics you did and didn’t talk about?+ Why?Are there key events that have shaped your life?+ What would you have done differently had you known then what you know now?+ What happened?What do you think are the key traits that separate the many from the few?What’s the best advice you’ve ever received?+ In your work?+ In your personal life?Everything you know is a word.+ Do you agree?+ What is your favorite word?+ Your least favorite word?What strategies or tools do you use for getting things done?+ Where, when, how do you get your best work done?What or who are your biggest influences?Who inspires you most to do what you’re doing now?What’s next for you?What’s your best advice for handling criticism?A quote that is meaningful to you?Movies, books, or authors you read or recommend?If you could have dinner with anyone dead or alive, who would that be?What is holding you back+ What is your biggest stumbling block, challenge, obstacle, problem?+ What is the best method you discovered so far to overcome it?How do you balance work and family demands?How do you want to be remembered?>>> What’s your view on this?>>> Reshare if you agree#history #education #interview #writing

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WORDS REVOLUTIONISED EVOLUTION: WANT TO KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?Yup, I say “Words have revolutionised evolution.”But I hear you: “What are you talking about?”What I’m talking about isn’t philosophy. It is science.The proof’s in the pudding, see the picture on the top of this post.In words:Words appeared 13,750 years ago.Before Words:The first 4.65 billion years on Earth were without words. Put differently, the first 99.9997% since the birth of Earth were wordless. In other words, on a 24-hour clock, the first 23:59:59.0074 were wordlessAfter Words:Words exist on Earth since 13,750 years ago. Put differently, words and word-users exist since the most recent 0.0003% on Earth only. In other words, words and word-users exist on Earth since 0.026 seconds ago only.For context:0.026 seconds is 40 times faster than a word-user’s blink of an eye, in which time…...words revolutionised evolutionDuring the time Before Words — that is during the first 23:59:59.007 or 99.9997% — nearly nothing got invented, and what did took forever.The proof’s in the pudding: After they had invented Earth, it took the energy, fire, air, earth, and water 1.15 billion years to invent the cells, a further 2.8 billion years to invent the plants, a further 100,000 years to invent the animals, a further 58,000 years to invent the eyes, a further 42,000 years to invent thebrains, and a further 486,250 years to invent the words and word-users, including you. It’s not just about you of course. We’re all in this together.During the latest 0.026 seconds, that is in the most recent 0.0003% of the time since words began, every other invention you know of got invented 40 times faster than the time it takes for the blink of an eye. For you to not have to look at every invention one by one, I did the hard work for you. The link to the inventions made in the past 26 hundredths of a second is in the comments below.The question on every word-user’s tip of the tongue, of course, is how did the energy, fire, air, earth, and water invent everything, you and me included?The energy, fire, air, earth, and water don’t even have schools.Could it mean that the word-users — the only Earthlings with the monopoly on words and schools — don’t also have the monopoly on intelligence?Could there exist an intelligence other than ours — maybe not quite as big, or maybe even surpassing ours?If interested in the answer, follow me & be sure to read me in the days and weeks ahead.>>> What’s your view on this?>>> Reshare if you agree#history #eduction #intelligence

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DO YOU WANT TO MAKE CHANGE HAPPEN, BUT CAN’T BE HONEST ABOUT IT?If you want to make change happen, you might fear being honest and outspoken about it.Maybe the change you have in mind consists of replacing an old model with a new. But if you announce it from the top of your lungs, from atop the social media rooftops, for everybody to hear it loud and clear, you’re afraid that someone out there in this insane world will come after you like a rabid dog or demented bear.It shan’t happen, on that I give my word. That’s because someone is a word — like everything else you have a word for — and words don’t come after you (nor after anyone else).Though some word-users — including philosophers and scientists — resist accepting that “Words=Words”. Yet that everything you know is a word isn’t philosophy, it’s science. Long story short, there are no words coming after you.But if you feel this is a dangerous world, that doesn’t mean it is an illusion. On the contrary, your feelings are authentic, for no other word or word-user can feel it for you. That’s as authentic as authentic gets.Far too many wordless and word-users only know too well what living in a dangerous world means. The wordless are too many to mention. Among the word-users, William Tyndale, Mahatma Gandhi, Steve Biko, Martin Luther King Jr, 800,000 dead Rwandans in 100 days, 853 executed Iranians in 365 days, Jamal Khashoggi, and Salman Rushdie, to name a few. For a more complete list, check out Amnesty International, the organisation that has done more for human rights than any other organisation I know of.How about you?>>>“Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.” – Gertrude Stein<<<Just feel the fear, then do it anyway.Make the change happen, and only then see what happens.All it takes is your vision and the courage to follow through.The world needs you. To say more than ever would be missing the point because it’s not a question of time or the year we’re in, which is a lie anyway. On the contrary, it’s a question of eternity which belongs to those who act in the present — that is you.>>> What’s your view on this?>>> Reshare if you agree#afraid #authenti, #change #cmba #education #fear #honest #know #outspoken #personalgrowth #schindlersword #school #selfimprovement #speak #words

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