Goal:

Gain 6-8 kg of bodyweight by my 23rd birthday, May 31 2012. This will allow me to compete in the 77 kg weight class when I compete in June.

Reasoning:

As a weightlifter, I am putting unreasonable amounts of stress on my body. It is a matter of my own safety that I GET BIGGER. Not only will I be able to lift and stabilize more weight because I will have more muscle, my ligaments and other internal tissues will be thicker and stronger. Therefore, I will be less prone to injury.

Below is a collection of fascinating quotes from an October 12 2010 talk with Jacques Fresco, the 92-year-old design prodigy who now works with the Venus Project and Zeitgeist Movement. Here is the video of the first video of the five-part discussion.

If you are not familiar with the Venus Project, Fresco recommends that you read his book Designing the Future.

Counting theory, a field within discrete mathematics, is a vast area of study and extremely useful in solving many kinds of problems. One particular application of counting theory is rhythmic interpretation.

In only a few decades, the work of researchers such as Michael Merzenich have obliterated notions of the brain as stable, rigid, and stagnant. The field of neuroscience has been forced to accept a dynamic, shifting, fluid concept of not only personality and psychology, but of of physiology as well. Neural connections which create the networks necessary for thought, motion, and perception are widely accepted as malleable. This is a result of the subject's "thrown-in-ness" into language.

The complexity of the brain is astounding. Different parts of the brain communicate with the entire body to create a live, streaming flow of consciousness. These facts are commonly known and understood.

However, few people understand even the most basic biological mechanisms and processes which manifest through this magnificent organ. This is unfortunate, because even a rudimentary understanding of the brain can create new levels of self-awareness which hold potential for immense self-improvement.

Social networking is a fascinating topic worthy of deep investigation. The advent of web 2.0 - which, by definition, requires poly-directional user interaction - has opened sophisticated, new, and unpredictable methods of communication. Countless internet forums attract hundreds of thousands of users which share specific interests, hobbies, goals, jobs, and (of course) ideologies. Hundreds of millions of blogs have created an intricately interwoven blogosphere of independent, (largely) uncensored journalists, writers, artists, political activists, and - lest we forget - computer geeks.