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How do ordinary people live an extraordinary life? What truly drives life, business and economic engine? What is the invisible force shapes
Physiology, molecules of Emotions. Human Behaviour. Sorrow, joy, peak performance, vitality, intuition, playfulness, genius, creativity, healing, laughter, yoga, movement and radical forgiveness, illusion and sex
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W. Ying 10+
All those are shaped by the invisible force of "keeping one’s DNA alive"!
Wrong?
Ken brown 30+
Paila Race
Jedrek Stepien 10+
TELEVISION
W. Ying 10+
That is foolsih!
INVALID competition!
Feyisayo Anjorin 50+
There is always something ahead of us that would seem like the way and means to happiness.
But happiness is a choice; and greatness requires hard work, persistence and sacrifices.
Sometimes we try our best, and it would seem as if our best is not good enough.
But we have to do the most important thing in all we do: TRY OUR BEST.
pat gilbert 50+
Paul Albarracin
W. Ying 10+
Craig Patterson 10+
W. Ying 10+
Kola Adetu
Love that paragraph
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Rick Ryan 10+
That's the only thng I was trying to say, and I think you understand that from your above post.
Bill Gates dropped out of college. Most people (at the time) would have probably said, "What a failure!". No doubt his decision to do so was because of some basic human emotions he felt at the time. Then he starts a business in his garage that grows to change the world...and get a whole bunch of other people to look at him as a Greedy Corporate Money Grabber Who Made Way Too Much Money. But hey...wasn't he just being himself?
Compare him to a high school dropout who decides to just say "To heck with all this!", buys a surfboard, and does odd jobs to make just enough money to support his surfing passion. He's just being himself too. And no doubt there would be many people who would look at him and say, "What a lazy Bum!"
To me, neither one of them is "ordinary". They are both extraordinary, in their own use of their own basic emotions to shine in the way that makes them individually happy. To me, that is what makes someone's individual life extraordinary.
Like TED Lover said, extraordinary people living extraordinary lives define those words for themselves. It's when someone allows someone else to define or set criteria about being ordinary or extraordinary that you end up living a life you may not really enjoy.
I don't think anyone leading an extraordinary life is just an ordinary person. If they themselves feel their life is extraordinary, they've discovered the secret to being an extraordinary person, too (in the context of what I think your question is asking).
Gail . 50+
Rick Ryan 10+
Is anybody ready to start categorizing people that way? On what merits, achievements, contributions to their fellow man, etc?
Slippery slope to start transiting. Fraught with all the characteristics of why Human Beings can't get along with each other already.
george lockwood 20+