Hezo Kittie

Kurt said that spirituality isn't mutually exclusive from the rest of our lives, such as our work. This is true, and my most obvious example is my semiconductors professor from last quarter. On the first day of lecture, before we even started any review or any new material, he said that as an undergrad he achieved flawless grades and was able to carefully manipulate the equations, yet he never truly believed that anything he studied really existed. He said that once he came to America to continue his research on semiconductors, he was merely frustrated, unable to concentrate, and he also said he "experienced mind atrophy".

It was not until he started reading the Bible during his research that he became a real scientist, and he was suddenly able to make startling breakthroughs. Uh... what?

The class laughed audibly, my jaw dropped because I could not believe how insane this lecture was already, but he smiled politely and respectfully at all of us. "I completely understand your laughter; I was in your position at one point as well."

My current take on it is that there is so much that is unexplained in science, that we must merely take what we have and make use of it. What the fuck IS an electric field? We know how it affects other charges, but we don't exactly know why. What the fuck is the wave function? Some super abstract graph that details the properties of an election in an element? We know what the period tells us, and what the wave function times the radius squared describes, but there is no definition of the wave function itself.

Maybe he's not alone. The Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman once said, "No one really understands quantum mechanics."

Kinavey said, "Everything in life is related." He is completely on point.

Adam Smith, who wrote The Wealth of Nations, which became the foundation of modern economics with his "invisible hand" concept, believed that his true magnum opus was The Theory of Moral Sentiments. I haven't read either, so this could be completely off the mark, but it's crazy to think of the parallels between business/economics and ethics. This is also paralleled through Stephen Covey, who holds an MBA and works as a consultant, yet is also deeply spiritual. They go hand in hand in some mysterious way. Probably because the foundations for a functional, dynamic business, a solid family, and a strong friendship hold the same basis.

On a completely unrelated note, I found that there is an essential fact that governs both a great leader and a great writer/storyteller.

"Don't tell me; show me."

The essential foundation for a great leader is to lead by example. The essential foundation of a great story is not to tell the reader how funny your story is going to be, but by laying out the situation and letting the reader derive the humor for himself. Solid.