Validate Your Life

Useful Jargon
~”Bishop pair”= You possess two bishops and your opponent does not.
Cliffs Notes
Detailed Guidelines
Anywhere
1. Calculate the value of each piece for you and your style of play. If you use a lot of back-rank mating combinations frequently, for example, a rook might be worth 5.75 or 6 to you. If you thrive with end game and passed pawns, then a pawn could be worth as much as 2 points for you in endgame. Q=9.25
R=5.25
B= 3
N=3.25
P=1
Bishop Pair = 0.5
Grandmasters have given slightly different values to their pieces. While the rook and knight have remained constant, value fluctuations have occurred with the queen, bishop, and pawns. Modern evaluations of pawns can be as high as 1.5 in the end-game as well. Some notable alternatives:
Howard Staunton
Q=9.94
R=5.48
N=3.05
B=3.5
P=1
Bishop Pair = 0.5
or
Q=9.5
R=5.25
B= 3.25
N=3.25
P=1.25
Bishop Pair = 0.75
2. Visualize and ask Questions about your moves. Take time to visualize the board and pick the best possible move. Before performing a check or move always scrutinize the move from all angles. Ask questions such as

“What lines will open up after this move?”
“How is my development? How can I enhance it? What are my weaknesses?” Example answer: “My pawn structure is strong but I need to bring my knight to control the center.”

“Will there be any discovered attacks?” “How does this move support my development, attack my opponent, and/or defend my pieces?” Example Answer: This move will support my knight’s advancement to the g-file, protect my rook, and it set’s up a mating skewer”.

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Tom Cruise Notes

“I eat life” LOL such a great quote.

“Every actor has their own voice and what turns them on and what they like. It’s not analytical; it’s instinctual. It is their own voice…[and that is what is needed to make movies]“. AWESOME quote because

“What I want in a performance is I want it to be spontaneous; I want it to be now. Not you know happening in the past. We try to work towards getting rid of the mechanics, the technique. Let’s find the spontaneity. With the power of my own imagination or my own ability to believe or my own creative idea of what I’ve created here it just happens, it just happens; it just goes. And I don’t judge it. And there’s times where as an actor where I’m working and I feel nothing and I don’t panic and go “oh my god I feel nothing!” I always take from the point of view of “okay well that’s interesting. I don’t invalidate. I don’t fight what’s going to happen. I din’t try to create. I’ve done my work. It gets inside of you see that it’s just there. And when youre there you just want to fly and play jazz.”

What I would say for the pearly gates questions: She would say (god is a definitely a babe, possibly androgenyous, but at the very least a babe), So SHE would say, “Wow, you rock! I could say that in a way that would take 10 years of detailed explanation, but I’ll be concise, you rock!” Because I know that she’d know all the details of my life and I’d remember most of them so having this long drawn-out explanation of what my life meant or what I did or didnt do would be redundant, so I’d be overjoyed if I got the rolling waves of heaven and She (god) jsut says “you rocked life, you rock!”

Surmised, I think that may mean, you do your work, your preparation like mad — THAT is your work, so then when it’s game time and you actually have a contract, salary, and acting Job, you can relax and know whatever you feel (or dont’ feel) is fully 150% totally valid! .

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Machinist
INteresting b/c He has to seperate himself from all “potential relationships” (the hooker gf, the “quasi-friends at the plant, etc” so he can do himself justice and turn himself in. His compulsion for honesty is was intuitively causes him to sever all those relationships subconsciously. The severings (chopping off arms, throwing dishes at the gf) were harsh and uncooth, but those relationsihps would hinder him in his commitment to do justice.

And that’s so interesting b/c in life he was a lawyer, the early references to various labor acts and rights in the factory allude to that. So he’s inherently living a contradictaion of agenda. If he tried to protect the guilty (or innocent) in life, then when he becoms the guildy after the hit and run, half of his brain has been trained to conceal his guilt and protect himself but then the moralistic self emerges after years and his commitment to personal justice seeps tshrough as he finally admits what he did and in a way “does himself justice”. Very GREAT allusions. At the end he was wearing a “justice brothers” t-shirt. The movie was about finding a compromise between the legal protect guilty or innocent and the emotional moralistic “what is right” doing good from a belief point of view. In the end he got to know “both justice brothers” — both complementary components of his psyche, moralistic honesty and judicial prudence. He suppressed the moralistic honesty part and it just seeped through in ugly ways.

Now that is siimilar to me in junior year. I severed ties with people and that was SOME part of me seeping through. I had to seperate myself from those people as a commitment to them would inhitibt whatever was seeping through from getting recognized. The question is “just what is that”? Couldn’ve been anger, dislike disgust, mostly it was knowing tons oabotu people emotionally and wanting to share it? to teach? not sure. but the schism that occured was similar int voialteit so that’s ggreat to know whatever needed to get out has! now i’m just mregingoete .

So most of hte movie was literally hallucinations. The french woman, ivan, all of that was hallucinations. Ivan representethe moaralistic “doing good” side of him maybe.

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The human race is vagrant. It’s designed to be vagrant. We originated in Kenya. We’ve traveled, we’ve roamed. We’re itinerant. Vagrancy shouldn’t have a negative connotation. And neither should rogue – someone without a master, without consistent income, without land, without legitimate trade, but is healthy. A rogue can sound like freedom. The human race by nature is evolving rogue.

We’re moving more and more into transitioning towards alternative habitation other than earth! ARTICLE . People on Maldives are planning to relocate due to rising sea levels from global warming Already!!!!

The Endeavor LAUNCHED? DAY and successfully will deploy a home-warming kit hehe on the space station, adding an exercise room, bathroom, kitchenette.

Religion, mostly Christianity, if for people who fail to use deduction and logical reasoning. The entire composition of Christianity is circular arguments. Just talk to one of those bumbling jesus-freak fanatics. He dies for my sins and he said so in the bible, therefore I owe it to him”. Utter crap. You might as well make the argument: “The sky is purple, it says so in this made-up story book that I’ll say is true, therefore I know the sky is purple.” Christianity is founded and perpetuated upon perverse and non-existant logic. lol

Staying On Top of the Game: Declining Invitations Gracefully

Treat every invitation as a mere compliment and that way declining the invitation is a lot easier to do!! When someone invites you to a group, a party, an event, or to be a member that’s a MASSIVE compliment!! They’re saying “hey, we like you, we can tell you’re a good person, we want to interact with you more often or on a regular basis”. So often very nice and grateful people find it difficult to decline invitations they can’t accept for fear of it looking like a sock in the gut in the face of “great praise of an invitation”. Therefore, merely treat each invitation as a simple huge compliment to which you say “Thanks!!” and act incredibly grateful toward the compliment aspect of the invitation!! But most importantly do that AFTER you decline. How you end is emphasized when communicating so end with the praise, on the upbeat. So immediately say “Oh I’d love to, but I can’t. But you guys are soo awesome wow!! Fun times for sure!! Jeez great group of people!” So you get it clear that you decline the invitation but then you smother that declination with praise and herald and more gratitude again, so the part about you that people like — the grateful, appreciative, respectful, loving part — stays on even keel, stays emergent, stays in the game.

Why is the skill of declining an invitation so vital to remaining positve, focused, clear, and ontrack with your own goals?? Possessing the skill to effectively and gracefully decline inclinations is essential to achievement.