I have now spent a lot of time wondering what the hell I want out of my life. It seems that every time I start thinking about this extremely clichéd question, the problem becomes more confusing and more annoying to try and answer. This is why I am going to present for your evaluation, my life capacity equation. I should note that this is not for everyone, and it certainly isn’t my attempt to figure out the “meaning of life”, it’s merely an evaluation tool. The equation is as follows: W * H – S^2= L.
W
W stands for “What I want in life”. This can be as detailed or as simple as I want, but to truly work out this equation, it’s best to be as comprehensive as possible. For me, and the purpose of this exercise, I will enter in three items: happiness, a steady income, and close friends. In this instance, 3 items means that W = 3. So now the equation is as follows: 3 * H – S^2 = L.
H
H stands for “How I am getting what I want”. Here, it is required that I be as honest as possible to accurately solve this equation. For H, I need to list the things that I am actively doing to get the things listed under W. I must remember to be as honest as possible, and ruthless too. For example, I have a part-time job, but this does not count towards my goal of attaining a steady income, purely because if my goal is such, then clearly my part-time job is inadequate in fulfilling this goal. For the purpose of illustration, I will note down that I am currently doing 3 things to attain W: studying at university, maintaining my relationships and ensuring that my hobbies are getting enough time. (note that I did not use separate entries for each of my hobbies – ruthless) The equation now reads: 3 * 3 – S^2 = L.
S^2
S is simple: “What is stopping me from achieving my goals?” It is important for me to list things only that I am actively doing to stop myself from achieving my goals. The idea here is that the capacity to which you live is not suppressed by something that is out of your control, because this is not diminishing your persistence in living. It may harbour your success, but it is not stopping your effort and desire to try. Examples here are being lazy, spending my money frivolously, and not taking advantage of my studies. This value is 3, I will now have the equation: 3 * 3 – S^2 = L
The Equation
L = (3 * 3) – (S^2)
L = 9 – 9
L = 0
This number (L) indicates that I am not doing anything to further my goals, but I am not doing anything to hamper my achievements either. The result is interpreted as follows: a negative value indicates that you are moving away from your goals and dreams, a positive value indicates that you are moving towards your goals. The number relative to either side of the scale indicates the intensity by which you are moving towards or away from your goals.
Had I only had a value of 2 in place of S, then the result would have been 5, indicating that I am slowly moving towards my goals.
However, this result is intended to show to what capacity you are living to. Therefore, if you have only one goal, you are minimising the potential for your result to be of a positive, or higher positive number. This reflects the idea that by only having few goals, you are not maximising the potential to which you are living.
This equation is in it’s infancy, therefore, imperfect. Feedback would be most welcome.
Tags: achievment, goals, ty
September 15, 2009 at 11:43 pm |
That equation seems ridiculous and yet … somehow really cool as well. It’s just nifty.
I would ask, though, how the equation can quantify those ways in which we are moving towards our goals without knowing it? Or the ways in which life brings us unexpected opportunities that completely change the directions of our goals? Though perhaps such things are beyond the purview of this exercise …
September 16, 2009 at 1:52 am |
The main purpose is to indicate the capacity to which you are living, so the emphasis is on personal effort. Therefore, things outside of your control aren’t relevant to the result. This is important to note, because it is impossible to measure every single event that is assisting or detracting from your personal effort. Glad you like it, tell your friends!
October 31, 2009 at 12:44 pm |
Spencer, your emphasis on personal effort lacks justification. Therefore the revelvant results are detracting from the over all perspective of the big picture, which is of course living. I will not use your equation. Please stop posting incoherent dribble on the internet.
October 31, 2009 at 2:35 pm |
Leaving aside the fact that you haven’t shown exactly how my emphasis on personal effort lacks justification, I would point out that in order to achieve “revelvant” results, you must emphasise personal effort. If you didn’t take into account any effort at all, then it would be impossible to determine what capacity of living a person would be achieving at all, much in the same way that without petrol in the tank of the car, it would be very difficult to determine it’s top speed. Douchebag.
October 31, 2009 at 2:42 pm |
In fact, after re-reading your comment, I have discovered that in pointing out to someone that they have not justified their comments, you have completely failed to justify any of yours, instead using words and phrases like “Detracting” and “Big Picture” to make yourself sound incredibly wise and knowledgeable. Instead, however, you have made yourself out to be an incredibly conceited individual, who instead of keeping his negative opinions to himself and simply moving on with his life, took the time and effort to call someone else’s work “Incoherent Dribble” (and I suspect you intended to use the word drivel), which clearly shows a lack of purpose or personal occupation in life. The irony is, while you slammed my equation, it is highly likely that you need to use it or something like it in order to remove your posterior from your computer chair, and actually do something useful with your life. Your comments will no longer be approved, as I feel they will bring down the intelligent and articulate nature of my blog, and of the comments posted by others.
October 31, 2009 at 6:33 pm |
Mr. Adams, what you write above in this inspiring blog is very wise, and somewhat emphasizes your passion and ability to project such an in-depth and exhilarating perspective on life. Firstly I would like to thank for you the read. But after reaching the end of your blog I was somewhat disappointed that this so called ‘MATH-Tastic’ was ridiculously a waste of time creating.
If I could have an input, this equation could have been such a triumph if written with a more strongly grasp on passion for life!
This is a dynamics formula that relates acceleration of one point, to the acceleration of another point, to the angular acceleration of the object, and angular velocity of the object and a velocity relavie to another point. the parataxis are added because that means that the vector is such relative to such. All the following are vectors.
a(B)=a(a) + $Xr(B/A) + %X[%Xr(B/A)] + 2%X(v(B/A)+a(B/A)
where:
X stands for cross product of living
r is a vector of ‘willingness to succeed’ and (B/A) means that the vector at point B is relative to A when two unexpected events correlate, uprising a possible third event which might result in higher happiness.
You state that you spend copious amounts of time wondering about what you want in life, so instead of writing shitty equations, using grade Three algebra, that really has no scientific model or reasoning behind it, go out and do something with your life.
Stick to writing good blogs like your previous ones, and quit the maths, If I wanted to find out the ‘meaning of life’ with your equation, I would of asked a third grader, yours, the novice associate of Cyril Wellington herself..
October 31, 2009 at 6:59 pm |
Dear Cyril, aka Brent Bennet. Your ability to use someone else’s barin to do your writing astounds me, although the parts you actually did write are easy to point out, characterised as they are by your poor grammar and terrible use of what you would call “big words”. If you had bothered to read my post in detail, you would have discovered a) that you are in the wrong place, b) this equation was not intended to find the meaning of life, c) if you base an equation solely on unexpected events, you will never find out the capacity to which anyone lives, and d) you are in desperate need of a swift kick to the nutsack. I would ask that you hang your head in shame, as you have succeeded only in making a rather large dick of yourself.