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I just back from job interview in the one of design consultant. Today I choose to take an off day from my routine job, trying top grab new opportunity for new position in other company. The selection test is done by entire today from the psycho test, basic knowledge until my skill practice in related with the job description.

For the final test the user ask me to design company logo shirts for simulating the company campaign to get market share of a product. For me this test is not difficult even to get an idea need more concentration and focus on the vision and mission of the company, so I have to try getting all information in relation with company and product that offered to the market.

After around six hours follow selection test, I get information that the final decision will be announced on the next week and if there is no information during one week it’s mean I am not accepted. So let’s see on the next week.

Put the three parts of your brain back together and pause to admire them! Imagine you are a magician doing a trick with an orange, which you have secretly cut in half beforehand. You tap the orange and it magically falls neatly into two halves, a right and a left hemi-sphere, before an astonished audience. Imagine your brain falling into two halves, with the same startling effect.

The ancient Egyptians first noticed that the left side of our brain appeared to control the right half of our body, and vice versa. More recently and significantly, in the 1960s Roger Sperry discovered that the two halves of the brain are associated with very different activities. It was he who first cut through the connection between them, known as the corpus callosum.

For many centuries before this, scientists thought that we had two brains, just as we have two kidneys, two ears, and two eyes. Work on stroke patients, however, where parts of their brains have been damaged, gives us some interesting further clues. It seems that the left side mainly handles sequential, mathematical, and logical issues, while the right is more creative and associative in the way it works. The left is literal, while the right enjoys metaphorical interpretation. The two sides perform different functions, the left side, for example, dealing with much of the brain’s language work.

Roger Ornstein, in The Right Mind, has since gone further in showing how the two halves actually work together and how the right side has a special role in dealing with the more complex over-all meaning of many of the issues we face today.

Indeed, the idea of being left or right-brained is becoming more commonly used in business. Ned Hermann, while working at General Electric, translated much of this into useful insights for the workplace, exploring how each of us has inbuilt preferences toward the left or the right side of our brains. The left brain is the more logical and rational half. It makes judgments and relies on the intellect. It likes to do things one at a time and plays by the rules. The right side is the source of our intuition and imagination. It is playful and likes to take great leaps of thought. It enjoys creating new patterns and solutions.

Hermann takes the idea that our brains have two halves and adds to it a theory that we have already met, that higher-order thinking takes place at the top of your “learning” brain, while the more basic emotional functions are located at the bottom, toward the “reptilian” brain.

Hermann suggests that your instinctive characteristics will be different depending on which side and which “quarter” of your brain is dominant. Your brain is, in a sense, hot-wired to lead you to want to act in certain ways.

Imagine you have just bought a computer or some electrical item for the home. You are unpacking it for the first time. As you undo the brown cardboard box, you are faced with various bits and pieces, some wrapped in plastic, some furthers packed in polystyrene. You recognize some things, while others perplex you. For a few brief moments you have a glimpse of the workings of some mechanical object before it has become a familiar part of your life. At the bottom of the box is a manual telling you how to put the bits together, how to get started, and how to get the best out of the product you have bought.

Most people have this kind of experience several times a year. We find out the basics of how an item of equipment works. With a more complex item, say a camera, we may go on to learn new techniques to ensure that we can use it effectively. We may acquire various guides to help us to take better pictures. Most of us who drive a car occasionally have to read its manual before trying to fix an indicator light that is not working. From time to time, we may even peer at the engine, seeking to coax it into life, although we may know very little about how the car works. Certainly, we need to ?ll the car up with fuel and water on a regular basis.

Yet, when it comes to our mind most of us know less about it than we know about the engine of our car. Our mind is so much a part of us, from our first memories onward, that we never stop to admire it or wonder how it works.

This book is going to help you “unpack” your mind, so that you can “reassemble” the component elements. Then, as with a camera, you can begin to use this “manual” to help you find out what your mind needs to work more effectively, to power it up.

Imagine you are “unpacking” your mind for the first time. Let’s start with your brain—although this is not all there is to your mind, as we will see later.

Imagine that you could take off the hard outside covering of the skull and look at what you have. It is a grey, slimy, slightly wobbly mass of human tissue. If you were able to bring yourself to hold it in your hands, it would weigh a little more than a typical bag of sugar.

Without doubt, you would be looking at the most complex piece of machinery in the world. It has been compared to a hydraulic system, a loom, a telephone exchange, a theater, a sponge, a city, and, not surprisingly, a computer. But it is more complicated than any of these. And, although we are still comparatively ignorant, we have begun to find out a little more about how it works in the last few decades. In the next few pages you will find out some of the basic science underpinning the operation of your mind.

Today I go to furniture shop with a plan to buy a set of sofa for living room. I enter to a shop and try to search and look around in the shop for the moment just to see all collection that belong to its. I know this shop is a famous shop for its specialization on the wood furniture and the leather case, that’s why most of its stock is middle and high level. It has from sofa for living room, garden chair until home exclusive home theater seating chair.

For the price this shop has lower level than other shop that sell the same level of products. We try to pre-select some models for my living room then from my selection I make a comparison based on its quality and price. We have priority on the price because my budget is limited for this month. As new married couple we have a lot of needs to fill in our house with some equipment.

Finally we decide to simple sofa try to match with our characteristic of our small house and off course the price is under our estimated fund.

The major source of self-made millionaires in America consists of professional people doctors, dentists, lawyers, architects, engineers and other people with advanced degrees who can charge substantial amounts for their services. These people earn their degrees, dedicate themselves to becoming very well at what they do, rise to the top of their professions, earn high fees and then hold on to the money. Ten percent of self-made millionaires in America fall into this category.

The way to become rich in America is as a highly paid executive of a successful company, or as an employee of a company that awards stock options that become valuable. Ten percent of the self-made millionaires in America are men or women who have joined large corporations, or companies that became large, and worked for these companies for many years. They usually worked hard, were promoted and paid increasingly well, earned stock options, bonuses and profit sharing, and as a result of holding onto that money, became millionaires and multi­millionaires.

Paul Allen started Microsoft with Bill Gates, sold out when he became ill, took much of his share of the company in stock, and is now a multi-billionaire. The Seattle area is famous for having so many —Microsoft millionaires,“ people who went to work for Microsoft in the 1970‘s and 1980‘s, sometimes as secretaries and programmers, received stock options, and became wealthy when they exercised them. Many senior executives receive bonuses and profit-sharing worth many millions in a single year. Working for a large company that grows, pays well and shares its profits is a major source of wealth in America.

Many executives have stayed with those corporations for many years, have risen to positions of seniority, are paid extremely well, are given stock options, profit sharing and bonuses, and as a result of holding on to the money, they became millionaires. Not so long enough, Lee Iacocca, the chairman of Chrysler Corporation, was paid 26.7 million dollars for one year. Michael Eisner of Disney earned a $150 million dollar bonus. It’s not too hard to become a self-made millionaire if you’re making that kind of money in a year.

If I may say, today is one of my hardest days because I have to think hardly to get the best solution of problem. My problem is beginning when I turn on a computer on my room. This computer has important function in my section because it is used as database of our drawing file. My section has primary job description providing CAD drawing including 2D drawing and 3D drawing so we have to keep the drawing data avoid lacking of secret data.

After I turn on the computer we work normally until I try to connect to the database because I have to check a drawing. I access on the folder where the file is stored but after I open the folder I can’t see anything. Its mean there is no any file inside the folder! I try to open to another file perhaps that the file is only move accidental into other folder. For few minutes I try to search using automatic search and manually as well but the result is nothing.

I start to ask my team may be they have information about the file location but they answer they don’t know anything about the file. In my mind there are so many questions “Is there any sabotage possibility?” I ask my team to tack all file in the data base computer and in the few minutes they shouting that most of older drawing data is lost! “Oh my God, what happened with this?” I don’t know who the actor of this destruction is. I try to think the possibility of history from the day before yesterday because until yesterday evening when I was the last in the room, everything is ok.

I don’t know what I should do because I still don’t believe that our file is lost, even we try to find in recycle bin but we found nothing. I just say that the suspect is people who know exactly what he do because if just ordinary people, our file is useless for them. Our drawing can open with special program only and the program owners are some company that using for the same function.

I have to go to IT department to get a help from them and perhaps they have a solution and answer for all of this, especially to track the suspect of this problem. I meet an IT team and start to tell the story of my problem from the beginning. I need their help may be they can track all access to my computer since yesterday and doing hard drive repair if necessary. I ask “Is there possibility any computer access to my computer and then delete my files?” “Yes, it is possible using network line.”

I go back to my room and found one of my men is trying to do something with the computer. “What can we do right now to get back all of our data?” ”We can use hard drive recovery software to look for our file. I agree and ask him to install the software and find out the files.

I give massage to my all team to keep silent about this problem until everything is clear even I have to give personal report to my superior due this problem, just to give preview information until I get the answer. We back to normal work until around 4 pm when the software brings out the result. My man work closer to the data and collect all data recovery resources then convert it into the original files. I just can stay one step behind the monitor and my eyes keep monitoring the data. After all converting data finished I see the report from the software that its done the job with some resume. We try to check on detail the files and found that some file is missing or not normally working

Olympic is a great moment for nations to show their power and their capabilities in sport world. Every nation sends the best athlete in every sport category to get the best result and reach the gold medal. Every reached medal always makes a proud for athlete and nation because this is an international event and hundred million people pay attention on this event. In this event if an athlete has a good achievement, there is a big bonus will waiting after event is enclosed.

This year Olympic event has Chinese as host which spectacular opening ceremony that shows the ethnics culture of Chinese and unity in one huge nation. Chinese already made preparation few years ago especially on the sport fields, stadiums, swimming pools, hotels and others supporting facilities.

Stadiums and sport fields already became the first priority to be improved because this is the core of events and the place for every single game will be played. The second priority was hotels and other places for staying athletes. To reduce the stress usually every hotel provides game center that can be access for every customer. They provide general and popular game like backgammon, poker, blackjack or other famous video games. For example you play backgammon; you will feel like you play online with other players.

The further priority but not less important as supporting place are recreation or tourism places. These places are have big purpose to add income from merchandiser sales, entering ticket or other entertainment events like cinema, theater, museum, restaurant or even zoo. This Olympic really has great moment for athletes, native people and all nations as participants

How is it possible that the advisor and the client we discussed earlier could have been made to feel comfortable in choosing a payout of 8.5 percent or even 6 percent? Is it possible that we can be fooled, too? Sure, because our experiences of the recent past can substantially influence our judgments and create a bias that is too optimistic. Following this thought further, I wondered whether the average annual return for the ten-year period just prior to 1968 could have influenced an advisor’s projections and the retiree’s expectations. My research established that the answer was a resounding yes. From 1957 until 1967, the S&P 500 had an average annual return of 12.81 percent. Was that a surprise! In addition to the average return blunder, which is forward looking, I discovered the average return bias, which is backward looking. It goes to show that the advisor and investor could become victims of the times, the investor losing her retirement and the advisor losing an account and maybe his job.

Right from the first draw, the deck was stacked against the 1968 retiree. Not only had the average return assumption not produced results, the past decade became a poor predictor of actual year-to-year returns. Even if good data and a computer were used to generate a hypothetical illustration, that information simply was useless, if not dangerous. The power of the computer to show various scenarios is still somewhat meaningful, but a computer cannot predict the timing of returns. Advisors using such illustrations can mislead clients if they do not caution them about the probability that their assumption can be dramatically off.

Medicare is a federal and state health insurance program primarily for individuals who are sixty-five years of age or older. Full or partial cover-age is offered to those who are disabled before age sixty-five. There are two parts to the government’s insurance benefits.

• Medicare Part A is hospital insurance. Most people do not pay a monthly Part A premium because they or their spouse have forty or more quarters of Medicare-covered employment. This portion covers inpatient hospital costs in a benefit period; you may pay a deductible and coinsurance charges. Part A also covers skilled nursing home facil-ity care up to 100 days after hospitalization in a benefit period with a coinsurance charge. Home care and hospice services are also available. If you exceed 100 days, you must begin paying the costs of the nurs-ing home stay. In states as large and diverse as New York the cost can range widely. The insurance industry reported that the average cost per day in Chautauqua County (western New York) is $144, while it is $251 per day in Suffolk County to the east. With such a high price to pay, many people consider buying long-term care insurance to cover the possibility of longer, extended periods. If one cannot afford it, Med-icaid begins to kick in to pay the bill once people meet the require-ments to qualify. Medicaid is essentially welfare, and to qualify one must have few assets.

• Medicare Part B is medical insurance. This portion of the plan covers physician’s services, inpatient and outpatient medical and surgical serv-ices, physical and speech therapy, diagnostic tests, durable medical equipment, and such. Monthly premiums may be deducted from one’s Social Security benefit. In 2002, the premium is $54, adjusted annually. There are possible 20 percent copayments due on some Medicare-approved charges. Since some medical costs are only partially cov-ered—for example, you would pay 20 percent of the cost of durable medical equipment—or, as in the case of prescriptions and vision and dental care, are not covered at all, you may need to keep a nest egg set aside for these expenses. On the other hand, you may find coverage for these things by buying insurance plans from a company in your area.