R. W. BLAH

What does it take to be successful? Is it money, intelligence, popularity, or simply luck? Well, you might be surprised to know they barely even contribute to success.  According to a Ted-Ed video on the traits of successful people,  the 8 characteristics of high achievers are to be passionate, work hard, focus your energy on one thing at a time, keep pushing yourself, come up with good ideas, improve at what you do, serve others, and, persist until you succeed. All success starts with passion. You can’t become good at something without that burning child-like curiosity in the subject you wish to pursue. Without it, you could be aimless, wandering around, hopefully still trying to find something you enjoy doing. However, with passion, you will enjoy working hard, focusing on a specific field, and become great at it. At the same time, most likely you will persistently push yourself, and continue to work harder. Along the way, gaining ideas and creativity is important, wh...

Many of us probably remember 2020 as the worst year of our lives. To cheer us up, I did some research about good things that happened in 2020.  A team of scientists have been researching a way to separate the salt and the water from salt water using graphene-oxide membrane; an exciting breakthrough that might potentially allow us to have an abundant source of drinking water. The cure for Polio is coming. Since 1998, the amount of people diagnosed with Polio has decreased significantly by around 99%, so that only very few people today are still fighting the wild Polio virus. Pollution is dropping drastically. Directly associated with COVID-19, many of us are staying at home, so fewer emissions are let into the environment, making 2020 have only half the emissions of 2019. SpaceX, for the first time ever, sent astronauts into space. Many countries, including the U.S., have started giving out vaccines.  I think these 5 things are 5 significant landmarks. While we are still prac...