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A Touch of Greatness
Who inspires you? What is your measure of success? When discussing myself, I am not so hyperinflated in my opinion that anyone should recognize me as evidence of success. I am not Tony Robbins. I am not Elon Musk. I have overcome some things, and was found worthy enough in thought and compassion that I was graduated to a masters, which seems like a worthy measure, but in general- I have been fortunate, like better than average inside this system which is where most of us agree on the measure of who is okay and right and smart and successful. In this, I have a measure and expectation, too. So for example, when Doctor Avi Loeb, an Israeli-American theoretical physicist, Harvard trained and holding a chair at that University- writes an articles on Medium- I expect that would blow up the internet! Maybe it will, but right now, if feels as the UFO phenomena that he is writing about.
Yes, I am subject to celebrity dazing. I actually pay homage to people I perceive as having earned so deference. Will I argue with someone- Yeah, hook me up with Neil deGrasse Tyson, and let us spar- I would love that, but I would also be a little stupid and brain dead for a moment. Oliva Newton John triggered a freeze response so badly I couldn’t move or speak… That alone is my evidence that aliens can disable your body and…
