The Greatest Common Factor is the antithesis of what I
call LCD--short for LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR. By this, I mean the idiot
majority, the ignorant masses. The folks who watch reality shows about child beauty
pageants, and cry for any reason other than the fact that this type of
show exists. The type of person who quotes George W. Bush un-ironically.
(I used to worked for a company run by a guy who quoted Bush... and this was on a TV news interview! Although it was Fox News and therefore a safe platform on which to do so.)
Let me switch thoughts quickly and just mention that, by the way, this is going to be a very opinionated blog. There will also be possible grammatical errors, and not because I don't have a grasp on English grammar--but because I don't want to inhibit the flow of thoughts and ideas coming from my heart and mind; because I want the GREATNESS within me to come out without being hindered by my obsessive tendencies. And that brings me back to my original thought: we all have greatness within us. Everyone does--even those of us who don't fully realize it. And just as we all have a little (or even more than a little; perhaps significantly more than a little...) LCD in us, I believe that we all have greatness, or The Greatest Common Factor within us as well. I believe that it's a matter of making the right choices that can bring us to GCF instead of LCD.
I can admit that I've watched the reality TV show Jersey Shore and enjoyed it. (I can also admit that I felt a little better about this fact after hearing Jimmy Fallon admit the same in an NPR interview, because I respect Jimmy Fallon as an intelligent and gifted person--but my point is that at least I am trying to become comfortable with the fact that I can sometimes fit myself into a category of people that typically disgust me.) However I prefer to think that we, as people, don't fall entirely onto one side or the other--LCD or GCF. I think that we all have tendencies of both within us. And I think that it is okay to slip into LCD mode at times. It's human.
What I feel strongly about is that we should strive to be as great as we can be, and that we all have the ability to access greatness within ourselves. We all have--dare I call it-- genius within us. I see genius everywhere, and not just in people who become rich, famous, or otherwise celebrated for what they've done, said, or become. I think some people simply are able to cultivate their genius in a way that allows them to benefit from it--and to enable the world around them to benefit from it--than others. I think there are some barriers that we as human beings have to deal with in order to bring our genius to light. I think we all have the GCF, and the trick is finding out how to bring it out into the world in its best possible form.
Greatness and genius, GCF--I think that we all have it; even those of us who enjoy reality TV have it. (Even the shows about child beauty pageants? I suppose that I have to reluctantly concede that it is a possibility that even those people have some genius within them, somewhere....)
This blog will be about many things, but will likely have a recurring theme of greatness, or genius, or GCF, or whatever you want to call it--and finding it both within ourselves and in the world around us.
Let me switch thoughts quickly and just mention that, by the way, this is going to be a very opinionated blog. There will also be possible grammatical errors, and not because I don't have a grasp on English grammar--but because I don't want to inhibit the flow of thoughts and ideas coming from my heart and mind; because I want the GREATNESS within me to come out without being hindered by my obsessive tendencies. And that brings me back to my original thought: we all have greatness within us. Everyone does--even those of us who don't fully realize it. And just as we all have a little (or even more than a little; perhaps significantly more than a little...) LCD in us, I believe that we all have greatness, or The Greatest Common Factor within us as well. I believe that it's a matter of making the right choices that can bring us to GCF instead of LCD.
I can admit that I've watched the reality TV show Jersey Shore and enjoyed it. (I can also admit that I felt a little better about this fact after hearing Jimmy Fallon admit the same in an NPR interview, because I respect Jimmy Fallon as an intelligent and gifted person--but my point is that at least I am trying to become comfortable with the fact that I can sometimes fit myself into a category of people that typically disgust me.) However I prefer to think that we, as people, don't fall entirely onto one side or the other--LCD or GCF. I think that we all have tendencies of both within us. And I think that it is okay to slip into LCD mode at times. It's human.
What I feel strongly about is that we should strive to be as great as we can be, and that we all have the ability to access greatness within ourselves. We all have--dare I call it-- genius within us. I see genius everywhere, and not just in people who become rich, famous, or otherwise celebrated for what they've done, said, or become. I think some people simply are able to cultivate their genius in a way that allows them to benefit from it--and to enable the world around them to benefit from it--than others. I think there are some barriers that we as human beings have to deal with in order to bring our genius to light. I think we all have the GCF, and the trick is finding out how to bring it out into the world in its best possible form.
Greatness and genius, GCF--I think that we all have it; even those of us who enjoy reality TV have it. (Even the shows about child beauty pageants? I suppose that I have to reluctantly concede that it is a possibility that even those people have some genius within them, somewhere....)
This blog will be about many things, but will likely have a recurring theme of greatness, or genius, or GCF, or whatever you want to call it--and finding it both within ourselves and in the world around us.
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