While Truth Is Ultimately Convergent, Beauty Is

Intelligence Is The Ability To Find And Solve Problems And Create Products Of Value In One's Own Culture.

If One Develops Good Habits And Routines, It Is Possible To Be A Responsible Educator Most Of The Time; And To Marshal The Special Energies And Reflection For Those Times, When The Correct Course Of Action Is Not Clear, Or When One Is Weighing One Wrong Against Another Wrong.

Don't Assume That The Way That One Searches And Researches Is The Same From One Era To Another - It Isn't. In The 19th Century, Most Research Was Done By Amateurs: Either Individuals Who Were Rich Or Individuals Who Had A Day Job. In The 20th Century, Most Researchers Worked At Universities Or Think Tanks And Received Money From The Government Or From Foundations To Pursue Their Work. In Our Time, The Sources Of Support And The Locations For Research May Be Quite Different.

Intelligences Are Enhanced When A Person Is Engaged In Activities That Involve The Exercise Of That Intelligence. It Helps To Have Good Teachers, Ample Resources, And Personal Motivation. Anyone Can Improve Any Intelligence; But It Is Easier To Improve The Intelligence If Those Factors Are Available And If You Have High Potential In That Intelligence.

One Must Exploit The Asynchronies That Have Befallen One, Link Them To A Promising Issue Or Domain, Reframe Frustrations As Opportunities, And, Above All, Persevere.