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Leaving The Dock And Why Ships Sink

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There’s a lot of competition and danger in the seas. The dock is the safety zone. The sea is the place of opportunity. You can either leave the safety zone and go after success, or you can stay at the safety zone and never know what you could have done.

Choose to leave the dock and set sail. Greatness is at reach, but only if you prevent your ship from sinking. It will take a long time before you reach your destination. Ships that rely on wind for direction may take years to reach their destination. Although it takes a long time for these ships to reach their destinations, they will reach those destinations if they don’t sink.

The first reason ships sink is because it couldn’t withstand an attack. There are competitors that will be better and stronger than your ship’s crew. By outwitting the competition, you will prevent your ship from sinking.

Another reason ships sink is because a loss of purpose. If you keep on steering the ship to reach other destinations, the crew will get tired of staying at sea. They want to be successful just as much as you do. You can also lose your purpose and develop vengeance. If you develop a vengeance, a giant sperm whale will take down the entire ship, and survivors will have to wait for another ship of opportunity.

Another reason why ships sink is because water gets in. The water gets into the ship and makes it sink slowly. This problem can easily be fixed, but if the problem remains unattended for awhile, the ship is going to sink.

The ship sinking is what everyone fears. That’s why many people don’t leave the dock. Few go out to sea on a ship, but if they reach their other destination, they are successful in their quest.

Are you ready to leave the dock? You’ll reach your destination years later in one of those ships that only has sails. Wind is your fuel. Are you willing to go on that kind of ship to achieve success?

You’ll have to be willing to leave the dock to go from ordinary to extraordinary.

Alex’s Banerry

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It would be cool to hear a parrot say, “Polly want a cracker.”

The parrot wants a cracker, and unlike most other animals, the parrot can actually tell you when it wants a cracker. The only problem is when the parrot gets impatient, you’ll hear more, “Polly want a cracker.”

Hearing the parrot say the same thing every time gets annoying after the third time. What if there was a parrot that was able to do more than say it wanted a cracker? A while back, I read a book called Animals In Translation which explained how autism could decode animal behavior.

It was a fascinating read, but one of the stories about a parrot was simply incredible. The parrot’s name was Alex and it was trained by Irene Pepperberg. Alex was an African Grey Parrot that had a vocabulary of over 100 words. The parrot could distinguish 5 shapes and 7 colors.

Alex the parrot knew the difference between a banana and a nut. Although he didn’t know how to say the word apple, he referred to it as a ‘banerry’ which was a combination of two fruits Alex was familiar with (banana and cherry).

The parrot that keeps on asking for the cracker is just an ordinary parrot. The parrot that can do more is the one that is extraordinary. Alex the parrot is remembered because he didn’t keep on saying the same thing. He was able to make decisions and learn a lot in a world where the scientific community believed that a large primate brain was needed to handle complex problems. He was a unique parrot that proved the experts wrong.

We don’t remember the name of the parrot that wanted the cracker, but we will remember Alex the African Grey Parrot.

Everyone Is Unique

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It is true. Everyone is unique in their own way. However, no one knows that these people are unique. People forget to mention their talents and why they are unique in their bio.

Many successful bloggers have a long bio. Those bios contain a lot of information about the blogger. These bios explain why the blogger is unique. A bio that expresses how unique the blogger is will allow that blogger to stand out from the crowd.

What makes you unique? What talent do you have that few people have? These are the questions that you have to answer in the bio of your blog, website, Twitter handle, or any other online presence that you have. Then you will be able to stand out from the crowd, and when you make yourself stand out from the crowd, you will get more visitors.

You Can’t Win By Being The Person You’re Trying To Beat

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Google remains the most visited search engine among the other search engines such as Yahoo and Bing. Since Yahoo bought Tumblr and there was a Google VS Bing challenge, I decided to compare the search engines.

It seems as if there are more ads on Yahoo’s search engine results than there are links to websites that are not advertised. After a head count, there are 13 non advertised links and 10 advertised links. Some of the searches tend to show fewer ads, but there are going to be at least 5 of these ads on a page. By the way, blogger Barry Schwartz points out in this post that Yahoo didn’t wish the fathers a happy Father’s Day.

That leaves Google and Bing to fight it out. In the Google VS Bing challenges, I ended up choosing Bing as the winner. The problem with the Google VS Bing challenges is that I couldn’t tell the difference. Bing wasn’t going to tell its visitors what they picked until they made their decision. That’s why I and other people who did it couldn’t tell the difference between the two search engine.

Google has been around for 8 more years than Bing. Google and Bing both get billions of searches, but Google is getting more searches than Bing by far. Looking like the best does not mean that you are the best. Bing does look like Google, but Google remains the top search engine.

If you want to stand out from the crowd, you can’t try to imitate someone who is already standing out from the crowd.

C Not K

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The name of my blog is marcguberti.com, my Twitter username is @MarcGuberti, and everything I sign has my name on it. People still spell my name with a “K” instead of a “C,” even the people who have known me for a long time.

The common way of doing something such as spelling a name is not always the right way. Just because a lot of people have their name ending in one letter doesn’t mean everyone’s name will end in that letter.

No matter how many times I tell people my name ends in a “C,” people address me as if my name ended in a “K”. Not everyone is a part of the trend, and it is these people who are able to stand out from the crowd.