Ability to change yourself

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your ownself”

TUnknown What does that mean?

The only thing you can be certain of your ability to change is yourself, or so the statement says. While we may have some influence with others, ultimately, they have the final say in what they chose to do. Similarly, we can build and make and do, but in the end, we have even less control over things.

The bigger the thing, the less control we truly have. We need to admit that we control very little. Even the captains of industry only make the big decisions. Those decisions have their impact, but there are lots of others making decisions all the way down the line. They just can’t be certain that their decisions improved things.

There are just too many variables, too many people, too many opportunities for things to change. The more wonderful and complex it is, the less control you have, and the less certainty you have that a change will be an improvement. The more you can simplify, the more influence you have, the more certainty you can have that your decisions will bring improvements. In life, the simplest and smallest thing over which you have any control is you. If you make a decision about you, you can have fairly high certainty it will be an improvement, provided that’s the design.

Why is self-improvement important?

Quite simply, it’s the best bang for the buck. You can do all you want to

very first scientific-grade images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) were released to the public on Tuesday, this week, and they were spectacular. The five official images covered a range of astronomy sights.

The most complex image was the socalled ‘deep field’ picture. It showed a few nearby stars, with hundreds of galaxies in the background.

A century ago, it was thought that the Milky Way was the only galaxy that existed, so against this context, to see hundreds of galaxies in a single picture was mind-blowing. Just as amazing, was the fact that the area of sky that this one image covered was equivalent to the amount of sky covered if you held a single grain of sand at arm’s length.

The picture was similar to Hubble’s deep field images.

The JWST, however, is about a hundred times more powerful than Hubble, and its images are three times sharper. It took JWST 12.5 hours to capture what it took Hubble four months to do.

Another image showed the Carina Nebula, a sight we can see with the naked eye from Eswatini on a dark night. It showed intricate dust and light patterns, and stars exploding to life.

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try to improve others, but the effort may come to naught if they chose to do something other than your suggested improvement. If you try to make improvements to the world around you, someone else might decide that things would be best improved by undoing your improvement. Again, a great deal of effort expended for naught. And that doesn’t include the random acts of weather and fate, which often screw things up as well. On the other hand, only you can improve yourself. You can take advice of others, but you are still making the decision. Even then, you may find that things don’t turn out as well for you as the person who gave you the advice said that they would. Even when you do the research, there’s still a chance things won’t turn out well. But it is as certain as you are going to get in this world.

Where can I apply this in my life?

Everything that I have ever done to help improve any part of the world (and presumably, by extension, the

When asked if these were the true colours, or if NASA had enhanced the colours in any way, Neil deGrasse Tyson replied “Oh you wanna go there? Ok, we’ll go there.

In your eye’s you have red, green, and blue sensors, RGB sensors, in your retina. What we define as visible light is the light that comes through your retina and is detected by these three sensors. Those get combined into a single universe) has begun with an improvement of myself. Think about that for a moment, and see if it isn’t also true for you. Before I could donate cash to a worthy cause, to improve the lives of others in distant places, I first had to improve myself sufficiently to be able to earn the extra money, right? Before I could donate blood, I had to improve myself. For me, it was a dreadful fear and dislike of needles. I was able to improve myself, and have donated blood for over nearly 10 years. Before I could patch a rusty hole in my old Buick, I first had to learn quite a few skills, improving myself quite a bit in the process. As I improved the car, my skills improved as well.

Before I could help Habitat for Humanity fix homes, I first had to improve my skills to the point where I was more likely to fix things than to damage them. I also had to constantly learn new skills to help with other parts of the project. In each case, self-improvement came before being able to improve anything else. What about yourself, do you want to improve? What improvements do you want for your own sake, and what do you want to improve so you might be better able to improve the lives of others? What are you going to have to do to effect those changes in yourself? Who might be able to assist you, either as a mentor or an observer? Where might you find those who can help you improve? Classes, seminars, webinars, books, videos, or other forms of interaction all can help you improve yourself.

Select something you want to do, and figure out what the first few steps are, and who might be able to help you. Now make a phone call, send an e-mail, or some other way of reaching out to that person (or people). Get started by taking the first step, and improve yourself a little with the commitment to improving yourself even more.

colour image in your brain.

Now, this entire telescope is tuned for the infrared, and we can’t see in infrared.

But what the telescope does is it can take images in three different, separate bands of the infrared, then you render it in RGB and create a colour picture, which is the colour you would see if your eyes could see infrared. So it’s authentic and legit.”

NASA also published an extra sneaky release showing a picture of Jupiter, marking the first images from within our own solar system. The images were not part of an official JWST image release, but part of a NASA research document published this week that detailed how the telescope was operating so far.

The JWST was designed to look at the furthest reaches of space and is not optimal for looking within our solar system, basically, because everything is comparatively very bright.

Nevertheless, due to the spectrum that the JWST is able to observe, it has particular uses in our own solar system. The Jupiter pictures show Jupiter’s ring. Yes, Jupiter has a ring, like Saturn.

“Observing a bright planet and its satellites and rings was expected to be challenging, due to scattered light that may affect the science instrument employed, but also the fine guidance sensor must track guide stars near the bright planet,” the authors wrote.

With the JWST now up and running, the issue now is not, “can we image that well enough?”, but rather “what is the more scientifically worthy choice to look at”.

“We are seeing things better and in more detail than ever before”, said de