The Northern 📍

  What’s Your Value?      Sounds like a simple question. In reality, it is. Simply put, what is your value that you bring to the table? What is it that you offer, which separates you from the pack? Being able to answer this simple question is the first, most basic step of truly becoming who you are meant to be.      Understanding what it is we both enjoy and are good at, will help us move downstream towards creating a specific product or service. Being able to identify the things which make us tick, which make us interested, helps provide the fuel for the path we intend on walking. Once we are able to identify said path, the practice of our skills and interests will help you develop into something greater.      How many people do you know, who seem to be naturally talented? How many individuals have you met, which have a specific art, and are simply leagues ahead? For myself personally, I have met plenty. From playing hockey, to hanging ...

  The Cultural Revolution.      Last night, I watched an extremely moving interview. It was about a woman, who had moved to the United States, after living through the Chinese Revolution. The woman, whose name was Xi Van Fleet, talked about her experience in China, where their entire society changed, and how she saw tremendous parallels over here in the West.      Xi was a woman who was born into China, before it had become a Communist State. The current leader, Mao, had power, yet like all other dictators- craved more. He then split from his party, and formed his own movement. This movement, which Mao had identified himself as the leader, aimed at attacking the rich, upper class of Chinese families around the country, in order to have them fall. This allowed him to also accumulate more power, with less individuals standing in his way of total domination of the country.        Honestly, as an individual who is interested in history,...