One Thing You Can Learn in 2 Minutes That Will Be Useful for the Rest of Your Life

He took off his black cloak, walked to the navigator of his ship, held it around his head and asked the man: Are you afraid of what you see?Looking at nothing but a piece of black cloththe man replied: No, of course not! countered: So what does it matter, if the cause of the darkness is a different one?When we dont understand something, our minds conjure the wildest, most sinister and dismal explanations. The result is fear and fear leads to bad decisions.But when we question our own perspective, we find we can often explain the fear away.

Perspective is everything.

The beauty in that is were free to change our perspective at any second.We can choose to try different angles of looking at any situation, to break it down into its parts, to look past it, around it or through it, until we find the perspective we need to move forward.Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.Viktor FranklIf you pause for a moment to remember this story, itll be useful for the rest of your life.I myself first learned it from Ryan Holidays book, The Obstacle Is The Way, for which I wrote a summary here.

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How to make a green LED as visually bright as a 0 magnitude star?

This is not a full answer, as I don't know how to compare an led with a candle, and I am not sure than the "answer" makes sense, even in rough estimate terms. Please just treat it as background and I will then delete it. Candle Study AbstractUsing CCD observations of a candle flame situated at a distance of 338 m and calibrated with observations of Vega, we show that a candle flame situated at 2.6 km (1.6 miles) is comparable in brightness to a 6th magnitude star with the spectral energy distribution of Vega. The human eye cannot detect a candle flame at 10 miles or further, as some statements on the web suggest.Wikipedia says, as you already know:A magnitude 1 star is exactly a hundred times brighter than a magnitude 6 star, as the difference of five magnitude steps corresponds to $(2.512)^5$or 100. But this does not make much sense either, especially when you go up another magnitude scale to mag 0.Comparing units of light power brings us back to the dark ages (sorry). One candlepower is the radiating power of a light with the intensity of one candle. This unit is considered obsolete as it was replaced by the candela in 1948, though it is still in common use. 1 candlepower is equal to about 0.981 candela. candela

The standard unit for measuring the intensity of light. The candela is defined to be the luminous intensity of a light source producing single-frequency light at a frequency of 540 terahertz (THz) with a power of 1/683 watt per steradian, or 18.3988 milliwatts over a complete sphere centered at the light source.