A Car Guy Considers Love and Passion

1. For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us

2. But for a man to love his passion: that is perhaps the most rewarding task

3. because

4.Love for a passion is not at all biological like love for another human being

5. rather

6. It is something they must learn

7. So a REAL passion is hard to develop, but oh so captivating

8. because like in a relationship between a man and woman where

9. each of them loses themselves for the sake of the other person

10. A man with a true passion loses himself in that passion

11. And when your passion is for cars and trucks, you really lose yourself

12. Cus when you've gotta fast car, you think you've got everything


13. and while with love for another human being you

14. No longer possess anything of your own

15. When your love is your passion for cars and trucks it's all your own

16. and its full of excitement

17.

18.

19.

20. Because whether your burnin' rubber of flyin through mud

21. There's somethin' bout a truck

22. that just makes you want to yell

23. TRUCK YEAH

24. And when you're in a fast can you

25. always trust yourslef and your feelings

26. And get risky

27. Bending the rules and Breaking the Law

28. because

29. somethings just go hand in hand

30. And for a car guy its fast cars and excitement

31.Whcih is what pulls you into the deep passion

32. And when your love is for a passion that you can makle a career out of

33. Now that's something to be proud of

34.

1. Rilke 68
6. Rilke 68
9. Rilke 71
12. Montgomery Gentry, "Something to be Proud of"
14. Rilke 73
21. Kip Moore, "Somethin' bout a Truck"
23. Tim McGraw, "Truck Yeah"
25. Rilke 23
27. Brantley Gilbert, "Bending the Rules and Breaking the Law"
29. Dierks Bentley, "Country and Cold Cans"
33. Montgomery Gentry, "Something to be Proud of"


          I chose this theme because it plays off Rilke's ideas on love. I soft of related his ideas on love between a man and woman to the love a man has for his passion. Because I think in some cases this love may be even stronger, and can really pay off. But it relates to some of the difficulties and side effects of love like Rilke talks about, and shows some advantages to the love for a passion. I specifically chose to talk about a passion for cars and trucks, because I can relate to that topic. And I think I played the lines off of each other well because it started out going from the book, then shifted in love for a passion for cars and trucks, and ended in a sort of closing statement on the love for your passion. Which I think sort of is a good connection between Rilke's ideas and my own. 

Faults in Education

            The TED presentation that I've found to be the most interesting so far was Austin's presentation on the talk about the flaws in our education system. After hearing his presentation I genuinly want to look this guy up and watch his talk so that I can hear more about what he had to say. I found this one to be the most entertaining for a couple of reasons.
             The first reason is fairly shorty and simple. Basically the talk itself looked really visually entertaining. Instead of just having a guy walking around on stage talking about his ideas, it was like an animated white board that the presenter was drawing these funny detailed images on that made up this whole scene which basically represented what he was explaining. It was really cool to see him draw out his presentation rather than just talk to us. And not only did it make it more entertaining, but I feel like his drawing made it easier for me to understand and follow what was going on.
              The second reason i really enjoyed this talk was because I agree with what the presenter was talking about. Basically what I got out of it was that our education system is flawed and runs like an industrial assembly line. Grouping people by age rather than interests and abilities and focusing on the same information to pump into each student. And the presenter talked about how this is not the best way for our education system to work. He said that all students are different and have different skills and abilities that are better or worse than others their age, and they should be grouped more based on that. Also that the standardization of the content that we learn is blocking our creativity, and not just our creativity but out interest in school. He shows how the reason that most students find school boring is because we are sitting in a desk while someone is explaining boring stuff to us. Because of this, he shows how kids have a hard time paying attention (usually just because they are bored out of their mind) so many kids then get diagnosed with ADHD, and get doped up in order to pay attention. In explaining this he also shows the correlation between standardized education and ADHD. 
              All this stuff that he talked about is stuff that I both find interesting and generally agree with. I think our education system needs to figure out a way to reorganize itself and focus more one each individual student, and what their skills and abilities are, and what career would actually be best for them. Rather than standardizing the majority of the content that we learn. The only thing is I really don't know how they can do that, so I plan on watching the whole of this TED talk and maybe getting some ideas.