MODEL A VALUABLE LIFE, LIVE IT
Preface for One Way Success, Models and Memories
People who know me have asked me to write an autobiography. They want to read the story of the man that they know, how I managed to be the person I am. They want to understand how I did what I have done. So I set out on a multi-year journey here near the end of my life, writing about who I am, why I am, and how I did what I did.
Chapter 1 — is about my ancestors because I share their innate knowledge, values, life experiences, models, and memories.
Chapter 2 — focuses on my mother and father: how they met, fell in love, and who they were before they had children.
Chapter 3 — starts with my first memory and my young life living in West University Place.
Chapter 4 — my family’s life in Spring Valley; my high school; my early years at Sam Houston State University; and finding the love of my life.
Chapter 5 — is about Love, Marriage, Work, and the University of Houston.
Chapter 6 is about CSC — my graduate school in Los Angeles.
Chapter 7 — is about my first startup — Marine Traffic Control for the Panama Canal
Chapter 8 — is about Austin, Texas, MRI, VP of New Product Development
Chapter 9 — is about being CSC CEO Staff — in Los Angeles Again
Chapter 10 — is about Schmidt Associates & TelWatch in San Francisco.
Chapter 11 — is about OSI — My Successful Startup
Chapter 12 — is about Life After Success
We live by taking action, experiencing the results, and living with the short- and long-term consequences. Our family, friends, and schools help us build memory models that determine our survival, productivity, prosperity, and happiness; they show us how to live a successful, wealthy life. The goal of all education, family, school, church, jobs, even your first sexual experience, is to build and improve the many living memory models you have in your head. Once a model exists, you can practice and improve it without physical effort, without doing anything. It all takes place in your head. Over and over, you can play with and modify it. You can even train your sleeping brain to work on improvements. Many people say they get help from the spiritual world. Personally, I will take help anywhere I can get it. Eventually, you must use your best model to take real action in the real world and accept the consequences. To develop this memory model most successfully, you must act as an individual. Even with one other person, you must compromise your model. Marriages between two people who have the most in common are usually the most successful and long-lasting. Beware of collectives, such as political parties. If you give up too much of your memory model to the collective, your life will not be as successful as it could be. Be a libertarian, live your life free to follow your mental models as long as your actions do not violate government laws and the morals of your religious faith. People with successful memory modeling live longer, happier lives. Use all of your energy every day of your life to live a long, better life.
The total productivity and success of a nation of people acting to maximize their individual productivity and success always exceeds that of a collective, socialist nation. A free-market capitalist economy must maximize individuals’ innate talents for a nation to reach its highest potential for productivity and success.
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