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I feel strongly that flight simulation enthusiasts are among those with the most natural talent in the world.


Albert Einstein revealed the revolutionary concepts of space, time, and dimensions. He considered time to be the forth dimension.


Flight simulation users have a talent for traveling in virtual reality using all four dimensions. Added to this is the patience to do it successfully. The flight simlulation communities have skills to use math, geometry, computer graphics, video/media production, and computer programming to name just a few of the many talents.

Some do. Most of us just get shot down a lot

I begin with a couple questions:

1) What does the word success mean to you?

2) How should we define being a successful person?

Success is a variable concept. We each have our own definition of it. In order for the word to have any real meaning, it must be connected with a target or objective.

For some that means something very ethereal or unspecific, such as getting wealthy. I know one gentleman of pensionable age who is utterly convinced of his own success because he makes enough money in private investments to live reasonably comfortably. He hasn't changed the world. He hasn't started any profitable enterprise. He never won a medal in warfare. No-one outside of his tiny number of human contacts have any idea who he is. His neighbours called him "Mr Brown" because he always wore trousers of that colour.

On the other hand, we have the likes of Julius Caesar. In Spain he dicovered a statue to Alexander the Great and burst into tears. His aides, naturally a little concerned about his welfare, asked him what was wrong. Why are you crying?

"Because," He told them, "At my age this man had conquered the world, and I have done nothing."

Notice that the working class of european nations are often very full of themselves. The reason is that their targets in life are usually set so low that 'success' for them is easily attainable.