It is not the words but the meanings in words By Prof Dr Sohail Ansari

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts. Adlai E. Stevenson By him in whose hand is my soul, if one of you were to carry a bundle of firewood on his back and sell it, that would be better for him than begging a man who may or may not give him anything.Source: Sahih Bukhari 1401, Grade: Muttafaqun Alayhi

A right word is not always a good word

A right word is not always a good word and a good word is not always a right word. A right word can be a good word though it is always possible for a better word. You need the right word that leaves a zero-scope for the righter and better word. It is not the number of words in your essay but the meanings in words that counts as those give meanings to your ideas

 

Will Rogers paradox

What is it?

This occurs when moving something from one group to another raises the average of both groups, even though no values actually increase.

The name comes from the American comedian Will Rogers, who joked that “when the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence in both states”.

Former New Zealand Prime Minister Rob Muldoon provided a local variant on the joke in the 1980s, regarding migration from his nation into Australia.

How does it happen?

When a data point is reclassified from one group to another, if the point is below the average of the group it is leaving, but above the average of the one it is joining, both groups’ averages will increase.

Example

Consider the case of six patients whose life expectancies (in years) have been assessed as being 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 and 90.

The patients who have life expectancies of 40 and 50 have been diagnosed with a medical condition; the other four have not. This gives an average life expectancy within diagnosed patients of 45 years and within non-diagnosed patients of 75 years.

If an improved diagnostic tool is developed that detects the condition in the patient with the 60-year life expectancy, then the average within both groups rises by 5 years.

 

 

''Sometimes you have to lose yourself to discover who you are'' (Linda, in #Adultery )

 

What does “Lose Yourself” mean?

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The question is very small, what does the sentence "Lose yourself" mean? I searched on internet and got many different meanings. Two of which are quite contrary to each other. One is,

"Preoccupy yourself with something other than yourself".

"To free your mind from worry"

I found many different meanings, e.g. here on Quora.com and here on yahoo.com. I guess it is a subjective phrase, which can have different meaning depending upon the context.

So the question is:

Does its meaning depend upon context, dialect in which it is used, or something else? If it has a fixed meaning then please tell that. Is its meaning opinion based? When is it used, that what meaning does it convey or in other words what is its purpose?

If someone preoccupies himself with something then he is not going to relax at all.

To "lose oneself" can mean to become so focused when doing something that one's sense of self and one's sense of time passing are temporarily non-existent. It can also mean to lose one's sense of self psychologically; an "identity crisis". 

 

Identity crisis

A period of uncertainty and confusion in which a person's sense of identity becomes insecure, typically due to a change in their expected aims or role in society.

Definition of self psychologically

To be aware of oneself is to have a concept of oneself. Baumeister (1999) provides the following self-concept definition: "The individual's belief about himself or herself, including the person's attributes and who and what the self is". Self Concept is an important term for both social psychology and humanism.

1	I think your final sentence just about sums it up. The exact meaning is subjective/context-dependent, so the question itself is Primarily Opinion-based. – FumbleFingers Feb 20 '15 at 13:13
	@FumbleFingers I've tried to edit the question so as it could have a well-defined answer. Is it ok or should I change it further? – user31782 Feb 21 '15 at 11:45
	Googling define "lose oneself", the first seven results are online dictionary definitions, and the eighth is a Yahoo answers discussion on the usage. I don't know where you got "to free your mind from worry" from, but that sounds more like something you might find in a site promoting, say, Buddhism or Transcendental Meditation, rather than a dictionary definition. – FumbleFingers Feb 21 '15 at 13:11
	I found the "to free your mind from worry" line on yahoo(link). Is my question ok now?