The Gene Pool

By kevin Blair

The Gene pool. We all have to swim in it.

This personal view of my life experience highlights how four basic principles helped me to understand and navigate through.

 

I feel sharing these principles will prove illuminating to others. Once you have read this book, life might just become simpler and your interactions with all other members in the gene pool will prove simpler.

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: kevin Blair
• Release date: May 10, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224725755

kevin Blair

Author profile Born into the Army, (my father was a career soldier) I spent all my growing years "within the army".My father left when I was 19.This was definitely a factor in my development. I have enjoyed exploring new cultures,and have travelled extensively. Writing has always been important to me.It has just taken a few years to get it into the open! This book,my first, has put into words my personal life and how I have come to terms with and gain acceptance,even peace, with the rest of the world that I have been reluctantly obliged to interact with every hour and day of my waking life. I feel passionate enough about this to want to share with other like minded individuals, especially Tim ferris, who unknowingly helped me on my journey. I hope you can also find the same inner peace!

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Written by kevin Blair.

Author: Kevin Blair

Contents

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Foreword

CHAPTER 1: GeneralThoughts

CHAPTER2:ThefirstimportantLawinyourlife :the standard deviation Curve

CHAPTER3:TherealElephantintheroom:YourIQ and its relevance to standard deviation

CHAPTER 4: The Tesco effect

CHAPTER 5: The second law/principle: The Pareto Principle

CHAPTER 6: Emotional Intelligence: the gel holding the other two together

Final thoughts -PUTTING THE TAIL ON THE DONKEY

APPENDICES: The technical explanations

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APPENDIX 1: Standard Deviation APPENDIX 2: IQ

APPENDIX 3: The Pareto Principle

APPENDIX 4: Emotional Intelligence

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Foreword

i, I’m Kevin Blair: 67 years old and constantly dumb-founded, confused and surprised by events that have tak-

en place around me and involving me on my surprisingly short journey through this life.

From the first moment I can recall memory and rational thought, up to an incredible epiphany some 13 years ago in a charityshop,mylifehasleftmebewildered.Iconsidermyselfin-telligent, caring, thoughtful, and many other worthy traits that define a decent human being, but still I couldn’t fathom it out– life’s mysteries!

Themeaningoflife(evenifrevealedintheHitchhiker’sguideto the galaxy) still refused to reveal itself to me. Life’s questions de-fied answers, and I didn’t know how to use the formula to create ananswer.WhatIwillrevealtoyounowisknowntousall,ifwe care to think clearly enough, and look below the covers.

Equally, by virtue of you understanding my logic, you will have alsograspedanessentialfactoflife:onewhichwillenableyouto make better decisions in every facet of your remaining life, and to look back and clear up unanswered questions that may have troubled you in the past and continue to disturb your mind.

Anditshouldbeunderstood;thatwhilstthislogicisavailableto all,andasIwilllaterexplain,onlyaselectfewwillbeabletotake

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SWIMMING IN THE GENE POOL 5

THIS LOGIC AND USE it for the betterment of their life understand-ing.

Thislogicisnottobetakenlightly,eventhoughmystylemaybe: these are fundamental laws that cannot be questioned, dissect-ed or broken down. They may be as important as Newton’s laws of Physics. They may make your life easier, and clearer. They will certainly make your business and lifestyle decisions more accu-rate.

First, I will explain what that epiphany moment was for me 13 years ago in a wonderfully stocked charity shop. Enlightenment, or the path to it, cost me 50 pence. It was a book. Not even a hardback.

Step forward Timothy Ferris, amongst other titles, an infectious and charismatic lifestyle guru, peddling alternatives to the dull routine of life.

The "Four hour work week" was the title, and in around 100 pages, Tim led you through an alternative vision of life which would and should be overwhelmingly appealing to everyone.

My logic, to be later clarified, is even scientifically proved via publication of Tim’s book. If his book offered true enlighten-mentandapathtoamucheasierlife;anditdid,thenwhyhasn’t everyone heeded his advice?

And interestingly, Tim was also sub- consciously on the trail of this KB same enlightenment, and partially succeeded, although he did not carry it through to its conclusion in his book.

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In a short reading span of time, this book will illustrate how sev-eral important, often forgotten laws, principles and formula, to-gether bind our own lives and can be significant constructs in how we swim through life’s gene pool.

Iwanttoquicklyillustratethedifferencesthatbindus,thathigh-light the importance of appreciating that we are not all equal, and the simple ideas that, when combined, will open your eyes to your place and that of all of us. I will show how simple con-cepts of maths, statistics and brain psychology can all combine toelevateyourownstatusandimproveyourunderstandingofall around you.

CHAPTER 1: GENERAL THOUGHTS

considerthatthefirst,andmostfundamentalmistakethatwe humans make, is that we automatically infer things which of-

ten cloud our otherwise clear judgement.

Ignorance of the law is no defence so they say, but we will deal with this later.

Take this simple but illuminating illustration.

Any human being [HB] born of a mother will surely speak the mother tongue

Any HB who speaks long enough in the mother tongue will have polished and mastered an accent, and collected and memo-risedsuficientwords,whichstrungtogether,makecoherentsen-tences

Any HB by reading or listening, can give pronouncements/ opinions on the matters of the day, be they politics, sport, tragedy etc. Since there are in essence; two sides to any story, it follows any HB with an opinion has his side to that story, and this opinion can come from any source.

This sub consciously leads most of us, in the absence of any clear alternativesigns,toassumethatthepersonyouarecommunicat-ing with is on a par with you; that is, your similar equal.

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Bytheway,althoughthereisconsiderabledebateonthis,theav-erage person has a common working vocabulary of around 12 – 16,000 words!!

Andso,onadailybasisyouwillconversewithtens,perhapshun-dreds of individuals; from the door man, taxi driver, shop assis-tant, receptionist, work colleagues, friends, family. All