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In all societies, animal or human, communication is so vital, that without it, the society would simply collapse.  We may not realise it but all communication is actually designed to get others to do something.  Why then is it that so much teaching and messaging never gets through and we fail to see any action? Erroneously most people believe that a broadcast is communication. A broadcast is simply the emission or sending a message, whereas communication is a two step process, wherein the broadcast is received and accepted by the recipient.  A broadcast rarely leads to action, whereas a communication has the great possibility to stir emotions and hence lead to action. It is important to remember that,  Thoughts emanate in the mind. If you want thoughts to be enhanced then tickle the mind. Actions emanate from the body and are driven by emotion. If you want action then stimulate the emotion. This is why politics, religion, etc. have so much power. They work on the emo...

Stabbing His Own Heart

Stabbing His Own Heart Werner Theodor Otto Forssmann, a German surgical trainee in 1929, is famous for an experiment he performed on himself.  He proposed a procedure but he was scorned. He believed in the approach so passionately and unable to get permission by the authorities to try it out he performed the procedure on himself. Without any direction, he put himself under local anesthetic, incised a hole in his arm and pushed a catheter all the way up his limb and shoved it into his heart. He performed the procedure on himself with two feet of cable after which he walked to the X-ray room. He was fired after this so called stunt, but was awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize for Medicine for developing a procedure that allowed for cardiac catheterization. If you wish to learn about the amazing life of this great man please visit  Werner_Forssmann