If it’s a clear night tonight, and you look up towards Orion, you’ll see a star at the foot of the constellation called Rigel. Rigel is the sixth brightest star in the sky with a luminosity roughly 40,000 times that of our sun.
It has a mass of 17 solar masses, a surface temperature of 11,000 Kelvin and a solar radius of 70. It’s surrounded by a shell of expelled gas, which was either shed by its pulsations or came about as a result of stellar wind.
Rigel isn’t the furthest star by any means, but it’s not what you’d call ‘on the doorstep’ either. It’s around 765 light years away. Now, light travels at 186,282 miles per second.
So every second since around about the time that King John signed the Magna Carta, light has been travelling through space at that speed from Rigel to Earth. And the bit you’re looking at tonight only just got here.
I don’t know about you, but I find this sort of thing fascinating and mind-boggling ~ literally mind-boggling. Like a lot of people I suspect, I attempted to read ‘A Brief History Of Time’ (which is supposed to simplify all this stuff) and got about as far as page 26.
My brain just doesn’t seem to work in that way, and I’m constantly amazed and impressed that there are people who can work out all this detailed information about something further away than I can properly imagine. It’s beyond my comprehension…
And yet…and yet…many of these same people would struggle to put up a shelf, find their way to the next town, run a hot dog van ~ or a hundred and one other things which other folk find easy.
You see, we all have things we’re good at and things we do badly. It’s very easy to become intimidated by what we perceive to be great intelligence. The truth though, is that most of us have great ‘intelligence’ – just not necessarily the sort that we traditionally associate with the word.
Einstein has a lot to answer for.
Mention the word genius, and his is the name that comes to most minds first. Because of this, mathematics and science seem to have hijacked intelligence, with the result that the rest of us end up feeling…well, a little bit thick. The knock-on effect is that we somehow feel that the sort of intelligence that can unlock the secrets of the universe, is what really matters.
The reality though, is that other types of intelligence are just as important – maybe more so if your goal is to succeed financially or in business. As impressive as the ability to calculate the mass of a distant star is, there’s not a lot of money in it!
If you haven’t already done so, I’d urge you to firmly nail down exactly where your peak intelligence and predispositions lie – and then to stop worrying about what you can’t do, and focus all your efforts on what you do best. When you combine a strong predisposition with something you enjoy, you have a massive head start on the competition.
You might not be able to explain the stars ~ but that doesn’t mean you can’t reach for them.
Kind Regards
John Harrison
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