So the thing I would say is…

So the thing I would say is…

 

When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is, and your… your life is just to live your life inside the world, try not to bash into the walls too much, try to have a nice family life,have fun, save a little money.

 

Uhh, but life… that’s a very limited life.

 

Life can be much broader once youdiscover one simple fact, and that is: everything around you that you call lifewas made up by people that were no smarter than you.

 

And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

 

And the minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will, you know if you push in, something will pop out the other side, you can change it, you can mold it.

 

That’s maybe the most important thing.

 

It’s to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you’re just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.

 

I think that’s very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you’ll want to change life and make it better, cause it’s kind of messed up, in a lot of ways.

 

Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.

The Seven Wonders of the World

The list of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was originally compiled around the second century BC, 

although Herodotus wrote about the idea aslong ago as the 5th century BC. 

The final list of the Seven Wonders wascompiled during the Middle Ages. 

The list comprised the seven mostimpressive monuments of the Ancient World, 

some of which barely survived tothe Middle Ages. 

The Great Pyramids of Giza 

The Great Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops) was built by the Egyptian pharaoh Khufu of the Fourth Dynasty around the year 2560 BC. 

The structure consists of approximately 
2 million blocks of stone, each weighing more than two tons. 

When it wasbuilt, the Great pyramid was 481 ft high. 

It ranked as the tallest structure on Earth for more than 
43 centuries. It is the oldest and only surviving ‘wonder’. 

Hanging Gardens of Babylon 

Terraced gardens adjoining Nebuchadnezzar’s palace said 

to rise from 75-300 feet. Supposedly built by the king 

about 600 BC to please his wife, a princess from the mountains,

 but they are also asssociated with the Assyrian Queen Semiramis. 
Most descriptions of the Gardens come from Greek historians, 

but Babylonian records stay silent on the matter. 

Statue of Zeus at Olympia 

Carved by Phidias, the 40-foot statue marked the site of the original Olympicgames in the 400s BC. 
It was constructed of ivory and gold, and showed Zeus on his throne.

 It wasregarded as the greatest work in Greek sculpture. 

Today nothing remains atthe site of the old temple except

 the foundation of the buildings, and fallen columns. 

Temple of Artemis at Ephesus 

Constructed of parian marble and more than 400 feet long

 with over 100columns 60 ft high, it was begun about 550 BC

 and took some 120 years tobuild.

 It was decorated with bronze statues sculpted by the most skilled artistsof their time:

 Phidias, Polycleitus, Kresilas, and Phradmon.

 In 356 BC a mannamed Herostratus burned the temple to ground in an attempt to immortalizehis name. 
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus 

Erected by Queen Artemisia in memory of her husband

King Mausolus ofCaria (in Asia Minor), who died 353 BC. 

It stood 140 feet high. 

The beauty ofthe Mausoleum is not only in the structure itself,

 but in the decorations andstatues that adorned 

the outside at different levels on the podium and the roof.

All that remains are a few pieces in the British Museum 

and the word’mausoleum’ in the English language. 

Colossus of Rhodes 

Gigantic bronze statue of the sun god Helios (or Apollo);

 it stood about 117feet high, dominating the harbour entrance at Rhodes.

 The sculptor Charessupposedly laboured for 12 years before he completed it in 282 BC. 

It wasdestroyed by an earthquake about 226 BC. 

It has long been believed that theColossus stood in front of

 the harbor straddling its entrance. 

That isimprobable and recent studies suggest that 

it was erected on the easternembankment of the harbor. 

Pharos of Alexandria 

Marble lighthouse and watchtower built about 

270 BC on the island of Pharosin Alexandria’s harbour.

 Possibly standing 400 feet high, it had, at the topstage, 

a mirror which reflected sunlight during the day 

while fire was used during the night. 

Its reflection could be seen more than 35 miles off-shore. 

Ofthe six vanished Wonders, the Light house of Alexandria was

 the last todisappear. 

It was destroyed by an earthquake in 1375.