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and other lessons I2 have learned.
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Since you are here, then it must be my turn to open my mouth. Here are some other lessons I've learned over and over and over again using my parents' advice. Lesson; parents are often right.
Always put cool pictures, graphics or diagrams with your writing unless you are writing a religious text. Lesson; I am not qualified to write religious text.

Standard Normal Curve
This is a graph of the standard normal curve using isotopically scaled axes. You never see this graph scaled like this except in my class. If you want to know why I present it this way, you will have to take my statistics class. Click on the cool graph above to find out more. Lesson; Advertising is a sneaky way to entice you to do something you probably would not do on your own.

The Three Rules of Leadership
  1. If you are the leader, don't quit, because if you quit you won't be the leader anymore.
  2. Don't panic, because if you panic you will quit and then you won't be the leader anymore.
  3. See rule 1.
I'm considering revising the title to "Rules for Leading My Life" and changing all the "you" words to "I" words. Lesson; Use "I" not "you" when you mean you.

Just in case you were wondering what isotropic scaling is, I've created this table of images to explain. Lesson; isotropic means 'IS isotropic' and anisotropic means NOT isotropic. Lesson; Even though I haven't even explained isotropic yet, here you are following my trail even though you probably don't care what isotropic scaling is. Don't give up yet, the good stuff is next.
Here are 3 pictures of 1 green-faced Martian who has a perfectly round face that is 138 thumbs wide and 138 thumbs tall. Lesson; Martians use an even stupider unit of length (thumbs) than we use (feet).

1 of many Anisotropic versions of the vertical type: Squeeze his 138 thumb wide face into 81 thumbs to make him look stressed. Lesson; Sometimes you have to grab (not get) someone's attention.

Picture of crossed eyes; anisotropic

The one and only Isotropic version: Un squeezed and un squashed, he looks his well-rounded best. Lesson; Isotropic scaling is special because there is only 1 way to do it.

cross-eyes isotropic scale

1 of many anisotropic versions of the horizontal type: Squash his 138 thumb tall face into 81 thumbs to make him look depressed. Lesson; Same data, different format makes a big difference.

Cross-eyes anisotropic wide