Idea!

We all know what solar panels are, and the energy they produce, Solar energy. What if somehow we could make a more the solar energy a better resource. Solar panels occupy a lot of space wherever they are placed and the should always be facing the sun. Also most of the times they must be really big and they must be placed in open areas or in really tall areas so that it can receive the most solar energy possible, since they haven't been that effective to collect a lot energy.

On the other hand what do all cities have and some of the mayor cities could take advantage of it the most? Windows! All cities have windows, and modern constructions involve mostly in their outer structure glass. We can find windows in cars, houses, also in skyscrapers. What if we could find away to combine this two? Solar Panels + Windows(Glass) = ?

We could try by finding a way to incorporate those solar cells into the glass, while continuing with a clear and "normal glass"as a window. By having this solar cells in the windows we could take advantage of the solar energy provided, which is the most obvious source of energy, but somehow has been the most difficult to obtain. Having this solar cells in the skyscrapers would be one of the first targets for it, since are the taller buildings and the ones who will receive the most light. Also this glasses could be used wherever you use glass, houses, apartments, all sort of buildings, maybe cars, who knows!?.

Basically by making a window as a transparent solar panel, we could make connections into the building, that would have storage batteries and everything else a solar panel needs to work, and how can the energy could be transformed into usable energy. On the other hand by improving this solar cells, maybe someday the own buildings, houses, everything that has glass on it could work by itself with its own collected solar energy.

Parent Skype Call

Yesterday in my talk to my parents I just let my imagination fly, I just closed my eyes and tried to in-merge completely in only what I was hearing. At the beginning of the conversation I just started by asking them what it was going on, how was their day, what was new, how were they. After each time they spoke and I tried to answer something, I felt I was paraphrasing in my mind, I was remembering what they had just said, reduce it to a simple idea to which I could give a response or an answer, and talk back by giving a response.

I found out that by being more into the words other people say and getting the key terms they are telling you, it can give you the key items you must know to give an intelligent answer. By getting rid of the body language, you can get a more accurate sense of hearing, and by being focused you can get the main idea the other person is trying to communicate to you. I also learn that to start a good conversation, you just ask a question, find out on the others day, or the others life, this is also a good way for hearing and listening, which is ideal to carry a good conversation. It is really important to be focused.

On the other hand, I could carry a long conversation which most of the time is too difficult to do. I found out that you can throw spontaneous questions that may or may not relate to the last topic of conversation you were talking about so that the conversation doesn't end. I also let my imagination roll over, while I was hearing I just got the key words, which my own brain and my imagination processed and it recreate it spontaneously with images in my head, to have a visual also of what they were talking to me about. I also let the conversation flow by giving each of the both sides the time to talk and to answer and not only to talk by myself, and don't let the other talk, just hear, in my opinion this couldn't be called conversation, because for it a alternating listener and speaker must exist.

Although I do a good listening and conversation, I know that I need to improve to talk and too listen to strangers, how to start conversation, which its a important thing in your life when you are talking to a recruiter or you are being part of an interview. Also I do use two of the four ways of listening that exist. Asking to tell stories and paraphrasing is part of my daily listening although sometimes it is difficult for me to carry a conversation. In conclusion I think that by improving a little bit more the last two, and making the mirror to confirm feelings and the Prime to my daily listening, I know I could get to be a great listener, which also carries to be a good speaker.