Fortune favours the bold.

What I think this precept means is that if you’re bold and out there taking chances and risks good things can come from it. Fortune means good luck and it favors the bold who take risks. Because if you do nothing, will anything ever happen? Have you ever asked yourself that? I feel like if I sat around all day and did nothing it would be very boring and nothing would ever happen. But if I took risks and chances maybe something good would happen.

Here’s an example,

A boy is walking down the street. His name was Daniel. He walked along and then he spotted a young boy standing in an alley trapped by three older boys about his age. He was suspicious so he walked down the alley and said “What are you guys doing?” the small boy was shaking as the older three boys turned to face Daniel “What does it matter to you?” the biggest boy asked. The other two chuckled. “It matters because it looks like that boy there doesn’t want to be here.” Daniel said confidently. “Oh. Fine whatever.” The biggest guy said and he and the other two boys left. “You okay? Did they hurt you?” Daniel asked the boy. “No I’m fine. Thanks” The boy said. Then later while you’re online you see a picture of you saving the boy. And you become popular. Fortune favoured the bold didn’t it?

  The Feb. Precept this month is: “It is better to know some of the questions than to know all of the answers” which is a quote by James Thurber. My Theory on this Precept is that it is better know some of the questions because you can branch out ideas from a question, while if you know the answer, it won’t do you any good because that’s it, once you know the answer, you’re done, there isn’t a good reason to continue what you are working on, other than trying to find other answers or ways to solve it. While, a question will open your mind up to different possibilities because if you get a question, the first thing you do is try to solve it, but if you stay and keep thinking about the question, your mind will almost always find out other ways you can solve it or understand it. A question is really powerful in many ways, while an answer is rock bottom, which is no fun at all. I’m not saying knowing the answer is horrible or bad, or that you shouldn’t always cut to the chase, or it is bad to think for the answers, I’m saying that if there is a question, try to maximize your understanding of it, to make your answer 100% accurate or correct. In my opinion, I fully agree with Mr. Thurber on his quote.

A connection I have to this quote is when I would get a bunch of questions on homework or a test or something, and I would always just think about the answer and have a difficult time doing so, so instead of that technique, I started breaking down the question or try to understand it more. Say the question was “You have 10 apples, I take away 3, how many do you have?” if I didn’t understand it, which I do, I would sit and think, than to try to find an answer, usually, if it’s a complicated question with big words, instead of just ignoring them and finding the answer with the words I know, I would figure out those words, then, I would start thinking about how I would answer it, or break it down. It’s always better to know the questions than to know the answers, because a question can bring up so many different ways, possibilities, or techniques.

The meaning of Mr.Browne`s December precept means to me is. that do good thing and you will be lucky in the future or it`s like a circle, what goes around comes around.

Here is an example hold the door for someone they will remember to hold it open for you. If you don`t hold the door for somebody and close it they won`t hold it open for you and they will close it. That`s what Mr.Browne`s December precept means to me.