Big Think. How_to_hook_up_with_chicks.jpg from iywib.com. Mark's Daily Apple. Quotes Tagged As Life. Download Section. Limits. On this hour of Radiolab: a journey to the edge of human limits. How much can you jam into a human brain? How far can you push yourself past feelings of exhaustion? We test physical endurance with a bike race that makes the Tour de France look like child’s play, and mental capacity with a mind-stretching memory competition. And we ask if robots--for better or worse--may be forging beyond the limits of human understanding. Correction: An earlier version of this piece stated in error that Mr. Achieving Goals Like a Mad Klingon « Goals « How to get organized, how to be productive, GTD, Swift To-Do List tips and tricks – Dextronet Blog.
Do you wish that your goals were on auto-pilot, and automatically finished themselves? Well, that is probably impossible, but what I’m going to talk about here is very, very close to it. Ladies and gentleman, I bring you yet another extremely powerful life-hack. Let’s rock and roll! But let me make one thing straight first: This incredible goal achievement technique is not for the faint of heart. If you are scared yet, better go away now. There is no turning back ;-) You’ve probably heard that the bad boys (or Klingons) always get the girl, and nice guys are left wallflowering on the sidelines.
Well, it’s the same with goals. The nice goals are rarely achieved, but bad-ass goals that will make your life hell, unless you accomplish them, will get accomplished. “Whoa, OK, buddy, wait a minute… What are you talking about?!” I’m talking about my beautifully simple and scary-effective way of accomplishing worthy goals. The truth is that whenever I’m fighting with my willpower, I usually lose. 11 Things that Fill Me with Awe. Eleven Things that Fill Me with Awe The unimaginable vastness of what exists. Our visible universe has about ten billion galaxies, and those galaxies have an average of about ten billion stars each. But according to theories gaining support from reputable cosmologists, this looks like just a vanishingly small fraction of what exists.
If Andrei Linde is correct, the visible universe is just a tiny bubble within our overall universe, and it's even possible that subregions of inflating bubbles could themselves inflate, ad infinitum. If M Theory is correct, our universe has 10 spatial dimensions and our visible universe might be just a 3-D membrane in this meta-space. If Lee Smolin's cosmological natural selection theory is correct, our universe could be one member of an evolving and exponentially growing lineage of universes which proliferate through a process analogous to biological evolution through natural selection.
That there is something rather than nothing. Why does anything exist? Cool Story.