HOW TO: Remove yourself from ALL background check websites. Thanks to LawyerCT. : technology. The World Of Handstand - Handstand Tutorial, Handstand Articles and Handstand Videos. My H+ Reboot. Eric Stephen By the end of 2006, the events of my life had more or less come to a head. My marriage had failed. My job was consuming me. I was drinking - not enough to do myself immediate physical or professional damage, but enough where I knew it was a budding problem. The following is an account of how I effected a lifestyle one-eighty.
As it happened, a month shy of my thirty-seventh birthday, I set aside my childhood and began my quest for immortality. I was a science-minded child, but my curiosity was unfocused. This slipshod, unfocused collection of knowledge made me an autodidact on many subjects, an informed layman on even more. These ideas were the foundation of my worldview. And then 2006, and a crossroads. The promise (and the uncertainty) of accelerating change and Transhumanism was my lifeline. I didn’t set out to completely overhaul my life. I started with the things I could control, small tweaks in an ongoing biological-psychological hacking project. I liked to run.
Shared Growth. How to Drink Tea (Like a Goddamn Gentleman) » Tao of Bachelorhood | Men's Lifestyle. "Gimme a tea, you bastard. Please. " (This is a guest post by Kole McRae of Chilled Soda. If you’re interested in guest posting at Tao of Bachelorhood, you can find out more here.) You are a gentleman. I am dubbing you one and you are going to learn to drink tea like one. This is important and is a skill that you will use for the rest of your life (if you know what’s good for you). The art of drinking tea (like a goddamn gentleman) has been around for thousands of years. These rituals weren’t made up just for the hell of it. They created these rituals as a form of meditation and relaxation. So I am going to teach you these basics. Why? There are two kinds of tea drunk around the world: bagged and loose-leaf.
Loose leaf tea has a slew of benefits. Back to my lesson: First, get out your ceramic teapot. Next, take some pure, cold water and bring it to boil in a tea kettle, saucepan…any way you wish. This is not tea yet. Let it sit for six minutes. Play some jazz or classical music and enjoy. Home | E-mealz - a meal planning resource for busy moms and frugal family cooks. SavingDinner.com - Menu Planning. » Archive » eat shit & die 202.
Forgetting is Key to a Healthy Mind. Mind & Brain Features December 23, 2011 Email Print See Inside Letting go of memories supports a sound state of mind, a sharp intellect--and superior recall By Ingrid Wickelgren Image: Photoillustration by Aaron Goodman In Brief We can will ourselves to forget; a neural circuit like the one that inhibits actions governs the ability to reject memories we neither want nor need. Emerging data provide support for Sigmund Freud’s controversial theory of repression, by which unwanted memories are shoved into the subconscious. The inability to forget can impede emotional recovery in trauma victims; it is also associated with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. If you practice rebuffing recollections, you are likely to get better at it.
More In This Article Overview Solomon Shereshevsky could recite entire speeches, word for word, after hearing them once. But the weight of all the memories, piled up and overlapping in his brain, created crippling confusion. How To Be More Interesting (In 10 Simple Steps) Lifehacker, tips and downloads for getting things done. HackCollege - Student-Powered Lifehacking. Manvotional: The Kingship of Self-Control. The power of self-control is one of the great qualities that differentiates man from the lower animals. He is the only animal capable of a moral struggle or a moral conquest. Every step in the progress of the world has been a new “control.”
It has been escaping from the tyranny of a fact, to the understanding and mastery of that fact. For ages man looked in terror at the lightning flash; to-day he has begun to understand it as electricity, a force he has mastered and made his slave. At each moment of man’s life he is either a King or a slave. We look with envy upon the possessions of others and wish they were our own. We envy the success of others, when we should emulate the process by which that success came. We shut our eyes to the thousands of instances of the world’s successes,— mental, moral, physical, financial or spiritual,—wherein the great final success came from a beginning far weaker and poorer than our own.
Any man may attain self-control if he only will. Defining Your Core Values. When I look at photos of men from my grandfather’s and even my dad’s generation, I can see a sense of purpose in the eyes of those men. Yet when I look at men today, I often don’t sense that kind of steely focus. Instead, I see dudes who are just sort of drifting along whichever way life pulls them. I’ve heard a lot of men my age complain of a sense of shiftless. They don’t have the drive, purpose, and ambition that our forbearers had, and they feel adrift. And this isn’t some sort of cranky old man observation about “kids these days.”
Several books and articles by sociologists back up these observations. There are numerous factors why men are just sort of drifting by today. The Importance of Clearly Defining Your Core Values Defining our values gives us purpose. Defining our values prevents us from making bad choices. Defining our values makes life simpler. How to Discover Your Values 1. 2. 4. Also, don’t worry about prioritizing them yet. 5. 6. Morning and Evening Routines: How to Start and End a Successful Day. Benjamin Franklin’s Virtuous Life: The Virtue of Humility. KitchenSoldier comments on A comprehensive overview of how this subreddit works. Rules, ideas, tips, etc. are listed in here. Eventually this will be made into the FAQ. Fail More, Suck Less. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
-Confucius I was 16, and I thought my life was over. Growing up, I had things pretty easy: I was a good student, I had a good group of friends, and I was pretty athletic. I wasn’t tall, I wasn’t big, but had enough talent and on-the-field effort to play most sports well. I coasted through my first two years of high school, playing three sports and staying near the top of my class academically.
Junior year rolled around, and I did what I thought I was meant to do: try out for the Varsity basketball team. Sure I couldn’t dribble well with my left hand, I was 5’10″ and probably weighed 115 pounds, but I was Steve Kamb, and my brother was the captain of the team! I went through my three days of tryouts like they were a formality and couldn’t wait for the season to start.
The following morning, I walked down to the locker room to check the roster to find out what position I’d be playing. Wait, WHAT?! Attempt. How? My Epic Quest. I am currently: Level 11 (80% towards Level 12) Most Recent Mission: Watch the Red Sox Win the World Series Welcome to my Epic Quest of Awesome! I’m traveling all over the world, going on crazy adventures, and helping other people level up THEIR lives along the way. Curious about where I’ve been? This video will help: Every time I cross something off of my bucket list, I gain 20% experience towards my next “level.” Thanks to some lucrative credit card deals and frequent flyer offers (all learned from Chris Guillebeau’s Frequent Flyer Master), I have over a million airline miles (not an exaggeration) and I’m using them to see the world. I’ve flown 35,000 miles for $418, traveled an additional 120,000 miles all around the world, and lived like James Bond in Monaco using these tactics. Steve’s Epic Quest of Awesome Here are the things I hope to accomplish over the next few years – it’s a work in progress and subject to change based on future circumstances.
Completed Quests Level 11 Business Goals. Why Do Some People Learn Faster? | Wired Science The physicist Niels Bohr once defined an expert as “a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” Bohr’s quip summarizes one of the essential lessons of learning, which is that people learn how to get it right by getting it wrong again and again. Education isn’t magic. Education is the wisdom wrung from failure. A new study, forthcoming in Psychological Science, and led by Jason Moser at Michigan State University, expands on this important concept.
The question at the heart of the paper is simple: Why are some people so much more effective at learning from their mistakes? After all, everybody screws up. The Moser experiment is premised on the fact that there are two distinct reactions to mistakes, both of which can be reliably detected using electroenchephalography, or EEG. The second signal, which is known as error positivity (Pe), arrives anywhere between 100-500 milliseconds after the mistake and is associated with awareness. Image: mujalifah/Flickr. How to Create a Life Plan in 5 Easy Steps. Daily Routines.