Nine Things Successful People Do Differently Learn more about the science of success with Heidi Grant Halvorson’s HBR Single, based on this blog post. Why have you been so successful in reaching some of your goals, but not others? If you aren’t sure, you are far from alone in your confusion. It turns out that even brilliant, highly accomplished people are pretty lousy when it comes to understanding why they succeed or fail. The intuitive answer — that you are born predisposed to certain talents and lacking in others — is really just one small piece of the puzzle. 1. To seize the moment, decide when and where you will take each action you want to take, in advance. 3. Fortunately, decades of research suggest that the belief in fixed ability is completely wrong — abilities of all kinds are profoundly malleable. The good news is, if you aren’t particularly gritty now, there is something you can do about it. 7. To build willpower, take on a challenge that requires you to do something you’d honestly rather not do. 8. 9.
Making Chloroform (recipe)@Everything2.com Making Chloroform Here is a simple guide to make the chemical compound chloroform. Be sure to read the warning. WARNING: This isn't one of those bullshit 'something might go wrong' warnings. This is not safe chloroform. Medical grade chloroform is mixed with a percentage of ether to stop it decomposing to the chemical Phosgene, A WWI chemical gas. Pay attention to that. Materials: - Bottle of Bleach. - Bottle of pure acetone (not nail-polish remover, you can pick up acetone at hardware stores) - Big bag of party-ice. - Glassware, so you can see how much of the solution has turned to chloroform. Method: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Yeah.
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Take typing lessons, test your typing speed and practice typing for free! This is keybr.com, a web application that will help you teach touch typing. Touch typing is typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys. A person possessing touch typing skills will know their location on the keyboard through muscle memory. It can improve any individual's typing speed and accuracy dramatically. This is a short tutorial that will explain how does this application work. You can use the left and right arrow keys to navigate through these slides. This tutorial is based on these few principles: No boring, repetitive exercises. Initially it starts generating words from a small subset of the most frequent letters of the alphabet. When you are typing these words, keybr measures time to type a key for every letter in that subset. Once you familiarize yourself with the current subset of letters, the algorithm expands it, including more and more letters to it. So at any time, you will by typing the letters you are least familiar with. This is the text board. ? ? ? ? ?
5 Documentários para Empreendedores que Querem Construir um Novo Futuro Empreendedorismo é o principal fator promotor do desenvolvimento econômico e social de um país. Identificar oportunidades, agarrá-las e buscar os recursos para transformá-las em negócio lucrativo – Esse é o papel do empreendedor. O fato é que precisamos desenvolver nossa sociedade na direção correta e para isso buscar inspiração nas fontes corretas é essencial. Eu gosto muito de assistir a documentários, pois acredito que eles trazem uma visão mais sincera e permitem que você tire conclusões melhores. Assine nossa newsletter Receba ferramentas de gestão gratuitas toda semana! Abaixo um a lista de 5 documentários (+ 2 de bônus) com seus respectivos sites e link no iTunes. Tom Shadyac é um famoso diretor de Hollywood que após um acidente embarca em uma viagem para encontrar respostas para duas perguntas: “O que há de errado com o nosso mundo?” 2 – Wisdom 3 – Zeitgeist 4 – Rip! Rip! 5 – Press, Pause, Play Bônus Resolvi listar outros dois para vocês refletirem mais um pouco. 6 - Happy Google+
Playtype | Typographer's Glossary Serif: Serif's are semi-structural details on the ends of some of the strokes that make up letters and symbols. A typeface that has serifs is called a serif typeface (or seriffed typeface). Some of the main classifications of Serif type are: Blackletter, Venetian, Garalde, Modern, Slab Serif, Transitional, and Informal. Fonts in each classfication share certain similiar characteristics including the shape or appearance of their serifs. Serif fonts are widely used in traditional printed material such as books and newspapers. 5 Ways To Hack Your Brain Into Awesomeness Much of the brain is still mysterious to modern science, possibly because modern science itself is using brains to analyze it. There are probably secrets the brain simply doesn't want us to know. But by no means should that stop us from tinkering around in there, using somewhat questionable and possibly dangerous techniques to make our brains do what we want. We can't vouch for any of these, either their effectiveness or safety. All we can say is that they sound awesome, since apparently you can make your brain... #5. So you just picked up the night shift at your local McDonald's, you have class every morning at 8am and you have no idea how you're going to make it through the day without looking like a guy straight out of Dawn of the Dead, minus the blood... hopefully. "SLEEEEEEEEEP... uh... What if we told you there was a way to sleep for little more than two hours a day, and still feel more refreshed than taking a 12-hour siesta on a bed made entirely out of baby kitten fur? Holy Shit!
Thing in a Jar Thing in a Jar 7 inches by 4 inches, mason jar Pictured above is the Thing in a Jar that's usually sitting in my office at work. The coolest thing about the Thing is that everyone responds to seeing it by asking questions. Where did I find it? The Thing in a Jar is made out of Sculpey, acryllic paint and rubber cement. This is the third Thing in a Jar I've made. Here's a conceptual sketch I made of this Thing before I sculpted it. 1.5 by 2.5 inches, ballpoint pen Usually when I make a Thing in a Jar, I try to keep the shape ambiguous enough so that the viewer cannot really pin down exactly what they're looking at. The glass jar acts as a physical barrier, preventing the viewer from directly accessing its contents. I think this is much cooler than, for example, a painting, which basically has this big implicit sign hanging off of it that says, "I am just a painting of an object, not the object itself. Viewers of The Thing in a Jar do not have this preconception. Update OK here's what you do.
Interview questions Disciplines > Job-finding > Interview Questions Big picture | Strengths | Possible weaknesses | Stress | Working with others | Constraints | See also Job interviews are often the most feared aspect of finding yourself employment, and yet they need not be that way. This section not only tells you how to answer interview questions, it also explains what they are looking for and hence lets you answer difficult questions with effective answers. Big picture Big picture questions seek to understand the whole person, their overall motivations and their general approaches to work. Tell me about yourself: A classic opening question. Strengths Strength questions effectively ask 'Why should we employ you?' Possible weaknesses Weakness questions seek to understand where you might not fit with the job. What are your weaknesses? Stress Stress is a killer at work and many jobs are very stressful. Can you work under pressure? Working with others Many jobs need you to work in teams and across departments. And...
Top 10 Tech Concepts You Always Wanted To Learn About (But Never Did) Store your data on someone else's computer, hope they don't do anything bad with it or decide to shut down. Stallman calls it "Careless Computing". If you put personal data in-the-cloud like future plans., trips, your current GPS location, then you should expect that data to be shared all over the world with nice people, nice companies and criminals (looking for when to rob you). Facebook connections and twitter followers provide information about you and your friends. If they assume you are similar to your friends, then the personal information those other people enter helps them build a profile of your likes/dislikes too. If you aren't paying for the services ( ea probably $15/month or more), then you and your data are probably the product being sold. It's good to have a paranoid person around, but citations please. * [lmgtfy.com] has at least 50 story references * [lmgtfy.com] | | and another ref - [articles.cnn.com]
Shaping the Future: MBA of life called AIESEC! Today I am finishing my 4 years MBA in the University of Life called AIESEC, and there is only one word that comes to my mind to summarize this experience… GRATITUDE! Have you ever stopped to think why people do an MBA? What are the benefits of doing an MBA?Usually the reasons are: Advancing in their career, changing their career, starting their own business, build a new and powerful network, learning how to solve complex problems in a practical way, and so on and so forth. The University of Life called AIESEC and its MBA program aims to create change agents through the development of 11 competencies: Self-Awareness, Personal Effectiveness, Analytical Thinking, Awareness of Others, Inclusiveness, Effective Communication, Development of Others, Stakeholder Focus, Inner Strength, Innovation and Commitment to Results. (Check my competency assessment below, the green bars represent how it was in the beginning of my AIESEC MBA) The methodology? Projects? Results?
Body Language Table Of Contents Introduction 1. Understanding Body Language Basics In the Beginning ... Why It's Not What You Say How Body Language Reveals Emotions and Thoughts Why Women are More Perceptive What Brain Scans Show How Fortune-Tellers Know So Much Inborn, Genetic or Learned Culturally? 2. How to Detect Openness Intentional Use of the Palms to Deceive The Law of Cause and Effect Palm Power Our Audience Experiment An Analysis of Handshake Styles Who Should Reach First? 3. Smiling Is a Submission Signal Why Smiling Is Contagious How a Smile Tricks the Brain Practicing the Fake Smile Smugglers Smile Less Five Common Types of Smiles Why Laughter Is the Best Medicine Why You Should Take Laughter Seriously Why We Laugh and Talk, But Chimps Don't How Humor Heals Laughing Till You Cry How Jokes Work The Laughter Room Smiles and Laughter Are a Way of Bonding Humor Sells The Permanent Down-Mouth Smiling Advice For Women Laughter In Love Summary 4. 5. 6. How the Hands Talk On the One Hand... 7. 8.
Spread the Love: 5 Ways to Increase Your Positivity Footprint By Phil Drolet “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” Leo Buscaglia Two years ago, I hit a rough patch. I was unemployed, sleeping on my mom’s couch, and really frustrated about the state of my life. I was going through the days with a dark cloud above my head, feeling sorry for myself. I kept wondering what was wrong with the world and why things just couldn’t work out for me. After basking in my misery for a few months, I decided to make a radical move. Forty hours later, I arrived in beautiful Perth, Australia. I immediately fell in love with the beaches and nice weather, but one thing really blew my mind: the Aussies’ incredible friendliness and insatiable love for life. Every time I interacted with the locals, I felt a surge of positivity within me and walked away uplifted. What’s that you ask? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
How online job searches worsen the job crisis (Moneywatch) If tens of thousands of people applied for one job, what are the odds that not a one would be qualified for the position? That's not a theoretical question. Peter Cappelli, a management professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, recently noted such a case after a company's resume-screening system concluded that none of the 29,000 applicants for an engineering job had the right qualifications. Sadly, this does not surprise me one bit. With the current overflow of job-seekers and the ubiquity in corporate America of such resume software, companies often seek out the "perfect" job candidate. While online job applications seemingly make life easier for all parties. Except that the system is a black hole. When you're lucky enough to have dotted every 'i' and crossed every 't', do you ever hear from the company? I got an email recently from a public relations firm touting the benefits of a new online application and resume tracking system. Better how?