Han ändrade 40 vanor på ett år - Leva Micael Dahlén, 41, tar skumtomte efter skumtomte och doppar i smör, innan han med ett leende äter upp dem. Det ser otroligt äckligt ut. Ändå är det svårt att inte glädjas med denne rockstjärneprofessor i hans ätande. Han har precis, genom att bota sin smörfobi, klarat sitt nyårslöfte för 2014. Smörätandet blev nämligen den 40:e ändrade vanan – på ett helt år. – Det gick! Micael Dahlén blev ekonomiprofessor redan som 34-åring år 2008 vid Handelshögskolan i Stockholm. ”Vi är vad vi upprepade gånger gör. Det tog Micael Dahlén fasta på under 2014. En vana per vecka har han ändrat, med vissa uppehåll för lite välbehövlig vila från förändringen. – Det handlar om att göra en sak så in i Hälsingland mycket under de där sju dagarna. Förändring går fortare än man tror, bara du gör den tillräckligt mycket. – Anledningen till att förändring tar tid är att vi tror att det tar så lång tid. Varför ville du förändra dina vanor? – Det finns nog flera svar. – Ja, det var ju målet! Hur gick det?
There's a Word for That: 25 Expressions You Should Have in Your Vocabulary Recently I came across this amazing little Tumblr named ‘OtherWordly‘ – itself a play on words. It consists of a collection of strange and lovely words from different languages through different times. What I like most about this selection of consonants and vowels – little meaning-carrying packages of vibration – is that they all try to point to the unspeakable, the transient or the neglected. That which we forget in the busyness of our daily grind. You can find my favourite words below – pick five that resonate most, write them down, yes seriously – go grab a pen -, make sure to learn them by heart, teach them to your inner voice and share them with others to guide our collective attention to what truly matters. 1 – Sophrosyne pronunciation | “so-frO-‘sU-nA Greek script | σωφροσύνη note | To everyone who is thinking “I want to get there” and also to everyone who is thinking “I’ll never get there”—you will. 2 – Vorfreude pronunciation | ‘for-froi-duh 3 – Numinous 4 – Nemophilist 5 – Sillage
Have We Been Interpreting Quantum Mechanics Wrong This Whole Time? For nearly a century, “reality” has been a murky concept. The laws of quantum physics seem to suggest that particles spend much of their time in a ghostly state, lacking even basic properties such as a definite location and instead existing everywhere and nowhere at once. Only when a particle is measured does it suddenly materialize, appearing to pick its position as if by a roll of the dice. This idea that nature is inherently probabilistic — that particles have no hard properties, only likelihoods, until they are observed — is directly implied by the standard equations of quantum mechanics. The experiments involve an oil droplet that bounces along the surface of a liquid. Particles at the quantum scale seem to do things that human-scale objects do not do. To some researchers, the experiments suggest that quantum objects are as definite as droplets, and that they too are guided by pilot waves — in this case, fluid-like undulations in space and time. Magical Measurements Riding Waves
How to Get People to Like You: 7 Ways From an FBI Behavior Expert Before we commence with the festivities, I wanted to thank everyone for helping my first book become a Wall Street Journal bestseller. To check it out, click here. Meeting new people can be awkward. What should you say? How can you make a good impression? How do you keep a conversation going? Research shows relationships are vital to happiness and networking is the key to getting jobs and building a fulfilling career. But what’s the best way to build rapport and create trust? Robin Dreeke can. Robin was head of the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Program and has studied interpersonal relations for over 27 years. Robin is the author of the excellent book, It’s Not All About “Me”: The Top Ten Techniques for Building Quick Rapport with Anyone. I gave him a call to get some answers. You’re going to learn: And a lot more. 1) The Most Important Thing To Do With Anyone You Meet Robin’s #1 piece of advice: “Seek someone else’s thoughts and opinions without judging them.” Ask questions. Here’s Robin: Sum Up
At First His Friends Thought He Was Crazy For Buying a Dirty Garage To Live In…Then He Remodeled It The List Of 40 Free Educational Websites: Educate Yourself Online For Free | YouthProjects - Go Abroad According to www.webometrics.info, there are more than 17 000 universities in the world, but getting a degree in many of them is quite costly. Many students around the world(and their families) get into big debts or have to work over sixty hours a week in order to afford an Education. Two thirds of the US college seniors who graduated in 2011 had student loan debt, with an average of over 27 000 USD per person. Reading those statistics I can’t stop thinking about those words from over 30 years ago: With mass education, it turned out that most people could be taught to read and write. Isaac Asimov died in 1992, but if he could see the opportunities that the Internet is giving us in XXI century he would probably grin from ear to ear. There are many websites on the Internet that now offer FREE of charge learning materials. Enough with the words, here is a great list of 40 useful links which can help you learn a lot for free: 1. Category: Jobs
What the world values, in one chart The more globalized our world becomes, the more we learn about similarities and differences that cut across all cultures. These things are sometimes easy to trace on a small scale. For instance, it's easy to chart the religious differences between, say, Indonesia and China. Two professors, however, are finding ways to compare how our values differ on a global scale. Using data from the World Values Survey (WVS), professors Ronald Inglehart of the University of Michigan and Christian Welzel of Germany's Luephana University comprised this amazing Cultural Map of the World. The Ingelhart-Welzel Cultural Map of the World. What you're seeing is a scatter plot charting how values compare across nine different clusters (English-speaking, Catholic Europe, Islamic, etc.). What do those terms mean? The x-axis tracks survival values versus self-expression values. WVS offers this admittedly simplified analysis of the plot: These things are sometimes easy to trace on a small scale.
This Garden In A Bottle Has Been Thriving Since 1960: Sealed in its own ecosystem and watered just once in 53 years The Daily Mail has a fascinating feature on David Latimer and his soon to be 54-year-old bottle garden that he started on Easter Sunday back in 1960. Using a ten gallon carboy, Latimer poured in some compost, a quarter pint of water and carefully lowered in a spiderwort seedling (Tradescantia) using a piece of wire. He then placed the bottle garden by a sun-filled window in his home and let photosynthesis do its thing. It wasn’t until 1972 (12 years later) that Latimer gave his bottle garden another drink and it has been sealed ever since! - Bottle gardens work because their sealed space creates an entirely self-sufficient ecosystem in which plants can survive by using photosynthesis to recycle nutrients - The eco-system also uses cellular respiration to break down decaying material shed by the plant. - The water in the bottle gets taken up by plants’ roots, is released into the air during transpiration, condenses down into the potting mixture, where the cycle begins again
This Fungus Is Known As “The Mushroom Of Immortality” & “The King Of All Herbs” We're creating a positive news network. We need your help. Chaga is a non-toxic fungal parasite that grows on birch trees (as well as a few other types) in Northern climates. This mushroom of immortality is said to have the highest level of anti-oxidants of any food in the world and also, the highest level of superoxide dismutase (one of the body’s primary internal anti-oxidant defenses) that can be detected in any food or herb. Chaga is extremely powerful because it contains within it, the actual life force of trees -the most powerful living beings on this Earth. Some Other Medicinal Properties Of The Chaga Mushroom Include: How To Prepare Wild Chaga Mushroom Tea Chaga mushrooms grow wild in forests in Northern climates on birch trees. ***It is important to properly identify the chaga mushroom before consumption. To make the tea, cut a few small pieces off the chaga and place it in a pot. You can also grind up the mushroom into a powder form, or make it into a tincture for convenience.
The Global Brain: Peter Russell (1983) Peter Russell’s award-winning video, based on a live audio-visual presentation in 1983. He explores the idea that the Earth is an integrated, self-regulating living organism and asks what function humanity might have for this planetary being. It suggests that we stand on the threshold of a major leap in evolution, as significant as the emergence of life itself, and the essence of this leap is inner spiritual evolution. Moreover, Peter Russell maintains that it is only through such a shift in consciousness that we will be able to manage successfully the global crisis now facing us. Check out Peter Russell's youtube channel: Check out Peter Russell's Website: Check out Peter Russell on Facebook: Peter Russell is a writer and speaker who focuses on mind, consciousness, perennial philosophy, the core truth of spiritual traditions, science and environment.
How to Build a GeoDome Greenhouse - Northern Homestead When it comes to gardening in colder climates, a greenhouse is almost a must have. It extends the growing season and gives the plants a lot more heat. With a greenhouse, we can actually pick ripe tomatoes here and grow some plants that we would not be able to without one. A greenhouse can also be a great place to hang out on those cool spring days and summer nights. Very unique, lightweight structure Stable in wind and under snow Optimal light absorption Has the most growing ground space A unique hang-out place An eye catcher The GeoDome greenhouse seemed to be just what we were looking for. What materials to use? We looked at dozens of how-to instructions and even bought a pricy e-Book (with very little value). Here we share our GeoDome building experience for anyone who wants to build a GeoDome -Wood. Acidome is one of the best Geodome calculators we were able to find on the internet. First we had to cut the 2x6s to 2″ wide struts. Here’s a graphic of the end of a strut in 3D. .
Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (The Real Reason For The Forty-Hour Workweek) By David Cain / raptitude.com/ Oct 23, 2013 Well I’m in the working world again. I’ve found myself a well-paying gig in the engineering industry, and life finally feels like it’s returning to normal after my nine months of traveling. Because I had been living quite a different lifestyle while I was away, this sudden transition to 9-to-5 existence has exposed something about it that I overlooked before. Since the moment I was offered the job, I’ve been markedly more careless with my money. I’m not talking about big, extravagant purchases. In hindsight I think I’ve always done this when I’ve been well-employed — spending happily during the “flush times.” I suppose I do it because I feel I’ve regained a certain stature, now that I am again an amply-paid professional, which seems to entitle me to a certain level of wastefulness. What I’m doing isn’t unusual at all. It seems I got much more for my dollar when I was traveling. A Culture of Unnecessaries You may have heard of Parkinson’s Law.
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