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Category Archives: Life Hacks
What Do You Mean?
A lot of hostile exchanges originate from misunderstandings. When a misunderstanding occurs, there is an opportunity to ask for clarification, which can be done simply by asking “What do you mean?” in a calm, sincere fashion. If this opportunity is … Continue reading
Posted in Getting Along with Each Other, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged clarification, communication, conversations, discussions, OODA loop, What Do You Mean?
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Review of The Signal and the Noise
The Signal and the Noise is a cool book by Nate Silver. Silver, who is a statistician, talks a lot about predictions and the many things that relate to them. The book is centered around finding the useful information that … Continue reading
Posted in Great Books, Life Hacks
Tagged accuracy, future, Nate Silver, Pierre-Simon Laplace, predictions, probability, Review of The Signal and the Noise, statistics, The Signal and the Noise
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Creative Destruction
There is an economic concept called creative destruction. This refers to the continuous changes that occur within an economy as old systems are eliminated and new systems arise. I’ve also heard this applied to specifically to industries or even individual … Continue reading
Posted in Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged adaptation, business, change, Creative Destruction, economics, elimination, improvement, progress
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The Method of Loci
Over the course of my life, I’ve used a lot of mnemonic devices, which are techniques for remembering things. One of the best I’ve found is called the method of loci. Also known as the “memory palace”, this mnemonic involves … Continue reading
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Tagged memory palace, mnemonic, mnemonic device, The Method of Loci, visualization, World Memory Championships
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What’s the Rush?
How many people do you know who are always rushing around, never stopping to catch their breath or smell the flowers? For them, the present is an obstacle preventing them from getting to some point in the future where they’d … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged Alan Watts, breath, future, guided meditation, meditation, present, present moment, rushing, stress, thoughts
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Life Paths
There is so much pressure to follow a certain path in life. I see so many people who are burnt out, going through the motions, and doing things that other people want them to do instead of things that they … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Getting Along with Each Other, Humanitarian Things, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged communication, dreams, families, friends, goals, internet, Life Paths, plans
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Adding Positive Experiences
I discovered a life hack last year that works wonders for recovering from difficult, awkward, or even painful situations. I have a hard time forgetting such situations and I tend to replay them in my head. Mindfulness meditation and floating … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Getting Along with Each Other, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement, Swing Dancing
Tagged Adding Positive Experiences, adventures, Alabama, Fear, Florida, fun, Lollies and Lemonade 2019, Orlando, peace, road trips, swing dancing, travel, trips
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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
If you’ve read some of my other blog posts, you probably gathered that I’m an incredibly curious person. I’ve always loved learning new things, figuring things out, and trying to understand how the world works. There is so much that … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Getting Along with Each Other, Humanitarian Things, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Self-Improvement
Tagged free will, knowing, knowledge, learning, Standing on the Shoulders of Giants, understanding
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Paul O’Neill and Keystone Habits
This is an excerpt from Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit that explains the power of “keystone habits”, habits which, in Duhigg’s own words, “start a process that, over time, transforms everything.” When Paul O’Neill became the CEO of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alcoa, Aluminum Company of America, change, Charles Duhigg, habits, keystone habits, Paul O neill, The Power of Habit
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Small Talk
I’ve never been a fan of small talk. At best, it’s a harmless way to pass the time. At worst, it’s draining and completely uninspiring. I prefer talking to people I know well since that typically minimizes small talk and … Continue reading
Posted in Getting Along with Each Other, Great Books, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged close encounters of the social kind, communication, conversations, How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing With People, Les Giblin, small talk
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