Make My Losses Your Gains I grew up relatively poor compared to my peers, but a scholarship allowed me to get a degree. That’s when I realized a degree no longer guaranteed financial stability. I landed a job as a small town reporter earning less than a sanitary engineer (garbage man). Instead of slinging trash, I was slinging words, and I […]
Each Picture Tells an Incredible Story Justin Bieber at age 13 sings for passer-bys in Stratford, Canada, 2007. “You’ve come a long way baby…” Marlene Dietrich gets detained at a train station in Paris in 1933 for violation of the ban on women wearing pants. Michael Jackson and Donald Trump ride a plane together to pay a visit to young AIDS patient […]
It’s Time to Get “Eccentric” With Exercise “The Rock” as Black Adam. Credit: Time Warner Most think that lifting weights is the best way to get “ripped,” but it turns out lowering weights builds muscle twice as fast as lifting them, says a new study. “Eccentric” contractions, like lowering weights, involves lengthening muscles under tension. Also known as negative reps, Dwayne “The […]
Origin of the “8 Pieces of Brocade” in Qigong A young boy was growing up in southern China when his town was invaded by an army from the north. The boy, Yue Fei, wanted to fight the invaders, but he faced a dilemma. He also needed to care for his elderly mother. Torn between competing Chinese virtues of loyalty and filial […]
How to Balance Your Chi for Deeper Rest During an episode of insomnia, someone said, “God gives you the sleep you need.” It seemed blunt at the time, but I got the point: There’s often a purpose to our troubled sleep. Just acknowledging there’s a lesson behind our insomnia can help, like viewing adversity as a teacher instead of a tormentor. […]
Science Caught up With the Gurus We have an anxiety problem, collectively, according to a U.S. health task force. Our top worries sound familiar: Political and racial unrest Climate change Inflation and the economy Handling the “end” of the pandemic If any of these issues bother you deeply, you’re not alone. A shocking 40 percent of women and 25 percent of […]
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How to Get Rich (without luck) His cryptic words arrived as a series of tweets. They came from a user on Twitter known as Naval: The mysterious user is Naval Ravikant, an Indian entrepreneur and investor. He founded AngelList before helping launch over 200 companies like Uber, Clubhouse, Stack Overflow and even Twitter itself. One day, for no apparent reason, he […]
When the Right Words Mean Everything There’s been 2 times when nothing could cheer me up. Deep in a rut, I stopped relating to this thing called life. It didn’t really matter the circumstances, because it was my reaction to events that mattered, not the circumstances themselves. The important part is I emerged to discover what truly helps “the helpless.” […]
Reverse Catfishing Creates a “Pleasant Surprise” In the wild world of online dating, many say that people don’t show their true selves but rather use filtered pictures —often edited to extremes — to seem more attractive than they are. People are so fed up with this, there’s a reverse trend building… “I was at a festival, in the rain, no makeup on, […]