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Anyone who has become an expert in a field will often be asked by a novice the same inevitable question "How did you become such a great singer, or dancer, or actor, etc". If you observe carefully, the answer consistently contains something in the fashion of "It's hard work, you have to earn it.  Nothing comes easily.  If you really want it you can get there too, there's ...

There are millions of ways of looking at the human psyche, different angles. Vets know about people by learning to deal with animals, bartenders learn through observing how people interact at bars, GPs know though the stories that people tell them, etc...Business people can learn through marketing. Magic happens when you start to look at the same thing through different angles. So, I was reading that book about marketing, ...

I have used email marketing for about 2 years now, most of it in the wrong way because I did what most beginners do. Only now do I understand the serious danger of not knowing the following. For instance, did you know that if more than 1 person OUT OF 1000 click your email into "Report Spam" this can block your outgoing emails in the future? Ok, so what ...

When I tell people I can fly, not without an ounce of provocation, I get those funny looks, just as expected... Of course I cannot fly, but who told you I was talking about real life? From a person to another, people experience various levels of the feel of reality in dreams. When I have a good night's sleep, it can sometimes get scarily real. Let me give you the ...

As I was looking for a limited a list of words I should go for first when learning a new language, I bumped into this interesting paragraph from this blog. No computer program can change the fact that, for whatever reason, learning a language is hard for adults. Rosetta Stone seeks to emulate a child's learning, but it's possible that the brain has changed to make this much harder ...

Having so far spent 3 months in Singapore, where I met a fairly important number of Chinese people from China and Singaporeans with Chinese origins, I have realised how peculiar for a European the family richness transfer is in Chinese-type cultures. Basically, it is a common thing that the most established family wealth does not last longer than 3 generations. In the meantime, it seems to me that rich ...

Online Social Networks : How to cross the bottom line ? GENETICS. Forget about Facebook and Meetic, 23andme.com, a website specialised in individual DNA analysis (which in an acceptable and innovative service), prepares a transformation into a dating/networking website based on people's genetic code. Facebook has that application called "The Most Likely" which invites your friends to tell what you're the most likely to do or to be...Well you're going ...

26.5 years! That's the average amount of sleep for a person in their lifetime. In other words if we were to put altogether your sleeping time, you would sleep for 26.5 YEARS STRAIGHT !!! So yeah, since it takes quite some time, it must be important, and you better know how to do that well. If you are having sleep problems, whether you are not able to fall asleep, wake ...

Uncle Milton Industries has been selling ant farms to children since 1956. Some years ago, I remember opening one up with a friend. There were no actual ants included in the box. Instead, there was a card that you filled in with your address, and the company would mail you some ants. My friend expressed surprise that you could get ants sent to you in the mail. I ...

Very interesting : In brief, researchers have shown that the more you pay for something, the more you have pleasur using it, not matter if it's wine, energy drinks, or as the US recent scandal suggests : sex. Explained with neuroscience, when you pay more, you expect more, more receptors are activated, so greater the satisfaction. Major hypothesis : We assume cheap=low quality, and vice-versa. >> More