“If your are wrong, accept it.
It is not called giving up.
It is called growing up.”
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“Learning from history is cheap. And worth it.
“What are the five best decisions your competitor or your predecessor made last year?
“Not only because they worked, but because they showed you a new way of thinking, something that went against your instincts or biases…
“Every political candidate ought to be able to outline the five lessons learned from the men and women who came before–especially the positive things they’ve learned from those in other parties. Those unwilling or unable to do so are either demagogues or ignorant.
“…The number one thing to steal from your competitors: Wisdom.”
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2016/01/the-five-top-things.html
Research is pointing to conscientiousness as the one-trait-to-rule-them-all in terms of future success, both career-wise and personal.
What is it? Basically, it’s being “efficient, organized, neat, and systematic”:
Conscientiousness is the state of being thorough, careful, or vigilant; it implies a desire to do a task well. Conscientiousness is also one trait of the five-factor model of personality, and is manifested in characteristic behaviors such as being efficient, organized, neat, and systematic. It includes such elements as self-discipline, carefulness, thoroughness, self-organization, deliberation (the tendency to think carefully before acting), and need for achievement.
http://time.com/3136568/science-points-to-the-single-most-valuable-personality-trait/?
Why You Should Fix Your Inconsistent Sleep Schedule
http://nautil.us/blog/why-you-should-fix-your-inconsistent-sleep-schedule
“Are Habits Overhyped? Here’s What Really Works”
“Habits vs. Routines – There is a Difference”
“So what are habits, really?”
“…habit works by generating an impulse to do a behavior with little or no conscious thought.” Habits are simply how the brain learns to do things without deliberation. These impulses can be put to good use, but only certain behaviors can become habits.
“Building a habit is relatively simple — just harness the impulse. For new habits to take hold, provide a clear trigger, make the behavior easy to do, and ensure it occurs frequently. For example, by completely removing unhealthy food from my home and eating the same thing every morning, my diet became a healthy habit. I extracted the decision making process out of what I eat at home.
“However, if the behavior requires a high degree of intentionality, effort, or deliberation, it is not a habit. Although proponents of habits tout them as miracle cures for doing things we’d rather not do, I’m sorry to say that’s snake oil. All sorts of tasks aren’t habits and never will be. By definition, doing things that are effortful aren’t habits.
“… A routine is a series of behaviors regularly practiced. Routines don’t care if you feel an urge or not, they just need to get done.”
http://www.nirandfar.com/2016/01/habits-overhyped-heres-really-works.html
“My sense is that what we have here is a feedback loop. Does media attention increase a candidate’s standing in the polls? Yes. Does a candidate’s standing in the polls increase media attention? Also yes.
“And everything else which sways both journalists and voters in the same direction just increases the correlation. The media and the public and the candidates are embedded in a system where every part affects every other.”
http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/01/how-much-influence-does-the-media-really-have-over-elections-digging-into-the-data
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/career-advice/programming-bootcamp-investigated-by-education-officials/article12786527/
http://readwrite.com/2013/06/27/bitmaker-labs-embarks-on-regulation-process
“Under the 2005 Private Career Colleges Act, programs that cost more than $1,000 or last for more than 40 hours are legally private colleges. (Bitmaker Labs lasts for nine weeks and costs $9,000.) While the company originally agreed to work with the MTCU to undergo regulation at great cost to their business model, it found out on Thursday that it was eligible for a face-saving exception.
“It turns out that how we’re structured, and the fact that most of our students come in with some basic coding skills, we were actually able to qualify for an exemption under Professional Development and therefore we’re allowed to operate,”
http://readwrite.com/2013/07/04/canadian-coding-camp-bitmaker-labs-is-back-in-business
“….focused more on educating than credentialing.
“The program is only nine weeks. There are no grades, no pieces of paper. We thought we were in some kind of grey area,” he said.”
“That grey area is important, Jarmain said, because having to get the MTCU to sign off on curriculum means some of what gets taught can be obsolete before students take their seats. The way that web development techniques called Ajax works can change from year to year, for example. As Bitmaker Labs now tries to become accredited, there’s a fear it won’t be able to keep skills relevant. “We have had some people drop out of other programs and come to us for precisely that reason.”
“The Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities offers a free pre-screening process to anyone seeking information about whether or not Ontario’s legislation applies to particular schools and programs in order to assist businesses that wish to offer new programs,”
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/blogs/dashboard/bitmaker-labs-lesson-wrong-canadian-tech-education-185056404.html
“Exemption under the Private Career Colleges Act, 2005 means that an institution is not required to be registered with the Superintendent of Private Career Colleges and/or a program offered by an institution does not require approval before being offered to the public.”
http://heatherpayne.ca/on-education-and-regulations-and-innovation/
http://www.tcu.gov.on.ca/pepg/audiences/pcc/factsheet1.pdf
60% of conversations in English require knowing only…
60% of conversations in English require knowing only 500 words.
75% of conversations require knowing 900 words.
“…Shukor is keeping the details of his plans fluid until he is actually on board ISS, a point with which Dr. Khaleel Mohammed, assistant professor of religion at San Diego State University, concurs. “In space,” Mohammed points out, “the ritual prayer might be offset for more of a prayer that is allowed when on jihad … for the lack of gravity and directional accuracy makes it legitimate to do as one sees fit. God does not take a person to task for that which is beyond his/her ability to work with.”
“Questions like these will continue as more and more religious astronauts travel into space. When is sunset in low Earth orbit if you’re experiencing a dozen sunrises and sunsets in every 24-hour period? When does Sabbath begin on the moon, where the sun sets once a month? When is the first sighting of the crescent moon if you’re on Mars? Religious councils of all faiths will have plenty to keep them busy for years.”
http://www.wired.com/2007/09/mecca-in-orbit/
For Hongkongers who feel life is going too fast, walking a labyrinth can help
Viewed by some as a metaphor for life, negotiating a labyrinth is akin to walking meditation
http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-beauty/article/1896774/hongkongers-who-feel-life-going-fast-walking-labyrinth-can