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The Compound Effect is good, but so is The Slight Edge. Both books are rated highly on Amazon and they are a good read covering largely the same topic. You can search for The Slight Edge images instead. It might make more sense. Incidentally, it is a good hack to look on Amazon.com (wherever...

Texting can be asynchronous while speaking is always synchronous. The former can be done according to your own schedule, while the latter is immediate. Some people are better in one to one conversations and not so good in groups, from an interpersonal perspective. And others aren't that into...

With that combination, they would probably be fast-tracked to CEO. I haven't even touched on the likelihood that when you choose from a small pool of candidates, rather than a large pool, you are likely to get a less able, lower qualified person.

I understand your perspective. It would help if we had another woman or three on here too. I don't think your opinion is ignored. Rather, maybe it is because some of us disagree with it. If you were gender fluid it might not be so much of an issue. :D

I am happy to.

From a young age, I have had a love of chess. It is the most magnificent and enduring of games, rich in both depth and reward. Last year, I went into a tournament and had a horrendous experience. I lost all 5 games, spread over 2 days! This was my worst result ever. However, out of the ashes...

Plato, Socrates, Aristotle...they have all stood the test of time. Both their names and reputations have lasted for thousands of years, referred to regularly in current discourse. I am in awe of their insights. Or were they merely reaping the low hanging fruit, where man had not yet trod? The...

There has been a prominent case of a hate crime in the media lately. A rich, popular black actor said he was a victim of an attempted lynching, with a rope put around his neck. He said the two perpetrators were both wearing "MAGA hats". It now appears that it was staged. For those who don't...

I particularly like that turn of phrase, Doc. My view is that evolution led to gender traits that lean towards a particular structure to aid in survival. It is not by intelligence or design. This is the biggest misconception about evolution. Instead, those genes that won through are the ones...

I just read this headline: "PM calls social media trolls who abuse female MPs as the modern equivalent of the sad man sitting at the 'end of the bar muttering into his beer'". It is slightly misleading. Her actual quote was: "It’s the chap who used to sit on the corner end of the bar every night...

I just read an article a minute ago where a young lad wanted to emulate his father by becoming a police officer. But, he was turned down because he wasn’t disabled, gay or black. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6735465/Graduate-25-turned-police-isnt-disabled-gay-black.html Is it now a...

Yes, you are right. Some people will know less than you or learn using more inefficient tools. But over time, you will incrementally learn more knowledge than they do. Notice in your sentence that you are conflating two different things. People get by without it, but get by with what? Learning...

Apart from Titanic - which women loved, and probably particularly the scene where the hero died - you might find some here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeroicSacrifice This might give some flesh to the bones too...

Yes, there is something about Supermemo that is addictive. It's a great tool that hardly anyone knows about.

The more you use it, the easier the routine becomes. New habits take a cognitive load to get started. But then they tail off and less energy is required.

Got a new update. I am now 13st 6.7lbs! I can't believe how fast the weight is coming off. :eek: That is 11.3lbs lost. What is working well, is: Doing my morning walk. It was initially 24 minutes, but now I have increased that to 28 minutes. Parking my car some distance from my local Costa...

Ah yes, a follow-up would be good. If you have difficulty sticking to it, you can also start your own public accountability thread like I have, with my six-pack challenge. Research shows that making it public helps. My experience has taught me that it helps too. Three hours on Supermemo is a...

If you look at what films are popular for women, you will often find that men end up dying and this is considered romantic. Whether it is risking their life to protect the opposite sex or sacrificing their life because they are jolly good chaps! e.g. Titanic. The narrative of sacrificing the...

Thanks for showing others your grid. I will be interested to see if a) you stick with it, and b) how it evolves.

Hey, nice work rajlego! Over time, you can change it, find things you have difficulty in getting yourself to do and so on. Any chance you can also post your image on The Grid thread too, so others can see what you have done? It gives people more ideas on how to create their own Grid when there...