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How To Get What You Want By Asking The Right Way
Have you ever asked for something and got rejected? A couple of friends wanted to attend Ad Tech in San Francisco next week but didn’t want to pay the $1,695 it takes to get a full conference pass. Since both friends ran blogs, I told them to email Ad Tech for a press pass. The friend with the bigger blog applied and was rejected. The friend with the smaller blog got approved within an hours of sending the email. Details »
52 Proven Stress Reducers
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- Get up fifteen minutes earlier in the morning. The inevitable morning mishaps will be less stressful.
- Prepare for the morning the evening before. Set the breakfast table, make lunches, put out the clothes you plan to wear, etc.
- Don?t rely on your memory. Write down appointment times, when to pick up the laundry, when library books are due, etc. (“The palest ink is better than the most retentive memory.” – Old Chinese Proverb)
- Do nothing which, after being done, leads you to tell a lie.
- Make duplicates of all keys. Bury a house key in a secret spot in the garden and carry a duplicate car key in your wallet, apart from your key ring. Details »
The 5 Things I’d Tell My 21 Year Old Entrepreneurial Self
12 years ago I set out on my first foray into the world of entrepreneurship. The company was called MCSETutor.com (we later changed the name to the equally obtuse 2000Tutor.com) and while it wasn’t a huge success by dot com era standards we did sell it for a tidy profit. But looking back I’m shocked at how little I knew about entrepreneurship.
As I’m sure any entrepreneur would love to do, I’d give anything to step back in time 12 years and have a chat with my 21 year old self. And while I can’t do that I do love to share lessons with as many young entrepreneurs as I can. I’ve spoken a bunch at colleges and other organizations for young entrepreneurs. I love passing along lessons while realizing that my experience is far from complete and I have many lessons yet to learn. Still, here are 5 things I’d tell myself if I could step back to 1997 and take myself out for coffee (yes, I know that sounds strange…)
#1 – Take as much risk as you can as early in life as you can. My choice at the time was to either be an investment banker or start a company with some friends. Starting a company sounded way riskier. Which is the main reason why I think I took it. Yogi Berra may have said when you come to a fork in the road take it but I’d merely add when you come to a fork in the road take the riskier path.
I’m not talking stupid risks. But smart, calculated ones. Look, at some point in your life you’ll have kids and a mortgage and a spouse who might not be super understanding of your crazy business ideas. But when you’re young you usually don’t have any of those things. Which means you can swing for the fences. Please do so. I promise you won’t regret it. Details »
Coincidence
A poor understanding of probability leads many people to put forward supernatural explanation for events that are far more common than they think.
This video shows how probability theory is sufficient to explain even seemingly remarkable coincidences.
COMBO: a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis
Blu, the innovative street artist who brought us the viralicious wall-painted animation MUTO, is at it again. Just recently, Blu teamed up with David Ellis and together they made COMBO (via Wooster Collective)
Heat for the Heart: Chili Chemical May Cut Post-Attack Cell Harm
WALL STREET JOURNAL | RESEARCH REPORT | NEW MEDICAL FINDINGS
A peculiar use of capsaicin, the compound that makes chili peppers spicy, could dramatically reduce damage from heart attacks, according to a study in Circulation. The researchers applied capsaicin on part of the abdominal skin of mice before cutting off the blood supply to their coronary arteries for 45 minutes—in effect, mimicking a heart attack. Twenty-four hours later, these mice had lost only 15% as many heart cells as mice that had instead received a placebo gel before the same procedure. The researchers suspect that capsaicin applied to abdominal skin aids heart recovery by stimulating nerves connected to the spinal cord, which in turn activate survival-oriented nerves in the heart muscle.
Caveat:The researchers did not test their methods on human subjects. (Read more.)
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