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I am on the fence :) The scaffolding approach sounds sensible, and must be a preferred approach if it works for you, but evidence suggests performers of various persuasions - despite incrementally increasing their audience size over many years (from small drama clubs, to film school, theatre, and be...

By (1) speaking regularly and (2) scaffolding You don’t start with a 1 hour unscripted speech to a hostile audience of 5,000 people. Instead, you start with a 2 minute, scripted speech to friends. Then you build from there, making a 4 minute speech to 10 people, then a 5 minute speech to 15, and ev...

The worst example is over one year! Most projects pause until the next weekend, which highlights the risk, but still renders it immeasurable. I picked exercise because it is time-bound and will wear me down in under one hour, whereas time taken for tea is non-deterministic (esp. unlimited top-ups an...

Very good, thank you. My revised view is that the dull detour provokes an emotional reaction; and processing emotion the emotion is the unplanned context switch. In other words encountering a dull detour breaks the PDCA cycle not because it is creates new on-topic work tasks, but because it creates ...

I agree that an appearance can shut down opportunities. I also suggest more studies are needed on the perception of spectacles because current assertions are at odds with personal observations. There is a possibility that recent experiments have made impactful assumptions by selecting certain actors...

There might be other ways to becoming smarter. Travis Bradbury says you can be smarter by wearing spectacles as this impacts the cognitive bias of others, but I am not sure this is clinically proven. Studies have shown others will rate a person wearing glasses as being “smarter” than a control grou...

Adding to the above, according to Bill Gates, Warren Buffet protects his time and has empty days in his calendar. This strongly suggests there is wealth-generating potential in planning ahead and leaving yourself time to digest information without pressure. Note: Buffet made his career by reading co...

Eldar Shafir, a professor of psychology at Princeton, explains what happens when we worry about not having enough of something.. BBC Psychology delivers "Why worrying about the present could affect your future" in three minutes. In this video Professor Eldar Shafir explains that working h...

You get frustrated with the familiar, the dull, the routine unexpected delays. I think that is normal. Still, these types of delays should not cause “delivery stress”, unless you didn’t give yourself enough time to get to your destination. If you failed to account for the fact that you have never d...

The question then becomes, why when you hit a bump during D, does it delay you? Why does coming across an unexpected complication cause you to shut down the process (temporarily), losing focus in order to get a cup of tea? I mean you know your plan was not well developed and you don’t care, because...

Is luck down to chance, or can our fortune be influenced by the way we think and behave? Professor Richard Wiseman, a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK, has identified four key factors that separate lucky and unlucky people. Professor Wiseman explains his observations in a B...

Many people . . . aren't so healthy. So? The precise reason is that just because you eliminate one mistake, it does not mitigate the other four mistakes that man makes with his diet. See this post , and use your thinking cap. Anemia is one of the more common complaints, often caused by Vitamin B12 ...

I think you mean Vegans are often unhealthy. Vegetarians are generally more relaxed and intake plenty of animal proteins (and animal fats) by consuming dairy and eggs. Vegans are sometimes unhealthy because there are often too few essential amino acids in their diet. The amino acids are the basic in...

I liked the idea of one meal veggies and fruits. I will do that. I will buy the book on Google books. That is close to how Europeans ate circa 500-1000 AD, and an article in Science Daily claims, "Men From Early Middle Ages Were Nearly As Tall As Modern People". The staple recipes at that...

Notice that even you said that we need "amino acids" and not "proteins." That was intentional and it was done because I was being accurate. Our bodies synthesise our own human proteins. The foreign proteins we eat are always broken down into amino acids, and the amino acids are ...