3 Things The Most Resilient People Do Every Day
us far, 2020 seems to have been some sort of cosmic clerical error. All around the world people are falling ill, everyone's afraid, and the economy, well... Let's just say I've never heard the word "trillion" used so often and it certainly has not been in a good way. In the United States, some bad actors are exploiting peaceful protests of noble intent to loot and cause mayhem. Times are tough so, of course, people will become cruel and selfish...…
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This Is The #1 Ritual You Need To Do Every Day (Pandemic Edition)
re than five hundred people had died in just five days. All in one small neighborhood. A disproportionate number of them children. It was 1854 and this was one of the worst cholera epidemics London had ever seen. The cause was a mystery and until it was found, children would keep dying. The bacterium Vibrio cholerae infects the small intestine and basically squeezes the water from your body until your organs fail. How does it get from one person's intestine to…
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How To Be Resilient: 5 Secrets To Mental Toughness (Pandemic Edition)
u don’t get a name like “The Black Death” for nothing. "The Foster scale" is the Richter scale for historical catastrophes. On its list of high scorers, The Black Death comes in at #2. Throughout all of recorded history, only World War 2 produced more death and suffering than the plague did. From The Great Mortality: According to the Foster scale, a kind of Richter scale of human disaster, the medieval plague is the second greatest catastrophe in the human record.…
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This Is The Most Fun Way To Make Your Life Awesome (Pandemic Edition)
was 1962, the girls wouldn’t stop laughing and nobody knew why. And even stranger, the laughter was spreading. Like a virus. This was at an all-girls school in Kashasha, Tanzania. A few students had started laughing and they couldn't stop. And this inexplicable behavior spread from girl to girl until 95 of the 159 students were affected. After 6 weeks the school had to close because of it. But that didn't stop the laughter. It had already spread to a…
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11 Secrets That Will Make You More Secure On The Internet
acked accounts in the news. Endless robocalls. Online ads that eerily seem to read your mind. Do I hear Alexa and Siri gossiping about your secrets? It almost feels like paranoia is a totally appropriate reaction. In 2018 alone, data breaches exposed four-point-five billion records to hackers. Three months into…
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How To Easily Build Good Habits: 4 Secrets From Research
ou have a long list of things you know you should be doing regularly... But for some reason, you just don't do them. What's the deal? The solution is building habits. Doing hard things isn't hard if you're on autopilot. But how do we make building habits simple and painless?…
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How To Be Smarter With Money: 8 Simple Secrets
veryone wants to know what the next great investment is. But that's the wrong question. If you want to make money over the long haul, picking investments isn’t the real problem. When studies compare how well investments perform to how well investors perform there's always a gap. Investors almost invariably…
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This Is The Easy Way To Save Money: 6 Powerful Secrets From Research
e'd all like to have more money. (That stuff is really useful, ain't it?) Being worried about makin' the bacon can end your marriage, skyrocket your blood pressure, and even cause your brain to malfunction. From Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter: Money is…
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