How to discover your life purpose in about 20 minutes How do you discover your real purpose in life? I’m not talking about your job, your daily responsibilities, or even your long-term goals. I mean the real reason why you’re here at all — the very reason you exist. Perhaps you’re a rather nihilistic person who doesn’t believe you have a purpose and that life has no meaning. Here’s a story about Bruce Lee which sets the stage for this little exercise. If you want to discover your true purpose in life, you must first empty your mind of all the false purposes you’ve been taught (including the idea that you may have no purpose at all). So how to discover your purpose in life? Here’s what to do: Take out a blank sheet of paper or open up a word processor where you can type (I prefer the latter because it’s faster).Write at the top, “What is my true purpose in life?” That’s it. For those who are very entrenched in low-awareness living, it will take a lot longer to get all the false answers out, possibly more than an hour. Give it a shot!
The New Map Of The Brain Trying to map the brain has always been cartography for fools. Most of the other parts of the body reveal their workings with little more than a glance. The heart is self-evidently a pump; the lungs are clearly bellows. The struggle of the mind to fathom the brain it inhabits is the most circular kind of search--the cognitive equivalent of M.C. Modern scientists have done a far better job of things, dividing the brain into multiple, discrete regions with satisfyingly technical names--hypothalamus, caudate nucleus, neocortex--and mapping particular functions to particular sites. Slowly, that is changing. Specialized neurons are being found that allow us to mirror the behavior of people around us, helping us learn such primal skills as walking and eating as well as how to become social, ethical beings. Human beings have always been brash enough to ask such questions but lacked the necessary gifts to answer them.
How to Use English Punctuation Correctly - WikiHow Steps Part 1 Using Proper Capitalization 1Always start a sentence with a capital letter. Unless you're an avant-garde poet or you're starting a sentence with a brand name like "wikiHow" or "iPod," you will need to capitalize the first letter of every sentence. Here is an example of proper capitalization at the beginning of a sentence: She invited her friend over after school. 2Use capital letters to start proper nouns and titles. Part 2 Using End-of-Sentence Punctuation Marks 1Use a period (full stop) to end declarative sentences and statements. Part 3 Using Commas 1Use a comma to indicate a break or pause within a sentence. Part 4 Using Colons and Semicolons 1Use a semicolon to separate two related but independent clauses. Part 5 Using Hyphens and Dashes 1Use a hyphen when adding a prefix to some words. Part 6 Using Apostrophes 1Use the apostrophe together with the letter s to indicate possession. Part 7 Using Slashes 1Use the slash to separate and from or, when appropriate. Part 8 Community Q&A Tips
Home Page - The Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply Is Pornography Driving Men Crazy? - Naomi Wolf Exit from comment view mode. Click to hide this space NEW YORK – It is hard to ignore how many highly visible men in recent years (indeed, months) have behaved in sexually self-destructive ways. Of course, the heightened technological ability nowadays to expose private behavior is part of the reason for this change. What is driving this weirdly disinhibited decision-making? There is an increasing body of scientific evidence to support this idea. The hypothesis among the experts was that pornography was progressively desensitizing these men sexually. Given the desensitization effect on most male subjects, researchers found that they quickly required higher levels of stimulation to achieve the same level of arousal. Since then, a great deal of data on the brain’s reward system has accumulated to explain this rewiring more concretely. This is not to say that they are not responsible for their behavior.
wrapping up 2007 (28 December 2007, Interconnected) Wrapping up 2007: As Borges wrote reviews of non-existent books, I have notes for essays I'll never write. Here I've collected what's been on my mind the last couple of months. The common theme of Web 2.0 Expo Berlin was surfaces, which I picked up primarily from a talk on microformats as nanotech by Jeremy Keith and a conversation with Terry Jones. In short: the surface of the Web is currently pages - these are the atoms - which are interlinked (Tom Coates talks about how to be native to the Web of data). Search engines index the text, and our browsers make local deductions from the raw source to show rendered pages. What microformats and other forms of structure do is increase the resolution of the Web: each page becomes a complex surface of many kinds of wrinkles, and by looking at many pages next to each other it becomes apparent that certain of these wrinkles are repeated patterns. So what does phenotropics mean for the Web? The macro investigation is like chemistry.
RFQ RFT RFP RFI - Procurement Processes Negotiation Experts - Tendering Clients and newsletter readers have asked that we demystify the meaning behind each of the following procurement terms: RFI, RFQ, RFT and RFP. These processes have steadily grown in popularity in procurement and purchasing, especially amongst larger buying organisations. Sadly proper training is often not given on which process to use and in how to effectively use each process. As a result, in practice you will find these phrases used interchangeably, as many organisations don’t understand the differences sufficiently, resulting in the buyers missing negotiation advantages. RFI – Request for Information An open enquiry that spans the market seeking broad data and understanding. RFQ – Request for Quotation An opportunity for potential suppliers to competitively cost the final chosen solution(s). RFT – Request for Tender An opportunity for potential suppliers to submit an offer to supply goods or services against a detailed tender. Request for Information (RFI) Request for Quotation (RFQ)
In Blur of A.D.H.D., Sleep Troubles May Be a Culprit Getty Images Diagnoses of attention hyperactivity disorder among children have increased dramatically in recent years, rising 22 percent from 2003 to 2007, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But many experts believe that this may not be the epidemic it appears to be. Many children are given a diagnosis of A.D.H.D., researchers say, when in fact they have another problem: a sleep disorder, like sleep apnea. “No one is saying A.D.H.D. does not exist, but there’s a strong feeling now that we need to rule out sleep issues first,” said Dr. The symptoms of sleep deprivation in children resemble those of A.D.H.D. The latest study suggesting a link between inadequate sleep and A.D.H.D. symptoms appeared last month in the journal Pediatrics. Children at highest risk of developing A.D.H.D. Most important, perhaps, those already found to have A.D.H.D. before surgery subsequently behaved so much better in many cases that they no longer fit the criteria.
Trading Hours For Dollars « John Chow dot Com There are many ways to make money in this world. By far the most common is trading hours for dollar, also known as a job. Maybe it’s the fact that I have never held a job for more than a year of my entire life, but I just can’t understand why people would choose to make their income this way. You Are Taxed The Most If you trade hours for dollars, congratulation! You Have The Fewest Tax Breaks Not only are you taxed the most but you have the fewest tax breaks available. You Only Earn Dollars When You’re Trading Trading hours for dollar creates no residual or passive income – if you’re not trading, you’re not making any money. There Are Only 24 Hours In A Day It doesn’t matter how many dollars you trade your hours for, you are limited to 24 hours just like everyone else. Eventually a time will come when you can no longer trade hours for dollars. If you trade hours for dollar I would recommend you take a serious look at your situation. Did you enjoy this post?
Negotiation Strategies & Skills Course - Negotiation for Executives Management and Leadership Dates: Jun 10-11, 2014| Oct 28-29, 2014 Certificate Track: Management and Leadership Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts Tuition: $3,300 (excluding accommodations) Program Days (for certificate credit): 2 Negotiation is a daily practice within business organizations. Q&A with Jared CurhanJared Curhan, the program Faculty Director, shares his thoughts on what defines a successful negotiation process. The MIT Edge True to the deeply analytical and quantitative MIT style, the material in this program is based on extensive scientific research by Professor Curhan and his colleagues. Join the MySloanExecEd Community Group for this program to network with past, present, and future participants. “Successful negotiation is about communication. Prof. In this program, participants will learn how to: Powerful negotiators are valued at all levels of an organization. “People who establish great relationships have more people who want to negotiate with them.