Quiz: The 36 Questions That Lead to Love
Set I 1. Given the choice of anyone in the world, whom would you want as a dinner guest? 2.
Unless You’re Oprah, ‘Be Yourself’ Is Terrible Advice.
But for most people, “be yourself” is actually terrible advice. If I can be authentic for a moment: Nobody wants to see your true self. We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives, but that are better left unspoken.
What it's like to rent a friend in Japan
After lunch we roam a warren of 100-yen stores nearby—100 yen for a dusty old mug, for a weird cat statue, for a pouch of dried plums. Before parting ways at the subway entrance, we ask someone to snap our photo. That funny kinship that forms in front of a camera—the arms around each other, the shared self-consciousness—seems to happen for us, too.
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flickr/poptech We all know the conventional career advice: Confidence is important. Dress for the job you want.
The Science Of Love
Valentines Day is coming up! We wanted to post all of our favorite articles and videos on romance, love, sex and dating for your enjoyment. What’s Your Love Language?
Why the tech world highly values a liberal arts degree
The Silicon Valley (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) Cecilia Gaposchkin is an associate professor of medieval history at Dartmouth College and assistant dean of faculty for pre-major advising, as well as a Public Voices Fellow. Gaposchkin wrote in an e-mail that people who work at at liberal arts institutions often do “a terrible job” educating their students about their value, and so, she has written this as a “historical explainer” about the purpose and value of a liberal arts education as well as why a degree from one of these schools has, perhaps counter-intuitively, become a hot ticket into the high-powered world of technology. By Cecilia Gaposchkin local answer-sheet
Awake Dating is the hot new website for conspiracy theorists
Perhaps you’ve tried to make a match based on surface connections like eye color, musical taste, or even mullets. But something was missing. Your matches didn’t share your curiosities, your drive for finding truth in the world. Frankly, they didn’t believe in the Illuminati. If this is your problem, maybe Awake Dating is for you. Awake Dating is a site focused on pairing up people who identify as “awake,” which Jarrod Fidden, the COO of Awake Dating, defines as “one who has investigated and come to his or her own conclusions on a collection of topics and issues.
The Patent That Could Destroy Monsanto And Change The World…
If there’s anything you read – or share – let this be it. The content of this article has potential to radically shift the world in a variety of positive ways. And as Monsanto would love for this article to not go viral, all we can ask is that you share, share, share the information being presented so that it can reach as many people as possible. In 2006, a patent was granted to a man named Paul Stamets. Though Paul is the world’s leading mycologist, his patent has received very little attention and exposure.
Is your partner your #1 fan?
One of the most important goals you can strive for in business is to understand, anticipate and consistently fulfill the deepest needs of your clients. Because the more value you are able to add to your customer, the more success you will have. We call this creating a “raving fan customer,” and it’s one of Tony’s 7 Forces of Business Mastery. But did you know this principle can also be used to better your relationship? By focusing on creating a raving fan culture at home, you can put yourself into the positive, loving and relationship-focused mindset that is necessary to build a strong, committed, secure partnership.
We don’t need more STEM majors. We need more STEM majors with liberal arts training.
By Loretta Jackson-Hayes By Loretta Jackson-Hayes February 18, 2015 Dr. Loretta Jackson-Hayes is an associate professor of chemistry at Rhodes College in Memphis. (iStock photo) In business and at every level of government, we hear how important it is to graduate more students majoring in science, technology, engineering and math, as our nation’s competitiveness depends on it.
The Market Failure of First Dates
After the pleasantries are exchanged and the drinks are ordered, after the conversation moves from jobs to tastes in music to viral YouTube videos, after the awkward fumbling for the check, the walk to the curb, the stilted hug-turned-air-kiss-turned-forehead bump, after the goodbyes—every first date leaves one nagging question: Will you ever hear from them again? The dating game is an imperfect market: you may dazzle your date with your wit and mega-watt smile only to never hear from them again. Or you may look forward to meeting a match from a dating site all week, only to find that, although your date portrayed himself accurately online, you’re disappointed when you meet him offline. People are complex, and the reasons why we do or don’t hit it off with one another can be unpredictable. But as with any complex market, there are some underlying principles to dating, and certain commonalities that are exposed when you look beyond your own experiences.
