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POPS The Guinea Pig Diaries A.J. Jacobs, the man who spent a year reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica and another year following every rule prescribed by the Biblesubsequently turning his experiences into the hilarious New York Times bestsellers The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically -- chronicles his recent adventures in extreme living in The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment. With fearlessness, Jacobs immerses himself in month-long exercises in self-illumination -- from assuming the identity of a beautiful young woman to living a life of total honesty. VIDEO on Source. In Jacobs' quest for self-improvement, he embarks on nine projects that deal with every aspect of modern life: Love, work, fame, truth and, of course, nudity. The results are equal parts funny and insightful.
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POPSWhy We Protect Ourselves With Excuses How making excuses stop us from attaining happiness, health and peace of mind. This post teaches us that by stopping the excuses we make to ourselves and others, we can change our lives for the better and get rid of many bad habits.
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POPSScience of Search: How to Make Out, or Levitate How-to searches also reveal our aspirations. Comprising 12% of the instructional searches were those questions geared towards self improvement: how to "lose weight," "gain weight," "make money," and, for those truly in search of instant gratification, "make money fast." On the darker side, over 9.5% of the searches were for illicit or illegal activities, with marijuana use figuring high on the list ("how to grow marijuana," "grow pot," "grow weed") but also some very concerning questions: "how to commit suicide," "how to make meth," even "how to make a bomb." We apparently feel comfortable enough with our computers and the Internet to query just about anything. Search continues to grow in importance as we sift through the mountain of information available to us. As the growth of "how to" searches increases, its clear that we are turning to search engines as sources of knowledge and insight into getting things done.
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POPS2 Secrets to a Better You: Pat yourself on the Back By the way, showing appreciation for yourself and accomplishments has many rewards that go far beyond boosting your own self-confidence. It's like a cascade--your heightened confidence will spill over into other aspects of your life. Watch what happens when you gain that special trust in yourself. You'll attract opportunities, experience more fulfilling relationships, and have no trouble reaching loftier goals. Remember, people like to be around those who have a healthy self-esteem and who are achieving their goals. Commit to acknowledging your achievements and your brain will begin to tell you the truth: that you can do anything!
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POPS10 Simple Tips to Become More Happy Are you really happy? Do you even know what it means to be happy and what it takes to get happiness in you life? These are very important questions for anyone who is seeking happiness to ask themselves.
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POPSNASA & Google Join Forces to Research Singularity -the "Intelligence Revolution" (VIDEO) Real AI effects are closer than you might think, with entirely automated systems producing new scientific results and even holding patents on minor inventions. The key factor in singularity scenarios is the positive-feedback loop of self-improvement: once something is even slightly smarter than humanity, it can start to improve itself or design new intelligences faster than we can leading to an intelligence explosion designed by something that isn't us. The Singularity University proposes to train people to deal with the accelerating evolution of technology, both in terms of understanding the directions and harnessing the potential of new interactions between branches of science like artificial intelligence, genetic engineering and nanotechnology.
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POPSBe Happy Now Living in the present and appreciating life now is the secret to happiness. Unfortunately we realize it only when we get wake-up calls.
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POPSThe Left-Handed Advantages and Disadvantages Only about 5% to 30% of people in the world are left-handed. Then again, as many lefties might point out, being left-handed can also offer intellectual prowess. Tests conducted by Alan Searleman from St Lawrence University in New York found there were more left-handed people with IQs over 140 than right-handed people. Famous left-handed thinkers in history from Albert Einstein to Isaac Newton to Benjamin Franklin seem to underline the point.
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POPS7 Steps to becoming a more confident you The unconsciose mind.More of the same old same old self improvement stuff that has become big business in many variations with variations on theme that we think about.So you keep coming back for more hoping age is a work of art and we make most of our potential or feel better for trying, where theres life there hope, it is what you are thinking as you experience the world.
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POPS101 Goals in 1001 Days I no longer make New Year's Resolutions because I seldom keep them. But, since I need to accomplish all the things mentioned, I'm going to try this one.
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