I liked two plays a lot until recently:
What do these two plays have in common? They’re highly engaging and entertaining. In this case, the main emotion is humor, but it’s not 100% just that.
Yesterday evening I saw Seaside Stories – Teatrul de Stat Constanța.
My feedback on it?
Have a look at this:
In 2004, winner Rustam Kasimdzhanov walked away from the six-game world championship having lost 17 pounds. In October 2018, Polar, a U.S.-based company that tracks heart rates, monitored chess players during a tournament and found that 21-year-old Russian grandmaster Mikhail Antipov had burned 560 calories in two hours of sitting and playing chess — or roughly what Roger Federer would burn in an hour of singles tennis.
Why grandmasters like Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana lose weight playing chess.
It seems that chess can help with burning calories. The brain, it seems, actually does some calorie-burning efforts.
I would love to think more on the matter, but I’m afraid I might lose some weight by doing so!
Research shows that using humor can help encourage others to want interact with you in the future.
People who incorporate levity in presentations are more likely to be seen as competent and confident.
You don’t have to be naturally hilarious to use humor at work. Being a “humor appreciator” may also yield some benefits.
It’s important to stick to positive approaches to humor that don’t “punch down.”Humor boosts your credibility at work (and that’s no joke) – Work Life by Atlassian
So, there you go! You should aim to be funnier, making people laugh.
I always thought that jokes make people lower their aggressiveness and might like you (Despre râs – trei lucruri – Blog de Olivian Breda).
Now, I have a confirmation of this.
A lot of people seem to be afraid to say “I don’t know” / “I’m not sure”.
Also, asking questions like “Would you prefer…?”.
To me, this is a sign of strength, not weakness.
I think more people should say, “I don’t know!” and set themselves open to finding out new things rather than appearing to be omniscient.
I don’t think that Magazine-Type WordPress themes are fit-for-all.
What’s a magazine-type website?
See, for example:
For them, it’s great. They add a lot of news, and when you enter the website, there is a logical structure – the most important pieces of news get the most attention.
For a website that publishes just a few times a month, there’s actually no need for a magazine-type theme.
A “regular” blog theme will do.
Sure, a magazine-style theme looks nice.
But if doesn’t fit the style of the website, I suggest you avoid it.
It might seem obvious, but a lot of time in Usability and User Design and User eXperience Design, people tend to make the suggested buttons big.
So, if you’re on a website and wonder what button to click, look for the big button.
If there is more than one, consider the most important one as the most intensely colored.
As a thumb rule – pick the big, red button.
I recently traveled to Galați.
It made me reconsider some things:
As a conclusion, traveling is good for comparing things.
I don’t like to use a smartphone that much – a tiny screen, a hard-to-use keyboard, no mouse & precision.
So, a lot of things I share and use come from the desktop PC.
A small comparison between the two:
In conclusion, I prefer desktop devices, but I do understand why some people prefer to use photos/videos directly in apps rather than giving links (they’re easier to consume, even if they provide no context).
Following a recent article (The best titles that all articles about successful people have – Blog de Olivian Breda), I want to present you something else: there are plenty of articles that claim they found a solution for you to become the next Steve Jobs (a search »).
Some of these articles claim they have found the trick in Steve Jobs’ sleeve – how was it that it was so successful?
The thing is – there are much more articles on how to be like Steve Jobs than new Steve Jobs seem to show up.
So, a lot of people claim to know Steve Jobs, and they can teach you some things from his life, but yet new Steve Jobs doesn’t show up.
Perhaps the articles are not that bad, but it does help put things in perspective – lots of solutions/pieces of advice, but few actual examples.
You should “get lost in the present moment” (like children tend to do).
“Not thinking about the past, not preoccupied with the future, but completely caught up with a kind of joyful abandon in the present moment”.
The solution? “… like a child, be able to live with a kind of beautiful, joyful abandon in the present moment”.
Did I tell you how much I appreciate Bishop Barron? Because I do. :)