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My recommended solutions on eating healthy

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The best article on health I’ve read: Unhappy Meals | Michael Pollan). Alternative: Simple Rules for Healthy Eating – The New York Times (also see the links). The best documentary I know of on health – Sugar: The Bitter Truth – YouTube (in Romanian, more details – Schimbător de vieți? Despre zahăr, video în engleză, 90 minute (cu alternative de non-vizionare): Olivian Breda). The best diet I know of: Mediterranean Diet Review: Foods & Weight Loss Effectiveness / Mediterranean Diet — What You Need to Know — US News Best Diets. How to lose weight / live longer? Eat less. BBC News – The power of intermittent fasting / Eat, Fast and Live Longer – Horizon on Vimeo. Also: Neuroscientist Shows What Fasting Does To Your Brain & Why Big Pharma Won’t Study It | Collective-Evolution

Două opțiuni – blazare sau creștere

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Dacă ar fi să reduc o activitate, cum îmi și place, la doar două puncte, aș zice așa – după un entuziasm inițial, după o energie și pasiune, riști să dai în blazare. Durata poate fi mai scurtă sau mai lungă, dar opțiunile sunt următoarele:

  • Să te blazezi. Să fi văzut deja cazul din fața ta de zeci de ori și să ai gândul ăsta în minte. Să ai clasificări foarte clare (cum e articolul de față) în minte, pe boli, și soluții tipice, și recomandări generale. Să te plictisești. Să nu mai vezi rezultatul muncii tale. Să te oprești din inovație și căutarea noului. Să te irite când ți se cere socoteală. Să consideri întrebările altora puerile. Să îți pese mai mult de tine decât de omul din fața ta.
  • Să vrei să crești. Să tratezi cazul ca pe ceva nou. Să cauți surpriza, chiar acolo unde nu există. Să simți că e un adevărat dar să fii în poziția ta, și că starea ta, pe multe planuri e invidiată de enorma majoritate a populației lumii (să fii medic e un maximum pentru mulți oameni, pe diverse planuri). Să te axezi pe fericirea de după. Să simți bucurie când împărtășești altora din ce știi, chiar dacă ai făcut asta de multe ori. Să ceri întrebări de la pacienți, să pui tu întrebări deschise pacienților, iar când primești răspunsul să asculți. Să ai alte priorități decât propria persoană, în exterior (să fii confortabil pe planuri externe) și în tine însuți.

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The best goals to set in order to motivate yourself

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What are the best goals to set in order to motivate yourself? It’s simple – put no goals to yourself. Instead, focus on creating a system in which you will like things. So, instead of saying “I’ll write 10 pages each day for a month”, say “I’ll find something which I like doing, like writing, and have lots of fun doing it”. Quotes on this: The researchers came to a stunning conclusion – one they didn’t expect and a result that turned conventional wisdom about both education and parenting on its head. The kids who were rewarded for their pretty pictures chose to spend less time drawing than those who weren’t rewarded. The children who weren’t told about the prospect of any prize continued to enjoy drawing, but the children who were given awards seemed reluctant to carry on without the promise of further honours. The initial award reduced the children’s motivation rather than spurring them on to greater heights. But that’s not all. The investigative team also asked a group of independent art aficionados, who were unaware of the goals of the study, to evaluate the quality of the children’s handiwork. The pictures drawn by the children who were rewarded tended to be rated as less competent, less skilled than those drawn by the unrewarded children. In other words, the rewarded children didn’t just spend less time drawing when given a choice in the matter; they seemed to put less effort into their art too. (source) A new study by a pair of researchers at the University of Chicago …

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How to avoid cravings?

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First, read some more on the Stanford marshmallow experiment – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: The Stanford marshmallow experiment refers to a series of studies on delayed gratification in the late 1960s and early 1970s led by psychologist Walter Mischel, then a professor at Stanford University. In these studies, a child was offered a choice between one small reward (sometimes a marshmallow, but often a cookie or a pretzel, etc.) provided immediately or two small rewards if he or she waited until the experimenter returned (after an absence of approximately 15 minutes). In follow-up studies, the researchers found that children who were able to wait longer for the preferred rewards tended to have better life outcomes, as measured by SAT scores, educational attainment, body mass index (BMI) and other life measures. However, recent work calls into question whether self-control, as opposed to strategic reasoning, determines children’s behavior. So, the solutions here would be to be able to think of something else (distraction) or think of the final prize (change the desire). The second solution, by Scott Adams: Expanding on that point, let’s say you have a choice between pasta and a white potato. Assume you enjoy both foods equally and you want to choose the best one for your waistline. Which do you pick? I recently posed that question to a crowd of ninety senior managers at a huge tech company. About 88 of them chose the potato. That’s the wrong answer because pasta is only half as high on the glycemic index. The two people …

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How to watch movies at a PC?

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First note: It might be a better idea to watch movies at the cinema. Not for the quality of the video or sound, but for your experience of going to the cinema, the people you’re with, the people around you. Second note: I’m not an expert in computer software for movies. I’ll share my experience. The best program to watch a movie – BS Player. If you want to watch part of the movie, do something else, continue viewing, BS Player has the single most useful thing to me – resume where I left off. It’s got a very good search for subtitles. You set the language (EN / RO / whatever), and the software can automatically look for subtitles for the movies which don’t start with one already. Even if the movie has a subtitle, it can still search for new ones. It’s very good at scrolling through the movie, either with clicking at the desired destination, or using keys. It has simple keys (if you know the keys of WinAmp, you’ll do fine – XCVB. F for full-screen, Space for play/pause). It has simple to understand menus. As a setting, in Romanian, I like to set the subtitle font for Central European, which has diacritics – ș, ț, ă, â, î. I watch the movies in sequences, not the whole movie at a time, so I like to set the default movie to another player (VLC, Media Player Classic). I like BS Player better, but the function for continuing the movie where I …

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Will Smith: “The keys to life: running and reading”

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Some things to add: Reading is nothing without reflection. If you only get stuff in, you don’t go through the necessary processes to do change. Some people advise others, for this, to stop and think (1) and put into practice what you read (2). I advise another thing – teach others. Give presentations with what you learn. Even better, write. Keep a blog. Make it public, if it makes you any better. More on this – Writing Is Thinking · An A List Apart Article. Will Smith says if you are hurt when you run, you should keep running, and this is why running is good. I’m thinking more in health terms – do sports, do any sports, keep doing that sport. At times, even if it mildly hurts, but don’t overdo it, and always ask for an external, proper, opinion on this.

Each Windows installed has its own specificities

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Sometimes, I install Windows-es. They’re all sort of them – XP, 7, 8, different service packs for each of them, x64 and x86. Windows 7 with SP1 on x64 is a different thing than Windows 7 on x86 with no SP. Some programs work, some don’t. The thing is, you can’t predict things easily. You install Last FM and don’t know if it will work, and if it will work correctly. Again, the thing is lots of programs are not installed right away with Windows. So, you install Windows, you install the other software and, surprise!, after a month of usage you discover you need some other programs. And these don’t work. I don’t have a clear solution to this. I just wanted to clarify some things.

Productivity tip: start small

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In marriage, you first go through engagement. Even engagement starts after meeting someone. All these meetings generally start with the first date. The first date starts from doing something which gets a positive emotion. You see, in all these steps: The first emotion – the first date – the following dates – the engagement – perhaps moving in together – marriage – children. People first take a taste. A sample. They see how it’s like. I think this is mostly a productivity reason – prior to making the big step, you take a small step and see how it’s like. Prior to making the perfect situation, you make a not-so-perfect and try to perfect it. In day-to-day processes this could mean, instead of hiring someone with a 3 years contract, you have a trial of three months. Instead of signing a big contract, sign a small one first. Instead of doing it all at once, do it in small steps. You want to build a PC from scratch? How about, prior to buying all the pieces and then seeing what it’s like, you first watch an YouTube video with this? You want to build a house? How about you first get an idea of what construction is by helping a friend doing home improvement, to get a taste of the process? Some things can’t be tested. You can’t test how it’s like to fly a plane. You can have an idea, but for the process itself you just need to do it. You can’t “partially” …

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