Unconscious Competence No matter what you are learning, whether it be a skill or a subject or a piece of information, if you practice this enough it will get down to the level of unconscious competence. Sometimes we say learn something by heart. Sometimes we say learn something until it is second nature, but […]
Unlocking Hidden Energy
Troy A Myth? For the longest time historians believe it that the Trojan war story in the city of Troy was completely a myth. Nobody really believed that the ancient city of Troy was a real place until very recently when they started to find some archaeological evidence that Troy was indeed an actual city. […]
Punishment Of Evildoers
Three Month Probation I’ve a friend who was a programmer a long time ago. He’s probably still a programmer today, but when he first got one of his first jobs, they told him that he had to go through a 90 day probationary period, which he was okay with. But after a couple of […]
Necessity Of Competition
High School Blunder When I was in high school, about 100 years ago, I ran track and I ran cross-country. I got into the habit of jogging after school a couple days a week and one day I was out jogging and a friend of mine that I worked with saw me. He called […]
Undersea Hallucination
Renting Skis A couple of months ago I was going skiing and so I had to go rent a pair of skis. I have been skiing ever since I was a kid or at least I learned how to ski when I was a kid and I’m been skiing off and on since I was […]
Reversions To The Mean
Camping Is Fun I’ve always liked camping. I’ve always liked different kinds of camping. When I was very young I joined Boy Scouts and that’s where I first learned all about camping and how you can do it in its various forms. When I was in college me and my friends used to go […]
Your Super Genius Brain
Unexpected Aquarium A couple of weeks ago I went to a very interesting aquarium that unexpectedly opened in my neighborhood. I’m not a particularly huge fan of aquariums. They’re nice to go to. I like to spend an hour or so walking around looking at the various types of fish, but they’re not something that […]
Secrets Of Inventions
Natural Trade Anthropologists will tell us there’s four basic kinds of trade that take place between humans, both modern humans and ancient humans. The first type is trade a thing for a thing, meaning I give you something now and you give me something back of equal value. The second type is trade thing […]
Rise To The Occasion
Elementary School Nightmare When I went from elementary school to junior high school it was particularly terrifying because when I was in elementary school I had a lot of friends that I had made over the years. I was familiar with the location. but when I went to junior high school it was completely new […]
Think Your Way Out
Gym Buddy There’s a guy that I talked to the gym that’s a personal trainer. I usually see them sometimes when I’m working out and I talk to him sometimes. I’m always interested in his strategy for getting new clients. He says when it comes to being a personal trainer the strategy to get […]