Alcohol is an obvious example of a health behaviour influenced by social conditions. Male mortality rates rose dramatically in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It is estimated that there were 4 million excess deaths in the first decade after 1990. It is clear that heavy alcohol consumption …

Over the millennia since humanity’s first ponderings of its mortality, the philosophical implications of the question haven’t changed, but the tools we have to answer it have. Today, the question of the future and ultimate fate of all reality is a solidly scientific one, with the answer tantalizingly …

What drives you when you get up in the morning? Most people settle into one of three areas: survival, success, or significance. If you’re like many people, you may be struggling just to keep your head above water. You’re in survival mode. Whether because of circumstances, setbacks, or …

Most addicts love and many other types of addicts are survivors of childhood traumas. Childhood trauma itself is often misunderstood and misrepresented. This is usually because the word trauma is associated with violence. Having electric garage doors can make all the difference.

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Now that you're equipped with some general rules for prioritizing financial goals, we need to rank goals that are tied to consumption. After all, the quality of the journey is just as important as the destination. While your retirement savings and emergency fund are the nonnegotiable top priorities, there isn't …

Overwhelming joy went through the Western world as it witnessed the tearing down of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The great Wall had long stood as the symbol of separation between the material abundance of the West and the economic scarcity of the East. It represented the dividing line between …

As you know, it is almost impossible to conceive a sale without objections, to believe that it is possible is a fantasy that will not propel us productively towards the fulfillment of our goals. It is likely that if you are already having experience in the sales world, you are …

Anyone trying to manage by task, not time, should rethink how to do meetings. The fundamental concept of a meeting is sound. You bring people together—in-person or virtually—at an appointed time to reach a decision. If you’re in the rare organization that never has meetings (some medical …

Consider the relationship of wall to opening (solid to void). Always try to maintain the feeling of a substantial wall structure. Traditional buildings did not have reinforced concrete or steel posts and lintels that could span long distances. Load-bearing walls required a structural integrity running from foundation to roof, with …

Teachers use this method constantly. Asking students questions requires them to process the information they have just heard and use it to discover an answer. My mother was an English professor at California State University in Sacramento, and she used this method on me growing up. I hated it! Whenever …

Circulating supply is an estimate of all the coins that are circulating in the open market at this point in time. We generally accept this to mean coins that are in people’s hands or wallets that haven’t been lost. This is what market cap is based on. Bitcoin …

We’ve all done it, haven’t we? Copied and pasted images we find online onto our own websites? It’s fair use, right? It’s okay if I found the picture online? But seriously, we all do it. It’s very difficult, in many cases, to work out who …

Do you go to a lot of bad meetings? Imagine sitting around a table with five other managers, having a meeting. What you’re supposed to be doing is making decisions about how to manage the company into the future. Have you tried listing your organisation in a UK business …

After its empire had collapsed, chaos reigned in China. The Republic of China, founded in Nanjing in 1912 under Sun Yatsen, struggled to assert its authority. Warlords built their own fiefdoms, as central rule waned. In the big cities, revolutionary sentiment was stoked by intense anger at how foreigners had …

I’ll say it again, because I know that this statement is a tricky one to believe sometimes. So much around us and inside of us says, in so many overt and covert ways, that we are not. But believe me: You are good enough.The summer after my senior …

An “agile” project or agile environment is really a frame of mind, rather than a process. It’s a paradigm or mental model of how we can approach our work. It’s certainly not a methodology. An agile environment simply means – allow project teams to adapt working practices according to …

On the way up, success creates positive momentum. People who believe they are likely to win are also likely to put in the extra effort at difficult moments to ensure that victory. On the way down, failure feeds on itself. As performance starts running on a positive or a negative …