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> The "just be yourself" advice is so hard, because it's what actually work For attractive people or at least those whose attractiveness is not totally niche
Of the dozens of men I work with, two are eligible bachelors. Both are above-average in their physical attractiveness. I promise you, that is not what women are looking for.
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A bicycle without a rider will keep going straight (maybe on a slight curve if the frame is misaligned) so long as it has enough speed.
On a mathematical plane in vacuum it will. On uneven ground and turbulent air, it will not.
Examples over "rough conditions": https://youtu.be/yNbOh0N3BSs https://youtu.be/9ewqeheLL_I
I do MRI work, and my gut is that none of the claims about dance vs. exercise would replicate. The behavioral data suggests that activity of some type will improve cognitive function (main effects of time). Such beneficial effects of activity on the brain have been shown before, and this is generally accepted. However, the authors' behavioral data doesn't show any difference between the dance vs. exercise groups. Thi…
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My random opinion is that dance or dance like activities are a sweet spot between low intensity and high intensity exercise that involves a lot more balance, coordination and fluidity than most physical activities promoted for health overall (they're either too simple or too hard), these traits are (I believe) very important to your brain. Add the social aspect as an important bonus.
Totally anecdotal and probably 99% placebo but I started rollerblading (which also require _a lot_ of balance and coordination) for the first time in my life, like, I take courses in a skatepark and never wore rollerblades before (I’m 33). After some weeks I’m totally perceiving "something" changed in my brain. It’s like doing mental things is somehow easier. I also happen to microdose since a few months ago but the…
I'm not surprised by your story. After health issues, my brain was clogged most of the time, and anything involving balance, rotation, rapidly moving surroundings. I tried a lot of stuff to feel my brain working again, one of the most impactful was balancing on a wood beam and trying to pivot (not far from roller skates moves).
Our brain respond very well to some primitive stimuli (visual, balance, geometry).
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The book “Peak” - and other works by that author detail studies related to this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak:_Secrets_from_the_New_S... > The book was written partly as a response to the misrepresented but increasingly commonplace idea of the "10,000-hour rule," popularized by Malcolm Gladwell in his 2008 book Outliers and which Gladwell had based on Ericsson's own research.
Thanks for that reference. Having read Outliers years ago, Peak sounds like a useful follow-on and the concept of “deliberate practice” makes sense to me. I’ve been learning guitar over the past couple of years and I still struggle with many aspects (with good rhythm and timing being the most difficult). I’m mostly self-taught (justinguitar.com) but have recently started a music class to get feedback on my playing. M…
Same, same and same, here.
Good luck to you!
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Below the waterline? (Waistline if less charitable) Ah havent read this article yet but anticipating “insider” as a more distinguishing term than “experts” should cover their edge cases (Which secrets are shameful to share vs merely uh inconvenient, e.g. for waistline, depends on how you draw the party lines, some do it at type ii “zahlungsfaehig” vs “proleten” as nsdap apparently another eg, for waterline) [do you h…
My bad: I got the fox and lion analogy wrong. (NdBdM apparently said the prince ought to be able to be both fox and lion; like HKH had both Knecht and Designori? What about Tito? " The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves. " [not yet checked for context/translation]) Sorry, I'd been too quic…
JPsmith on JCScott Against the Grain has another take on Rao, proweird being the barbarians trading with the State
Tfound the crucial clause on pants from the Psmith-on-Stripe-Clueless that you pointed at
*>derives much of [][] moral and affective sympathies from the claim that [][] is smarter and better and more efficient [s/_/effective] than anybody else
Insert insider,expert,Feynman,YC,lion,officer,peer,etc
& Whatever is the Other’s (prole,designor,founder,funder,clueless,loser,customer,peer)’s fave metric!
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My bad: I got the fox and lion analogy wrong. (NdBdM apparently said the prince ought to be able to be both fox and lion; like HKH had both Knecht and Designori? What about Tito? " The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves. " [not yet checked for context/translation]) Sorry, I'd been too quic…
As to Rao-fox-lion quadrantology.. how to classify pear AI problem? (We can say nang et al were barbarians promoted to founders but that is cheap*. Otoh 1 o the more interesting facts from that case is some partners attempting to empirically price their social media marketing thesis) JPsmith on JCScott Against the Grain has another take on Rao, proweird being the barbarians trading with the State Tfound the crucial c…
During the XIII, tournaments were open invite, and were pretty much war games held over the fields in between villages. Of course, it's very unlikely that anyone not already an aristo could show up with horses and panoply, let alone show up and prove de facto effective, but the few that did had a chance there to win even more horses and armour by ransoming off any captured actual aristos.
Well before the XVIII, tournaments switched to closed format, held in specially built arenas, and an official part of the tournament included going around the room and having everyone introduce themselves (or be introduced, to be even fancier) which de jure kept out any gatecrashed aspiring riffraff.
Might (for those that have central bank control, anyway) imposing an irregular tidal ebb be a useful variant of mode-switching, in order to effectively signal who's wearing (or not) their budgie smugglers?
"Fifty-two seniors (25 males; 27 females) aged 63–80 years were then randomly assigned to the experimental dance group (DG) and the control sport group (SG) controlling for age, MMSE status and physical fitness." I wonder if these findings remain true for young or middle aged adults.
> For the present exploratory study, we designed an especially challenging dance program in which our elderly participants constantly had to learn novel and increasingly difficult choreographies. This six-month-long program was compared to conventional fitness training matched for intensity. The result seems bloody obvious to me as a dancer. Dance is exercise. And this wasn't just dance, they were learning moves and…
Like saying the heart worked harder with people on a treadmill at 4 miles per hour than 3 miles per hour.
I think there is also this bogus implication then that dancing would help you write a better novel or painting a picture than just walking on a treadmill.
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My bad: I got the fox and lion analogy wrong. (NdBdM apparently said the prince ought to be able to be both fox and lion; like HKH had both Knecht and Designori? What about Tito? " The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves. " [not yet checked for context/translation]) Sorry, I'd been too quic…
As to Rao-fox-lion quadrantology.. how to classify pear AI problem? (We can say nang et al were barbarians promoted to founders but that is cheap*. Otoh 1 o the more interesting facts from that case is some partners attempting to empirically price their social media marketing thesis) JPsmith on JCScott Against the Grain has another take on Rao, proweird being the barbarians trading with the State Tfound the crucial c…
* Had Machiavelli, in writing (1532):
> You must know there are two ways of contesting, the one by the law, the other by force; the first method is proper to men, the second to beasts; but because the first is frequently not sufficient, it is necessary to have recourse to the second. Therefore it is necessary for a prince to understand how to avail himself of the beast and the man. This has been figuratively taught to princes by ancient writers, who describe how Achilles and many other princes of old were given to the Centaur Chiron to nurse, who brought them up in his discipline; which means solely that, as they had for a teacher one who was half beast and half man...
been referring to Cicero, De Officiis (44 BC)?
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...
> ...there are two ways of settling a dispute: first, by discussion; second, by physical force; and since the former is characteristic of man, the latter of the brute, we must resort to force only in case we may not avail ourselves of discussion.
(I'm surprised I've not read this work until now. With a little skimming, it confirms my reverse-engineering of the cardinal virtues as arising as oppositions [albeit not strictly pairwise]:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...
and has interesting things to say about Castalia:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...
about immigration:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...
Gemeinschaft vs Gesellschaft:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...
and even Pareto Optimality:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%... )
EDIT: no, lifted, negated, and expanded to chapter length!
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...
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Yeah I believe that our brains are extremely sensitive to shared experience, work, art, movement or else (singing in harmony would work too). It might even tap in primitive toddler brain phases.
There's thousands of years of human societal development, and millions of years for mammals. Hard to believe we'd learned nothing about promoting social cohesion during that time.