the six enemies of greatness
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jessicahagy/2012/02/28/the-six-enemies-of-greatness-and-happiness/
1) Availability
We often settle for what’s available, and what’s available isn’t always great. “Because it was there,” is an okay reason to climb a mountain, but not a very good reason to take a job or a free sample at the supermarket.
2) Ignorance
If we don’t know how to make something great, we simply won’t. If we don’t know that greatness is possible, we won’t bother attempting it. All too often, we literally do not know any better than good enough.
3) Committees
Nothing destroys a good idea faster than a mandatory consensus. The lowest common denominator is never a high standard.
4) Comfort
Why pursue greatness when you’ve already got 324 channels and a recliner? Pass the dip and forget about your grand designs.
5) Momentum
If you’ve been doing what you’re doing for years and it’s not-so-great, you are in a rut. Many people refer to these ruts as careers.
6) Passivity
There’s a difference between being agreeable and agreeing to everything. Trust the little internal voice that tells you, “this is a bad idea.”
(Source: Lifehacker)
- 2 weeks ago
【Mike隋出品】白人屌丝中文帝 12角色扮演 转载
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO5m8nwUTJY
chinese-american guy plays 12 characters of different nationalities in a bar — american white, american black, russian, french, cantonese, taiwanese… the cantonese and taiwanese made me laugh.
- 3 weeks ago
ugh
went to a BBQ and had a boca burger. i was under the impression that it would be vegan, but it looked suspiciously yellow. i found the box and read the label after eating two patties and discovered that the ingredients were full of dairy.
damn it. i subsequently felt gross and nauseous.
spent fifteen minutes trying to make myself throw it up, but failed.
damn it…
i’m trying to remind myself that i’ve had cheese and dairy so many times in my life that having it this one time is no different.
but i still feel gross, and the tears from trying to throw up weren’t entirely physical.
- 3 weeks ago
U.S. Vegan Population Doubles in Only Two Years.
According to a new Harris Interactive study commissioned by the Vegetarian Resource Group, the number of vegans in the United States has doubled since 2009 to 2.5% of the population.
An amazing 7.5 million U.S. citizens now eat vegan diets that do not include any animal products – no meat, poultry, fish, dairy or eggs. Close to 16 million, or 5%, identify as vegetarian, never eating meat, poultry or fish. #vegansofig
- 1 month ago
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Uzbekistan's policy of secretly sterilising women
Another mother says she experienced months of mysterious pain and heavy bleeding following the birth of her son. Then she had an ultrasound check and discovered that her uterus had been removed.
The result is that his helps the country to improve its ranking in international league tables for maternal and infant mortality.
The Uzbek government stressed that Uzbekistan’s record in protecting mothers and babies is excellent and could be considered a model for countries around the world.
However, Nigora is among many for whom forced sterilisation is a reality. She had an emergency C-section. A day later she was told she had been sterilised. On the same day, her newborn died.
Nigora is 24 and will never have children.
holy shit.
so sad…
- 1 month ago
- 4
Addicted to Cheese? Here's Why.
“In 1981, Eli Hazum and his colleagues at Wellcome Research Laboratories reported traces of the chemical morphine, a highly addictive opiate. It turns out that morphine is found in cow milk and human, purportedly to ensure offspring will bond very strongly with their mothers and get all the nutrients they need to grow.”
americans consume about 33 pounds of cheese each year?? gross! and links to autism? yikes.
- 1 month ago
- 124
"Refusing meat and dairy is a MAGIC BULLET that kicks the shit out of everything keeping us MISERABLE."
Click the link. Read the words. Be enlightened.
Hunger: Half of the grain and 90% of the soy in the world is fed to animals. Basically all of that nutrition is wasted.
Climate change: It is this three-five year period we should be worried about, because it is right now that the damage is being done. It is right now that we are passing tipping points that will create a negative-cycle climate change feedback situation that could all but end our civilisations. Seriously. Most people have no idea what six degrees of warming can do. We need to stop breeding animals now. Thus, we need to stop eating animals now.
Water shortage: 1kg of beef produced in Australia requires between 50,000 and 100,000 liters of water. That’s 20-60 times more than the same weight (and healthier nutrition) in soybeans… Soy produces 1800% the quality protein (all essential amino acids) per unit of land than beef
Disease: Vegetarians have around 40% less cancer. Heart disease can be reversed in almost all cases, without medicine – and without meat and dairy. Diabetes is likewise highly associated with meat eating.
to quote the author, “the truth is so absurdly simple.” go vegan!
(Source: cool-to-be-kind)
- 1 month ago
- 11
"It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you."
— Frederic Chopin (via kimilongbottom)
(Source: quote-book)
- 1 month ago
- 4218
The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered,
“Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”
- 1 month ago
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