Technique is not being able to juggle a ball 1000 times. Anyone can do that by practicing. Then you can work in the circus. Technique is passing the ball with one touch, with the right speed, at the right foot of your team mate. Someone who has juggled the ball in the air during a ... Read more
The human brain is capable of 1016 processes per second, which makes it far more powerful than any computer currently in existence. But that doesn't mean our brains don't have major limitations. The lowly calculator can do math thousands of times better than we can, and our memories are often less than useless — plus, ... Read more
In the winter of 1928, Joe Kennedy decided to stop to have his shoes shined before he started his day's work at the office. When the boy finished, he offered Kennedy a stock tip: "Buy Hindenburg." Kennedy soon sold off his stocks, thinking: "You know it's time to sell when shoeshine boys give you stock ... Read more
Orange Kangaroo In Denmark Effect: A person is given a few instructions with a seemingly unlimited choice of answers. They are instructed not to reveal their chosen answers. You should then be able to predict what that person had been thinking of, to everybody's amazement. Method : Read out the following instructions to your friend ... Read more
C class: Toyota Corolla Honda Civic Nissan Sentra Hyundai Elantra D class (safety better than C class): Toyota Camry Honda Accord Nissan Altima Hyundai Sonata Premium class (Safety same as D class): Lexus (from Toyota) Acura (from Honda) Infiniti (from Nissan) Links: Car classification (Wikipedia)
It is easy to find out that you are tired physically if you are running. You can rest a little and you will feel when are ready to run again. It is very easy to miss the moment when you already burnout. Burnout symptoms Irritable Indifferent Not motivated Still tired after weekend or vacation Senselessness ... Read more
How to Win Friends and Influence People: The Principles Part 1: Fundamental Techniques in Handling People Principle 1: Don’t criticize, condemn or complain Principle 2: Give honest and sincere appreciation Principle 3: Arouse in the other person an eager want Part 2: Six Ways to Make People Like You Principle 1: Become genuinely interested in ... Read more
I could only go so long, on a blog devoted to books about self-improvement and personal effectiveness, without covering the quintessential modern tome on the subject. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has become so representative of increasing personal effectiveness that it has almost become a cliché, even to the point where it is ... Read more
Change Virtual Memory Settings to speed up Windows Virtual memory for your computer is hard drive space used by Windows when it fills up the physical RAM. When your system runs low on RAM because an application like Firefox is taking too much memory, Windows moves the least used "pages" of memory out to a ... Read more
Apart from being a very common interview question, this is one of the very first query which lingers around in our mind every time we type a URL in a browser. Here is an attempt to satiate this quest while we delve into the details of what happens in the background when we type a ... Read more