Your sweet tooth could be dropping hints about your personality, interests and habits. Intrigued? This infographic from Shari’s Berries deconstructs your personality type from your choice of desert. Do dig in! What Your Favorite Dessert Says About You | Shari’s Berries Featured photo credit: Shari’s Berries via goo.gl
Luckily, Udacity has created a handy infographic which will make the decision much easier for you. The graphic compares ten popular programming languages, describing various aspects of each so you can decide which one is right for you. You first want to decide why you want to learn to code. Do you want to develop web pages, video games, or mobile apps? Or are you more interested in data analysis?...
1. Your web site reflects you as a business owner and professional. If your web site looks professional, your potential clients will think you’re a professional who has enough clients and enough income to have a site built for you. If potential clients visit your web site and it looks half-assed and home-built that’s how they’ll perceive you. If you’re a web developer, by all means, build your own site, as that will reflect your capabilities....
Seeking Advice May Make You Feel Reassured But It Brings About These 5 Problems It has been a common practice for people to ask for second opinion of a friend or a loved one when facing a big decision in their lives. It makes us feel less alone when facing harsh circumstances, or more assured in the rightness of our decision when our closest ones share the same opinion. Yet, if we take a closer look at the process of advice seeking we would soon realize that asking for advice doesn’t in fact help us make better decisions....
This excruciating ritual has become such that I can think of many reasons why it is more stressful than parenting (I have both a six-year-old and a four-year-old). Here are just three: 1. A covert operation vs an overt confrontation Christmas shopping would be a whole lot easier if each family member and relative told you exactly what he/she wanted and, more importantly, what he/she is expecting from every other family member and relative....
Happiness-Income Paradox In a research paper entitled Happiness-Income Paradox Revisited, Richard Easterlin, professor of Economics and founder of the field of happiness studies, revisits the happiness-income paradox or the Easterlin paradox. The study analyzed the happiness and income relationship – across a worldwide sample of 37 countries over a period of 22 years. In speaking to Science Daily, Easterlin explains the paradox as follows: Easterlin goes on to say: The Factors of Improved Job Satisfaction And Happiness Money then really doesn’t buy us happiness....
The Benefits Of Good Muscular Flexibility Prevents everyday injury: Muscle and disc strain from simply turning in bed, shoulder strains from lifting, and even walking up and down stairs can be prevented with greater flexibility. Lengthens muscles: This helps you look much leaner. Improves posture: Flexible muscles around the back are able to support the spine. Makes cardio workouts much easier: Running or walking will become much lighter and easier. Enhances sport performance: Flexible movements in the joints and muscles will allow you to be more efficient in various sports....
To many of us, his talents seem unattainable. This is especially true for introverts, who can get tired easily by big crowds. Surely, all great speakers must be natural extroverts. They all lack fear around crowds. They all have a natural affinity for self-presentation. Look how comfortable they all are. Extroverts, surely. But Barack Obama, one of the great public speakers of our time, is an introvert.[1] Nelson Mandela: introvert....
We usually go on vacation to relax and experience something new and fresh. And sometimes we choose to have a fun-filled trip – perhaps packed with adventures. However, if your main purpose for taking a vacation is to get some well-deserved rest, then you may be disappointed. Just think of all the preparation and planning that must go into every trip. As an example, here’s what most people would need to do to organize a typical 7-day trip: 1 month preparation – consisting of planning/arranging the trip....
1. Small talk is good for us. By opening up and chatting with our fellow rider/s we can boost our feelings of wellbeing! Even micro moments of positive interaction promote positive health benefts. 2. A short casual conversation, with a stranger, where we play the “interested inquirer” gives us a chance to cultivate curiosity. Curiosity is good for us too. It grows our empathy and makes us more open to others who we perceive as different from us....
Eat that Dionne Warwick! Am I really a psychic? Heck no, but I’ll bet I’m more accurate than that Rapture guy! But I digress. Truth is, it doesn’t take the knowledge of splitting an atom to discern that Windows still holds the market on the PC OS. Being a likely Windows user (Macs are out of luck on this one), there is a good chance you’ll want to know how to tweak Windows to suit your style, run faster, and/or make you more productive (i....
Through all of the confusion, it can be easy to make some really life-changing mistakes. Don’t let that happen to you. Take a look below at some of the worst mistakes people make in their 20s and find out how to avoid doing the same. 1. Relying On Education Alone Photo Source We’ve all heard it before: “Get an education and you’ll go far in life.” So, we spend our 20s focused on college credits and getting good grades....
As a busy person, it is not uncommon for your mind to become overwhelmed trying to manage and process all the thoughts, the to-do list that is a mile long, the conversations had and the ideas that float in and out. So what is a busy person meant to do with all the “stuff” that takes up valuable mental real estate? Write in a journal. At first I was resistant....
Shop Seasonally Like all retailers, CostCo has massive markdowns right after the holiday season where you can reap massive rewards. You should also know that CostCo does a big price cutting right after summer as well, so at the first nip of autumn, you should make a point of heading in to stock up for the next year. You’ll also want to keep your receipts just in case another retailer, or even CostCo itself, slashes their prices on some item you just bought so you can take advantage of their price matching guarantee....
Research conducted by David Dunning, professor at Cornell and Justin Kruger, explains this fascinating difference. Incompetent people tend to overestimate their capabilities and competent people tend to underestimate their capabilities! For the purposes of the research, incompetent people are those who score low on tests of logic, English grammar and humor. They tend to over estimate how they performed on these tests. Their incompetence causes them to lack “self- monitoring skills,” which manifests itself as an inability to recognize the level that they truly are at....
Don’t get caught up in time As we follow the daily routine of the main character of this film, we see that his actions are well rehearsed, as if he’s done them a million times. His house is filled with clocks, all perfectly aligned, as he can’t allow himself to step out of his schedule even for a second. As he leaves the house, he is so busy looking at his broken pocket watch that he doesn’t notice that a bus is going to hit him....
In practice, it’s not quite so simple. Even making allowances for the varying states of development web desktops are in at the moment, none of them offer a compelling experience for web-based workers. I have looked at and played with almost two dozen of these applications, and so far haven’t found any that I could integrate very well into my daily routine. But there’s promise. Some of these apps are well worth watching, especially as they begin to interconnect with other services like Zoho Writer and Google Docs for document editing, Box....
We all go through a point in our life where everything seems out of control. Once you get to that point, it’s hard to know where to start. If you’re reading this, then chances are you’re at this point. The bad news is that it will be hard. The good news is that you will get through it. What To Do When Your Life Is a Mess Here you’ll learn 3 steps to fix it and turn things around....
Fumiko Tokatsu, a face yoga expert and the creator of the Face Yoga Method, has developed a yoga technique that can help get rid of puffy eyes and eye wrinkles. Causes of Eye Puffiness and Wrinkles There are many causes of eye wrinkles and puffiness and effectively determining the cause is the first step of the elimination process: Lack of sleep Sleeping on your stomach or side Break down of collagen and elastin Dry skin under your eyes Allergies and sinus infections Excess drinking Rubbing your eyes Too much salt UV sun rays...
Health Benefits Of Bananas Bananas give you an all-around boost Bananas contain natural fruit sugars that work quickly to raise your energy levels, which is useful if you are taking part in sport or vigorous exercise and feel yourself flagging. The riper the banana, the higher its sugar content. If you wish to keep the sugar content of your bananas low, store them in the fridge as this will slow down the ripening process....
