I am currently in Seattle. It's a progressive place with lots of high income, educated people. It's the Pacific Northwest where people buy organic vegetables, eat seafood and do lots of outdoors stuff. They should be healthy. But they're not. Nearly 1 out of 3 people in Washington are obese, nearly 1 in 10 adults have diabetes and nearly 1 in 3 have hypertension. Nowadays, those numbers are fairly average for the US. But in 1990 even the state with highest obesity rate in the entire nation, … [Read more...]
The Free Scam: If It Doesn’t Cost Anything, You’re The One Being Sold
Have you ever seen the queue at an ice cream stall that has a free ice cream promotion? People will queue up 30 minutes for free ice cream, ignoring the cost of time it entails. The moment 'free' is involved, everyone is happy to work or suffer for a rate that doesn't even amount to minimum wage. The word 'free' has such a magic pull, it seems to eradicate rational thought. It's the same reason why financial advisors who work for an hourly fee don't get hired. Who wants to pay someone USD 100 … [Read more...]
Does Walking Burn More Calories than Running?
Have you ever seen someone walk so hard that they threw up? Me neither. If you stand at the finish line of a marathon, seeing people collapse or throw up isn't entirely uncommon. It's obvious that these runners went through a tough ordeal. Standing there you'll also notice that most of them are anything but fat. And that's not just because they throw up their banana at the end of the race. It's because they burn a metric ton of calories. Imagine you could burn a collapse-and-throw-up amount of … [Read more...]
That Gap Between Expectations and Perceived Reality
I recently talked to a fellow entrepreneur who seemed quite stressed out. Despite business going well, being healthy, and otherwise not having any complaints, he felt stressed. Very stressed. I could relate because I tend to feel the same way. Despite being in a very good position - no shitty boss, no looming deadlines, no dreadful finances - I feel stressed. A while back, it dawned on me that stress isn't necessarily the result of any tangible, or even any external, factor. It can be … [Read more...]
All That Glitters is Not Gold
When you are studying to become a teacher, they tell you it's not important that your students like you, but that you teach them something. I found that to be true only when you care more about teaching than feeling good about yourself. Being liked by the people you spend twenty hours with every week is kind of important. Whether that's a good thing or not. So I became one of the cool teachers. Maybe I could have taught them more, but you know what, I don't think it's that important that … [Read more...]
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