Category Archives: Living

The Tim Ferriss Radio Hour: How to Control Stress, Upgrade Your Nutrition, and Build the Mindset of a Gladiator

“You want to change your life fast? Then trade your expectation for appreciation; you’ll have a whole new life.”-Tony Robbins
Welcome to the second installment of The Tim Ferriss Radio Hour.
After more than 200 conversations with the world’s top performers, you start to spot certain patterns. These are the shared habits, hacks, philosophies, and tools that are the common threads of success, happiness, health, and wealth.
These commonalities were the premise of my most recent book, The New York Times #1 bestseller Tools of Titans — a compilation of my favorite lessons, routines, and tips of many of my guests.
In this particular Read More

Source:: Four Hour Work Week

The Lanzarote resort that offers sun, sea … and lots of sport

Club La Santa in Lanzarote has three Olympic-size pools, plus facilities for just about any other athletic activity. It’s the perfect place for your DIY boot camp During one day at Club La Santa, I took a one-hour swimming class that massively improved my front crawl, did an another hour-long TRX session for my core, ran eight miles on a full-size 400m track, played racketball, and messed about in the huge kids’ swimming pool with my two children. This was not an unusual day. Everywhere I looked in the huge complex, the sounds and scents of people being active was Read More

Source:: The Guardian

The Twitter egg is dead – so can you crack the perfect profile picture?

The site has ditched its default avatar after it became synonymous with trolls, replacing it with a shadowy head and shoulders. Surely we can do better than that …Regular Twitter users are likely to have experienced the anticipatory glow of a notification, signalling the start of an illuminating conversation in which conflicting points of view are debated calmly and politely, or maybe the birth of a new friendship, or a clever bon mot that makes you chuckle quietly to yourself for the rest of the day. Or perhaps an apoplectic egg is screaming at you. “CLEARLY you don’t AGREE with Read More

Source:: The Guardian

How much to buy your honesty? – personality quiz | Ben Ambridge

Answer these questions to see what price it takes to make you cheat‘Everyone has a price, the important thing is to find out what it is,’ said Pablo Escobar. But was he right? Picture the following scenario. You are taking part in an experiment where you roll a dice once, and report the result to the experimenter. If you report rolling a 6, you receive a certain amount of money. The experiment is set up so that nobody else can see what you rolled. So… what sum of money would it take for you to cheat? (a) £1, (b) £5, Read More

Source:: The Guardian

Sheena Easton: ‘My dream dinner party guests? Interesting women’

The singer on a stolen kiss, her love of cursing, and not being a flash in the panBorn in Scotland, Sheena Easton, 57, has won two Grammys and sold more than 20m records; her songs include Modern Girl and U Got The Look, a collaboration with Prince. This week, she makes her West End debut in 42nd Street at Theatre Royal Drury Lane. She has been divorced four times, has two children and lives in Nevada.When were you happiest? When my kids were young enough for me to carry them both, one on each hip. I miss walking in the Read More

Source:: The Guardian