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The Listening Experiment

TED is my new favorite website these days. I was first introduced to TED through a local weekly meetup in Midtown Sacramento called TED Talk Tuedays....and this first talk affected me immediately. There can be many lessons to be had in the 17 minute talk, but I came away with one idea that I believe can be beneficial to anyone's life if applied.

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Life Lessons from Fight Club

“It’s only after you’ve lost everything,” Tyler says, “that you’re free to do anything.” After reading Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, I got slapped across the face by reality.  Over the last year or so I have been fucking up, or at least in the eyes of today’s society.  I got a Wet and Wreck-less (basically [...]

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Why Gen Y Should Have a Gym Membership (or work there!)

For the past three years I have worked part-time at a private gym, or as tennis players call it, a club. At first, being the oblivious teenage kid I was, I only looked at the gym and my job as a paycheck that covered gas, food, and party essentials. I started reading, writing, and graduated [...]

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Got Flow?

Flow is something I try to attain and work on every day. Flow is also referred to as “On the money” and “In a groove”. According to the definition on Wikipedia, Flow is a mental state of operation where you are fully immersed in whatever you are doing. The best example that [...]

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