October 30, 2022
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A 31-year-old gardener wonders what she should be eating in the day to improve her sleep at night.
A little about me:
Age: 31
Occupation: gardener
Number of hours sleep you get each night: 6 hours
Number of hours sleep you wish you got each night: 8-9 hours
Any officially diagnosed sleep-related problems: no
How much water you drink on average per day: 1 litre (not enough)
How much exercise I do on average per week: 1 cardio workout a week, plus the manual labor of my day-to-day job (see article)
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October 30, 2022
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In today’s motivational literature, failure is often viewed as something to be celebrated. Disappointments are an essential stepping stone to success; a turning point in our life story that will ultimately end in triumph. Rather than falling into despair, we are encouraged to “fail forward”.
If only it were so simple. In the past decade, a wealth of psychological research has shown that most people struggle to handle failure constructively. Instead, we find ways to devalue the task at which we failed, meaning that we may be less motivated to persevere and reach our goal. This phenomenon is known as the “sour-grape effect”. Alternatively, we may simply fail to notice our errors and blithely continue as if nothing has happened, something that prevents us from learning a better strategy to improve our performance in the future.
Inspirational speakers are fond of quoting the words of the novelist Samuel Beckett: “Fail again. Fail better”. But the truth is that most of us fail again and fail the same.
Recent research shows there are ways to avoid these traps. These solutions are often counterintuitive: one of the best ways of learning from your mistakes, for example, is to offer advice to another person who may be encountering similar challenges. By helping others avoid failure, it turns out, you can also enhance your own prospects of success.
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October 29, 2022
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Senja (Norwegian) or Sážžá (Northern Sami) is an island in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway, Europe. With an area of 1,586.3 square kilometers (612.5 sq mi), it is the second-largest island in Norway (outside of the Svalbard archipelago). It has a wild, mountainous outer (western) side facing the Atlantic, and a mild and lush inner (eastern) side. The island is located within Senja Municipality, which was established on 1 January 2020. The island of Senja had 7,864 inhabitants as of 1 January 2017. Most of the residents live along the eastern coast of the island, with Silsand being the largest urban area on the island. The fishing village of Gryllefjord on the west coast has a summer-only ferry connection to the nearby island of Andøya: the Andenes–Gryllefjord Ferry.
The island sits northeast of the Vesterålen archipelago, surrounded by the Norwegian Sea to the northwest, the Malangen fjord to the northeast, the Gisundet strait to the east, the Solbergfjorden to the southeast, the Vågsfjorden to the south, and the Andfjorden to the west. Ånderdalen National Park is located in the southern part of the island.
The Old Norse form of the name is believed to have been Senja or perhaps Sændja. The meaning of the name is unknown, but it might be related to the verb sundra, which means to “tear” or “split apart”, possibly because the west coast of the island is torn and split by numerous small fjords. It might also be derived from a Proto-Norse form of the word Sandijōn, meaning “(area) of sand” or “sandy island”.he island of Senja is located along the Troms og Finnmark county coastline with Finnsnes as the closest town. Senja is connected to the mainland by the Gisund Bridge. The municipalities located on Senja are Lenvik (part of which is on the mainland), Berg, Torsken, and Tranøy. Wikipedia
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An image of Segla Mountain on Senja Island, Norway
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October 29, 2022
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Dear How to Do It,
My husband and I are high school sweethearts and have been together for over 15 years but we are at a serious impasse. Over the years, the last five to seven, he has expressed his desires for more/different sexual experiences. We agreed that he could have a “side piece” as long as certain boundaries were kept. I don’t know if I’ve ever been fully comfortable with this but I don’t want to leave him so I’ve been trying out of love. Every time he finds someone he may be interested in and I get wind of, I LOSE MY MIND. He gets upset because he says we have talked about it and I have agreed and keep changing my mind. I understand that is not fair to him but I have no idea how to proceed. Neither of us wants a divorce but I have no idea how to keep the peace. I get upset and distant and in turn, he feels super guilty and doesn’t end up going through with going to see these girls. He’s fed up and we’re going through a rough patch. Any advice?
Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Staras/iStock/Getty Images Plus.
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October 29, 2022
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Soon after Sharon Oakley gave birth in 2018, acquaintances were quick to congratulate her on her appearance. “Oh, you look really good – you’ve really bounced back!” she says people told her within months of having her baby.
She may have looked like she’d ‘snapped back’. But the reality was different. While she had lost most of the weight she’d put on during pregnancy, physically, she was suffering. An avid runner, Oakley, a Canadian who lives in Yorkshire, UK, loved jogging with her son in the stroller, a routine she took up six months after giving birth. But she’d leak urine the whole way. Back at work, she started experiencing bladder leaks in the office, too.
After a complicated diagnosis journey that included a six-month wait for a physiotherapist referral, Oakley was diagnosed with bladder, rectocele, and uterine prolapses – where the pelvic organs, not adequately held in place by a weakened pelvic floor, slip out of their normal position.
Four years later, her condition has improved. But she still has occasional leaks. She carries spare knickers with her everywhere. She worries when she runs. For a while, she thought she might have to quit her job.
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October 29, 2022
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October 28, 2022
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In today’s competitive and fast-paced life, self-improvement and self-betterment is not an option but a necessity. No wonder most people want to improve their lives and make it less burdensome and more fulfilling.
People who succeed in bringing out the best in themselves and excel in their area or field are the ones who carve out time for themselves, invest in personal development, and make conscious efforts to better their lives.
Here are seven changes you can make in a week, to better your life and feel a tangible difference in yourself. (see article)
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October 28, 2022
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Have you ever decided not to go for that job promotion because you believe you’re not qualified enough? Or avoided asking a neighbor for help because you feel you’d be a nuisance? Or taken your failure to get what you wanted as confirmation that, yes, your hunch that it was never going to work out was obviously correct? Yep, me too. Pessimistic beliefs like these are common, and they hold you back more than you realize. Perhaps it’s never occurred to you that it’s possible to change these attitudes, let alone how you might go about it. Perhaps you wouldn’t even want to change them even if you could – after all, who wants to be that person who is arrogant enough to think they’re definitely in with a shot for that promotion despite being underqualified, or who doesn’t think twice about making demands on their neighbors, or who approaches their goals with an unwavering confidence in their likelihood of success?
Philosophy and coaching are a perfect – and underexplored – partnership. Doing philosophy involves identifying and challenging hidden assumptions, using analogies to reveal double standards, and exposing dodgy reasoning: all things that are helpful to coaching clients who are burdened with beliefs that get in the way of their success, who are compassionate to everyone but themselves, and who overlook their own errors in reasoning because they are too busy criticizing themselves. Often, too, the thoughts of philosophers – including René Descartes and the other thinkers that I’m going to mention here – find fresh application in providing a helpful new perspective on the difficulties that many of us face every day.
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Rising, Falling, Clinging, Flying (equilibrium) (detail, 1934) by Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Courtesy Kunstmuseum Basel
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October 28, 2022
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At the Laguna del Tesoro, enjoy the customs and Taíno legends surrounded by the beautiful nature, Matanzas
The Laguna del Tesoro Lake is accessed by boat from the Boca de Guamá, through a channel surrounded by lush vegetation. This lake of 9 km2 and 5 km in diameter has plenty of trout which inhabit its crystalline, 4 m deep waters. It is an ideal place for nature tourism and sports fishing in Cuba.
According to legend, the indigenous people, who believed themselves to be in danger of the Spanish conquistadors, sank a boat full of their most precious possessions in the lake to avoid the theft of their riches.
In addition to trout, you can also find manatees and manjuari (Cuban gar), a living fossil that is only found in the Zapata Swamp, although fishing here is forbidden.
On the eastern side of the Montemar Park, the Laguna del Tesoro Lake is located halfway between Jagüey Grande and the Cochinos Bay, a well-known place where the Playa Larga Beach can be found. (tripcuba.org)
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An image from Laguna del Tesoro
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