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We Have a Behavioural Problem

May 21, 2010
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Losing fat isn’t a biological problem, it’s a behavioural problem. Many have heard the oft quoted statistic that around 2/3rds of Americans are Overweight or Obese. Many battle cries have followed, more recently by figures like Jamie Oliver, who even won a TED prize for his efforts. While he hasn’t solved the obesity epidemic, I [...]

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Defaults Matter

May 17, 2010

Good design is obsessed with a single goal: To allow the user access to all possible utilities with the least amount of effort. As a result, design does incorporate visual elements, but only because we as humans are such visual creatures; oftentimes the path of least resistance is the visual path. This has led to [...]

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Stop Doing What Isn’t Working

May 13, 2010
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Before I start, I will admit that this post is a little more abstract. There is almost no mention of concrete examples, but if you extend the concepts I talk about, you should be able to establish the practical message being this. Someone once said that insanity can be defined by doing the same thing [...]

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I Train to Look Good and so do You!

April 27, 2010
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In my last post, I asked, ‘Why are you training anyway?‘. Turns out a lot of people have a flawed answer. Just pop by a commercial gym, and you’d see many people hammering away at their activities. You’d probably come across the sight of the young adolescent male doing his 5th set of bicep curls, [...]

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Talk to a 90-Year-Old

April 17, 2010
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Talk to a 90-Year-Old. Not just any 90-Year-Old, but a happy and fulfilled 90-Year-Old who still has that youthful sparkle in their eyes. Ask them about what they thought about life, and I’d guarantee that you’d learn a fair bit. Most of all, ask them what they did in the past that they are happy [...]

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You Manage What You Measure

April 8, 2010

We as humans respond to numbers, mainly because they play such a large role in our lives. Geeks would remember the recent keynote given by Steve Jobs. In that keynote, he addressed the claim that the iPad should cost less than $1000. He flashed up a figure of $999 on the screen. Then, in a [...]

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I don’t care what you think!

April 6, 2010
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That’s what the body screams at the brain every day. The brain needs to tell itself stories. It wants to live in a certain way, to eat certain foods, to partake in certain activities, etc. Unfortunately, the body doesn’t care what the brain thinks, besides, it’s proven to be wrong many a time (like when [...]

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You Lucky Fool

April 6, 2010
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Some people got lucky. They were born with great blood sugar control, with robust joints, with never-greying hair, with full muscle bellies, and an easy time burning fat. Some people got unlucky. They were born to a drug-addicted mother and an alcoholic father, suffering genetic dysfunctions and living under an environment which never allowed their [...]

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Sticking to the Plan by Restricting Your Options

April 3, 2010
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I’d wager everyone has goals, in whatever field of pursuit. If you have goals, you hopefully have a good plan to accomplish those goals. This is an article about adherence to the plan, whatever that may be, to whatever goal is being pursued. While the aphorism, “No plan survives the real world”, holds a great [...]

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Re: Irresistible Urges – Our Relationship with Food

March 27, 2010
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In the previous post about irresistible urges, the message was sent out terse and unforgiving. In this post, I think I’d ought to elaborate on the justification for that. The first assumption that I am going to make is that we as human beings do not relate to our food rationally on a energy requirement [...]

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