philosophy

A Matter of Faith

May 7, 2010

In my last post about Coffee, I said that the long term health implications of ingesting large amounts of Caffeine isn’t known very well. Even if you’re the 6-cups-a-day kind of person, how long would it be before you experience the negative consequences? With so many things happening in life, it becomes impossible to attribute [...]

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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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Why are you training anyway?

April 24, 2010
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To gym rats, the fitness junkies, and the washed-up meatheads. A message to you guys and gals: Ideally, we would be But of course, excuses get in the way.. Yet we certainly don’t want to have it take over our life, and have to ask That Said, I’m sure you have goals, and.. With that [...]

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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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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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Irresistible Urges

March 24, 2010
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This sums up the entire post. While I strive for the ideal scenario described elegantly by the quote, “I don’t want to be a product of my environment, I want my environment to be a product of me.”, it isn’t practical; every single negative impact of the environment has to be consciously fought and suppressed. [...]

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Losing Fat is like Doing Math

March 16, 2010
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If you ask a room full of 100 adults about their experiences on taking Math in school, there’s a high likelihood that the responses will fall on the edges of the graph. In other words, people usually either hate or love doing Math. You would likely find the same trend with people who embrace a [...]

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The Power of Anecdote

March 9, 2010
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As much as I like to based all my decisions on rational, quantifiable parameters, life is never like that. In fact, one of the key characteristics of being a good scientist is to recognise and acknowledge the failings of your knowledge. I’m no scientist, but I can surely say that in the realm of health [...]

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