Quote of the day and some no nonsense words

We do not see the things as they are. We see the things as we are.
Anais Nin

This is an extension of "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder". We are pre-programmed to see, to understand the world and everything around us. It was eye-opening when you ask a child what he see, and he answer "I know you want me to say the sign +, but all i see is 2 matchsticks one on top of another." We adapt everything through our experience, and we limit ourselves because of this. What is the solution? Every morning see the world as it is your first day here, on Earth. It is not easy, you will need a bit of practice, but is doable. Try it for a while. And you will change. You will become someone else. Something else. Outside any classification. Don't think, just do it!

* NucAla is the new hope in asthma treatment. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Nucala (mepolizumab) for use with other asthma medicines for the maintenance treatment of asthma in patients age 12 years and older. Nucala is approved for patients who have a history of severe asthma attacks (exacerbations) despite receiving their current asthma medicines. Asthma is a chronic disease that causes inflammation in the airways of the lungs. During an asthma attack, airways become narrow making it hard to breathe. Severe asthma attacks can lead to asthma-related hospitalizations because these attacks can be serious and even life-threatening. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as of 2013, more than 22 million people in the U.S. have asthma, and there are more than 400,000 asthma-related hospitalizations each year. “This approval offers patients with severe asthma an additional therapy when current treatments cannot maintain adequate control of their asthma,” said Badrul Chowdhury, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Rheumatology Products in the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. Nucala is administered once every four weeks by subcutaneous injection by a health care professional into the upper arm, thigh, or abdomen. Nucala is a humanized interleukin-5 antagonist monoclonal antibody produced by recombinant DNA technology in Chinese hamster ovary cells. Nucala reduces severe asthma attacks by reducing the levels of blood eosinophils- a type of white blood cell that contributes to the development of asthma. The safety and efficacy of Nucala were established in three double-blind, randomized, placebo‑controlled trials in patients with severe asthma on currently available therapies. Nucala or a placebo was administered to patients every four weeks as an add-on asthma treatment. Compared with placebo, patients with severe asthma receiving Nucala had fewer exacerbations requiring hospitalization and/or emergency department visits, and a longer time to the first exacerbation. In addition, patients with severe asthma receiving Nucala experienced greater reductions in their daily maintenance oral corticosteroid dose, while maintaining asthma control compared with patients receiving placebo. Treatment with mepolizumab did not result in a significant improvement in lung function, as measured by the volume of air exhaled by patients in one second. The most common side effects of Nucala include headache, injection site reactions (pain, redness, swelling, itching, or a burning feeling at the injection site), back pain, and weakness (fatigue). Hypersensitivity reactions can occur within hours or days of being treated with Nucala, including swelling of the face, mouth, and tongue; fainting, dizziness, or lightheadedness; hives; breathing problems and rash. Herpes zoster infections have occurred in patients receiving Nucala. Herpes zoster is the virus that causes shingles. Nucala is made by GlaxoSmithKline, in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. The FDA, an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, protects the public health by assuring the safety, effectiveness, and security of human and veterinary drugs, vaccines and other biological products for human use, and medical devices. The agency also is responsible for the safety and security of our nation’s food supply, cosmetics, dietary supplements, products that give off electronic radiation, and for regulating tobacco products.

** Did you heard about HeroX.com? HeroX was co-founded in 2013 by XPRIZE founder Peter Diamandis, challenge designer Emily Fowler and entrepreneur Christian Cotichini as a means to democratize the innovation model of XPRIZE. HeroX exists to enable anyone, anywhere in the world, to create a challenge that addresses any problem or opportunity, build a community around that challenge and activate the circumstances that can lead to a breakthrough innovation. This innovation model has existed for centuries. The Ansari XPRIZE was inspired by the 1927 Orteig Prize, in which Charles Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic in the Spirit of St. Louis. The $25,000 prize had been offered by hotelier Raymond Orteig to spur tourism. Lindbergh's flight lead to a boom in air travel the world over. A similar challenge had launched 200 years earlier with the 1716 Longitude Prize, which sought a technology to more accurately measure longitude at sea. Nearly 60 years later, a British clockmaker named John Harrison invented the chronometer, which spurred Trans-Atlantic migration on a massive scale. In 1795, Napoleon offered a 12,000 franc prize for a better method of preserving food, which was often spoiled by the time it reached the front lines of his armies. The breakthrough innovation to Napoleon's prize led to the creation of the canning industry. HeroX incentive prize challenges are designed to do the same — to harness the collective mind power of a community to innovate upon any problem or opportunity. Anyone can change the world. HeroX can help. The only question is, "What do you want to solve?"

Quote of the day and some other words

The wisdom of life consist in the elimination of non essentials.
(Lin Yutang)

One of the easier way to improve your life is not to make more money in order to afford everything, but to simplify your life, and learn to desire less. In some Buddhist traditions, they see the desire as the main obstacle on our way to enlightenment. And in some ways is now more actual than ever. We live in a consumer world, bombarded by no less than 1100 advertising messages each day. We need to learn that what we want and what we need is a totally different list. We do not need that last phone, or that new car. First, because if we want to be free financially and in any other way, learning to live owning less will get you there faster, second because frugality result in better health, mentally and physically. And that is just for me to get started.

Now some interesting facts i stumbled upon:

* One tip for writing better, aim for 300 pages and then shrink them to 200 pages. Also, writing is not only about inspiration, but also about practice. Motivation and peak state help. But if you write 20 pages every day, good or not, doing this all the time, you will find yourself at ease after only few months, achieving some level of almost mastery after few years. The important thing is to never stop writing.

** According to Tom Rath, in a study done with West Point cadets over more than 15 years, when we think about intrinsic over extrinsic motivation, 100% of the ones motivated by intrinsic factors were paid better for their work. Think about this when you look for your next job.

*** I am thinking about another kind of CV. It will look something like this:

Gxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxe
- Thinking at new ways to help people is what make me to go up from the bed in the morning. This, and the thought that i will get close to my financial independence with every monthly payment i got.
 -I eat usually vegetarian, and i try organic if i have the choice, even if sometime i would have a fizzy drink.
- Lately, i like to run, but when it is not possible i exercise doing some training promoted by a German coach, called Freeletics (ironically, you have to pay to get full access). I also like to meditate and try a bit of yoga every day.
- Best hobby ever? Hard to say, studying latest researches on gifted and talented people is one of them. Writing about financial independence and very early retirement is another.
- One of my internet session: Checking my blogs. Writing a post daily if possible. Researching for the book i am writing, Reading about some ideas i had during the day, answering some emails, watching the last episodes of the anime i use for learning Japanese, doing some of my online classes, playing one or more of my games if i have time (League of Legends, World of Tanks or Hearthstone). Downloading some of the TV shows i like before i leave my home, to find it ready when i come back. Shall i say more?

I think that you can find more about someone from a creative CV like the one i just wrote than from a classical one.

Quote of the day

What you hear, you forget. What you see, you remember. What you do, you understand.

What we have here? The basic lesson of rapid learning. This can be expanded, side developed or even used as it is. If you are a student, you need to read this one more time. A lot was written about active learning and physical involvement in long time memory performance. Just google it and you will find a ton of stuff. If you want to learn faster, better and to remember more, just apply this quote. It is that easy. Best strategies are the simplest one.

Quote of the day

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard P Feynman

Is that true? Often we will take no BS from other, but we keep accepting to indulge ourselves, over and over. Starting with the classical "From Monday i will....". We know that. All of us did it. Remember when in the school we would often said: From Monday i will start to study!, only to do it for solid 12 hours before that big test? For the most of us there will be always another day, always another Monday. But this is the problem, what should be the solution? Is very easy, almost unbelievable. We need to realize that even if we did not made our mind, we are different that our habits and thoughts. The are part of us, but they are not us. They define us, but who is this mysterious Myself that inextricably touch everything, and yet we cannot define it?
This is your next homework. Every time you find yourself wishing to do something different, but you are not keeping the promises made to yourself, find who you really are? Not what you feel, or what you think. Find the Real You. This is my gift for you for this month. Just do it. A bit of action will always surpass one thousand plans made in your mind.
Good luck and see you soon.

G.

Come on Apple, just do it!(the ultimate super battery is here)

Seems that our dreams will soon become true, as they (the guys from Cambridge) are working at a super battery that will surpass every actual technology. I am waiting for that phone that will need charge only once a week.
More details here.

Quote of the day

"I am an old man and I have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happen."
Mark Twain

What did he means? We already know, i presume, that fear is the anticipation of pain ( physical, emotional, any kind of...). So, in our tiny little mind we try to anticipate and so we re-live now what could happen to us in the future. Seems so real for us. Do not forget some obscure Oxford experiment that showed us that eating an apple or thinking that we eat an apple show the same brain pattern. Beware at any negative thinking. Think about your physiological response, about the poisons you release in your own body. (Here i should remind you about another experiment measuring and analyzing the composition of breath. 10 minutes of fear and we breath so much poison that we can kill a guinea pig. One hour of concentrate negative thinking and we will have enough poison to kill 20 guinea pig.) Just think about those numbers. If this will not make you to train yourself into positive thinking, nothing else will. That's all.

See you soon!
G.

I am back!!!

Oh, my friends, i have so much to tell you, so many stories, but not right now.
Right now i need to sleep.
But i will tell you more in one of this days. I promise.

See you soon.
G.