Thought of Today: April 11, 2017 at 03:31PM

During 2011-2012 School Year, there were 130,000 expulsions, 7 millions suspensions among the 49 million students in America. That is 1 for every 7 kids.

Controlling behavior by punishment and reward has been proven to be ineffective.

Autonomy and intrinsic rewards are the motivation for self control and self discipline.

Livesinthebalance.org

Thought of Today: March 27, 2017 at 05:16PM

“The true scarce commodity of the future will be human attention” Satya Nadella, CEO Microsoft.

80: number of times you unlock your phone a day on average.

4.7 hours: average number of hours you engage your phone.

30% of daily media consumption is surfing the internet.

We are living in a world of digital noise.

Constant fragmentation of attention can result in PERMANENT loss of capacity for concentration.

FOMO: fear of missing out

A glance at twitter = 15-20 minutes of attention loss.

Solution:

1. Work deep: work accomplished = time x intensity – Pomodoro
2. Protect your time: tally your hours + deep scheduling.
3. Meditate to refocus your brain
4. Detox digital dependency and social media. People who matter don’t care how many IG followers you have.
5. Cut the shallow work

Source: Cal Newport and other articles

Thought of Today: March 15, 2017 at 11:04AM

Fashion Advice from a fashion expert friend in London to me:

1. Do not dress like American icons because they don’t know how to dress. They are rich and fashionless. Even our President’s fashion sucks.
2. Don’t wear running shoes, but wear comfortable shoes.
3. Don’t wear t-shirts with writing on them.
4. No slippers, sweat pants, hoodies, anything with a college emblem or name , no jerseys, no pajamas ever should leave the house.
5. If you pull a shirt or jacket more than 3 inches off your body, it is too big.
6. Jeans must be dark or white. No light blue jeans .
7. If you are over weight, lose weight. There is no fashion remedy to this.
8. Glasses, watches, scarves, and anything you put on, must match 100%. Check Pinterest if you are not sure.
9. No white socks
10. No Nike unless you are running in the gym.

Thought of Today: March 13, 2017 at 12:24PM

Fight for freedom is gradual and eternal. Today’s fight for freedom can be manifested in:

1. Ending Israeli occupation to Palestine
2. Closing Guantanamo
3. Ending gender pay gap and economic severe inequality
4. Giving Transgenders access to their self-identified-gender BR
5. Ending search of electronic devices at border entries
6. Limiting NSA invasion of privacy
7. Limiting detention time at border crossings to 1 hour maximum
8. Redefining border crossing among nations
9. Ending endoctrination of children into sects and religions
10. Eliminating nationalism from education and teaching world citizenship
11. Redefining the 2nd amendment as allowing people to have equivalent legal power as government instead of arms.
12. Sanctioning countries that violate human rights and people’s right for self-determination and rule.