The idea with using a home trainer is to improve your physical fitness. Physical fitness affects the body's physiological functioning, overall health, and motor skill related to aspects such as agility, balance, and speed. A home-trainer is at hand; to help with exercises and there is no need to go to a fitness centre or …
Stop and Think about It
Which animal would you like to save? What criteria are you using when you are thinking about working for endangered animals or donating money to save a species? The Ugly Animal Preservation Society (UAPS) works towards raising the profile of some more aesthetically challenged animals. The panda gets a lot of attention and it might …
Crazy and Absurd
The title to the video below “MinusIQ: The pill to lower your IQ permanently “is a provocation. The idea with a pill to reduce IQ is absurd and unreasonable. Why would you want to minimise your IQ? Yet this provocation makes us think. It helps us to step away from our “usual” way of thinking …
Seraching for Truth
The Yiddish proverb says, “A half truth is a whole lie”. The question is if this proverb tells us more about how our ideas related to truth and falsehood have changed. Watch a TV programme with a political discussion, or explore some tweets, newspaper articles and try to decide which of the proposals and …
Challenging Thinking about Exercise – Searching for Positive Benefits
Challenging Thinking How little exercise do you need to do to get fit? Surprisingly as little as 3 minutes of exercise, a week may improve your health - improve the insulin sensitivity. It has always been assumed that training should consist of for example, 30 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise per day at least 5 days …
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Value Engineering
Value Engineering A common method is to explore values is to use value engineering where we determine the value of goods or services by looking at the ratio between cost and function. The goods or services are examined and the first stages in value engineering are information gathering and analysis. This is a creative method …
World Thinkers’ Ideas – Do What You Love
Using the Internet to promote our skills is becoming increasingly more important. New skills and ideas are required and Peter Thiel says that it is vital to let interests and talents help to us find a career that inspires us. Choosing subjects and topics that we are interested in and love, mean that we are …
Black-and-White Background
How does black-and-white background influence our thinking? Thinking is never neutral. Focusing our attention on different aspect is often more difficult than we imagine. Many “little” things can affect our thinking. A recent study suggests that if we see something on a black-white background it is harder for us to consider grey areas when we …
Thinking about Value
Thinking about Value The importance of value is the theme in the book “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The narrator observes that grown-ups like numbers. Grown-ups think that they know a person after then have asked questions related to a new friend’s age and how much money his parent’s make. The little prince …
Thinking and Possibilities
Possibilities can play a vital role in your life. The term possibility is often defined as potential, and the search for possibilities could be the aim of thinking. Possibilities are potentials and gateways for opportunities. If you close down your thinking and stop actively searching for more possibilities then you could miss opportunities and fail …
How to Fail Most Successfully
Ultra-Solutions, first coined by Paul Watzlawick, are solutions that in a previous situation worked brilliantly or at least to your satisfaction. Then you try the solution in another context and it turns into the opposite. The solution is worse than the disease. It is a way to fail most successfully. Rocket silos NASA built silos …
