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Is it better to study standing or sitting?

The debate over sitting and standing continues with researchers recommending that standing has many more benefits on your health than sitting. Whether you are studying, painting, or working, it is always better to perform the activity on your feet. Studies have shown that standing for six hours a day instead of sitting helps prevent weight gain and can also help shed a few kilos. If you are a student, it is best to study while standing than sitting. Here are a few reasons to convince you.

1. Increased alertness
If you find it difficult to focus on the book for long hours, try standing and studying. You will notice that it is easy to concentrate while you are studying. When you are standing, you are alert and you can focus more on the task at hand. When you sit for long hours, there is fatigue and your mind begins to wander which makes it hard to focus.

2. Better posture
Have you noticed that you slouch more often when you are sitting as compared to when you are standing? It is important to pay attention to your posture at all times and it often goes unnoticed while sitting on a bed or couch. When you study while standing, you have a better posture and it improves your overall health and wellbeing.

3. High productivity
Research has shown that individuals who work while standing have better productivity. Hence, if you are studying while standing, you will be able to achieve much more than you planned to. This is because of increased alertness and focus. Whether you are preparing for an exam or are taking an online course in your field, stand, and see the difference.

4. Reduce back pain
Back pain is a common complaint of those who sit all day. Standing can improve this and a lot of studies have shown that individuals with back pain notice an improvement in their pain after a few weeks of standing instead of sitting. Standing can reduce upper back pain and neck pain significantly.

5. Burns calories
You can burn calories by simply standing on your feet while you study! Weight gain is a result of taking in more calories than you burn. When you sit for long hours on the chair or your bed, the calories keep piling up. Exercise can be an efficient way to lose calories but simply standing on your feet can make a lot of difference. Sitting for long hours has been linked to obesity and metabolic disease. By simply standing for the same amount of time, you can improve your health.

It is certainly better to study while standing than sitting. It might take a while for you to get used to it but you will notice an increased efficiency, high focus, and better health and wellbeing. Try to take short breaks while you are studying. You can take a quick stroll inside the room to freshen up. Once you get used to the habit of studying while standing, you will enjoy the process of learning even more. (Resource)

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Another day of my life.

Life changing books are all about how to study, live and think. But I believe these books are not enough. You should have a speciality which helps you in life.
These books full of motivation but why we need motivation? We need motivation to learn real subjects (mathematics, physics, chemistry, geography, biology, history...) and handle problems with positive attitude.

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7 Habits for Success:

1. Read every day.
2. Make your health a priority.
3. Learn from people you admire.
4. Plan your day the night before.
5. Keep your goals in front of you.
6. Take action, even when it's scary.
7. Have an attitude of gratitude.

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Reading books vs. watching TV — is one really better for us?

All the research says reading a book is good for you. Better even than listening to an audiobook or reading one on an e-reader. It reduces stress, promotes comprehension and imagination, alleviates depression, helps you sleep and may contribute to preventing Alzheimer’s (Alzheimer's is a disease the most common type of dementia).

Reading is active; watching TV is passive. The act of physically turning a page creates a momentary pause for understanding to sink in. Our brains have to work to translate the black squiggles on the page into words and then interpret the meaning and intent of those words. When a character is described as tall with brown hair, a reader creates her own picture. TV takes all that imagination away.

Reading is better than watching TV
Reading is a whole lot better than watching TV in more ways than you can imagine. Even from an early age, the use of screens brings massive disadvantages when compared to time spent reading. Not only because reading is an incredibly useful learning tool, while the TV has a main entertainment purpose, but also because of the effect both have on our brains.

Reading has a positive effect on our mental health while watching TV has the exact opposite effect. Reading can reduce stress, and lower our blood pressure, our heart rate, and muscle tension.

On top of the knowledge boost reading provides us with, it also has a healing effect on our mental state. Especially if we approach reading with mindfulness, there is a lot for us to gain if we spend more time reading and less time watching TV. Reading allows us to live less stressful, wiser, and more empathetic lives.

Why is reading better than watching TV?
Now that we have established that reading is a much healthier, more useful and rewarding activity than watching TV, let’s have a look at a couple of important aspects that differentiate the two and some of the most relevant benefits of reading vs watching TV.

Reading benefits
First, let’s explore some of the most important benefits that those of us who have the habit of reading can enjoy.

Reading improves general knowledge: there is no better way of acquiring information on pretty much any subject than through reading.
Reading makes us better people: by helping us relax, making us wiser and better informed, improving our ability to empathize with others, and teaching us countless life lessons, reading makes us better people in countless aspects.
Reading helps us live longer and healthier lives: the benefits of reading books go well beyond our mental health. Reading can lower your blood pressure, slow your heart rate, delay the onset of age-related cognitive diseases like Alzheimer’s or dementia, and can even extend our life expectancy.
Reading is like cardio for your brain: even though anatomically they have almost nothing in common, your brain and your muscles share a couple of similarities to a certain extent. More precisely, your brain will function a lot better the more you exercise it, just like your muscles. Reading is a great exercise for your brain and people who read constantly not only have better learning performance but also have a much healthier brain, which allows them to have a young and sharp mind even in old age.

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What is dopamine?
Dopamine is a chemical released in the brain that makes you feel good. Having the right amount of dopamine is important both for your body and your brain. Dopamine helps nerve cells to send messages to each other.

What does dopamine do to a person?
What is the role of dopamine? Dopamine is responsible for allowing you to feel pleasure, satisfaction, and motivation. When you feel good that you have achieved something, it's because you have a surge of dopamine in the brain.

Does dopamine help you study?
New research suggests that dopamine, the chemical which controls pleasure and memory in the brain, can be used to hijack motivation and increase attention spans among learners – and when used correctly, it can even make your learning courses addicting.

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Sometimes life doesn't give you what you want, Not because you don't deserve it, but because you deserve more!

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An 88-year-old man died in Germany recently. He had a private library that contained 70,000 books that no one knew about, and he had built all the furniture for the books himself. ❤️

(Source: BRICO ET DÉCO)

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Your confidence is an exact measure of your expertise.

There are many, possibly infinite, potential actions that you can take at any moment. And at every moment, one action has to be singled out as the best possible action that you can take. And your confidence is the degree of certainty you have that the action you took is truly the best possible one. To put it simply, your confidence is a measure of how correct you think you are.

For example, let’s assume that you’re a waiter, and you’re trying to remember what drink one of your customers ordered. Let’s say they ordered an iced tea, but you think they ordered a coke. So the best possible action to take is to get them iced tea, but you think it’s to get them a coke. And if you’re highly certain that they ordered a coke, we would say you’re highly confident, even though that confidence is misguided. And confidence, even if it's misguided, leads to action. Lack of confidence, on the other hand, leads to hesitation. See, if you’re not confident that your customer ordered a coke, you would hesitate to get it for them. You’d probably go back and ask them what they ordered. You would do more research and refine your hypothesis. They tell you that they ordered an iced tea.

So you refine your hypothesis, and your confidence in this hypothesis goes up. And with increased confidence, comes an increased desire to take action. A life without confidence is a life unlived because a life without confidence is a life full of hesitation. It’s a life full of plans that were never acted on. It’s a life full of dreams that were never realized. It’s a life spent in study and research, without any action. It’s a life full of wasted potential and regret. On the other hand, a life of overconfidence is reckless and short-sighted. It’s a life full of failures and poorly executed plans.
It’s a life spent acting impulsively, never reflecting on how to act better. And so similar to a life without confidence, overconfidence leads to a life of wasted potential. Achieving your greatest potential starts with true confidence.
The true confidence is neither unconfident nor overconfident. True confidence is when how correct you think you overlap with how correct you actually are. In other words, you are correct about how correct you think you are.
Your confidence is an exact measure of your expertise. You have an accurate view of your own knowledge. You have self-awareness.

For example, a brain surgeon with true confidence knows the limits of his own knowledge and that makes him a great surgeon. When he comes across problems that are outside of his domain of expertise, he passes the problem on to someone more qualified. He’s not reckless. And when he comes across problems that are within his domain of expertise, he handles them without fear or hesitation. He’s neither overconfident or unconfident, but truly confident. The best way, then, to achieve your greatest potential is to focus on your expertise, not your confidence. True confidence will always walk hand-in-hand with your expertise.

Most people, for example, would be confident in getting a glass of water in their house, because they’ve done it a hundred times before. They’re certain that they could do it. And the more times you’ve solved a problem in the past, the more certain you are that you can solve it in the future. Expertise is what leads to true confidence, and expertise comes from solving a problem so many times that you can’t help but believe in your ability to solve it. And expertise is natural and inevitable when you consistently overcome the tests that life gives you. A man who has to grow his business in difficult times—through recessions, times of cultural and technological transition, and changing consumer demands—will have to become an expert in order to succeed.

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1. Never stop learning.
2. See failure as a beginning.
3. Teach others what you know.
4. Assume nothing, question everything.
5. Analyze objectively.
6. Practice humility.
7. Respect constructive criticism.
8. Love what you do.
9. Give credit where it's due.
10. Take initiative

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Sleep, read, or ...😉

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Two cold hard truths:

1) Buying books and reading books are two very different hobbies.

2) Reading books and applying books are two very different activities.

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Don't think Sunday is relaxing day, so many books are waiting for you 😁 !

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