By George Harrolds Cover image: By Ricardo630 – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30626126 How many chess sets do you have in your home? If you’re one of the many people who has chosen to embrace chess as part of your lifestyle, you have no doubt already moved beyond the decision to learn to play […]
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Authored by Zhill Olonan and Geoffrey Woo • Originally published at HVMN – May 3, 2019 • 4 min read Before an important talk or podcast, Dr. Rhonda Patrick drinks exogenous ketone esters. Why? With Dr. Patrick describing the main benefit as feeling “less anxious and more in the present”, there’s something worth unpacking here. Can ketones help with anxiety? What’s the state of
(Originally published on elitefts, authored by me) This is the 11th day after my young friend and athlete’s passing. It’s a lot of time but not time enough to elaborate on my questions. They remain unanswered. I only coached him for a couple of months but the darkness in our continued private conversation kept me
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Today I won’t share someone’s program. It doesn’t make sense anymore. He’s gone (as in deceased). (originally published at elitefts – authored by me) I was informed of his passing Monday, two days later. I still can’t explain my inner paradox: I had been engaging in mental rehearsals, “auto-biographical function” or just entertaining random trains
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The process of letting go is a slow and painful one, but it brings some relief. As if with each flake you shed, you become a lighter and a more genuine version of yourself. I just now opened the book manuscript I was supposed to hand in in 2012 and never did. It is in
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This is a brief explanation about what this awareness initiative is about and, following that, my own evidence-based evolutionary and social perspective on it. The Mental Health Awareness Month was established and has been observed since 1949. An initiative of the National Association for Mental Health, the objective is to concentrate efforts to educated the
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I’m a motherly coach. I’ve been told that and I was even given some very cute nicknames because of that, the best one being Khaleesi. But I have a template: my master, Angelo Pio Buonafina, who brought me, in this version of myself, into the world. Which brings me to the topic of coaches as
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Growth is inevitable. A living organism will grow or mature through time. Nothing can stop that. Whether it is healthy growth or stunted, mutilated, malformed growth, it will happen. It happens to all of us. Invertebrate metamorphosis, ecdysis in particular, is a rich source of metaphoric thinking about our growth. So let’s dive and swim
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Sub-clinical manifestations of behaviors such as cleaning, checking, counting, symmetry-making and even hoarding are beneficial to the individual and the group. There is evidence that their modern expression is a result of even more significant evolutionary advantages.
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Who hasn’t done that? I’ve never been much of a “thing” person, I don’t collect anything, anymore. I don’t even collect my own trophies (I left them all behind). There were moments of slight anxiety when letting go of the last book in my private library. Thoughts such as “… but I don’t remember anything
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