Tag: Sociology

  • Conflict Resolution is the new Problem Solving

    Problem solving is taught in nearly all top education curriculum but conflict resolution and identification need to be mixed in. If told “you need to do X, figure it out” people can think back to schooling and find an answer. What is harder is when it turns into a conversation between two people. When an…

  • Gyms – A Healthy and Unlimited Renewable Energy Solution

    Gyms can provide renewable energy to combat our growing electricity needs. Imagine a gym where every weight and machine had a motor. Every rep could produce a small amount of power and store it to a battery. Set after set and day after day people will be moving heavy weights to power a battery. Make…

  • How to Develop Discipline with Science – A Simple Guide

    If you want to develop discipline, you’re already starting off in a stronger place than many. Understanding the impacts of discipline and wanting to obtain it are fantastic first steps that put you ahead of the game. Great! But what is discipline and how do you get it? With high discipline, things must come easier…

  • A Life With No Privacy – Is it Bad or Different

    A life with no privacy sounds terrifying. The question is: why? Is that because it is so significantly different from how we live now or that it is actually bad? What does no privacy mean? Our ‘private information’ right now is primarily stored on the internet. We have a false sense of privacy since it…

  • Free unlimited WIFI, data, and cell service is coming!

    Free unlimited WIFI, data, and cell service sounds like a dream right? Well there is a catch, then a asterisk for the catch. Whether this is good news or bad news, I think it is coming. The trend pointing to free unlimited WIFI As more and more companies pivot to offering ‘free’ or heavily discounted…

  • A New Way to Grow Online Communities with Social Media Gamification

    Social media gamification can mean many different things. Gamification is already built in with like/follow/share tracking, but there is a whole other opportunity being missed. The new social media gamification concept Say you have a small following on your socials that forms a growing online community. Great! Now getting it to grow is challenging –…

  • How to Be a Good Salesperson – Stop Trying

    Do you want to be a good salesperson? Good news it’s not that hard. Bad news, you’re probably doing it wrong. I’ll start with the common techniques folks use and why they work (because they do), then I’ll explain why that is the wrong approach. A few tricks to become a good salesperson Understand the…

  • Food is a dangerous drug – You just don’t see it that way

    Food is a dangerous drug. But there is nothing plain or simple about that statement. I strongly believe that the food is the most commonly accepted drug in America. The Disguise of Need Obviously, we all need food. That is what makes it so easy to accept. However there are two parts of food: Like…

  • Treating Strangers Like Friends You Don’t Know Yet: One Simple Habit

    There’s a version of the world where you walk into a restaurant, spot someone across the room wearing the coolest shirt you’ve ever seen, and you just say so. Where you ask a stranger what they ordered because it looks amazing and whether you can try a bite in exchange for a sample of your…

  • Yes if and never say no – Utilizing opportunities – How I had one of the wealthiest women in the world pay for my student loans

    The concept of ‘Yes if’ and ‘never say no’ “Never say no” and “Yes if” were things I was taught by one of the wealthiest women in the world. At the time, I may have even scoffed when I heard this as I sat in the crowd. I mean… seriously! How absurd is that? Never…