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Personal Development

How to become an early riser

by The Crazy Colombian on April 6, 2007

in How to,Personal Development

A blog article suggests that going to bed only when you feel sleepy and getting up with an alarm clock at a fixed time every dayd of the week is the key. I am yet to get this method to work, but the theory stacks up. I managed to wake up consistently at 5:30 AM [...]

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Background noise

by The Crazy Colombian on March 31, 2007

in Personal Development,Reflection

I recently heard an interesting show on ‘Radio National’ talked about the effect that noise has on the classroom . It talked about how noise distracts students, and in extreme cases, a seemingly minor distraction can change the meaning of the whole lesson. It gave the example of a children’s story read to a group [...]

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Image: Body Language, Faceless Expressions by Jimmy MacDonald At a very early age, I saw my Dad’s best friend (who was like a second father to me) die of lung cancer; like many strong-minded, stubborn latin american men, he took to smoking from an early age, and it killed him at the peak of his [...]

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Are you a knowledge junkie?

by The Crazy Colombian on February 7, 2007

in Personal Development,Quizz

Image: Path to knowledge by fictures Are you a knowledge junkie? Take this quizz and find out!! 1. How many ‘self-help’ books do you have in your bookshelf? a) None b) 1-3 c) 4-10 d) more than 10 2. How many ‘self-help’ books have you actually read? a) None b) One c) Less than Five [...]

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