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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 of […]

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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 […]

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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
d) More than Five
3. How many Sem­i­nars (non-work related) have you paid to attend […]

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