Olympic gymnast Simone Biles taught the world a lesson in how to care for yourself when you’re faced with the unrelenting pressure to perform perfectly.
the columnist reckons being able to admit you’re wrong is a superpower. Cooler then blades that spring out of your knuckles?! Yes, maybe even cooler than that.
Don t latch on to the first few ideas that emerge from that brainstorming session! Research shows that your brain throws up better ideas later in the thinking process. － 123rf.com
Do you think your first ideas are the best ones? Then maybe we should talk about the Creative Cliff Illusion.
The Creative Cliff Illusion is the concept that our creativity on any given topic declines over time. Using the example of a brainstorming session, the Creative Cliff Illusion would mean our best ideas are thrown out early on and we dry up over time. Basically, we fall off the creative cliff. We fall off the idea cliff into the valley of no ideas, which as a simile probably needed more time to work on, but I’m throwing it out there anyway.
Is bitcoin the new gold? Or will we all look back at the whole crypto thing and think we were crazy to put so much value in a digital currency that was never going to be used? － AFP
“Buy bitcoin!” my friend told me way back in the spring of 2020. And of course, I laughed at him and proceeded to put my money in a savings account so it could earn 0.000000001% interest.
Of course, in that time bitcoin has hit all-time highs, although recently it’s fallen off again, leading sceptics to speculate that the cryptocurrency is heading for one of its dramatic crashes. A few years back bitcoin hit all-time highs and promptly lost most of its value before rebounding in 2020.
FILE PHOTO: Corina Naujoks, member of a German Red Cross mobile vaccination team injects the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at an employee of a retirement nursery in Dillenburg, Germany, January 7, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Kai Pfaffenbach
Vaccines are being rolled out to fight Covid-19, and while most are embracing the potential end of the global pandemic, conspiracy theorists are at it again making some wary.
Now, there are some legitimate reasons to be cautious when it comes to the Covid-19 vaccines. It is true that most vaccines take a decade to develop as researchers test their longterm side effects, and clearly that was not possible in the case of the Covid-19 vaccines.