The Tipping point - How little things can make a big difference. -by Malcom Gladwell A puzzle. Imagine a very large piece of a paper. Fold the paper once and now fold the folded paper again and then again and then again until you’ve folded the original paper fifty times. How tall would be the final stack? As thick as a phone book? Or would the pile be as tall as a refrigerator? The height of the stack would be as high as the distance to the Sun and back. This is how Geometric progression works. Epidemics are another examples of G.P. Big changes follow from small events and at some moments these changes happen rapidly. The name given to that one dramatic moment in an epidemic when everything can change all at once is the “Tipping point”. An idea spreads like fire once it reaches the tipping point. But in order to spread like fire, an idea first has to reach what Gladwell calls the tipping point. The book is about the reasons why and how there is an emerge...
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The 5am Club
The 5 am Club – Robin Sharma Robin calls the early morning time as victory hours. The early morning routine is an attempt to get out of detrimental modern-lifestyle and built up a new habit that improves our productivity. He says, “These days too many of us die at thirty and get buried at eighty.” For us to overcome this modern day miseries, there needs to be simple changes, starting from personal awareness. We are worried about society, results, and health issues. Things become miserable when fear and worries supersede faith. Limitation is nothing more than a mentality that too many good people practice daily until they believe it’s a reality. Robin says that our excuses are seducers, fears are liars and doubts are thieves. The moment when we feel like giving up is exactly the instant when we must find it in us to press hard. Victims love entertainment most of the time and Victors adore education most of the times. In a culture of cyber zombies, addicted to...
Holistic Health
Holistic Health - Dr. B.M.Hegde Has the medicine prolonged Human Life? It’s been around nine lakh years for Humans to get evolved and now we’ve had 50 thousand generations on this planet. Medicine came into existence 500 years ago. Most of it got into use in the last 100 years. Modern medicine is just 50 years old. How did the previous humans survive? In the days without medicine, People who survived childhood most commonly lived 68 to 78 years. More than 10,000 years later , the numbers look eerily similar. The average person can expect to live 71.4 years , ...