Have you ever wondered what would happen if you don’t restart your Firefox for almost a week?
It starts taking up almost a gigabyte of memory.
Now you know.
What I’m Reading
A while back, one of my readers named Jessie suggested that I read a book called
How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less. She claimed that with my rising popularity, I would need to go out and meet more people in person, and I would have to learn how to make them like me in person as well as online. I didn’t really think that I needed to prepare for real-life encounters with people who keep up with me online, but I realized that it couldn’t hurt to check out the book anyway.
I was sort of disappointed after reading the book because the introduction claims that it covers some revolutionary method that has helped many people become successful. The main idea of the book is that when meeting people, you should approach them with a positive attitude and mindset and find stuff that you have in common. It also focuses on synchronization (or copying physical actions the other person does so they feel as if you’re someone familiar, because you’re basically emulating them) and identifying learning styles and using them to your advantage (such as identifying someone who is a visual person and describing your point of view in a visual manner).
Most of the stuff covered in this book seemed like either common sense or something that anyone could easily find out after some experience with meeting new people. If you don’t already know how to ask questions that induce longer responses rather than yes or no answers, how to synchronize with someone so that it’s not obvious that you’re copying them but still enough that the person subconsciously realizes that you’re special, or how to identify people’s learning style(s) (visual, auditory, kinesthetic) by watching their behavior, then this book might come in handy for you. If not, then it’s most likely not worth your time.
If you’re interested in buying this book, you can purchase it on Amazon.com at the following link:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0761149465/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=parkzer-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399369&creativeASIN=0761149465
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Topic #184: If you had a third arm, where would you put it on your body? Would you put it underneath one of your other arms? Or somewhere more interesting, say, the top of your head, so you could reach really high things? Or would you put it behind you, so itâd be a makeshift tail?
If I had a third arm, I would probably put it directly under my current left arm.
I think that if I were to put it somewhere else on my body, it would become a hassle because I’m not used to having a limb in that area. However, I’m already used to having limbs on the sides of my body and it would be easy to get accustomed to the extra arm. I’m right-handed, so it might be difficult to do some things with my right arm if another arm was right below it, so I decided to go with the left side of my body.
I realize that this might cause a balance issue with my body because the left side of my body will be heavier than the right side of my body, but the only way to solve this problem would be to either have my arm sticking straight up off the top of my head or straight down from my crotch, neither of which I would think is a good idea.