To Kanji To Kanji

If you are comfortable with Hiragana and its time to move to Kanji, then the ways to do it are - How I became fluent in Kanji explains how he practised writing all hiragana words in which a particular kanji was used and practising the kanji enough to be able to write it again while going through the hiragana words. He also laid out how to start off with the basic 80 kanji at N5 level of JLPT exam and then move on to increase the proficiency at say reading a Japanese language paper. You will see Pareto's law there. This way you are using hiragana to learn kanji and practising it too.

 Memorising Kanji with hiragana counterparts

There is a concept of Japanese brain while learning the language so you dont translate into the Japanese language and learn anturally, like it were your first language.That starts with sentence structure, verb conjugation.

Another easier way of learning Kanji is to learn Chengyu or proverbs. If you are like me and love poems then how about this Tao Yuanming poem.

Heisig method

250 essential kanji for everyday use = Seikatsu no naka no kanji shows pictorial source of Kanji.

The same initial hiragana and Kanji words that go with numbers feel more familair now, having learnt the days and months last week at the Japanese class.

 

Culture Is the Way: How Leaders at Every Level Build an Organization for Speed, Impact, and Excellence

Changing behaviors, mindsets, attitudes

Bringing energy

Awaken to a larger room - open space for envisioning

Alter the narrative for better

Writing about wildlife

 Find field notes and write the informatio for a lower reader level.

Lesser Long Nosed bats  prefer going through certain habitats instead of "As the Crow Flies". They can even be feeding from hummingbird feeders.

Why science literacy matters

The Boy Who Played with Fusion

Rocket Boys

Portrait of a Graduate

Is it true that the majority of individuals know how to lose weight but lack the essential motivation?

 This is tricky. There are few things that people know that need to be done. This sphere of knowledge might be big or small for different people but for any meaningful change, consistency is very important. Everything takes its time. Eigenzeit. For something like weight loss, to note what works for us, we have to be willing to experiment, document and change course. With so much involved, ‘how to’ is a small percentage of the success. There are opposing forces, our current environments, that people will have to control. Like the many levels of Russian dolls, each person might be at a different level of knowledge or illusion.

How do you make exercise addictive instead of a chore?

 To make something addictive, review all your habits. When your habits are associated with a reward, then it becomes addictive.

With exercise, exercise is the reward. Your awareness of your body, its heightened activated state, the heart rate going up, the sweat, the I am powerful state of mind is the flow state.

To get there, pick exercises that challenge you enough in the short term. With time, you will notice that your stamina and performance are increasing and can go for better goals in the longer term.

Once you have this working for you, this positivity will spill into other aspects of your life. Dont think of exercise as showing up only on the scale or at the doctors office, think of it as your whole life at the next energy level. It changes your presence for self and family. 

Do you change your way of losing weight? If yes, how and why? If not, why?

 What got you here wont get you there

At some point in your getting healthy journey, you will have to change some things. What works at one age might not work at another.

When I was a teenager, I would do yoga but obviously not enough due to time constraints for studying and I didnt know why I had to (more from the rebel sense of when nobody else my age has to).

Late teens again busy studying. Only in the last year of undergrad, I had time to go to the gym, by then I had learned some things from friends.

From those, walking and counting my calories helped a lot. It changed my persona to a fit person. At this point in life I was doing 30 min exercise in the gym everyday.

My next level of breakthrough came when I saw an elliptical left at 60 min done. I couldnt believe that. I picked that miracle from there and lo and below I dropped a pound every alternate day and lost about 25–30 pounds in around 3 months time. Dont ask me what I was eating. I was on a losing weight high.

Later when trying to lose baby weight, I figured weekends were the culprit. The inconsistency of the weekends in diet and exercise was washing away the week’s good behavior. That was a big aha for then.

Depending on different stages in life, you will realise that you need a different tactic to get to your next health goal.

Why do you work hard? What motivates you?

 "We don't rise to the level of our expectations; we fall to the level of our training." - Archilochus

What you can be certain of is the effort you put in. You do all that you can.

Startup Ideas

 

I still want to know why the best tool we have for measuring the diameter of a uterus is a blunt metal rod. Really???! Am I checking the oil level in my car?? (And I was totally in the dark that that had to happen first before I could even get the IUD).

— Dr. Emily Hodge (@theemilyhodge) October 21, 2021

Mirena Crash 

 

Facebook Portal Plus - Smart Video Calling 15.6” Touch Screen Display with Alexa

The coolest thing about this gots to be the smart camera. Still camera works best when you are in place, but when you are with kids or doing chores here and there, then the camera that follows you, really serves you hands free. Human recognition had to be more useful than just recognising them in frame. It had to move to keeping them in frame, no matter what. 

I love the story time animations. This morning I took a princess picture with a vtech kidizoom. If while reading a story, the screen can change background according to the stroy theme, main character or even have basic wiki pages or fun facts, that could be so much immersive. If it is age appropriate then even more. Context rich searching. If summaries or notes can come up, that we can clip away as the outcomes of that time spending, it takes note taking to a 3D level. If a product were to inculcate this paragraph, then such a product would be great for students, especially with a choice to revisit any older concepts or know further about an interesting thing, to keep those "hooks" in the brain to remember the concept.

It might be useful for presentations too, when you have more actions.

 

Roborock S7 Robot Vacuum and Mop with Sonic Mopping, Strong 2500PA Suction, Multi-Level Mapping, Plus App and Voice Control

Roborock S7  scrubs floors upto 3000 times per minute.

It uses ultrasonic technology to detect between carpet and floor, to switch from vacuum to mopping, while Dyson uses laser technology to reveal dust. 

Storytelling to influence

Stories That Stick: How Storytelling Can Captivate Customers, Influence Audiences, and Transform Your Business by Kindra Hall

Yesterday, when is aw that my daughter was not happy wiht a well done drawing. I told her the Picasso's It took me a lifetime story. Its actually 40 years. But you get it, she got it that it meant the daily practice. We had to peel some onions for that.

Then I was reminded of King Bruce and the spider. After telling the story or bare bones of it, I realised how much I missed out. The context of the war for independence. Bruce thought that the spider's struggles were similar to his. They were similar int hat they needed perseverance in surviving. While the degree of ti was that, spider's was that of daily survival and basic needs of food and Bruce being King, his predicament was of much larger scale. How did the spider influence Bruce?

Yesterday while looking for a fitness app, I came across how Nike has made their training center free forever.  ntc compared to other programs gives you some more idea of the program. While I had alreadt joine dthe program, I saw the how to use nike training club app and realised how I couldnt give someone a better peek than this at joining the program. With these information for an interested person, I was able to reduce the friction of joining a path. Look at the funnel there. The first news is about the general audience. The second one about someone who is comapring different programs. And with the last one, if you drill down, its now to the nitty gritty of what exaclty is the path going to be.

Sometimes working with a person, might increase trust. And then your natural instinct of distrust too might kick in. When you hear the same advise from an institution or an organization, then you might validate the points independently.

While practising a speech, I was going through different drafts, I was using Kindra Hall's book Stories that Stick. I love listening to Kindra talk and her energy. Through that process and analysing experiences, I am able to see the difference between how detailed you have to go, to influence someone. When you are telling someone to do something, focus on your CTA or the call to action of the level it is at - is it the general, exercise is good for health, or here is a tool, here is how to use the tool, or I did this program and I am feeling certain way. Would you like to test drive that feeling?

How Bacteria talk

 

Talkative bacteria and quorum sensing.

"they don’t actually know each other is there, they can’t actually count, they can’t see. They’re measuring the concentration.

So, when the molecule hits a particular level, the bacteria detect it. And they all respond by changing their gene expression, which then changes their behavior. And they begin to carry out these group tasks."

Perfume analogy.

Kids and writing

 Why kids hate writing

My little KG started writing. Few weeks ago, she asked me for the topic. She thought of something, drew it first and then wrote on it. She drew a broom. She is taking no subject, nothing short of poetic to another level. She connected broom to cleaning and how she keeps her playroom clean. It is amazing to see such little kids read all the multiple choice statements and know the right answer.

TRANSCEND begins

 Legs Level 1

Great team motivation.

Wk 7 Day 2

 9/5

Cardio +Abs

I did about 30 min of ONE HOUR Full STRENGTH Bodyweight Workout | Level 2 w/ Rebecca Kennedy. This had squats, planks and jumping jacks. Some of the level made it cardio. Rebecca Kennedy has great energy.  I enjoyed todays workout a lot especially due to yesterdays break probably.

Adding 100 more calories, since I have lost weight at 6 week check in. 

9/6

Another 1 hour core workout good enough for 2 days.

was sweating from 30 min of this core exercise.

The cardio blowout of going into star plank is something.

Value Based Goals Reaching - Aesthetic

 Happened upon this Mamak Sessions - Jordan Yeoh.

Jordan Yeoh started out wanting to look good but has found his identity in becoming a fitness guru.

When Mamak said Jordan's exercises are tough, I didnt think I would be giving it a try. It was a tough but fun exercise. Next time hopefully, Ic an maintain the intensity all through better than last time.

Who's up for Level 5 bodyweight exercise. Its tempting to take on the challenge.

WK 6 Day 3

 8/31

Upper Body Workout

This Hasfit workout was great too. I wondered if it would not be to the Leg workout level. Wiht variety of moves it was fun and challenging. With the second round of pushups, I didnt have to put my knees down. I reduced the weights on some of the moves.

Can you microwave chia seeds? Yes.

9/1

Core + Abs

For this day we have 60 min plank workout which should spill into 9/3 workout as part 2.

This is awesome. Such tough moves but definitely going to come back to them again.

Many exercises are so new. The climb up the rope with your leg extended high, earlier I wouldnt be able to mvoe at all, now I see some progress.

WK 6 Day 2

 8/29

Cardio

I was wondering if it should be jump rope or kickboxing and I just realised that the perfect workout is in my lap. Jordan Yeoh's Level 4 workout.

This is a wonderful challenge as I expected it to be since it is level 4. I saw a level 2.5 somewhere, which means there are many gradations.

I didnt know what to expect other than it going to be tough.

When the jumping jacks started again, I htought it was a mistake, I was expecting the exercises to go in sequence like 1,2,3 and so on.

And then I figured

that it is going

1

1, 2

1,2,3 ...

and so on.

By the middle of it, you do all the exercises at once. Luckily there is a break between each of these sets.

Now the comedy I thought we will build it up again like that in the reverse. 

It turns out that this is bell curve type where you gradually shed an exercise in the later half. This is where I lost the hop in the exercises. Surprisingly I kept it for the jumping jacks. With each time I saw, the lag in reaction from Go to Jumping Jacks.

Loved this exercise. Even the last fun quirk bit where the exercise is changed on you.

Switching it up. Enjoyed all the exercises and the breaks.

8/30

Core+ Abs

At the Home core workout by Ashley Conrad, followed by 20 Min ab workout . This has good music.

This felt good. I was sweating by the end of it.

Not sure if it was Conrad's authoritative tone or the last 2 weeks core and abs workout, my reverse crunches were rocking. Also loved the plank walkouts and walk ins.

Dead bug seems a bit like reverse bird-dog.

Feeling like practising - did some scapular exercises and about 25 of the Level 1 Squat to Headstand progression.

No Exercise Day

WK2 - On No exercise day I do walking. The Farmers Walk is a way to take it to the next level.

Making gall bladder surgery fun

Dan Butler, in his TED talk The surprising science of happiness says, " Is it really the case that gall bladder surgery and a trip to Paris are just the same thing?" A riposte to Shakespeare's
"Tis nothing good or bad, thinking makes it so"

Your decision to have the surgery implie sthat at some mental level, you had a Diaglogue similar to Franklin and the Gout with your aching body parts. Imagine "The truce", I am sure it will be worth a Paris trip. More classic ailment essay writers