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Why Your First Impression Matters You meet a woman at a party and think you have a good conversation. But when you later send her a text, she doesn’t respond. You go into a job interview feeling confident and leave feeling like you aced it. But while you keep looking at your phone, expecting a callback, it never comes. You meet a guy at a party you feel you have a lot in common with and could become a good friend. But at the end of the night, you don’t exchange information in order to hang around again. Have situations like these ever happened to you? From your end, you feel like the interaction went well, but it doesn’t seem like the other person felt the same connection. It’s confusing and frustrating. Or maybe you actually rarely feel like your encounters with new people go well in the first place. You often feel awkward when meeting new folks, and thus aren’t particularly surprised when they aren’t interested in getting to know you better. Either way, the issue ...

How to Survive a Mugging The Best Mugging Defense of All: Avoid Being Mugged in the First Place Stay in populated areas. While pickpockets like crowded areas, muggers prefer to attack individuals when they’re by themselves. It reduces the chances of witnesses. So rule number one of avoiding being mugged: stay in populated areas, and don’t go out alone. Stay in well-lit areas. Again, muggers like to do their work where they can’t be seen, so if you’re out and about at night, stay in well-lit areas. When you park your car at a store, park it underneath a light. Avoid dark alleys and the like. If you are out at night, keep a tactical flashlight on you. It allows you to identify potential threats and bright light can momentarily disorient attackers. Stay discreet. “ Gray man ” is a phrase you hear a lot in the tactical world. It means dressing and acting in a way that doesn’t bring much attention to yourself. To avoid being mugged, be the gray man. Don’t wear anything...

Should You Train When You’re Sick? You wake up one morning, and you don’t feel very well. Maybe your sinuses are stuffed up, or perhaps you’ve got a little diarrhea. You’ve scheduled some barbell training or a run for later that day, but you’re thinking about bagging the workout so you can just focus on recovering. Is that the right call? Should you skip an exercise session when you’re feeling sick? Short answer: no, you probably don’t need to skip your workout. When You Should Definitely NOT Train the only times you should skip a workout due to sickness is if you’re running a fever above 99.5 degrees Fahrenheit or you’re regularly vomiting or having diarrhea. "According to sports medicine doctor Lewis G. Maharam, exercising with a fever can cause your already high internal body temperature to increase, which will only make you feel sicker." Isolated bouts of vomiting or diarrhea by themselves typically aren’t reasons for skipping a work...

Getting Ripped vs. Getting Strong When most dudes have the come-to-Jesus moment that they need to start exercising and eating right, their primary motivation is usually to look good, and looking good usually means being lean and “ ripped .” They want the hot beach bod with abs you can grate cheese on. But they also want to be big and strong. Really strong. “Strong AF,” as they say on Instagram these days. After scouring the interwebs for plans that will simultaneously get them ripped and swole at the same time, these would-be Adonises get to training. They’re at the gym six days a week, beast-moding a different body part each day. They take the obligatory locker room selfie of their after-workout pump and post it to Instagram (#transformation #beastmode). They drink their protein shake within the magical one-hour window after working out so their muscles absorb as much of it as possible. (Some really jacked guy on Instagram mentioned doing that in his sponsored post ...

Decluttering Your Digital Life Recent years have seen a boom in books (and articles) about being digitally mindful — putting down the smartphone, closing the computer, and engaging with real-world, tactile things. All this content makes the case that our devices are sapping a bit of our soul. This isn’t to say that the digital revolution is a bad thing, just that it needs a little more mindfulness than simply picking up the latest iPhone and diving into the digital ocean with reckless abandon. In reading these commentaries on the effects technology is having on our lives, and considering both the negative and positive sides of the coin, it occurred to me that perhaps the best way of thinking about how we should engage our digital spaces, is to compare it to how we inhabit our physical ones. In the same way that “analog” possessions are neither good or bad in and of themselves, but only detract rather than enhance our lives when they become too great in number, req...

Foods That Are Super Healthy Part 1 Foods That Are Super Healthy Part 2 5. Fish and Seafood Fish and other seafoods tend to be very healthy and nutritious. They are especially rich in in omega-3 fatty acids and iodine, two nutrients that most people don’t get enough of. Studies show that people who eat the most foods from the sea (especially fish) tend to live longer and have a lower risk of many diseases, including heart disease, dementia and depression.   Salmon Salmon is a type of oily fish that is incredibly popular due to its excellent taste and high amount of nutrients, including protein and Omega-3 fatty acids. It also contains some vitamin D. Shellfish Shellfish isn’t eaten very often, which is a shame because it contains more nutrients than almost every other food. It ranks similar to organ meats when it comes to nutrient density. Edible shellfish includes clams, mollusks and oysters. Shrimp Shrimp is a type of...

Foods That Are Super Healthy Eating healthy does NOT have to be boring. There is a massive amount of foods out there that are both healthy and tasty . 1. Fruits and Berries Fruits and berries are among the world’s most popular health foods. This is not surprising, given that they taste incredible. Fruits are also very easy to incorporate into the diet, because they require little to no preparation. Apples Apple is high in fiber, vitamin C and numerous antioxidants. Apples are very fulfilling, and perfect as snacks if you find yourself hungry between meals. Avocados Avocados are different than most fruits, because they are loaded with healthy fats instead of carbs. They are creamy, tasty and high in fiber, potassium and vitamin C. Bananas Bananas are among the world’s best sources of potassium. They are also high in vitamin B6 and fiber. Bananas are ridiculously convenient and portable. Blueberries Blueberries are not only delicious, but als...