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The 15 Simple Rules To Overcome Shyness Forever
If you're shy, or know someone who's struggling with shyness, then this following blog post is for you. We've gathered together some of the best advice on how to overcome shyness and develop your social skills.
By Phong OG 4 years ago in Lifehack
Spit It
“I’m scared Mama,” he whispered as he hugged his best friend’s mother goodbye. She could hear the tears in his voice as he clung tighter and tighter. “I have a hearing tomorrow. I’m looking at a possible two-year sentence. I can’t go to prison, Mama. I don’t know how to survive in prison.” He cried.
By Trina Garner4 years ago in Lifehack
How To Think Like Joe Sugarman
If you’re in marketing, you know the name Joe Sugarman. If you don’t, shut this down, go buy his book and take the week or weekend off, I’ll be here when you come back and we can move forward then.
By Gregory D. Welch4 years ago in Lifehack
7 Essential Concert Safety Tips
For many people, the explosive energy of a concert or music festival offers a much-needed escape from reality. Seeing your favorite artist or performers in person can be a once-in-a-lifetime experience, particularly when you enjoy the event with some of your closest friends. Unfortunately, at any packed venue, there is always the chance of a terrible accident. At any large music event, there is always the risk of an unsafe crowd condition or stampede. Over the past weekend, Houston's Astroworld festival was marred by tragedy when at least eight concertgoers were killed and dozens more suffered substantial injuries as the resulted of an alleged crowd surge. While we mourn the victims that senselessly lost their lives in this horrible situation, the following tips may help you protect you and your loved ones in a similarly crowded venue.
By JS4 years ago in Lifehack
I Would Probably Play the Squid Game
In the aftermath of the hit Netflix series Squid Game, websites popped up with quizzes where you can see if you would survive the brutal game. This is more horrifying than the show, because it hides savagery behind a veneer of entertainment, which is something the show doesn’t do. The messages of Squid Game are as subtle as a sledgehammer.
By Maria Shimizu Christensen4 years ago in Lifehack
The Wildly Similar Dynamic of Fantasy Football and The Stock Market
Being an investor in the stock market will make you a better fantasy football player. I began trading seriously when the Pandemic first broke out. I spent hundreds of hours researching companies and patterns down to every detail. My due diligence allows me to crush it in fantasy football.
By Jordan Mendiola4 years ago in Lifehack
Safety tips wearing Grillz and bursting myths
What is Grillz? Grillz, likewise called "Grillz" or "fronts," are enriching covers frequently made of gold, silver, or gem-encrusted valuable metals that snap more than at least one of their teeth. They by and large are removable yet some Grillz wearers have had their teeth modified with gold crowns to forever look like a Grillz.
By Aiden Smith4 years ago in Lifehack
Lifehacks for Music
Music lovers, get together! Until I discovered written magic, music and entertainment was my life. I ate, slept and breathed my last. The only problem with this is often the popularity of music in your life, and it is often a big problem.
By Nick Guci4 years ago in Lifehack
TikTok, booktok, and Fantasy. Top Story - September 2021.
The fantasy novel has a long successful history; however, when print sales dropped in 2012, the online sales flourished, paving a new way for self-publishing. Despite the fluctuating sales, fantasy continues to carry with it a strong fan-base that only adds to story-building worlds. In Australia, the fantasy publishing industry is looked down upon as a “popular” literary genre, separating it from the realistic “literature” that wins awards and promotes prestige. Across the entire publishing industry, fantasy produces strong fandom, creates potential for seriality and has the ability to move fluidly between multiple modes of publishing, especially with the emergence of TikTok and the booktok hashtag.
By Issie Amelia4 years ago in Lifehack
Threading the Needle
Someone referred to this World as "Beautiful Chaos", and I tend to agree, because there's undaunted freedom within Chaos, who can direct or restrain it?, but there are some who dare to try. All I have to do is turn on the World News or check my Google Feed to assess the turmoil. We've recently gained some "breathing room", no pun intended, from the Co-vid 19 Pandemic, only to be accosted by this new strain or variant on the horizon, and there's this huge push for everyone to get vaccinated, not to mention other Natural Disasters wrought by Mother Nature, with flooding and Tropical Storms popping up all over the Globe, as Human Beings respond to the unrest of life on the Planet, staging Protests in rebellion to World Systems that continue to disappoint.
By Nollie McCain4 years ago in Lifehack
Dancing it out
Do you remember the moment in your life when you saw your favorite show for the first time? For me, the first time I saw ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ was like a theoretical awakening. I was 14, visiting my aunt at her house in Phoenix Arizona. It was scalding hot outside, and I had nothing to do. My aunt had to go to work, but she showed me her DVD box sets of seasons 1-3 of Grey’s Anatomy and told me I could watch them if I wanted to.
By Allison Keller5 years ago in Lifehack
Our Values Are in Our Exceptions
Very few things in human existence are explained by absolutes. We live in a multi-hued world defined by nearly infinite shades of grey, yet when things get scary or hard, we frantically search for easy, black-and-white explanations and answers to our problems. We want things to be right or wrong. When we can’t fix those problems, unshaded absolutes make it easy to blame someone else — someone on the opposite side of our side. And they make it easy to believe that simple solutions are the answers to complex problems, or that one reason alone is the cause of a problem.
By Maria Shimizu Christensen5 years ago in Lifehack