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"Secrets of Body Language" Documentary

The best documentary on Youtube about reading body language. It focuses on the telling body language of powerful people and celebrities.

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Gamify Your Reality: Situational Awareness, Body Language & 'Being Present'

By Jonathan Roseland

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In the world of personal development 'be present' is the new 'be confident'. You hear 'be present' repeated by everyone from self help gurus, yoga instructors, public speaking coaches to pickup artists and comedians. Meditation, Yoga, Tai Chi and even Dual N-Back training help can help you practice being present but this article is going to focus on the intersection of being present, body language and situational awareness and how they can be practiced by gamifying your reality.

On a simple level, 'be present' means that your thoughts are focused on the here and now as opposed to in the past or future.

The Problem: If you spend the majority of your mental energy planning for the future or analyzing the past, it's difficult to transition to focusing on the present. While planning for the future and analyzing the past are very important, I'm going to do a bad job of executing on future goals or more importantly enjoying the life I'm working so damn hard for or if my mind is stuck in the past or future. Have you ever found that you couldn't stop worrying about something that happened at work or thinking about the future when you should have been enjoying yourself with friends or family? This is a failure in being present. I'm also going to do a bad job at maintaining high situational awareness if my mind is perpetually pondering the past or future.

Like most ambitious, busy lifehackers my day to day thoughts are probably focused:

• Future 50%
• Present 20%
• Past 30%

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What is Biohacking? 7 Options to Get Started Biohacking and Get Results Fast

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A hacker is someone who wants to gain complete control of the system they are dealing with be it technological or social. A biohacker, therefore is someone who wants to gain complete control of their own biology.

We live in an excitingly novel times when we have made quantum leaps in understanding, testing and controlling our own biology. At a time when many of the leading minds in medical science and technology believe that the first immortal human has already been born and you can get your personal DNA sequence analyzed for $100, it is not unrealistic to say that you can have total control over your own biology.

Biohackers have a couple of common goals:

• Significant gains in productive energy and focus to get things done. Adding more productive hours to the day and more productivity to those hours.
• Boosting Serotonin and Dopamine, the 'feel good' Nuerotransmitters, sustainably.
• Improving recall, accuracy, short and long term memory along with the learning process.
• Avoidance of cancer and age related cognitive decline.
• Training executive functioning for better discipline and self control.
• Decreasing the quantity of sleep while increasing the quality.
• Elimination of stress.
• Personal experimentation and measurement beyond what 'feels good'.
• Biohacking should be high leverage: a minimum of effort, time or money spent will yield significant results that are in some cases sustained.
• Many biohackers are also Transhumanists who have the lofty ambition of living indefinitely.

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#30 Lifehacking Language Learning: Technology and Charm

By Jonathan Roseland

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Remembering Your Dreams Made Easy with Evernote

By Jonathan Roseland

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Recently, with the help of an technology lifehack I've discovered a fascinating new side of myself, I'm a damned creative dreamer. I always had a feeling that I had very adventuresome dreams but until now I was never able to recall them with such detail.

Like just the other night I had a vivid dream that I was the dictator of an underwater society that lived in a giant submarine (with skyscrapers on it's hull). Our submarine was hit by a torpedo dropped by a Japanese WW2 zero. So the people of the underwater society decided to depose me as their dear leader and they condemned me to death by giant manta ray. So I put on my mask and snorkel (similar to the mask and snorkel I used in Nicaragua 4 months ago) and went for a swim next to the mega submarine, in the blue depths beneath me I could see the Manta Ray, it shot me with a dart (apparently Manta Rays can shoot darts!) but I was still quite able swim, the Manta Ray closed in on me and began to thrash me with it's massive wings (which didn't hurt very much). I could see it's glistening fangs. Then I woke up.

This is just one of my night time adventures, last week I battled stormtroopers while escaping from a version of hell that would put many a video game designer to shame and experienced zero gravity traveling to the center of the Earth.

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