You also need to remove from your life the day-to-day problems that absorb most people for meaningful parts of their day. “You’ll see I wear only gray or blue suits,” (Obama) said. “I’m trying to pare down decisions. I don’t want to make decisions about what I’m eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make.” He mentioned research that shows the simple act of making decisions degrades one’s ability to make further decisions. It’s why shopping is so exhausting. “You need to focus your decision-making energy. You need to routinize yourself. You can’t be going through the day distracted by trivia.”
i am a big fan of routines. I eat almost the same food every day, same hour to wake up and the same training schedule every week. All my shirts are white from Brooke Brothers and all my suits are dark grey. I don't make many decisions every day.I like this system.
From VF
Following extensive research (several trips to the
nearest bodega, we assume), Chinese researchers have concluded that Sprite is
the single-best beverage to alleviate hangovers. Sprite increases “the activity
of ALDH,” a chemical compound that occurs once a different, harmful chemical
compound, acetaldehyde, metabolizes. In other words—in words a hungover person
can understand—there’s something about the chemistry of Sprite that turns bad leftover alcohol
into harmless leftover alcohol.
Because of the bike i tend to avoid big drinking sprees but once in a while i like to drink wine more than i should. I will certainly try the SPRITE solution. It's cheap and the downside is low.
I did finish my second Skyroad in 98th place with 6h 12 minutes among 500 finishers.
I started strongly, at km 30 when i had a flat tyre i was in the 2nd group with some 30 guys in front of me. My heart rate at the time was around 165 bpm.
I lost some 11 minutes to fix the tyre and was surpassed by some 200 guys! After that i lost my group and the possibility of racing behind someone else wheel. I raced alone until km 95 where i found my friend Rodrigo Ribeiro da Cunha. We rode together until the last mountain where i could not keep up with him.
I finish completely empty without food or water.
Last year in a diferent course i did 43th place with 5h 03.
Comparing 2012 vs 2013 the stats are
climbing 2900 mts in 2012 vs 3500 mts this year
160km last year vs 168 km this year
5h03 vs 6h12
max 20 minutes Watts 288 vs 305 this year
average watts 219 both years
average Heart rate 154 both years
calories burned 4800 this year
cadence 79 last year vs 91 this year
and of course last year i did the race in the peloton and this year i was alone trying to make up for the lost time with the flat tyre.
A foot in the door
Psychologists Robert Cialdini and David Schroeder (1976) tested the
foot-in-the-door concept in an experiment with solicitors for contributions to
the American Cancer Society. They reasoned that if they could get people to
contribute anything, they might get them to contribute more. Thus, they had two
teams of solicitors (each team consisting of a male and female college student)
use a standard request ("I'm collecting money for the American Cancer Society.
Would you be willing to help by giving a donation?"). Another two teams used the
same approach, but added the phrase "Even a penny will help" at the end.
Forty-two people were canvassed with each approach. Which approach was more
effective? With the standard approach, 12 out of 42 people donated, while with
the "Even a penny will help" approach, the teams received 21 contributions out
of 42 tries. Clearly, the small-favor approach worked to increase contributions.
But if the contributions were smaller (since even pennies were acceptable), then
it still might not be as effective as the regular pitch. The standard approach
earned a total of $18.55, while the penny approach earned a total of $30.34.
This approach to sell a bit first to sell more later it's a classical and the idea behind is consistency. People love to be consistent if they had done something in the past they are more inclined to repeat it in the future in a bigger scale. So on a business perspective we should get clients to buy a bit or to try our product and then.... It's easier to sell more to a current customer than to convert a new costumer.
