Common Myths Busted [Infographic]

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The Economist and Business Today Magazines March

The Economist 03 March 2012

Business Today 18 March 2012

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Start With Why - Simon Sinek (A Business prospective, How Great Leader Inspire Everyone to Take Action)

Start With Why - Simon Sinek

Watch Video of Simon Sinek explaining the gist of his idea

About Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek teaches leaders and organizations how to inspire people. He created a simple model, The Golden Circle that codifies what makes the most inspiring people and organizations so successful and influential. The concept is so powerful that it is changing the way people think, act and communicate.

From the Pentagon, to the United Nations, to Hollywood, Simon has been invited to talk about The Golden Circle across the United States and around the world. He advises a wide of variety of leaders and organizations, including small businesses and entrepreneurs, corporations like Microsoft, non-profits, government and politicians.

Today I wanted to share with you some of my favourite quotations from Simon and I hope you gain the same inspiration I have from some of these Notes to Inspire and share them with your tribe.

 

1. “If you want to achieve anything in this world, you have to get used to the idea that not everyone will like you.”
2. “Authenticity is more than speaking. It’s also about doing. Every decision you make says something about you.”
3. “Success always takes help. Failure you can do alone.”
4. “An opportunity so many of us miss is to put right what we may have done wrong.”
5. “What good is having a belly if there’s no fire in it. Wake up, drink your passion, light a match and get to work.”
6. “Sound like a scientist and only scientists can understand you. Sound like a truck driver and everyone can understand you.”
7. “Greatness is only possible if you believe, without any doubt, that the future is bright.”
8. “Seek access to those on their way to being inaccessible. Their advice is top quality and you can still get through to them…for now.”
9. “Putting yourself first is not selfish. Quite the opposite. You must put your happiness and health first before you can be of help to anyone else.”
10. “If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.”
11. “People don’t buy what you do; people buy why you do it.”

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Golden Knowledge: 10 unknown Facts about Gold

Golden Knowledge: 10 unknown Facts about Gold
 
1: Historically, Its Worth Has Been Stable

Over the past decade, the value of gold has risen sharply, from about $279 per ounce in 2000 to around $1,300 per ounce in mid-2010.

Yet for most of the previous two centuries, the per-ounce price was stable for extremely long stretches. From 1833 to 1918, for example, the price of gold never rose more than six cents from its initial price of $18.93 per ounce, and between 1933 and 1967 its price rose just 26 cents per ounce, despite dozens of inflationary crises and economic downturns.


2: It Can Be Stretched for Miles

Gold is so soft and malleable that an ounce of it could be stretched into a wire 50 miles in length, or be flattened into a sheet 100 square feet in area.


3: It's Soft But Heavy
Despite its softness, gold is so incredibly dense and heavy that a cubic foot of it weighs half a ton. In 1875, English economist Stanley Jevons calculated that if the 20 million British Pounds in transactions that cleared the London Bankers Clearing House each day were paid in gold coins, it would require 80 strong horses to haul them away.


4: It's Sifted From Soil
Much of today's gold supply comes not from digging deep mines in search of ore-bearing veins, but from sifting through vast quantities of soil for loose grains eroded from mountains and carried by flowing water. In order to extract South Africa's annual output of 500 tons of gold, for example, about 70 million tons of earth must be milled — an amount equivalent to the Egyptian pyramid of Cheops in volume.


5: It's Born in Supernovas
While no one knows for certain how most heavier elements like gold are made, what is known about the stellar origin of all elements is that a star's nuclear furnace can only produce nuclei up to the size of iron (atomic number 26 - gold is 79). The best guess for the source of all heavier elements is the only force in the universe with the enormous energy needed to fuse large nuclei: a supernova explosion. So the next time you hold gold in your hand, try to imagine mind-blowing circumstances of its birth, a genesis that must reach back to before the origin of our Solar System.


6: Most of it Becomes Jewelry
According to the World Gold Council, about 70 percent of the world's gold output is used for making jewelry. Only about 13 percent is used to make coins, put in nations' central banks or purchased by investors. The rest goes to a variety of uses, such as industrial applications and dentistry. India is the biggest consumer of gold, snapping up about a quarter of the world's supply. According to an article in Diamond World magazine, the South Asian nation imports about 800 tons of gold annually, and uses about 600 tons of it to make jewelry.


7: Its Karat Was First a Fruit
The karat, the measurement of the purity of gold, originally was a measure of weight. The unit was named after the fruit of the leguminous carob tree, whose pods each weigh about one-fifth of a gram.


8: It's Used in Electronics
Gold is prized not just by jewelers and bankers but by electronics manufacturers because its high degree of thermal and electrical conductivity makes it an excellent material for efficient wires and contacts. It's also durable and highly resistant to corrosion, and so sufficiently malleable that gold alloys can be drawn into extremely thin diameters without breaking.


9: It Contributed to the Decline of a Nation
The vast amounts of gold and silver seized by Spanish conquistadors and shipped back across the Atlantic in galleons increased the European supply of precious metals five-fold between 1492 and 1600. But all that gold actually weakened the Spanish empire, rather than enriching it, because the Spanish used it to buy consumer imports rather than investing the wealth in productive enterprises that would generate income. That drove up prices, which made the gold worth less, and Spain wound up amassing huge foreign debts that ultimately led to its decline as an international power.


10: It Comes in Many Colors
In relatively pure form, gold has a characteristic sun-yellow color. But when combined in alloys with other metals — silver, copper, nickel, platinum, palladium, tellurium and iron, among others — it can take on hues ranging from silver-white to green to orange-red.

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I've learned

I've learned

I’ve learned-
that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them.

I’ve learned-
that no matter how much I care, some people just don’t care back.

I’ve learned-
that it takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it.

I’ve learned-
that no matter how good a friend is, they’re going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.

I’ve learned-
that it’s not what you have in your life but who you have in your life that counts.

I’ve learned-
that you should never ruin an apology with an excuse.

I’ve learned-
that you can get by on charm for about fifteen minutes. After that, you’d better know something.

I’ve learned-
that you shouldn’t compare yourself to the best others can do.

I’ve learned-
that you can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life.

I’ve learned-
that it’s taking me a long time to become the person I want to be.

I’ve learned-
that you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them.

I’ve learned-
that you can keep going long after you can’t.

I’ve learned-
that we are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel.

I’ve learned-
that either you control your attitude or it controls you.

I’ve learned-
that regardless of how hot and steamy a relationship is at first, the passion fades and there had better be something else to take its place.

I’ve learned-
that heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences.

I’ve learned-
that money is a lousy way of keeping score.

I’ve learned-
that my best friend and I can do anything or nothing and have the best time.

I’ve learned-
that sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you’re down will be the ones to help you get back up.

I’ve learned-
that sometimes when I’m angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn’t give me the right to be cruel.

I’ve learned-
that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love.

I’ve learned-
that just because someone doesn’t love you the way you want them to doesn’t mean they don’t love you with all they have.

I’ve learned-
that maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you’ve had and what you’ve learned from them and less to do with how many birthdays you’ve celebrated.

I’ve learned-
that you should never tell a child their dreams are unlikely or outlandish. Few things are more humiliating, and what a tragedy it would be if they believed it.

I’ve learned-
that your family won’t always be there for you. It may seem funny, but people you aren’t related to can take care of you and love you and teach you to trust people again. Families aren’t biological.

I’ve learned-
that it isn’t always enough to be forgiven by others. Sometimes you are to learn to forgive yourself.

I’ve learned-
that no matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn’t stop for your grief.

I’ve learned-
that our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.

I’ve learned-
that just because two people argue, it doesn’t mean they don’t love each other. And just because they don’t argue, it doesn’t mean they do.

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Top 6 Beer Myths Revealed

Top 6 Beer Myths Revealed

We all know that guy at the bar who's full of myths about alcohol. And where there are myths, there are rumours that spread like wild fire. But today we're revealing the top 6 beer myths that you need not believe in anymore.

Here's a low-down of the most outrageous beer myths and what you need to know before setting that guy at the bar straight.

Beer Myth 1: You can beat the beer belly by consuming light beer.
Fact: The truth is that light beer has only 90 to 100 calories and regular beer generally has about 150-175 calories a pint. Even so, this doesn't mean that you can chug that beer every other day, or that it is just the beer to blame. Aside from the beer, the beer belly comes from club/party snacks (read: Fried foods such as chips and wafers) that you tend to mindlessly eat after or while you drinking. Everything adds up - light beer or no light beer.


Beer Myth 2: The darker the beer, the more alcohol it contains.
Fact: This is a complete myth as one of the darkest beers such as Guinness is black and has only 4.2% alcohol. The colour of the beer is because of the toasted malts and not because of the alcohol content.


Beer Myth 3: Beer is of no use if it is warmed and then refrigerated.
Fact: This is only true if you do it over and over again, an endless number of times. Else, re-chilling the beer has no drastic effects. Beer can only be ruined if it is kept open for long in air or light. All you need to do is get your hands on a fresh beer, store it in a cool and dark place and it will do just fine.


Beer Myth 4: Beer shouldn't be bitter or sour in taste.
Fact: Your beer is bitter because of the hops present in it, which helps in balancing the sweet malts and works as a preservative. Hops depend upon the types of beers. It is because of hops that beer has that strong, earthy and bitter flavour to it and that’s what makes the beer delicious for beer lovers all round the world. If you're looking for something sugar-laden, pick a cola.


Beer Myth 5: Green bottled beers are the best beers.
Fact: The colour of the beer bottle doesn't just depend on the kind of beer. Darker colour beer bottles help in protection from light much better than clear bottles. That’s why you might have noticed that all beer bottles are darker in colour. Green, black or brown, the bottle colour doesn’t decide the quality of beer.


Beer Myth 6: Women don't like beer.
Fact: Right from the medieval to recent liberated times - we women have always loved our beer. To believe that beer isn't a woman's drink is to believe that men don't like cosmos. And we know they do.

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Facts about VODKA

Facts about VODKA !

Health Tip of the Day - Who knew?!!!!

1. To remove a bandage painlessly, saturate the bandage with vodka. The stuff dissolves adhesive.

2. To clean the caulking around bathtubs and showers, fill a trigger-spray bottle with vodka, spray the caulking, let set five minutes and wash clean. The alcohol in the vodka kills mould and mildew.

3. To clean your eyeglasses,simply wipe the lenses with a soft, clean cloth dampened with vodka. The alcohol in the vodka cleans the glass and kills germs.

4. Prolong the life of razors by filling a cup with vodka and letting your safety razor blade soak in the alcohol after shaving. The vodka disinfects the blade and prevents rusting.

5. Spray vodka on wine stains, scrub with a brush, and then blot dry.

6. Using a cotton ball, apply vodka to your face as an astringent to cleanse the skin and tighten pores.

7. Add a jigger of vodka to a 12-ounce bottle of shampoo. The alcohol cleanses the scalp, removes toxins from hair, and stimulates the growth of healthy hair.

8. Fill a sixteen-ounce trigger-spray bottle with vodka and spray bees or wasps to kill them.

9 Pour one-half cup vodka and one-half cup water into a Ziploc freezer bag and freeze for a slushy, refreshing ice pack for aches, pain or black eyes.

10. Fill a clean, used mayonnaise jar with freshly packed lavender flowers, fill the jar with vodka, seal the lid tightly and set in the sun for three days. Strain liquid through a coffee filter, then apply the tincture to aches and pains.

11. To relieve a fever, use a washcloth to rub vodka on your chest and back as a liniment.

12. To cure foot odour, wash your feet with vodka.

13 Vodka will disinfect and alleviate a jellyfish sting.

14. Pour vodka over an area affected with poison ivy to remove the urushiol oil from your skin.

15. Swish a shot of vodka over an aching tooth. Allow your gums to absorb some of the alcohol to numb the pain.

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