Glucose is the main source of energy for the human body. Glucose is a form of sugar that is produced when carbohydrates are digested. Glucose in the bloodstream is converted to the energy needed for the body to function properly.

Past research indicates that self-control relies on some sort of limited energy source. Blood glucose is one important part of the energy source of self-control. Acts of self-control deplete relatively large amounts of glucose. Self-control failures are more likely when glucose is low or cannot be mobilized effectively to the brain (i.e., when insulin is low or insensitive). Restoring glucose to a sufficient level typically improves self-control. Numerous self-control behaviors fit this pattern, including controlling attention, regulating emotions, quitting smoking, coping with stress, resisting impulsivity, and refraining from criminal and aggressive behavior. Alcohol reduces glucose throughout the brain and body and likewise impairs many forms of self-control. Furthermore, self-control failure is most likely during times of the day when glucose is used least effectively. Self-control thus appears highly susceptible to glucose. Self-control benefits numerous social and interpersonal processes. Glucose might therefore be related to a broad range of social behavior.

Go here to discover some good sources for Glucose in your diet.

Unprecedented causes lead to unprecedented consequences. No amount of monetary or fiscal policy can fix the errors of the past, just like no modern treatment can quickly restore to health a drug addict debilitated from a decade-long drug abuse.

Anyone who believes that money doesn’t grow on trees need not look too far. The current global economic crisis is a result of just that. The federal reserve has been printing money out of thin air to bail out banks that passed along bad debt as assets to rest of the world.

The Federal Reserve has printed over a trillion dollars to combat the spending freeze. While the rest of the western world has followed their lead. All this money will inevitably lead to hyper-inflation; devaluing the dollar and possibly dethroning it as the currency standard of the world. “Everyone says a little inflation can’t hurt us,” said Martin D. Weiss, chairman of Weiss Research. “What they don’t seem to understand is, that’s inflation in a growing economy. Inflation on top of rising unemployment is another thing entirely. It’s much more painful, and it could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.”

Here is a list of some current and upcoming crisis’ we must prepare ourselves for:

1. Global Real Estate Overvaluation

2. Indebtedness

3. Excessive Leverage

4. Global Bubbles (Globalization has placed us in a world where one country’s economic collapse can devastate another)

5. Retiring Baby Boomers

6. Global Warming

7. Crude Oil and Energy Crisis

8. Hyper-Inflation

9. Decline in Key Commodities, including Steel, Iron, and Water

It takes two things to turn a crowd into a tribe:

- A shared interest
- A way to communicate

Leaders galvish, inspire, and connect their tribes through their remarkable ideas. No one watches a mediocre YouTube video they’ve seen before. No one passes on a boring e-mail. No one invests in a stock that’s boring, with few prospects of big growth.

People yearn for change, they relish being part of a movement, and they talk about things that are remarkable, not boring. Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself.

Remember, crowds are just waiting to be turned into tribes, and from thereon, into movements.

“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you always got.” - Anthony Robbins

Unless something major happens between now and 10 years from now, the person you are now will be very similar (if not identical) to the type of person you’ll be 10 years from now. If you’re not a risk taker, then there’s no reason you won’t be one 10 years from now. If you’re not entrepreneurial, then why will you be in 10 years from now?

If you’re not willing to constantly be in a state of pushing yourself to do more and learn more, then you’ve already reached your limit. So my theory is this: unless you change something about yourself now, you’ll never change.

To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.

Inspired from Jared’s blog post.

In a recent presentation at the Google HQ, the software celebrity, Joel Spolsky stated that as we move from the era of computing into the era of the Internet, we no longer need to worry about computer-human interaction. What we do have to think about [in the era of social networking] is human to human interaction. And to do that, you have to think as an anthropologist does.

Go over to ReadWriteWeb for the rest of the article.

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify and vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as crazy, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

The challenge with virality is that it requires a chain of behavior. Joshua Porter, over at Social Design Blog, mentioned that there are several parts to building a viral product; One is creating the pathways for it to happen, to create the ways in which your customers can spread what it is you offer. But another part is even more important, designing the motivating mechanisms for doing so; in almost all cases it needs to be a win-win situation.

In other words, the people who are going to spread your product virally (the behavior you want) have to be getting as much out of it as you are. This is why referral programs work so well in some cases…people are getting paid to send others your way.

One will always find meaning where one seeks it. This belief implies that small numbers will often appear in more than one place, and so such things are much more likely to be coincidences than we would initially think.

For instance, if your birth-weight and the number of letters in your last name are equal, you could claim that the probability of this specific event is very small. However, the probability that something like this would happen is actually very high. In searching for the coincidence, you were actually very likely to find one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_Law_of_Small_Numbers

Randomness is a sign of complexity beyond human comprehension.