This is it. It’s the end of the line for me. But not for you. Fast is what you do best, ain’t it? Just keep running.

Dive deeper into the world of Cyberpunk 2077! Nadia, an assistant EMT for a privately-owned business known as Trauma Team International, is the sole survivor of a failed rescue mission turned shootout. After she agrees to continue work for an upcoming extraction mission, Nadia discovers that her new extraction subject is Apex—the man who's responsible for Nadia's former team members' deaths. A hundred floors high in a skyscraper filled with members of Apex's rival gang, Nadia and her team must complete the extraction. Cullen Bunn (Harrow County, Uncanny X-Men) and Miguel Valderrama (GIANTS, Hunters) introduce a series based on CD Projekt Red's game Cyberpunk 2077! Collects Cyberpunk 2077: Trauma Team #1-4.

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Dive deeper into the world of Cyberpunk 2077! Nadia, an assistant EMT for a privately-owned business known as Trauma Team International, is the sole survivor of a failed rescue mission turned shootout. After she agrees to continue work for an upcoming extraction mission, Nadia discovers that her new extraction subject is Apex—the man who's responsible for Nadia's former team members' deaths. A hundred floors high in a skyscraper filled with members of Apex's rival gang, Nadia and her team must complete the extraction. Cullen Bunn (Harrow County, Uncanny X-Men) and Miguel Valderrama (GIANTS, Hunters) introduce a series based on CD Projekt Red's game Cyberpunk 2077! Collects Cyberpunk 2077: Trauma Team #1-4.

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An Avg Midsized Supermarket could keep you survived for atleast 55 yrs. Acquire mainly Canned foods which could sustain for decades.For drinking, boil the lake water or try adding 5% of Bleach Solution in 1 L of water to purify it.

Healthy Survival 

Target the rural countryside areas as the urban may be filled chaotic corpses of people. Also go looking fresh water sources. Circle the areas on the map containing fertile soil to grow crops.

Do's

Stay quite away from Nuke Reactors as the absence of electricity will result in non-cooling of Core Reactors & BOOM. If radiation is dispersed into the thick air, 50 miles of distance away is recommended.Skip Large Rivers as without maintenance the dams may collapsed and flood the area.

Don'ts

Grab the Motor Generators from the construction sites, fuel them from the leftover vehiclesSetting Solar Panels end up giving a lot of energy & could be stored in Lead-Acid batteries from the golf cars & Lithium Ion Batteries from Tesla. Thanks to Elon!!!

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For survival, a Hunter doesn't need a sharp sword & a tacky bow, but a sharp brain!!!

Picture this: a virus has spread across the planet, but you are one of the lucky ones. You have survived the apocalypse. But what's next? What do you do now? Well...you will want to head to grocery stores, hospitals, and pharmacies to stock up on supplies. And it would be wise to move out of the city and start a new life in the great outdoors. But there's a lot more to it than that. Here's what you need to do if you find yourself in this quite extraordinary position. The information in this video largely came from the book "The Knowledge: How To Rebuild Our World From Scratch" by Lewis Dartnell. Find out more here: http://the-knowledge.org/en-gb/the-book/ MORE WHAT IF: What If The Earth Stopped Orbiting The Sun https://youtu.be/zjjL9yaFrFc What If All The World's Supervolcanoes Erupted At Once https://youtu.be/hGxf4ljRn2E What If All The Ice Melted Overnight https://youtu.be/EP97oqa9JJo ------------------------------------------------------ #Apocalypse #Survival #ScienceInsider  Science Insider tells you all you need to know about science: space, medicine, biotech, physiology, and more.   Visit us at: https://www.businessinsider.com Science Insider on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BusinessInsiderScience/ Science Insider on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/science_insider/ Business Insider on Twitter: https://twitter.com/businessinsider Tech Insider on Twitter: https://twitter.com/techinsider Business Insider/Tech Insider on Amazon Prime: http://read.bi/PrimeVideo  ------------------------------------------------------ What If You Survived The Apocalypse?

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Picture this: a virus has spread across the planet, but you are one of the lucky ones. You have survived the apocalypse. But what's next? What do you do now? Well...you will want to head to grocery stores, hospitals, and pharmacies to stock up on supplies. And it would be wise to move out of the city and start a new life in the great outdoors. But there's a lot more to it than that. Here's what you need to do if you find yourself in this quite extraordinary position.

The information in this video largely came from the book "The Knowledge: How To Rebuild Our World From Scratch" by Lewis Dartnell. Find out more here: http://the-knowledge.org/en-gb/the-book/

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<ul><li>People with growth mindset achieve more than people with fixed mindset.</li><li>Everyone has a mixture of both growth and fixed mindset and that mixture continuously evolves with experience.</li><li>Outcomes are equally important as efforts.</li></ul>

Key Takeaways

<ul><li>Seeking help from others</li><li>Trying new strategies </li><li>Capitalizing on setbacks to move forward effectively.</li></ul>

Steps To Achieve More Outcome

<ul><li>Reward the employees for the lessons they've learnt even if the goal is not reached.</li><li>Support collaboration than competition among employees</li><li>Committed to the growth of every member not just in words but in deeds.</li><li>They reinforce growth mindset values with concrete policies.</li></ul>

Traits Of Companies That Support Growth Mindset

We all have our own fixed mindsets which acts as a barrier to growth. Always remember to work on your insecurities to achieve a growth mindset!

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Some key takeaways to achieve a growth mindset!

Individuals who believe their talents can be developed through hard work, good strategies, and input from others tend to achieve more than those who believe their talents are innate gifts. 00:00 The meaning of "growth mindset" has become distorted 00:59 Misconception 1: "I already have it, and I always have" 01:27 Misconception 2: A growth mindset is just about praising and rewarding effort 01:54 Misconception 3: Just espouse a growth mindset, and good things will happen 02:16 Here are some traits of companies that encourage growth mindset 02:50 But, we all have our own fixed-mindset triggers to overcome This is because they worry less about looking smart and they put more energy into learning. When entire companies embrace a growth mindset, their employees report feeling far more empowered and committed; they also receive far greater organizational support for collaboration and innovation. In contrast, people at primarily fixed-mindset companies report more of only one thing: cheating and deception among employees, presumably to gain an advantage in the talent race. Based on the HBR article by Carol Dweck: What Having a “Growth Mindset” Actually Means (https://hbr.org/2016/01/what-having-a-growth-mindset-actually-means). This video is co-produced with @Emeritus. You can find more co-productions from HBR and Emeritus on the Emeritus app: https://emrt.us/HarvardBusinessReview Follow HBR: https://hbr.org/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/harvard-business-review/ https://www.facebook.com/HBR/ https://twitter.com/HarvardBiz https://www.instagram.com/harvard_business_review Sign up for Newsletters: https://hbr.org/email-newsletters #HarvardBusinessReview #Explainer #GrowthMindset

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Individuals who believe their talents can be developed through hard work, good strategies, and input from others tend to achieve more than those who believe their talents are innate gifts. 

00:00 The meaning of "growth mindset" has become distorted
00:59 Misconception 1: "I already have it, and I always have" 
01:27 Misconception 2: A growth mindset is just about praising and rewarding effort
01:54 Misconception 3: Just espouse a growth mindset, and good things will happen
02:16 Here are some traits of companies that encourage growth mindset
02:50 But, we all have our own fixed-mindset triggers to overcome

This is because they worry less about looking smart and they put more energy into learning. When entire companies embrace a growth mindset, their employees report feeling far more empowered and committed; they also receive far greater organizational support for collaboration and innovation. In contrast, people at primarily fixed-mindset companies report more of only one thing: cheating and deception among employees, presumably to gain an advantage in the talent race.

Based on the HBR article by Carol Dweck: What Having a “Growth Mindset” Actually Means (https://hbr.org/2016/01/what-having-a-growth-mindset-actually-means). 

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<ul><li>There is one skill that stands out as CEO is the ability to focus and make the best move when there are no good moves.</li><li>First principle of the Bushido—the way of the warrior: keep death in mind at all times. If a warrior keeps death in mind at all times and lives as though each day might be his last, he will conduct himself properly in all his actions.</li></ul>

Follow Bushido—The Way Of The Warrior

<ul><li>Stand up to the pressure, face your fear, and tell it like it is.</li><li>Horowitz’s single biggest personal improvement as CEO occurred on the day when he stopped being too positive.</li><li>An early lesson Ben learned was that whenever a large organization attempts to do anything, it always comes down to a single person who can delay the entire project.</li><li>If you want to be great, this is the challenge. If you don’t want to be great, then you never should have started a company.</li></ul>

CEOS SHOULD TELL IT LIKE IT IS

1. Trust. Without trust, communication breaks. More specifically: In any human interaction, the required amount of communication is inversely proportional to the level of trust.2. The more brains working on the hard problems, the better.3. A good culture is like the old RIP routing protocol: Bad news travels fast; good news travels slow.A healthy company culture encourages people to share bad news. A company that discusses its problems freely and openly can quickly solve them.

Being Transparent About Company’s Problems

<ul><li>Training starts with a golden rule: Managers must lay off their own people. They cannot pass the task to HR or to a more sadistic peer.</li><li>Be present. Be visible. Be engaging. People want to see you. They want to see whether you care.</li><li>Talk to people. Help them carry their things to their cars. Let them know that you appreciate their efforts.</li><li>Taking care of the people means that your company is a good place to work.</li></ul>

Be Present. Be Visible. Be Engaging.

<ul><li>The first step to properly firing an executive is figuring out why you hired the wrong person for your company.</li><li>There comes a time in every company’s life where it must fight for its life. If you find yourself running when you should be fighting, you need to ask yourself, “If our company isn’t good enough to win, then do we need to exist at all?”</li></ul>

Only Fighting, No Running Away

Parcells: “Al, I am just not sure how we can win without so many of our best players. What should I do?”Davis: “Bill, nobody cares, just coach your team.” That might be the best CEO advice ever.<ul><li>TAKE CARE OF THE PEOPLE, THE PRODUCTS, AND THE PROFITS—IN THAT ORDER</li><li>When hiring executives, one should follow Colin Powell’s instructions (👇 ) and hire for strength rather than lack of weakness.</li></ul>

NOBODY CARES

While hiring,”Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty, integrity, a high energy drive, a balanced ego and the drive to get things done.”

<ul><li>In good organizations, people can focus on their work and have confidence that if they get their work done, good things will happen for both the company and them personally. These things make their jobs both motivating and fulfilling.</li><li>In a poor organization, people spend much of their time fighting organizational boundaries, infighting, and broken processes. They are not even clear on what their jobs are, so there is no way to know if they are getting the job done or not.</li></ul>

Good Organisation Vs Poor Organisation 

<ul><li>Technology businesses tend to be extremely complex. The underlying technology moves, the competition moves, the market moves, the people move. As a result, like playing three-dimensional chess on Star Trek, there is always a move.</li><li>Play long enough and you might get lucky. In the technology game, tomorrow looks nothing like today. If you survive long enough to see tomorrow, it may bring you the answer that seems so impossible today.</li></ul>

THIS IS NOT CHECKERS; THIS IS MOTHERFUCKIN’ CHESS 

Andy Grove said that : Training is, quite simply, one of the highest-leverage activities a manager can perform.Two primary reasons why people quit:<ol><li>They hated their manager; generally the employees were appalled by the lack of guidance, career development, and feedback they were receiving.</li><li>They weren’t learning anything: The company wasn’t investing resources in helping employees develop new skills.</li></ol>Solution: An outstanding training program can address both issues head-on.

Importance Of Training 

<ul><li>Good product managers take full responsibility and measure themselves in terms of the success of the product. Bad product managers have lots of excuses.</li><li>Good product managers define their job and their success. Bad product managers constantly want to be told what to do.</li><li>Good product managers anticipate the serious product flaws and build real solutions. Bad product managers put out fires all day.</li></ul>

Good Vs Bad Product Managers

<ul><li>Force them to create. Give them monthly, weekly, and even daily objectives to make sure that they produce immediately.</li><li>Every executive must understand the product, the technology, the customers, and the market.</li><li>Require them to bring a comprehensive set of questions about everything they heard that day but did not completely understand. Answer those questions in depth; start with first principles. </li></ul>

AGGRESSIVELY INTEGRATE THE CANDIDATE ONCE ON BOARD 

Two key techniques to be useful in minimizing politics.<ol><li>Hire people with the right kind of ambition.(What's right kind of ambition? Read next idea👇)</li><li>Build strict processes for potentially political issues and do not deviate.</li></ol>Certain activities attract political behavior includes:<ul><li>Performance evaluation and compensation</li><li>Organizational design and territory</li><li>Promotions</li></ul>

HOW TO MINIMIZE POLITICS

<ul><li>As defined by Andy Grove, the right kind of ambition is ambition for the company’s success with the executive’s own success only coming as a by-product of the company’s victory. </li><li>The wrong kind of ambition is ambition for the executive’s personal success regardless of the company’s outcome.</li></ul>

Right Vs Wrong Kind Of Ambition 

<ul><li>The Peter Principle is a concept in which the selection of a candidate for a position is based on the candidate’s performance in their current role, rather than on abilities related to the intended role. Thus, “managers rise to the level of their incompetence.”</li><li>The Law of Crappy People states: For any title level in a large organization, the talent on that level will eventually converge to the crappiest person with the title.</li></ul>Solution: The best way to mitigate both is with a properly constructed and highly disciplined promotion process.(More about it 👇)

THE DANGERS: THE PETER PRINCIPLE AND THE LAW OF CRAPPY PEOPLE

For example, if Jasper is the worst vice president in the company, then all of the directors will benchmark themselves against Jasper and demand promotions as soon as they reach his low level of competency.Solution:<ol><li>To begin, start with an extremely crisp definition not only of the responsibilities at each level but also of the skill required to perform the duties.</li><li>Next, define a formal process for all promotions.</li></ol>

Example And Solution

<ul><li>During the meeting, since it’s the employee’s meeting, the manager should do 10 percent of the talking and 90 percent of the listening. Note that this is the opposite of most one-on-ones.</li><li>While it’s not the manager’s job to set the agenda or do the talking, the manager should try to draw the key issues out of the employee. The more introverted the employee, the more important this becomes.</li></ul>

The Efficient One-on-One

<ul><li>The basic idea is that people open up to feedback far more if you start by complimenting them (slice of bread number one), then you give them the difficult message (the shit), then wrap up by reminding them how much you value their strengths (slice of bread number two).</li><li>You don’t make yourself look good by trashing someone who worked for you.</li></ul>

THE SHIT SANDWICH

The early days of Facebook, Zuckerberg deployed a shocking motto: Move fast and break things.Meaning: If you move fast and innovate, you will break things.The following things that cause no trouble when you are small become big challenges as you grow:<ol><li>Communication</li><li>Common knowledge</li><li>Decision making</li></ol>Solution:<ul><li>You will need to split things into smaller subgroups.</li><li>You may want a QA manager, for example.</li><li>The best way to accomplish communication is to make them report to the same manager.</li></ul>

 MOVE FAST AND BREAK THINGS

<ul><li>Focus on the output first. What should the process produce? In the case of the interview process, an outstanding employee. If that’s the goal, what’s the process to get there?</li><li>Two core skills for running an organization: First, knowing what to do. Second, getting the company to do what you know.</li><li>Note: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?”</li></ul>

Advice On New Companies

When someone learns to drive a race car, one of the first lessons taught is that when you are going around a curve at 200 mph, do not focus on the wall; focus on the road. If you focus on the wall, you will drive right into it. If you focus on the road, you will follow the road. Running a company is like that. There are always a thousand things that can go wrong and sink the ship. If you focus too much on them, you will drive yourself nuts and likely crash your company.

FOCUS ON THE ROAD, NOT THE WALL

<ol><li>The ability to articulate the vision</li><li>The right kind of ambition</li><li>The ability to achieve the vision</li></ol>Truly great leaders create an environment where the employees feel that the CEO cares more about the employees than she cares about herself. In this kind of environment, an amazing thing happens: A huge number of employees believe it’s their company and behave accordingly.

So What Makes People Want To Follow A Leader?

<ul><li>FIRST RULE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP: THERE ARE NO RULES</li><li>FEEDBACK IS A DIALOGUE, NOT A MONOLOGUE</li><li>If you don’t like choosing between horrible and cataclysmic, don’t become CEO.</li><li>People who watch you judge you on what you do, not how you feel.</li><li>Be careful with “he said, she said”</li><li>Embrace the struggle.</li></ul>

IF YOU ARE GOING TO EAT SHIT, DON’T NIBBLE

Very early on, Jeff Bezos envisioned a company that made money by delivering value to rather than extracting value from its customers. In order to do that, he wanted to be both the price leader and customer service leader. You can’t do that if you waste a lot of money. He decided to build frugality into his culture. All desks at Amazon.com would be built by buying cheap doors from Home Depot and nailing legs to them. Why? “We look for every opportunity to save money so that we can deliver the best products for the lowest cost.”

Jeffrey P. Bezos’s Vision

<ul><li>Peacetime in business means those times when a company has a large advantage over the competition in its core market, and its market is growing. In times of peace, the company can focus on expanding the market and reinforcing the company’s strengths.</li><li>In wartime, a company is fending off an imminent existential threat. Such a threat can come from a wide range of sources, including competition, dramatic macroeconomic change, market change, supply chain change, and so forth.</li></ul>

Peacetime Vs Wartime

<ul><li>Peacetime CEO spends time defining the culture. Wartime CEO lets the war define the culture.</li><li>Peacetime CEO knows what to do with a big advantage. Wartime CEO is paranoid.</li><li>Peacetime CEO thinks of the competition as other ships in a big ocean that may never engage. Wartime CEO thinks the competition is sneaking into her house and trying to kidnap her children</li><li>Peacetime CEO aims to expand the market. Wartime CEO aims to win the market.</li></ul>

Peacetime Vs Wartime CEO

The judgment that you have to make is,(a) Is this market really much bigger (more than an order of magnitude) than has been exploited to date? and(b) Are we going to be number one?If the answer to either (a) or (b) is no, then you should consider selling.If the answers to both are yes, then selling would mean selling yourself and your employees short.

SHOULD YOU SELL YOUR COMPANY?

A company without a story is usually a company without a strategy. Want to see a great company story? <a href="https://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/amzn_shareholder-letter-20072.pdf">Read Jeff Bezos’s three-page letter he wrote to shareholders in 1997.</a> In telling Amazon’s story in this extended form—not as a mission statement, not as a tagline—Jeff got all the people who mattered on the same page as to what Amazon was about.

Importance Of Storytelling 

A lot of people talk about how great it is to start a business, but only Ben Horowitz is brutally honest about how hard it is to run one…

Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on building and running a startup—practical wisdom for managing the toughest problems business school doesn’t cover, based on his popular ben’s blog. While many people talk about how great it is to start a business, very few are honest about how difficult it is to run one. Ben Horowitz analyzes the problems that confront leaders every day, sharing the insights he’s gained developing, managing, selling, buying, investing in, and supervising technology companies. A lifelong rap fanatic, he amplifies business lessons with lyrics from his favorite songs, telling it straight about everything from firing friends to poaching competitors, cultivating and sustaining a CEO mentality to knowing the right time to cash in. Filled with his trademark humor and straight talk, The Hard Thing About Hard Things is invaluable for veteran entrepreneurs as well as those aspiring to their own new ventures, drawing from Horowitz's personal and often humbling experiences.

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Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on building and running a startup—practical wisdom for managing the toughest problems business school doesn’t cover, based on his popular ben’s blog.While many people talk about how great it is to start a business, very few are honest about how difficult it is to run one. Ben Horowitz analyzes the problems that confront leaders every day, sharing the insights he’s gained developing, managing, selling, buying, investing in, and supervising technology companies. A lifelong rap fanatic, he amplifies business lessons with lyrics from his favorite songs, telling it straight about everything from firing friends to poaching competitors, cultivating and sustaining a CEO mentality to knowing the right time to cash in.Filled with his trademark humor and straight talk, The Hard Thing About Hard Things is invaluable for veteran entrepreneurs as well as those aspiring to their own new ventures, drawing from Horowitz's personal and often humbling experiences.

Ben Horowitz is the cofounder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs building the next generation of leading technology companies. The firm's investments include Airbnb, GitHub, Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter. Previously, he was cofounder and CEO of Opsware, formerly Loudcloud, which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion in 2007. Horowitz writes about his experiences and insights from his career as a computer science student, software engineer, cofounder, CEO, and investor in a blog that is read by nearly 10 million people. He has also been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the New Yorker, Fortune, the Economist, and Bloomberg.

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1. Compliment Yourself2. Don't Make Excuses3. Let Go of Anger4. Practice Forgiveness5. Be Honest and Direct6. Be Helpful7. Listen to Others8. Act Locally9. Always Be Polite10. Be Yourself11. Be Open to Change12. Be Respectful13. Don't Show Up Empty-handed14. Educate Yourself15. Surprise People

Ways To Become A Better Person:

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Every morning before you go on with your daily routine, take a couple of minutes to give yourself a compliment. Whether you compliment your outfit, haircut, or how you recently completed a task using your unique skill sets, giving yourself a little emotional boost will make you happy.

1. Compliment Yourself

Blaming your spouse, boss, or clients is fruitless and won't get you very far. Instead of pointing fingers and making excuses about why you aren't happy or successful in your personal or professional life, own your mistakes and learn from them. When you do this, you will become a better person.

2. Don't Make Excuses

Letting go of anger is easier said than done. While anger is a perfectly normal emotion, you can't let it fester. When this happens, you may make unwise decisions, and more importantly, it may affect your health. Research suggests pent up anger can cause digestive problems, difficulty sleeping, and even heart disease.

3. Let Go of Anger

Joyce Marter, LCPC, suggests you forgive and let go of resentment. She notes, "If for no other reason than for yourself, forgive to untether yourself from the negative experiences of the past. Take time to meditate, and give thanks for the wisdom and knowledge gained from your suffering. Practice the mantra, 'I forgive you and I release you.'"

4. Practice Forgiveness

How would you feel if a loved one or business partner lied to you? Chances are you would see that as a violation of your trust. If you want to be a better person in either your personal or professional life, you should always tell the truth and state as clearly as possible what you are trying to convey. Learn to articulate your thoughts, feelings, and ideas in an open and honest manner.

5. Be Honest and Direct

Whether giving up your seat to an elderly person on the subway, assisting a co-worker on a project, or carrying in the groceries when your spouse comes back from the store, being helpful is one of the easiest and most effective ways to practice becoming a better person. The more you help others, the better you feel.

6. Be Helpful

As Jeet Banerjee notes on Lifehack, "listening to people and giving everyone a voice is one of the greatest things you can do." He adds that he "got to meet some of the most amazing people, close some of the biggest deals, and develop connections that will last me a lifetime all because I took time to listen to people. Being a good listener can change your life in a positive manner."

7. Listen to Others

It may not seem like a big deal, but supporting a local cause, donating clothes, or buying from local farmers' markets or businesses are simple ways you can help your specific region. You may not be able to save the world, but you very well could make a difference in your neck of the woods. Get to know and care about your community.

8. Act Locally

How much effort does it take to say, "Thank you," or to hold the elevator door open for someone? Not much at all. However, these acts of kindness can make someone's day. It doesn't matter if someone is ultra rude, condescending, or worse. The way someone else behaves should not determine our behavior.

9. Always Be Polite

Tiffany Mason has five excellent reasons on Lifehack why you should be yourself:<ul><li>Be able to align yourself with your values and beliefs.</li><li>Establish your identity.</li><li>Build courage.</li><li>Create boundaries.</li><li>Find focus and direction.</li></ul>

10. Be Yourself

Whether trying a new restaurant, traveling to an unknown part of the world or doing something that has always scared you, you should always be open to change. This allows you to grow because you experience something new. It helps you be high functioning and self-confident if you are not wary of change.

11. Be Open to Change

How would you feel if you had just cleaned your home and someone came in and tracked mud everywhere? You'd probably be a little ticked that they hadn't taken off their shoes. Take this mentality and apply it to everyday life. For example:<ul><li>Don't toss your trash or cigarette butts on the floor of public restrooms or sidewalks just because someone else will clean it up. </li><li>Be respectful of others' time, thoughts, ideas, lifestyles, feelings, work, and everything else. </li></ul>

12. Be Respectful

Going to a party this weekend at your friend's apartment? Make sure you don't arrive empty-handed. Even if you've been assured that there will be plenty of food and drink, bring along a little something to show your appreciation for being invited.

13. Don't Show Up Empty-handed

If you don't understand why one country is invading another, take the time to educate yourself on the current event. Ask a person intimately connected with the event for his or her thoughts. Remember, we're all interconnected, and being aware of different cultures, different people, and what their lives are like can make you a more well-rounded individual. This will also help you understand points of view different from your own.

14. Educate Yourself

How good does it feel to make someone smile? It feels pretty good, right? Surprise your loved ones or co-workers now and then, with a gift, a night out on the town, or by offering help when you know they could use it.Becoming a better person doesn't happen overnight, but it is possible. Believe in yourself and know that it is possible!

15. Surprise People

Enjoy the journey and try to get better every day. And don't lose the passion and the love for what you do.

Life is a journey and becoming better every day is the goal. What other tips have you found useful for becoming a better person?

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<blockquote>“It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips.” – Fred Allen</blockquote>No one wants more weight than they need to carry. So in the effort of losing weight, or at least not gain any more, laugh as much as you can! This quote kind of brings a different meaning to the phrase, laugh your butt off.

1. Fred Allen on Losing Weight With Laughter

<blockquote>“You can’t have everything. Where would you put it? ” – Steven Wright</blockquote>Seriously, if you had everything you would be so overwhelmed with stuff and busy life that you wouldn’t really get to enjoy it anyway. Try having gratitude for what you already do have, and when you create more for your life make sure to make room for it by getting rid of any excess you have.

2. Steven Wright Says There’s Only Room For So Much

<blockquote>“Money won’t make you happy … but everybody wants to find out for themselves.” – Zig Ziglar</blockquote>Many of us crave more money than we currently have, but if we do so out of a pursuit of happiness then the journey will leave us empty. Be motivated to be a kind and honest person, and strive to live your life authentically and the money will come more easily because of it.

3. Zig Ziglar on Money and Happiness

<blockquote>“If you let your head get too big, it’ll break your neck.” – Elvis Presley</blockquote>No matter what you think of yourself, if you think too much and have an overinflated ego, there’s a good chance you will crush under the weight of it. If you think you’re too good to do this or that, or that you’re more amazing at this or that than others, you’ll break your neck. Just watch.

4. Elvis Presley on Egos

<blockquote>“Never follow someone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path then by all means you should follow that.” – Ellen Degeneres</blockquote>When it comes to life, you have your own path that you are walking. This quote is nice because if you feel you don’t have a path, you can look at those you admire, and at those that have what you want, then follow in their footsteps to get yourself going.

5. Ellen Degeneres Walks the Path

<blockquote>“I know worrying works, because none of the stuff I worried about ever happened.” – Will Rogers</blockquote>See? You have nothing to worry about! Maybe you are not motivated because you are worrying about things that might go wrong, but if most of what you imagine going wrong does not go wrong, then what do you have to risk? What if things go right?

6. Will Rogers Says Worry Works!

<blockquote>“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Eddison</blockquote>When the time comes to step into an opportunity, it usually means going beyond your comfort zone and getting to work. Sometimes the work involved and the amount of motivation required to seem daunting. However, for the next opportunity that comes your way, be willing to accept the work that will take to achieve your goals and jump in with both feet.

7. Thomas Eddison Wants You to Get to Work

<blockquote>“Hating people is like burning down your own home to get rid of a rat.” – Harry Emerson Fosdick</blockquote>Negative emotions that include judgment and anger towards others are so very often a waste of precious energy. Why would you let one or two people affect your inner peace and tranquility? If you’re motivated to do something about the person you feel has wronged you, then be motivated to let it go and move on with your life.

8. Harry Emerson Fosdick Says Don’t Be Silly

<blockquote>“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” – Dwight Eisenhower</blockquote>This is an interesting way to get things done. If you have enough leadership qualities to motivate others, then it can be easy to inspire others to do things you want to be done because they are inspired and motivated to do it themselves. Motivate yourself to motivate others!

9. Dwight Eisenhower Motivates You to Work for Him

<blockquote>“Life is like a sewer… what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.” – Tom Lehrer</blockquote>If all you put into your life are days filled with endless distractions from smartphones, social media, and television, then what do you really think you’re going to get back out of life? Put in faith, trust, and pixie dust, as well as elbow grease, and see your life transform.

10. Tom Lehrer Speaks of Sewers

<blockquote>“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” – Dalai Lama</blockquote>Even the most seemingly insignificant beings can make quite a difference to someone. Everyone you come into contact with gives you an opportunity to make a difference. Get off the couch and go make one today. Get started, work hard, and the differences you make in your life and that of others will only grow.

11. Dalai Lama on Small Things

<blockquote>“A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.” – Dolly Parton</blockquote>When you have gifts, talents, and abilities that you sit on you’re nothing but a turkey. You know that you have things to offer the world. You have beautiful gifts inside of you to share with the world so spread your tail feathers and strut your stuff!

12. Dolly Parton Says Let Yourself Shine

<blockquote>“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” – Truman Capote</blockquote>There is never any success without failure. Failure gives you an opportunity to learn from your mistakes and to gain more awareness and education about what you are trying to accomplish. Once you have success you will look back on your failures as very valuable stepping stones.

13. Truman Capote

<blockquote>“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers</blockquote>There is a time for action and a time for rest, but never is it time to do one of those things exclusively forever and ever. If you make headway in your life, don’t rest for too long, get up and keep going to get closer to your dreams. Plus, if you sit too long it’s getting harder to get motivated.

14. Will Rogers

<blockquote>“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” – Steve Martin</blockquote>If your lack of motivation comes from feeling like you’re in the shadows, perhaps it’s just nighttime. Apply some hope and faith that the sun is going to shine again for you very soon and that brighter days are ahead. The night won’t last forever.

15. Steve Martin

There are always jobs to be done but there sometimes isn’t enough motivation to go around to get them done. If you’ve been in a funk and you’re looking to you get motivated to finish a project or get started on a new one, then peruse these funny motivational quotes.

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