Inner turmoil can cause debilitating effects on someone’s well-being and relationship with life.We cannot universally define what makes life worth living or what makes people healthy because humans are complex, dynamic, intricate creatures. What is true for one person may not be true for another.

A search for how to live a healthy life

<ul><li>Research in positive psychology tells us work, love, play, and service to others make life worth living.</li><li>A Canadian psychologist writes that the answer is either nothing, religion, happiness, or a combination of work, love, and play.</li><li>According to the Reno Gazette, faith is the answer.</li></ul> The common theme in these answers is inconsistency. Each person who wants to provide an answer will come up with their own unique explanation.

Considering what makes life worth living

Researching what makes people healthy breaks down to social factors, environmental factors, and genetic factors.  Answers to what key pieces need to be in place to live a life free of inner turmoil run in every direction with no singular answer. Perhaps wellness exists more in what we don’t do than what we are striving to find.

Key pieces that need to be in place to live a life free of the inner turmoil

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What Determines Our Well-Being?

When it comes to falling asleep, the single most effective thing you can do is calm your mind.Sure, that might be easier said than done — especially when it’s the middle of the night and you’re desperately waiting to fall asleep. But there are several not-so-obvious ways to quiet your thoughts and prep the brain and body for sleep.Instead of taking a hot bath, pouring yourself a night cap or squeezing in a workout before bedtime, here are a few expert-backed ways to dupe your mind into sleep

So You Are Unable To Sleep

One of the most effective ways to trick yourself into falling asleep is to, well, try not to sleep. Trying too hard to sleep never works, and all that worry and anxiety about falling asleep is what actually keeps so many people up at night.By doing the opposite and forcing yourself to lie in bed and stay awake all night — a phenomenon called <a href="https://div12.org/treatment/paradoxical-intention-for-insomnia/">paradoxical intention</a> — you’ll unintentionally doze off at some point. In your mind, you’re actually trying to stay up but sleep will eventually kick in.

Don't Sleep To Get Sleep

The key to getting good sleep isn’t all about what you do, and don’t do, at night. In fact, your morning routine can have an even bigger impact on your sleep.Set your alarm and get light first thing — this doesn’t just cue your body when wake time is, but also when sleep onset should occur. Waking up when your alarm goes off, at the same time each day, and exposing yourself to daylight sets your internal clock, making it easier to fall asleep at bedtime.

Focus on Your Mornings

Carving out time to worry earlier in the day can help you fall asleep at bedtime. Instead of dismissing your worries altogether, if you spend time worrying about things a few hours before bed — not right at bedtime — you can sleep better at night.A quick tip: Take 15 minutes to jot down those concerns in a journal, so you can get them out on paper and leave them there. That actually can decrease the amount of worry that happens at bedtime.

Let Yourself Worry

The sounds and darkness of nature are natural ingredients for inducing sleep. After all, nature is known to reduce stress, lower blood pressure, reduce hard rate, and decrease muscle tension.To get to sleep, just think about nature — like the last time you slept in a remote cabin or laid out under the stars.

Think About Nature

Slow, deep belly breathing — like the 4-7-8 method in which you inhale for four seconds, hold your breath for seven seconds and exhale for eight seconds ― is known to increase relaxation and bring on sleep.Furthermore, simply focusing on your breath can take the mind off other concerns and worries and bring you to the present moment. Taking your focus away from the environment and placing it on something entirely in your control (the breath) helps the mind to settle and become calm.

Focus On Your Breath

There’s a common misconception that exercising at night can help you sleep easier. But while working out tires your body out, it doesn’t necessarily exhaust your mind.After a marathon, your body might be tired but that doesn’t mean your mind will be ready for sleep. Regular exercise improves sleep, in general, but exercising in order to fall asleep won’t do you much good. A better way is to read a book or do puzzles.

Exhaust Your Mind

Got insomnia? Sleep psychologists share a few unconventional tips that will help you get those Zzzs.

6 Weird Ways To Trick Your Mind Into Sleep That Actually Work

Manuka honey is produced by bees who pollinate the flower of the Leptospermum scoparium, or manuka bush. The manuka plant is native to New Zealand, and manuka honey contains over 2,000 individual natural compounds, twentyfold more than ordinary pasture-type honeys such as clover.

Manuka honey 

The antimicrobial and wound healing effects of manuka honey are extensively studied. The honey also exhibits anti-inflammatory, immune-modulatory and antioxidant bioactivities, which work together to give manuka honey its therapeutic effects. Other compounds found in manuka honey are methylglyoxal, responsible for antimicrobial properties, and leptosperin, which may have anti-inflammatory benefits.

The potential health benefits of manuka honey

Manuka honey ranges from $2 per ounce to more than $14 per ounce, depending on its grade or Unique manuka factor level. The better the grade, the higher the price. The pant is very rare. The flower is only open for 12 days and sometimes helicopters have to be used to collect this honey.

Why Manuka is so expensive

The UMFHA serves as the leading body behind the New Zealand honey industry. Licensed Manuka honey growers must comply with regulations to receive the UMF quality label en ensure their product meets the requirements. These requirements include independent laboratory testing of product samples to confirm the presence of unique signature markers.

The Unique Manuka Factor (UMF)

Many consume manuka honey for wellness reasons. However, many just like the thicker, creamier taste of manuka honey, which undergoes a creaming process. The unique New Zealand flair has brought on an onslaught of controversy. The manuka plant goes by many other names, such as Tea Tree and Red Damask. The shrub is native to New Zealand, but other countries also seek to capitalize on this goldmine. New Zealand has taken Australia to court because New Zealand beekeepers don't want the Australian version to be called manuka honey.

Protecting the manuka honey brand

HowStuffWorks explores the world of expensive manuka honey to find out how it's different from other honeys.

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What's All the Buzz About Manuka Honey? 

Behavioural finance is a subfield of behavioural economics. It argues that when people make financial decisions like investing, they are not nearly as rational as traditional finance theory predicts. Mainstream theory make assumptions in its models that people are rational and free from emotion or the effects of culture and social relations. But behaviourists think that people make financial decisions based on emotions and cognitive biases.

Behavioural finance

An example of irrational behaviour: Offer someone a choice of<ol><li>a sure $50 or,</li><li>on the flip of a coin, the possibility of winning $100 or winning nothing.</li></ol>Chances are people will choose the sure $50. But offer a choice of<ol><li>a sure loss of $50 or</li><li>, on a flip of a coin, either a loss of $100 or nothing.</li></ol>and the person will probably pick the last option. In reality, the chance of the coin landing on one side or the other is equivalent in any scenario. But people view the possibility of regaining a loss as more important than a greater gain.

Losses versus significance of gains

The herd instinct. People tend to imitate others. Investors may fear that others know more or have more information and will tend to do what others are doing. Behaviour finance has also found that investors tend to rely on judgments derived from small samples of data or single sources. For example, investors are often overconfident in their judgments and tend to go for the single "telling" detail instead of the obvious range.

The herd instinct

Behavioural finance can give us insight into how financial decisions are influenced by emotion around things like investments, payments, risk, and personal debt. Understanding how people can deviate from rational expectations can help us make better and more rational decisions.

The value of understanding behavioural finance

Learn about the factors that influence our economic decision-making

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Behavioral Economics, Explained

Curious about how emotions and biases affect the market? Find some useful insight here.

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An Introduction to Behavioral Finance

When it comes to branding, potential customers feel that what you see is what you get. What you see is the brand's visual identity. Visual identity is the impression you create through visible elements of your brand. Images are powerful because they speak on an emotional level. It is then important to ensure your visuals are communicating accurately.

Visual identity is what you see

Visual identity is all the graphical information and is used to express who a brand is, from the logo to the interior design of a store. The visual identity comes together in a brand style guide, instructing how to represent the brand visually. The purpose of visual identity:<ul><li>create an emotional impression on people</li><li>express the nature of the brand and services or products offered</li><li>using consistent visuals to unite the business</li></ul>

Visual identity

Brand identity expresses everything that makes the brand what it is, including visual identity, non-visual elements such as brand voice, copy editing guides, mission statement, core values, etc. Visual identity expresses who a brand is on the outside.

Visual identity vs. brand identity

The building blocks of a visual identity creates a cohesive meaning. <ul><li>Graphics are drawn or designed pictures. It could be as simple as shapes or more complex, such as logos, icons, illustrations, and animations.</li><li>Typography is the shape or style of the text in your branding.</li><li>Colour is used to identify a brand through a colour scheme, usually not more than three colours, and often specific hues, shades and tints.</li><li>Imagery is the photography and video content, which represent the brand's personality and customers.</li><li>Brand assets are physical objects that contribute to a brand's visual identity.</li></ul>

The elements of visual identity

Graphic design often acts as a roadmap for keeping brand visuals consistent and aesthetically pleasing. <ul><li>Logo and branding design is the centre of a visual identity. A logo is the symbol for a brand and informs many of the graphics, colour and typography choices.</li><li>Business and advertising. Companies use their visuals to reach out to customers, such as brochures, billboards, tv/magazine/banner ads, etc.</li><li>Digital tools are created to be used, and visual identity is used to nudge the user towards completing their task.</li></ul>

Graphic design and visual identity

<ol><li>Define your brand identity, as this should guide the visuals. What is your mission statement? And core values? Who are the buyer personas? What is your communication style?</li><li>Be familiar with the six elements of design.</li><li>Tell a compelling story. Visuals grab attention, but stories pull people in.</li><li>Aim for simplicity. Focus on one message at a time.</li><li>Balance consistency with contrast. All the elements should look like it's part of the same brand.</li><li>Know when to be bold and when to step back.</li><li>Design for the medium. An online brand will look different from a brick-and-mortar brand.</li></ol>

How to design a visual identity

Visual identity can help to tell your brand's story.

To make sure your visual identity is communicating the way it should, we’ve compiled this guide to the ins and outs of visual identity—we'll show you how to create one that will inspire customers to pay attention.

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The term wellness encompasses an extensive range of activities, such as juice cleansing, meditation, napping, drinking charcoal water, citrus diets, ketosis, halotherapy, talk therapy, avoiding blue light, the Alexander Technique, and forest bathing.
The wellness industry is worth about $4.5 trillion and is growing at 6.4 percent a year.

Wellness encompasses a broad range of activities

The desire for alternative forms of wellbeing is not new. It may even feel necessary. Many of the wellness trends come from indigenous practices. Wellness tourism is not new either. In the early twentieth century, tubercular patients travelled to the desert of New Mexico to breathe the thin, dry air. But what makes modern wellness different is its relentless focus on the self as the base for all improvement.

Wellness is not new

Modern wellness assumes that if you work hard enough on your body and mind, you will reach the top of the world and spread it to people around you. The latest focus is on individual enhancement. It makes sense then that the wellness industry shifted to podcasting. People listen alone to a deeply individualistic medium. While it may seem like a collaboration between host and listener, it is really a one-way dialogue that ultimately leads to an advertisement addressing something essential that you lack.

The trickle-down wellness

The work is never done. We are always one more item away from glory. This quest-like quality is at the centre of modern wellness. Yet, no matter how far you travel, the promise to wellness is always another step away.

Wellness is never complete

In “POOG,” two comics explore the perils—and the absurd pleasures—of a trillion-dollar industry.

Puzzling Through Our Eternal Quest for Wellness

In 2015, the Guardian predicted that self-driving cars would be the norm in 2020. The Business Insider announced in 2016 that there would be 10 million self-driving cars on the road by 2020. Yet, engineering teams are still struggling to make fully autonomous cars work properly.

Not ready for self-driving cars 

The idea behind self-driving cars is to fit a vehicle with cameras that can track all the objects around it and let the car avoid those objects. Then teach in-car computers the rules of the road and let them navigate to their destination. But driving is more than a list of rules. Humans make eye contact to confirm who has the right of way, react to weather conditions, and make judgment calls that are difficult to encode into hard rules. Even tracking objects around a car on the road is more complex.

How self-driving cars work

Self-driving cars rely on artificial intelligence (AI). In the 2010s, there were considerable advances in AI. This progress drove optimistic predictions for self-driving cars.  But the limitations of AI became evident. One problem is the need for training data (billions of hours of footage of actual driving) and teaching the computer good driving behaviour.

Why there is a delay

In the future, it is likely that taxi and ride-hailing companies will offer self-driving cars instead of paying drivers. Self-driving cars can also make a difference in people with disabilities who can't move around freely. However, polls show that most Americans don't want to be driven around by a self-driving car. Researchers argue that widespread self-driving cars first need significant changes made to the streets to make it easier to communicate information to those cars.

A world with self-driving cars

Many major car manufacturers have tested the waters with self-driving car research. Two statistics are helpful in evaluating how advanced a self-driving car program is: <ul><li>How many miles it has driven (training data and investment to get cars on the road), and </li><li>Disengagement (how many times human drivers had to take over.)</li></ul> In 2018, Waymo drove 1.2 million miles with 0.09 disengagements every 1,000 miles. General Motors' Cruse drove half a million miles and 0.19 disengagements per 1,000 miles.

The leading self-driving car programs

In 2018, a self-driving Uber car ran down and killed a pedestrian walking her bicycle across the street. The near-range cameras and ultrasonic sensors were not in use at the time of the crash. The system also had false alarms and failed to identify her because she did not cross at a crosswalk. In 2018 Tesla's Autopilot system was implicated in a lethal accident where the car steered into a concrete divider. There were three more deadly Tesla crashes.

Safety issues with self-driving cars

Some advocates claim that self-driving cars may reduce car trips as car ownership may become redundant. Others argue that people drive in a wasteful way. But there's not much evidence that computers are more fuel-efficient drivers. Studies also show that people will go on more trips if the cars are more fuel-efficient or if a vehicle could drive itself.

Self-driving cars and the environment

It's not uncommon for technology to be dangerous when it is invented and then refined into a valuable part of life. The first aeroplanes were dangerous and commercially useless. While companies boast about their progress, they hesitate to put their cars on the road when they're not ready. They are aware that killing someone, as has happened, will probably spell doom for their business. Despite the progress made, some sceptics think that fully self-driving cars might never happen.

The future of self-driving cars

Engineering teams at Tesla, GM, Honda, and others are struggling to make self-driving cars work properly.

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Where are our self-driving cars?

Getting dressed for work is a nearly universal challenge.
An attempt to simplify dressing is by uniform dressing. It eliminates the element of choice and saves the wearer the problem of figuring out what to wear every morning. But the logical end of optimisation in fashion is one where personal style ceases to exist.

Uniform dressing

While tech's obsession with efficiency is tied to joyless innovations, it isn't stopping them from trying to automate the messy art of self-expression.
Data shows that algorithms take away individualism. Cities have become filled with ads for millennial lifestyle startups, all virtually the same. It looks nice and perfect when viewed through a screen. The sameness also makes one want to push back by way of a personal style that goes beyond data points Facebook has collected about you.

Breaking through the monotony of style

The first step is to identify the pieces you're missing. It's like cooking. One starts by learning the classic recipes before you start to innovate. Start by building a foundation wardrobe of timeless, versatile pieces and neutral colours.
The basics will look different for everyone depending on personal preferences or profession. A second opinion can also help you break bad habits. If you're used to wearing your shirts too big, someone can help you try something new to help you see yourself in a new light.

Start with basics you can build on

The average American buys 65 new pieces of clothing per year yet is less satisfied with every subsequent purchase. We sometimes think we have all these pieces, but when you really look, you'll find there's a hole or a button that doesn't work for you.
A closet cleanout:
<ul>
<li>Take all the clothes out at once. Then remove the pieces that only fit a future self, are stained or too uncomfortable to wear.</li>
<li>Keep the everyday essentials.</li>
<li>Don't put anything back that needs to go to the dry cleaner or tailor.</li>
</ul>

Get rid of the clothes you don't wear

Find outfit ideas on apps like Pinterest, Instagram, YouTube, and Reddit. Browse through magazines and books. Note what stylish friends, coworkers, and strangers are wearing.
When you find something you like, ask:
<ul>
<li>How can I interpret that for myself?</li>
<li>What can I take from that for my everyday life?</li>
<li>Subreddits like r/malefashionadvice and r/femalefashionadvice have millions of members where you can find advice. </li>
<li>The hashtag-cum-mantra #alwaysplaydressup is helpful to get out of a rut.</li>
</ul>

Look for inspiration

You don't have to resign yourself to a mundane wardrobe. If you work in an office, boring office clothes may allow you to look professional, but not special. It is recommended to slightly overdress rather than underdress.
Discover what you're naturally drawn to and nurture that interest. It doesn't have to be trendy. It is a style that feels uniquely "you."

Push yourself to put in a little effort

Hate the idea of capsule wardrobes and workday uniforms? Here’s how to look like yourself.

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How to craft your personal style

The SI (Système International) unit of energy is the JOULE (J) or NEWTON-METER (N*m). The joule is also the SI unit of work.

The Units of Energy

According to the law of conservation of energy, the total energy of a system remains constant through the energy that may change into another form.
Moreover, energy is something that cannot be created not destroyed, it simply is. Energy can change forms and is also related to mass.
By the mass-energy equivalence theory states that an object at rest in a frame of reference has resting energy and that if additional energy were to be supplied to the object it will increase its mass.

The Law of Conservation Energy

<ul>
<li>Heat - results from movement of atoms; considered as energy in due to relations to temperature</li>
<li>Kinetic - energy of motion</li>
<li>Potential - energy due to an object's position</li>
<li>Mechanical - the sum of kinetic and potential energy</li>
<li>Light - photons are a form of energy</li>
<li>Electrical - energy from the movement of charged particles</li>
<li>Magnetic - energy resulting from a magnetic field</li>
<li>Chemical - energy released/absorbed by chemical reactions</li>
<li>Nuclear - energy from interaction with the protons and neutrons of an atom</li>
</ul>

The different forms of energy

Discover the definition of energy in physics, other sciences, and engineering, with examples of different types of energy.

These Are the Different Forms of Energy in Science

<ul><li>He was the song of a glover and a grammar-school boy that attended Stratford</li><li>He is famously known as the world's greatest playwright who had a dynamic duality within himself</li><li>He had become an icon for English-speaking people throughout the world just like how Dante is for the Italians and Goethe for the Germans</li><li>Shakespeare was a person who kept to himself and died a mysterious man.</li></ul>

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Shakespeare forever changed English life, language, and culture. He entwined poetry and storytelling in visionary ways. He is an enigma who contributed many remarkable phrases such as "all that glitters is gold," give the devil his due," and many more.He also contributed about 1700 words to the English language. Many vernaculars were braided with their Latin coinages that revamped the English language.

Shakespeare's effect on the English language

Shakespeare's most famous play, Hamlet, exhibits the man's inner workings, being agonized by complex strife with himself and his own desires. It is a lurid event of post-renaissance drama in which psychology is articulated through brilliant poetry. Shakespeare articulated both to the high and low culture his existential vision of human frailty.

Shakespeare's effect on the Modern Man

Shakespeare is an indispensable part of the American dream because Shakespeare's great dramas are held up to a society that is permanently in search of themselves.  His statue in NYC Park was erected to symbolize the role of Shakespeare in American life.

Shakespeare's effect on The American Dream

David Garrick, an actor, rekindled Shakespeare's reputation in the 18th century through a Jubilee which was thrown to honor Shakespeare in 1769. Even former US presidents, Jefferson and Adams, visited Shakespeare's birthplace and grave, to which they wrote "these was nothing preserved of this great genius."

Shakespeare's effect on Heritage

Many Hollywood scriptwriters latched on to Shakespeare's plots and icons. Films such as Throne of Blood by Kurosawa, My Own Private Idaho by Gus van Sant, and Ran the classic Japanese film were all inspired by Shakespeare's work Macbeth, Henry IV, and King Lear.

Shakespeare's effect on Film

Shakespeare was described as "not a company keeper" and was usually engaged with literary and theatre business to dwindle and waste time on self-publicity.He understood that it was the work that mattered, not the brouhaha that accompanied it. Much said he had no interest in posterity.

Shakespeare's effect on Celebrity Status

Shakespeare heavily influenced Sigmund Freud's work. Freud recognized Shakespeares' strong interest in the mind of man and applied Shakespeare's insight throughout his own psychoanalytic works.When Shakespeare wrote, "There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face." Freud saw the potential that it was something he could open discourse on.

Shakespeare's effect on Psychology

Richard III was about Richard of Gloucester who wants to be King of England. Richard was a jealous cripple who used manipulation and deceit in order to achieve his goal. He had murdered his brothers, nephews, and anyone who was opposed to him. Shakespeare caricatured Richard III's ambition to "seem a saint when most I play the devil" The play still resonates as a lethal blend of tragedy and history.It was resurrected in America as a commentary on Richard Nixon's abuse of power.

Shakespeare's effect on History

Shakespeare wrote an ardent plea for sympathy and understanding towards the unfortunate situation of refugees. The document demonstrates Shakespeare's unerringly drawn to a timeless theme of -- the fate of the dispossessed. Sir Thomas More was a Shakespearean play that tells the real-life statesman to quell an anti-immigrant riot.

Shakespeare's effect on Refugees

Many musicals on Broadway are inspired by Shakespeare's work from West Side Story to Kiss Me, Kate, many of his plays are performed constantly around the world because his works are truly unparalleled.

Shakespeare's effect on Music

This week marks 400 years since the death of our national poet. And yet his characters, the worlds he created, the thoughts he expressed – some raw, fashioned in fire, some exquisite and turned in silk – are for all people and all time

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