Considering how complex human beings are, it’s a miracle that most of us are reasonably healthy most of the time. Our bodies consist of an intertwined set of functional subsystems. We have:
I just got off the golf course hitting 9-holes with my Pop, who is 84 years old. God bless him, I hope he has many more rounds to play and I look forward to getting out as often as I can with him. We played the En-Joie Golf Club; a stop on the PGA Tour from 1972 to 2005 when the BC Open was played there – and now, as the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open, which is a stop on the Champions Tour. Continue reading
One of the biggest enemies of robust good health is chronic stress. I say chronic stress because there is another kind of stress besides chronic stress, called acute stress. Both kinds of stress are a state of mental or emotional strain, resulting from adverse circumstances. A stressful situation causes the release of cortisol and adrenaline into your bloodstream, putting you into fight or flight mode. Continue reading
People have been engaging in fasts for thousands of years, sometimes for religious reasons and other times to enhance their mental focus, or for other reasons. Fasting parallels the natural lives of many animal species from penguins to grizzly bears. Many animals fatten up during a season of plenty, so that they can survive when food is scarce. Continue reading
McKinsey estimates that between now and 2030, 75 to 375 million workers need to switch jobs that will require new skills and new education just due to automation and tech disruption:
“In terms of magnitude, it’s akin to coping with the large-scale shift from agricultural work to manufacturing that occurred in the early 20th century in North America and Europe, and more recently in China. But in terms of who must find new jobs, we are moving into uncharted territory. Continue reading