[The Slight Edge Audio Book Download
Hanne Rylaarsdam
People attempt to make drastic changes and life changing resolutions and are rarely able to do so because they are unable drastically and immediately change the behavioral patterns that drive them to live the way they live.
Want to get smarter? Read 10 pages a day. That equals about two dozen books per year. 20+ pages per day = about a book per week. 1 hour of audio material in the car per day = 1 or 2 audiobooks per week. Over the course of a few years, you can have a PhD like education and knowledge-based without the tuition bill.
The Slight Edge is a fantastic book that explains the power of continual small improvements that compound overtime. These 1% gains each day go on to make you appear to be an overnight success. I have experienced this as a self taught software developer.
This list is only 30 minutes of each day but the key is not to over commit and start doing it all. Begin slowly, developing that slight edge by creating lifelong habits. Once you habitualise one, add another. This is a lifelong journey.
If the biggest problems you are solving is should I put the bread, or cans into the shopping bag first? Then that is the level of your problem solving, and that level will be commensurate with your income.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders isn't such a long-shot anymore. A new survey shows the self-proclaimed democratic socialist has pulled within 10 percentage points of Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination. Clinton says she's more electable, but the survey also shows Sanders has a slight edge in matchups against four Republicans. One place Clinton is still winning? With women. She even has Hookers for Hillary in her corner ahead of Saturday's Nevada caucus. A photo op for the ages. The poll also shows that former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, should he run as an independent, very likely won't win but could play spoiler.
Nike announced Wednesday that it dropped Manny Pacquiao for speaking out against gays. "Have you seen any animal having male-to-male or female-to-female relations?" the boxing great asked. (Actually, yes.) He added that people who have such relationships are "worse than animals." The champ, who has presidential ambitions in his native Philippines, has since apologized (sort of).
COLLEGE STATION, Texas --- The Georgia soccer team forced double overtime on the road vs. ninth-ranked Texas A&M Sunday afternoon, before a UGA own-goal provided the Aggies the 1-0 victory in heartbreaking fashion at Ellis Field in College Station, Texas.
In the teams' first meeting in their histories following Texas A&M's move to the Southeastern Conference this season, Georgia kept the Aggies scoreless through regulation and the first overtime before allowing the game-winning goal when it ricocheted off a Georgia defender off a cross to the front of the goal with 6:42 to go in the second extra period.
"I thought it was a pretty good game through the first 65 or 70 minutes," said head coach Steve Holeman. "I thought it was fairly even, maybe a slight edge to Texas A&M, but after our defender Torri Allen had to come off with an injury, you saw that Texas A&M is deeper than we are and it made a difference. In the last 20 minutes we were under a lot of pressure, and the defense held strong. Ashley Baker had to make a lot of saves, and she made them. You start thinking a tie would be a decent result here on the road against the No. 9 team in the country, and it didn't happen."
Fifteen minutes into the first half of regulation, forward Meghan Gibbons split the Aggie defenders and found herself open in front, but her shot was wide right. Georgia earned a corner kick on the play as the referee ruled that the ball touched an Aggie player on its way out, but the Bulldogs couldn't get a shot off following the set piece. Just after that, Tori Cooper found Bella Hartley in the center, but Hartley's shot went high of the goal.
Texas A&M had a great scoring chance with 16 minutes to go in the first after a free kick near the sideline, and after it was sent inside, Georgia defender Jenna Buckley saved the Bulldogs as she stepped in and cleared the ball off the line to keep things scoreless.
The teams continued to battle with neither finding the back of the net in the second half, and with 13 minutes remaining in regulation defender Nikki Hill found forward Chika Ibiam, who got a foot on it but it was saved by the Aggie keeper.
Texas A&M turned on the jets in the first extra period, out-shooting Georgia 7-0 in those 10 minutes but failing to find the game-winner. Then, two minutes into the second overtime Baker dove to make a spectacular save that kept things scoreless, but TAMU would finally break through in the 104th minute as the Aggies saw a cross fired over from the right wing, and it bounced in front before hitting off a Georgia player and into the back of the net past Baker for the win.
The Bulldogs are back in action for the regular-season finale on Thurs., Oct. 25, taking on Tennessee at 7 p.m. in Knoxville. Georgia can still stake a spot in the 2012 SEC Soccer Championships the following week in Orange Beach, Ala. Georgiadogs.com will offer live audio and blog coverage of the match-up with the Lady Volunteers.
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Brace yourself. We're going to talk about political polling in this presidential race. Now, stay with me because the point is we're not going to just rattle off a bunch of numbers that may or may not mean anything. There is no doubt, though, that the polls in this contest are tightening. So we thought it would be a good time to bring in NPR's Domenico Montanaro to explain to us how we can start to put all of it into context.Hi, Domenico.DOMENICO MONTANARO, BYLINE: Hello, Rachel.MARTIN: What's happening out there? Things appeared to have - I mean, actually, substantively changed between the short time period of August and September.MONTANARO: Yes, there's no question about it. I mean, Hillary Clinton had held a broad, shallow but consistent lead, I kept saying, in every battleground state a month ago. But that's really faded. I mean - you know, it's - and it's hard to say why. You know, it's hard to connect news events to polls sometimes. And I don't think Donald Trump had a particularly great month. There were a lot of people who've been looking at the Clinton health scare. There are some polls that show that there was some concern from voters that she wasn't being transparent enough or wasn't forthcoming enough. It seems unlikely to me that that'll last if, you know, Clinton performs well and vigorously on the campaign trail and in the debates.You know, there's another big mathematical reason for this - and we talk about this sometimes. But the switch from registered voter models to - wait for it - likely voter models (laughter). You know, this is one of those things that can introduce a whole lot more volatility because likely voter models are trying to predict the electorate based on things like enthusiasm and past voting history...MARTIN: Yeah.MONTANARO: ...As opposed to being a snapshot in time.MARTIN: But it can't just be the model, can it?MONTANARO: No, not completely. I mean, it is responsible for probably most of it. But what affects these models is enthusiasm, like I noted. And you've seen a decline among Democrats and some of these groups that really should be going toward Hillary Clinton in bigger numbers. Maybe they grew complacent over the past months seeing her with a consistent lead. But there are worrying signs for Clinton.Despite Obama, for example, being at 50 percent approval rating or more. That coalition - his coalition does not appear fired up for her, and she's underperforming them with voters - especially young blacks, Latinos, women - in key places like Nevada. And getting that base out's going to be key for her.MARTIN: What about other key battleground states - how's that playing out there?MONTANARO: Well, it certainly made things tighter. At least a dozen battleground states have gotten closer. Clinton still has a slight edge overall. But Trump has drawn even or pulled ahead, looking at the average of the polls, in some eye-popping places, like Florida, Ohio, Nevada and Iowa.MARTIN: It seems, though, that I keep hearing people say Hillary Clinton, when it comes, though, to the Electoral College, the map is still in her favor. You've said that - no?MONTANARO: Absolutely. I mean, I tend to say that Republicans have a narrower path, and it's true. And the road is still very narrow. That path is narrow. I mean, a month ago, you could say Donald Trump had, like, a road closed sign (laughter) in front of him. Now, though, it's opened up a bit. You know - I mean, like I said, he's tied or ahead in places like Florida, Ohio, Iowa and Nevada. Suppose you give him those - that's not enough. So where else would he go?You know, he's also behind by margin of error or slightly, you know, essentially tied in the polls in North Carolina and New Hampshire. Give those to him - guess what happens - it's a tie.MARTIN: OK.MONTANARO: That would just extend this already-too-long, contentious election.MARTIN: So - go ahead. Go ahead. Finish your thought.MONTANARO: No. And - I'll just say there's this one electoral vote in Maine, where right now Trump is ahead. And if he wins there, he'd win 271-268.MARTIN: So what are we to do in the next few weeks as these polls are, no doubt, going to continue? How do we internalize them?MONTANARO: Well, I always say it's really important to look at the trends. That's the most important way to look at polls, not one poll to the next. I think we might be at an inflection point in this campaign. I wonder if this is Trump's high-water mark and the waters recede. Or does he make more inroads in places like Michigan or Pennsylvania, where the polls have tightened but Clinton's still ahead? Do Democrats up their enthusiasm and urgency? Do younger voters move more toward her or not? And like I said, always most important to look at those trends overall.MARTIN: NPR's Domenico Montanaro sorting it all out for us. Thanks so much, Domenico.MONTANARO: You're welcome.MARTIN: At least trying.
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