What makes it better

Not much at all. However, these acts of kindness can make someone's day. I decided a few years ago that it doesn't matter if someone is ultra rude, condescending, or worse. The way someone else behaves is not going to determine my behavior.

Be Yourself Tiffany Mason has five excellent reasons on Lifehack why you should be yourself. These include being able to align yourself with your values and beliefs, establish your identity, build courage, create boundaries, and find focus and direction. Be Open to Change 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. Be Respectful 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, don't toss your trash or cigarette butts on the floor of public restrooms or sidewalks just because someone else will clean it up. Be respectful of others' time, thoughts, ideas, lifestyles, feelings, work, and everything else.

You don't have to agree with any of it, but people have a right to their opinions and yours is not necessarily correct. Don't Show Up Empty-handed 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 you appreciate being invited. Educate Yourself 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. Charlie, my key takeaway from this post came from the small aside about not allowing practice to kill the muse.

I see a big challenge in both calibrating the difficulty level, i. I like where you are going with this latest series of posts, and I hope that you have further inspiration to share. Wow, I sound incredibly vain. I do this on a regular basis, but just never realized it. Now that I know what it is, I can consciously recreate it to push myself and my art further.

JoVE: A roll?! Awesome — I love when the content is building momentum, especially when I intend for things to be linked in certain ways. I really appreciate your feedback on this one. David: I always thought I was a slow learner, because it took me a while to read through things.

Turns out that I was just going through the rounds of deliberate practice. As you mention, every profession has its own deliberate practice techniques. I think that too many people defer to a standard technique, though, not realizing that it has to be tailored to them.

Guy: Right on! Mike: Ah, the challenge you bring up is difficult. I hope I can eek out the post that talks more about that. I always love your feedback and insightful nudges. Keep at it! I have to apply this technique with music, blogging and so on. Our lifetime experience, be it typical development or unique training experience, can also modify the trajectory of olfaction. Finally, our odor environment, in terms of ambient odor or culinary traditions, can influence odor perception too.

Rather than highlighting the weaknesses of olfaction, we emphasize routes to harnessing our olfactory potential. Keywords: chemosensory; cross-cultural; individual differences; odor detection; odor discrimination; odor recognition; olfaction.