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Why Should You Avoid Status Games In Your Life?

In order to have a winner, a status game must have a loser. Playing status games makes you an angry combative person, and that's no way to live a happy and fulfilling life.


How Can I Invest In My Child's Future?

If you can find the patience and time to communicate with your children, and to not just command orders, but speak to them in a calm manner and explain things, and get their feedback, then you can definitely build a rapport with your kids.


How Does Anger Affect Our Bodies?

Anger is a part of a pattern of physiological experiences that exists. When we’re mad, our heart rate and breathing increase. We start to sweat, which is our sympathetic nervous system kicking in the energy for us to respond. Our digestion system also slows down to help us conserve energy.


How Can Doctors Get A Ring Unstuck From A Patient's Finger?

There’s a method by using just a piece of string. Using the dremel, it has a metal piece that slides between the ring and the finger, which the the dremel will go on top so it doesn’t injure the patient.


Why Is Belinda Upset?

After her time at the tennis party from the previous book, Belinda felt like she was treated like the office cat.


What Is The Future Of Cryptocurrency ?

It very well may be the mainstream payment method within the next 5 years, similarly to the current use of Apple Pay. Some sources are already accepting payment from Bitcoin.


What Does Charles Look For In The Social Entrepreneurs?

He looks for which social entrepreneurs that his company can help scale and capture natural imagination, which can cause change in the way people think about topics. He uses the example of criminal justice reform.


What Are Katie’s Weekly Priorities?

Katie’s weekly priority is to make sure her design team — which is around 100 people — is happy and active to produce the best work of their lives.

The company’s ultimate goal is improve transportation in big cities, and to focus on the people, not cars. In doing some, it requires Lyft to make multiple ways of transportation enjoyable for people.


How Devastated Were You About Dig’s Failure?

Kevin never had a serious breakdown over how Dig failed, mostly because Reddit, Dig’s greatest competitor, didn’t beat Dig at its own game. Dig managed to hold its own as a democratic algorithm-based content website, but Reddit overtook it by focusing on smaller communities run by individual moderators.


How Can Musicians Get A Early Access To Their Streaming Revenue?

Paperchain works with record labels and artists, which connect to streaming feeds. They can pay out early, based on that data.


What's Ryan's View On The Live Streaming Situation?

Brandon asks Ryan about his thoughts on the live-streaming ecosystem, with lots of platforms competing to get the biggest streamers.


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