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How Do You Help A Kid That Fears An Activity To Overcome That And Get Better?

Give your kid every opportunity to get to where she could be successful, if she wants to. Help them realize the potential and to see if they can get there, but don't push for it to the point of burnout.


What Is The Process To Defend Yourself Agains A Frivolous Trademark Lawsuit?

Once you get the original notice of the lawsuit, you get to file a response. From then, the originator can come back with a "discovery" process, requesting documents about your business and its financials, asking questions that may help them in suing you. In this case, once Cat & Cloud filed the response, they also asked for the same information from Caterpillar Inc. There's no end to how much information each one can request, meaning whoever has more money can keep draining the other side's time and finances. The process is stacked against the little guy.


Where There Any Big Failures At Product Hunt?

There have not been any failure to the Product Hunt as we know it, but they have tried to introduce different categories to be hunted (books,gaming,podcasts) and although the ideas were sound, it was hard to evolve the brand to cover all those niches at the same time, without disrupting the core experience, and doing it well.


What Happens When Your Body Undergoes Sleep Deprivation?

A fake starvation signal is transmitted to your brain. It will think the body is undergoing a starvation condition, but it isn't. Your brain releases an increase of hormones that makes you want to eat more, and your hunger level increases.


What Can Hurt Your Deal Flow Over Time?

Mike says that deal flow, ultimately, becomes your enemy because you tend to focus so much on the flow and reacting to what’s going on. Rather than focus on the flow itself, you should try to spot what no one else has seen before.


What Is The Zero Date?

Christina invented the zero date. Meaning, she would have one drink for one hour, and with the goal of answering one question: would she like to have dinner with this person?


What Is The Takeaway With Online Dating?

It doesn’t have to suck. The point isn’t swiping, it’s finding your person. Don’t treat it like a game, and don’t treat it like a resume or review. Instead, use it to source and qualify leads, and then get offline as quickly as possible with a zero date.


How Can You Attain Happiness In Life?

Frustration happens when expectations misaligned with reality. There are three ways to attain happiness and remove frustration from your life: understand the misalignment, changing your expectation, and then change your reality.


Can Fame Make You Crazy?

Ultra amounts of fame haven’t brought anything positive to anyone that gets it. Medhora believes that when you get to be so recognizable that you have to seclude yourself, it just drives you mad.


What's The Biggest Revelation From Having A Kid?

I definitely have never loved anything as much as I love my son.

I knew I was obviously gonna love my son, but I wept when he was born, I mean, I dropped because I just couldn't. That was just an amazing, amazing experience. I think the biggest revelation is that it's a constantly moving target.

When you have a kid, you could be doing everything right and he's still just not gonna sleep right, or you did everything right and he still just doesn't want to feed ...etc.

I think that's a really good just practice for life.

You can do all the things right in life, you can wake up early, you can work out and eat healthy, but you still might get cancer. You just never know.

~ Mike Folden.


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