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WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU STOP TALKING FOR A YEAR?

In India, there is a meditave practice called “Vipasana” where participants go without speaking even a single word for days.

I've attended one such session and stayed absolutely silent for 5 days. Here's what I experienced:

You have to remind yourself constantly for the first day to simply keep your mouth shut physically. This looks and feels very awkward but you soon get over it.

Since I was at a meditation center, I had no access to my phone, the internet or television. The organizers encourage you to think about your life, all of it! Recall every memory. Despite how many years you've lived, most participants could recall their entire lives in a day - that's how fleeting a single human life is.

You sleep a lot as a way of passing the time. But this doesn't work for more than a few days because once you're well rested, you just can't force yourself to sleep.

You become more attuned to sound. When not constantly listening to people speak, you begin to notice sounds in nature, tactile sounds of things like cutlery and even the sound of your own breathing.

You get much better at reading and speaking through body language. Eye contact, facial expressions, shrugs, hand gestures. You start to tune them to convey messages and in time, you can almost “hear” a person's body language from a distance.

But perhaps the most surprising outcome is when you're given the freedom to speak again, you almost don't want to. You realize you have nothing that needs to be said urgently.

When you do speak again, your ears don't fully recognize your own voice. It's a feeling similar to hearing an audio playback of your voice - you question if this is what you sound like to everyone else and it feels a bit odd.

- ALFRED LEE

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WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF I DID 10 PUSHUPS A DAY?

You’ll gain muscle, get stronger, and look awesome in the mirror.

Let me explain. Doing 10 push ups every day may seem like nothing at first, but for a person who hasn’t worked out their entire life - it’s a big deal. I know because I couldn’t do 2 proper push ups when I was starting out.

Most people know what they need to do to get in shape - Eat right. Workout. Drink tons of water. Sleep. Repeat.

But most of them don’t do it. Why? They don’t see the result right away, so they give up.

When you start doing 10 push ups a day, you won’t lose much weight, you won’t feel any stronger, and to behonest, you will even think that it’s kind of a stupid idea.

But here’s what staying committed to doing 10 push ups a day WILL do - it will help you build self-discipline.

As you continue to push your self-doubt aside and do 10 push ups a day, you start to feel that 10 push ups are too easy. So you decide to do 11 push ups. Then the next day you do 12, then 13, then 14, 15, 20, 30, 40, 50, 100, and boom! You have turned yourself into a push-up machine.

Also, another interesting thing usually happens on the side - Mr. Momentum kicks in.

Now, you don’t want to do just push ups, you want to test your limits. So you start researching about various bodybuilding workout programs. You start learning about nutrition and experimenting with different diets. You fall in love with proteins and start looking for gyms nearby. You find other people who are interested in getting stronger and healthier. So you guys meet up and go for a run. And the snowball starts to get bigger and bigger.

6 months later, you notice something different in the mirror - your chest is bigger, your arms look pumped, and you feel like you are full of energy all the time.

How did it happen?

It started with doing 10 push ups a day.

Atul Pradhananga

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WHAT ARE THE TOP HOBBIES THAT MAKE YOU SMARTER?

Exercising Your Mind (“AKA Thinking”)

Take 30 minutes at the end of every day to find somewhere quiet and think. You are probably thinking that this suggestion sounds somewhat silly- after all, don’t we all think all the time?

But focused thinking without distraction is wildly different from the kind of thinking you do all day long.

Just try it tonight- pick a topic to think about. The options are endless! Should you think about your relationships? What will your career look like 5 years from now? How are your kids doing or will you have kids someday? Who are your best friends and have you lost touch with some of them? For that matter- what does a friend mean to you?

There aren’t many better hobbies to make you smarter than thinking. Think of it as exercising your mind.

DYLAN JAMES