u/LibariLibari

Companies should put a standardized caffeine label on their products.

The other day I wanted to buy a normal lowkey drink in the supermarket. With no caffeine.

It was impossible. The whole shelf filled with fancily designed drinks and you needed to read the small print to know if it had caffeine.

I know some people have no problem with caffeine and that’s cool for you. But some people don’t like it.

It’s getting out of control. Even kids now drink energy drinks that years ago no one would have allowed them to. I know a boy who had a heart attack at a birthday party and had to go to the hospital because he had a caffeinated drink.

What do you think? And you got any good drinks to recommend?

Take 10 deep breaths right now.

Breathe in, and breathe out longer.

This is a reminder.

By now we all know that we should breathe more deeply. The thing is we take 21k breaths a day on average, and during awake hours 14k breaths. Regularly and consciously making these many breaths more fulfilling is not that easy and often we’re unaware of how we breathe.

What if we did this regularly with each other? Just reminding and encouraging each other collectively to take more deep breaths, and especially longer breaths out?

You've probably heard of the magical rule of 10,000 hours. It says that when you invest 10,000 hours into something a skill, expertise, whatever, you reach absolute mastership in it. So we're not just talking about being good at something, we are talking about absolute global mastership in anything.

But how much exactly are 10,000 hours?

Let's make it more tangible. 1 day has 24 hours. If we subtract a usual amount of sleep for a regular human being of 8 hours then we have 16 hours available every day. Obviously this is the absolute minimum we calculate with, you still need time for eating, the toilet, and obviously work in whatever form. But still 16 hours is the absolute minimum we will calculate with.

10,000 hours divided by 16 hours = 625 days.

625 days divided by 365 days i. e. 1 year = 1.7 years.

So what does this mean? 10,000 hours if we assume a daily available time of 16 hours a day is just 1.7 years.

If we assume a usual life expectancy of 80 years then these 1.7 years are just 2.1%.

Why YSK: Take a second to imagine that. If you invest just 1.7 years i. e. 2.1% percent of your life into something you can reach absolute mastership in it. And again, we are not just talking about being that person who’s good at whatever, we‘re talking about historical global level of mastery. Just 1.7 years. And obviously if you don’t even want to aim that high and just want to be good at something it’s even less because the learning curve grows the most in the beginning i. e. the first 100 hours.

What will you invest your hours in?