what did you do/going to do today?

[metalminx24]

Ran around after two teenagers, who make things dirty just by looking at them, and who need constant feeding. Cleaned the car inside and out, laundry, mowed lawn, pondered the point of my existence...!!

 

[Beverly]

Stayed up until 5:00 AM reading and, woke up at 7:00 am to read some more - I've become addicted to a story on Wattpad.

 

[Cerulean]

Work today, which isn't exciting. But after work I'm either going to my friend's house to make jelly or going home to make laundry soap. Either way I predict the evening ending with me and a ball of yarn on the couch. I've been working on some new dish cloths for Christmas presents. Yes, I start Christmas crafting in July- it's necessary if you make everything.

 

[Flinty]

Had breakfast at McDonald's because it was 23C/73F when I woke up at 6:15 AM and a bad storm was coming so I needed to escape. Work. Grocery shopping. Dinner. AC.

 

[ancusmitis]

I slept for most of the day. And now I am going to design a planet.

 

[watersprite]

After a walk, I had tea to warm up, made buckwheat non-gluten pancakes, ate them, then did yard work for 3 hours. Now I am done and can get some painting in this afternoon.

 

[Beverly]

Updated my computers to Windows 10, took a Tramadol (AKA Ultram or Conzip so pretty powerful stuff) for my infected implant stud (dental) and am working on a fictional story. I ran out of reading material and, was inspired and, that's about all my drugged brain wants to do today.

 

[Mia]

Brushed several cats. Mowed the plantain down that is slowly populating my lawn. Grumbled about the randomness of traffic nearby. Muttered about the noise my neighbor the 'table saw' king makes.

Stared at a book about spies for awhile, uninterested in the character. Considered creating a book character that I could be sympathetic with and rejected the idea.
Ate a pickled egg and thought about the quiche I made yesterday, decided not to eat very much in the heat.

 

[NateSean]

Just spent the better part of an hour trying to format my novella so that I can publish it through Smashwords. Now I'm taking a break and hoping I don't claw my own eyes out when the final product is finished.

 

[ancusmitis]

Just spent the better part of an hour trying to format my novella so that I can publish it through Smashwords. Now I'm taking a break and hoping I don't claw my own eyes out when the final product is finished.

Good luck

 

[Mia]

Just spent the better part of an hour trying to format my novella

I've known about this for some time, its been debunked, but who knows?

In the book Outliers, author Malcolm Gladwell says that it takes roughly ten thousand hours of practice to achieve mastery in a field. How does Gladwell arrive at this conclusion? And, if the conclusion is true, how can we leverage this idea to achieve greatness in our professions?

Gladwell studied the lives of extremely successful people to find out how they achieved success. This article will review a few examples from Gladwell’s research, and conclude with some thoughts for moving forward.

http://www.wisdomgroup.com/blog/10000-hours-of-practice/ rest of the article is here.

 

[wyverary]

Spent the day studying, and I will soon be engaged in more studying. Two major national exams next week. (breathe, breathe, breathe...)

 

[StephF]

Today, myself and my amateur radio club are going to the Brixham Steam Fair. We are going to try to talk to lots of radio hams on the air and at some point I will also walk round and enjoy the steam engine demos.

 

[ancusmitis]

I uploaded a photo to deviantArt. http://fav.me/d93jlx5

 

[NateSean]

I've known about this for some time, its been debunked, but who knows?

In the book Outliers, author Malcolm Gladwell says that it takes roughly ten thousand hours of practice to achieve mastery in a field. How does Gladwell arrive at this conclusion? And, if the conclusion is true, how can we leverage this idea to achieve greatness in our professions?

Gladwell studied the lives of extremely successful people to find out how they achieved success. This article will review a few examples from Gladwell’s research, and conclude with some thoughts for moving forward.

http://www.wisdomgroup.com/blog/10000-hours-of-practice/ rest of the article is here.

Um... what?

 

[strugglewithin]

Working 12 hours today making boxes. Worked 65 hrs this week. I run the machine. Then working on my backyard. I have tomatoes and peppers growing along with flowers. Putting in a bench tonight by my grill. So I will have a nice place to sit and read.

 

[Mia]

Um... what?

Hey Nate Sean,

This is about the 10,000 hour rule, how long it takes (10,00 hours) to become in 'any' field successful. So, if you put in 10,000 hours of writing, composing, playing an instrument, playing golf, painting, writing code, it applies to anything that you choose to work at to master.

Once the 10,000 hours are completed, your book might be accepted by a publisher, your paintings by a gallery and so on. It presupposes that the amount of work put in to something will eventually make you an expert.

 

[Mia]

Working 12 hours today making boxes. Worked 65 hrs this week. I run the machine.

I'm one of these 'Did you know?' people at times Knight's original paper bag machine which led to the box making machine.

The Scottish-born Robert Gair invented the pre-cut cardboard or paperboard box in 1890 – flat pieces manufactured in bulk that folded into boxes. Gair's invention came about as a result of an accident: he was a Brooklyn printer and paper-bag maker during the 1870s, and one day, while he was printing an order of seed bags, a metal ruler normally used to crease bags shifted in position and cut them. Gair discovered that by cutting and creasing in one operation he could make prefabricated paperboard boxes. Applying this idea to corrugated boxboard was a straightforward development when the material became available around the turn of the twentieth century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardboard_box

http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_214303

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_E._Knight

 

[hiraeth]

Send in that job application, go go go! No more procrastinating at the last step!

 

[NateSean]

Hey Nate Sean,
This is about the 10,000 hour rule,

I feel that's kind of ironic, because you are alleging to be an expert on what it takes to become an expert and I know it didn't take you 10,000 hours to decide you were an expert on that.