You have self control, right? I mean, you do have a personal sense of self control that enables you to work –– productively and without interruption –– at any task you put your mind to, and for unlimited amounts of time, correct? Yeah…  I didn’t think so. But that’s okay… I don’t either. As was discussed in a previous post, attention is a finite resource and –– for the vast majority of us –– an increasingly scarce resource, especially as our homes, workspaces, and lives become filled with more and more technology.  It’s incredibly difficult to maintain focus and deep concentration on a task when every...

The last time I regularly wore a watch on my wrist was way back in the early 1980’s. Actually, one slight correction… The last time I regularly wore a watch on my wrist, prior to the past six months, had been way back in the early 1980’s. On the other hand (no pun intended), for about the past six months or so, I’ve been regularly sporting an old fashioned, mechanically operated, analog timepiece of some sort or the other on my wrist, and have been doing so for reasons of attention and concentration and –– oh, by the way –– so I’ll also know what the time is. Allow me to put all of this into context… If you...

If you’re of a certain age (by which I mean: if you have any high school or hazy dorm room memories of the Reagan presidency) then you probably wasted a good amount of time in front of a tv set, waiting for the latest music videos from Prince, Madonna, Boy George, or The Bangles to show up on screen.  Occasionally, government mandated Public Service Announcements would appear –– usually to deliver a health related message of some sort –– with the most famous PSA from that era featuring a somewhat dour man who, while frying up an egg in a skillet, would tell us all that the egg somehow represented a brain (“this is your...

A recent visit to the doctor has left me a bit perplexed, with the need to do some research and self-experimentation.  Let me explain… Myself, I’m one of those people who eats a relatively low-carb diet. Yeah…  I’m one of THOSE people. And not only do I eat low-carb, but I also consume massive quantities of fat, along with hefty amounts of fiber, and large amounts of protein. And what do I have to show for this high-fat, high-protein, high-fiber diet? Absolutely fantastic blood work. With regards to my lipid panel, well, it’s amazing, with jaw-droppingly low triglyceride levels, phenomenal HDL to triglyceride ratios, and...