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Losing friends over lost samples, feeling more important than you actually are when you get an expensed Addy Lee, and learning that the devil might wear Prada but it's not a prerequisite; here are 35 realities of working in fashion.

A man driving a truck down the street stops in front of my house and yells, "Mr. Siebold, I took your advice and started my own company. I have five employees working for me and business is booming. My family and I are experiencing freedom like we never thought possible." He continued, "Please share your words of wisdom with others." So moved that this man turned his life around, I'm now going to take his advice and share the takeaways from that conversation six months ago.

Living a life you love is possible for everyone. My conversation with the happiest kayak girl in the world stirred up ideas of other happy people who practice happiness. People who have made happiness a habit and it beams from their pores. Because happiness is a choice and we can all cultivate it.

The Lady in Number 6 is one of the most inspirational stories ever told. 109 year old, Alice Herz Sommer, the world's oldest pianist and oldest holocaust survivor, shares her views on how to live a long happy life. She discusses the vital importance of music, laughter and having an optimistic outlook on life. This powerfully inspirational video tells her amazing story of survival and how she managed to use her time in a Nazi concentration camp to empower herself and others with music.

A riveting personal account and a thorough global history of methamphetamine abuse and addiction. An Independent Publisher Highlighted Title, Amazon best seller, and reader favorite. “This book will scare the hell out of you.”

Coffee beans are one of my favorite things in the entire world. They smell intoxicatingly perfect. And when ground up and steeped in hot (or cold) water, they somehow taste even better than they smell. Yet when the filter has cooled and the coffee has been imbibed, the coffee grounds are still useful. Yep, used coffee grounds can serve numerous different purposes; I utilize them after nearly every cup of coffee (and I drink a lot of coffee). So before you throw your grounds in the compost, trash, or garbage disposal, try using them for one of these tricks.

What may seem natural and normal in one country may be frowned upon or even illegal in another.

You only need to wander around Stockholm at 5pm on a Saturday afternoon to understand that the Nordic way of life runs at an entirely different pace to that of the UK. When every British high street is a throng of teenage girls and predatory chuggers, in Sweden the streets are serene and the doors of Acne, J Lindeberg and Cheap Monday are closing.

If there’s one thing Richard Branson is well-known for its knowing how to market a product or service well. In a recent Trinidad Guardian blog, he shares his advice for getting marketing right…

If you intend to do any traveling in a time machine, you'd better invest a whole lot of money in costumes. After all, people in the past looked ridiculous. Why the hell did they, for instance, wear giant white wigs everywhere?

Psychology had already tapped into the power of rewards and punishments to shape behavior, and conditioning as a whole was coming into sharp focus, but Seligman and his colleagues wondered if learning in this way could be sped up through preparation.

Really great cheese is a precious commodity. It's a labor-intensive product, which means it doesn't come cheap. But more importantly, like fine wines and spirits, cheese owes its existence and legacy to extremely dedicated, obsessive individuals focused first and foremost on perfecting their craft. That perfection is what you're paying for, and you might as well get your money's worth, amiright?

Oddly enough, one of the biggest trends in the weight loss and health food world right now is named after a man often depicted as having a big, round belly. Yes, you guessed it: Buddha.

Here are a few of my favorite places in Milan. They are still in the center- and all are easy walks from Piazza Duomo, but I have listed the closest metro station in case you are short on time.

We all mess up from time to time, and when it affects someone else, it’s good to apologize. But people have different ways of apologizing. When saying you’re sorry to someone, it might help to stick to their “apology language.”

Dr. Robert Cialdini is the authority on the study of persuasion. His classic book, “Influence” has sold millions of copies and is widely regarded as the go-to text on the subject.

If you've ever gotten a fountain drink from a mall food court or at an amusement park, you probably recognize the design of two blue strokes wrapped around the cup—the wider strokes a lighter aqua blue, the skinnier ones a dark shade that borders on the side of purple.

Chris is going to show us a number of methods he's used for dealing with hostage takers, terrorists and other people almost as scary as Comcast. Chris and I specifically discussed how you can lower your cable bill but these concepts will work for most any service provider you're dealing with.

Trying to drop a few pounds? Before you totally overhaul your eating habits, take a cue from people who've already successfully slimmed down: We tapped into the data from MyFitnessPal's more than 65 million users (the app lets people track their weight, activity, eating habits, and more). Here are the most common foods those who lost at least 10 lbs logged at breakfast time. Keep in mind that this doesn't mean they were the onlything people ate each morning—but incorporating these to your a.m. routine could help you shed a size.

For his new book, Dan Falk followed a group of scholars who argue, unlike most, that the playwright was up to speed with the latest astronomy.

From brilliant bookshelves built into stairs to floor-to-ceiling libraries, these bookshelf ideas for living rooms, the study and beyond are just as inspiring as the tomes that fill them. Fancy creating a clever book nook of your own? We have bookshelf ideas for every room of your home, from fitted and floating bookshelves to corner bookshelves (and even colour-coded bookshelves). How novel...

Motivation is a funny thing. There are, like, a thousand things we have to do, but only a handful of them we do without question.

DURING THE SUMMER MONTHS, areas north of the Arctic Circle enjoy an incredible amount of daylight, even at midnight. On June 21st, the day of the summer solstice, those who live in these northern regions experience 24 hours of sunlight. Why would anyone want to go to bed when they can enjoy such views?

The Art of the Start 2.0 is the quintessential guide for anyone starting anything written by Guy Kawasaki. I had a recent one-on-one interview with Guy to talk about The Art of the Start for My Book Club and got some great takeaways that you can use to help with your business or entrepreneurial success.

Some of us are absolute neat freaks, cringing at the sight of unsightly bacteria or disorganized magazine stacks. Then there are the people who cover the rest of the spectrum: slightly OCD, remotely clean, absolute slob, and everything in between. This list is for all of them, but especially the inherent neat freaks. Here are 25 thorough cleaning tricks for the neat freak.

Casey Crawford went from playing on a team that won the Super Bowl to running a mortgage company that he expects to originate almost $8 billion in U.S. home loans this year.

Travelling to Rome on a budget? Never fear – sightseeing in Italy's magnificent capital city doesn't have to cost the earth.

Wormholes — shortcuts that in theory can connect distant points in the universe — might be linked with the spooky phenomenon of quantum entanglement, where the behavior of particles can be connected regardless of distance, researchers say.

Beautifully detailed portolan charts present historians with a puzzle: How were they made? A mathematical analysis offers some clues.

If you’re not careful, your thoughts will prevent you from achieving your goals. Here are a few ways to focus your thoughts away from the negative and toward the positive.

One of the recent questions was, “Name one book that has had the greatest impact on your life.” This list contains 50 different books from 50 different entrepreneurs in the group from around the world.

Every director has a go-to shot that makes a scene unmistakably their own. Let’s take a look at 7 iconic cinematography techniques used by the masters of filmmaking.

If getting lean was as simple as exercising more and dieting, it would be easy. Don't overlook these 8 critical but underrated factors in losing fat.

What do I like to read? Self-improvement books. The problem is that a lot of self-improvement books are a complete waste of time. I have to read 10 of them to find a good one and 100 to find a great one. So allow me to save you the work of reading 500 books and recommend five great ones you've most likely never even heard of...

Anytime I come across someone with a fascinating story, I make a point to take a little time to investigate, whether out of curiosity or for sheer entertainment.And they always seem to have something surprising to teach that I can usually adapt to my own pursuits.

Leaders frequently make miscalculations in trying to influence change. Too often, they bet on a single source of influence rather than tap into a diverse arsenal of strategies. Our research shows that the main variable in success or failure is not which sources of influence leaders choose. By far, the more important factor is how many.

Roads, built to allow the empire to flow outward, and for the rewards of empire to come flooding back to the capital, were the key to the Romans' governance of Europe. Along these roads ran messengers, as a type of precursor to the American Pony Express—a relay of horsemen could carry a message 50 miles a day.

Join Dr. Maiysha for her New release book series The Wellness Blueprint. This workshop is ongoing and will include discussion on chapters in the book.

- Get a deeper understanding of the various areas of wellness.
- Practical take away tips that you can begin to use same day to reach your goals
- Q & A with Dr. Maiysha on areas you may be challenged

The next time you're feeling low, try eating one of the following foods, which are scientifically proven to help turn that frown upside down.

John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost was first published in 1667. Originally written as 10 books, Milton reworked it as 12, following the model of Virgil’s Aeneid. In the work, Milton explores the creation of humankind by God, the temptation in Eden, Satan’s ambition and fall and the concept of sin. He faces two major difficulties in the story. Having created Satan as a dynamic and not unattractive villain, he has to find a way of debasing him. And he has to reconcile Adam’s free will with the idea of predestination, seen as God’s foreknowledge of future events. He does this by proposing that humankind has free will, but that God, having set the framework of creation in motion, does not control events, but is aware of the outcome in advance.

Here are sixty-seven short pieces of advice I either follow, or probably should. Take from it whatever rings true to you, and don’t take the whole thing too seriously. Have a good week.

Arguably no other major franchise has inspired so many great artists over the years than Star Wars. From the saga’s original conceptual genius Ralph McQuarrie to the fan art that adorns the walls of Hero Complex, Gallery 1988 or Bottleneck Gallery, there are literally THOUSANDS upon THOUSANDS of artworks to filter through when compiling a list of the best Star Warsposter art ever.

These five languages reveal how information can be expressed in extremely different ways, and how these habits of thinking can affect us.

I’ve spoken to hundreds of leaders and managers as we’ve started Lighthouse and one common pattern we’ve found is somewhere around 25 employees, everything breaks.  If you’re a particularly skilled founder, you may not see this until almost 40 employees, or if you’re a first timer, some of these challenges could strike as early as 10-15 employees.

Who wouldn’t want to be worth a million dollars? Many of us dream of achieving this goal, more often than not for the sake of the freedom financial stability would bring. So how can we get there? The answers are actually much easier than you might expect. Here are several easy steps to get you into the millionaires’ club. (With a little discipline and the help of some powerful savings vehicles, anyone can hit this mark.)

This man, who shall remain nameless, keeps a very low profile. I happened to run into him and strike up a conversation, which led to another conversation over lunch.

"The United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language." So goes the old chestnut commonly attributed to playwright George Bernard Shaw. One of those separations is in the spelling of words like color (colour), theater (theatre), and realize (realise). But how did this separation occur?

Over the years here at the Art of Manliness we’ve sung the praises of the handwritten letterand simply writing things out by hand in general. Typically, when folks think about writing a handwritten note, they imagine doing it in cursive. Perhaps it’s because we’ve all seen movies set in times past where people open up handwritten letters to reveal a note filled with handsome script.