A 20 year old guy living in Columbia, Missouri. Attending University of Missouri and en route to San Francisco, California.
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AIM: Danasourousrexx
Facebook: /dan.griffin
Twitter: @nemesisprime
Email: dan@contagious.nu
- language[frameworks]
- English [American]
- PHP [Symfony2, Twig, Zend, +]
- MySQL, Oracle
- HTML/CSS
- Javascript [jQuery]
- C, C+, Objective-C [iOS]
Fun fact: Dan started his quest to learn everything he can about PHP almost 11 years ago!
Contagious is my personal (albeit online) journal where I can write any interesting thoughts or noteworthy events I may come across trying to get my ass on its way to California. By July of 2012 I hope to be moving into a lofty apartment in San Francisco, worry-free with a job, and continuing my education.
This journal will help me stay focused and track it all.
One of the things I’ve been trying to do is read more articles able making myself better and I just read one that I really enjoyed about willpower, how it works, and how to train it.
“While we all give in to sinful urges on occasion, berating or shaming ourselves into getting back on course may actually be counterproductive, said McGonigal, leading to more slip-ups down the road. One study found that those who forgave themselves for failing at a task were more likely to brush themselves off and try again, while other researchers demonstrated that dieters given a pep talk after eating a doughnut – emphasizing that one small setback wouldn’t ruin all their hard efforts – were less likely to indulge later on than doughnut eaters who didn’t have the talk.
“If we want to have more willpower, we have to learn to be a friend and mentor to ourselves,’’ said McGonigal, “rather than equating self-control with self-criticism.’’
If you have a moment, go check it out: