Last night, world-famous magician and endurance artist David Blaine taught me — along with about 10 other TEDMED attendees — how to hold my breath.David holds the Guinness world record for holding his breath: 17 minutes and 4.4 seconds. I...
Topics: david blaine, hold your breath, Physical Performance

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An impromptu b-boying lesson at home after some Bulleit bourbon. Don’t drink and dance.Breakin’ 2 did it. It was 1984 and I was convinced I would be a professional breakdancer. Alas, I was seven years old, and I looked exactly like this...
Topics: Dance, how to breakdance

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The 4-Hour Workweek was first published April 27th, 2007.I did my best to cover all of the bases when it debuted, but there were gaps. Though I included cases studies of families using lifestyle design, for example, it was hard to find more than a few...
Topics: The Book - 4HWW

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Total length: 20 minutes.This is a weekend edition of Random. It is a happy-hour special of Chinese scams. How did Kevin and Glenn get totally screwed by Chinese “art students”? More important, how do you avoid getting scammed while...
Topics: glenn mcelhose, Random, tim ferriss, Travel

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(Source: Crooked Timber)Edmund Wilson, recipient of both the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal for Literature, was one of the most prominent social and literary critics of the 20th century.He realized, like most uber-productive people,.
Topics: autoresponder, autoresponse, edmund wilson, Protecting Time, vacation message

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