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Author: Theodore Lee

Theodore Lee is the editor of Caveman Circus. He strives for self-improvement in all areas of his life, except his candy consumption, where he remains a champion gummy worm enthusiast. When not writing about mindfulness or living in integrity,  you can find him hiding giant bags of sour patch kids under the bed.
Useful

A Few Useful Pieces Of Advice To Make Your Journey Through Life A Little Bit Easier

Often, being liked doesn’t require you to be interesting/funny. It just requires you to make other people feel interesting/funny

In most interactions, everybody is heavily self-monitoring and will base their judgement of the success of the interaction on how people responded to them. If people laughed at their joke. If people found their anecdote interesting or shocking. If people agreed with their opinion.

So the upshot for people who are shy or worry that they’re boring is: you don’t need to put so much pressure on yourself. Honestly most times all you need to do is take an interest in whoever you’re talking to. Listen. Ask questions/follow-up questions. Laugh at their jokes. And they’ll come out of it thinking you were a really cool person to talk to, when actually what they mean is you made them feel like a really cool person to talk to.

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Answers

What Is The Benefit Of Being In Nature?

benefit of being in nature

Almost everything we experience is through the filter of other humans in modern life.

We live in countries defined by leaders; we follow laws and societal norms established by man; we consume video and content created by other humans; we work in jobs based on society’s needs.

Other humans influence everything in our lives, and maybe that’s okay.

But nature is pure. No human decided to put a mountain somewhere.

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Music

Hot New Music of the Day

The homie sent the new track over from Nashville based Americana drenched rock artist Rutherford Royal.

Called “Back Burner”, the single tells the story of unrequited love in a sonic journey complete with blues rock guitar riffs and psych pop landscapes.  

Rutherford Royal makes his music in the most scenic area possible, a back cabin studio near a hidden waterfall in Tennessee. Enjoy!



 

Links

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Passkeys—Microsoft, Apple, and Google’s password killer—are finally here – ARS Technica

Meta’s Metaverse Division Loses $3.7 Billion In Q3 – NY Times

Inside the World’s Largest Digital Camera – CNET

“Ladies and gents…. I’d like to introduce to you the best $50 bucks ever spent. This powered cleaning tool has cleaned more stuff than I can list in the last few days….” – Amazon

How the surging U.S. dollar is making it almost impossible to afford anything in countries around the world – Fortune

Did a 4-Year-Old Boy Really Die Because He Ate Weed Gummies? – VICE

U.S. GDP accelerated at 2.6% pace in Q3 – CNBC

How Do You Gain Access to the Most Elite Dating Apps? – Inside Hook

Tempted to take it easy on Fridays? Use them to set yourself up for success instead – Ideas

10 Things You Might Not Know about Stephen King – Listverse

The next Powerball drawing will be $800 million, the fifth-largest in U.S. history – NPR

Missiles impact very close to coffee shop in Ukraine – Reddit

Considering that I’ve been using the same set of rechargeable batteries for at least 3-4 years already, a good Battery Charger is definitely worth it – Amazon

2023 Honda Civic Type R Track Review: Front-Drive Domination – The Drive

YouTube mega-star MrBeast seeks 10-figure valuation – Axios

The Top 100 Most Valuable Brands in 2022 – Visual Capitalist

Nobody’s perfect. Here’s how to be a good influence on your kids anyway – VOX

What to Do When You Think You’re Not Good Enough for Her – Knowledge For Men

TikTok Grandma Shares Easy Pumpkin Carving Trick That Is Blowing People’s Minds – My Modern Met

Ye’s academy shutting down, principal says – ESPN

Kyrie yells at Ben Simmons to shoot the ball in front of the basket – Streamable

Answers

How Did The United States Get So Powerful?

Geography

  1. Size: It is the 3rd largest in area and population. The two countries bigger than the US – Russia and Canada have way too much unusable land. The 2 countries bigger than the US in population – India and China are still climbing up from the colossal destruction faced in the 19th century – early 20th century and also face severe resource constraints. Russia has still not settled in terms of governance. Australia & Canada have too few people. That leaves the US in a nice sweet spot.
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Picture Of The Day

Picture of the Day

rita hayworth pinup

Rita Hayworth, 1941. This was one of the most popular pinup photos among American soldiers and sailors during World War II.

Four months after Hayworth’s photo was published, America went to war. And soldiers took the silk-and-lace picture along to remind them of home. Eventually, the picture became one of the most famous and most frequently reproduced American pinup images ever.

By the end of the war, more than 5 million copies of this photo were sold. The US Navy named her, “The Red-Head We Would Most Like to be Ship-Wrecked with”. Only Betty Grable, smiling cutely over her shoulder in a white bathing suit and heels, with legs that went on forever, sold more pin-ups.

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