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A number of days ago I tweeted something to the effect of “Time to give Polyphasic Sleep Another Go” For those of you that don’t know what a Polyphasic Sleep Cycle is its quite simple.  You sleep for only 2 hours a day.  Those 2 hours are divided up into six 20 minute naps spread [...]

Do you want to get more things done?  We all do.  For many of us the reason we aren’t getting things done is because our attention and efforts are divided.  You run around doing many things at once but your results are mediocre at best.  Many of us go through this cycle perpetually and it [...]

Often we are told if you want to really succeed in life you need to “THINK BIG.”  While the people dispensing this advice are usually rich and famous they are at the point in their lives where they can actually make thinking big work. Lets take Donald Trump, one of the most successful real-estate / [...]

Recently I had to write a qualifying test for a position at work.  There were two parts – a complex multitasking test and a simple business letter.  I was a bit stressed about the multitasking one, but I did it first and passed.  The business letter I threw together quickly because it was such simple [...]

If I told you I was going to drink ONLY water for the next 40 days you would probably think I was a bit of a nut job.  Well the truth is people go on lengthy water fasts all the time. Socrates, Hippocrates, Da Vinci all promoted water fasting as a way to cleanse and [...]

I recently finished reading Lying by Sam Harris.  This short 80 page book discusses that all lies, even those innocent seeming “white lies” need to be eliminated for us as a civilization to build a better world.  The over all premise of the book is essentially, transparency of our communication  leads to deeper and more [...]

Early last year I made a commitment to eliminate all unnecessary dead tree paper reading products from my life.  Books, Newspapers, Magazines were all on the chopping block. The Enviornment The average North American consumes 7 Mature Trees worth of paper per year!  The Minneapolis Star Tribune uses an estimated 232544 trees per year.  Thats [...]

I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time now.   Ever since I was 15 I realized that eating meat was ethically wrong.  Around age 18 after some reading I learned that eating meat is also very unhealthy.  Sure you get your protein, but your also getting a myriad of hormones, bacteria, urine, faces [...]

  With New Years come and gone many of us look to completing our new years resolutions.  Like many out there I have the tried and true “exercise more” resolution.  Usually this fizzles out after the first week however this year things are different. Step 1:  Clear Definition of What You Want To Accomplish I [...]

2012 is finally hear!  Alot of people are predicting the world will end with mass flooding, earth quakes and even a mystery Planet X colliding with the earth!  My 2012 disaster has already happened with a server crash. Yes all of the content from 2007 – Present from EthanCaine.com is GONE!  Of course I didn’t [...]