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First Superbowl ring compared to 2014’s version 

How much are super bowl rings worth?

 

Jessica albas grandmother when she was young 

Even After All These Years Jessica Alba Is Still In My Top 5

 

The blood vessels of a hand

 

An early human embryo on the tip of a needle 

 

Bagger 288, the largest land vehicle in the world (video)

Dat Machinery!

 

Overcrowded prison in El Salvador

Note To Self: Don’t Go To Prison In El Salvador

 

Zoo Zurich has eagerly waited 18 years to be able to announce the birth of a new East African Black Rhino. Finally, on December 28th, they welcomed a healthy, feisty rhino girl, named ‘Olmoti’! 

 

World’s top chess players…attempting to play soccer… 

 

The paw of a sedated grizzly.

 

Picture of a Mountain Gorilla right before he punched the photographer 

 

This Bonsai Tree Is Over 800 Years Old

 

Snow Crawler is the Lamborghini of Snowmobiles

 

Facial reconstruction of Napoleon Bonaparte based on his deathmask

 

Coach K’s letter to Michael Jordan after hearing he wouldn’t be coming to Duke, 1980

 

These steps are so steep, they’re sideways 

 

The size of some of the holds Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson used on their recent record breaking ascent of El Capitan

 

Interior view of the International Space Station’s Cupola module, with the limb of the earth visible through the window

 

Chicago-style deep-dish pizza @ Giordano’s Pizzeria

A Post Dedicated To The Majestic Nature Of Pizza

 

This device helps blind dogs walk around

 

Early screening notes for Blade Runner

 

Sean Young’s polaroid album of the cast and crew during the production of Blade Runner in 1981

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A Few Pictures To Remind You That You’re Never Too Old To Play Video Games

I Like My Women Curvy, F**k That Anorexic Crap!

The Dumping Grounds

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Public WWE Finishers

Even if you’re not a basketball fan, this is incredible to watch. 37 points in one quarter

MUST WATCH: NASA Releases a picture of the Andromeda Galaxy – 1.5 Billion pixels, taking up 4.3 GB of space

2016 Ford GT Insane Exhaust, Revs, Driving and Exclusive Walkaround

F1 driver Patrese Scares Wife While Driving Honda Type-R On The Track

Cooking for 60 people in one go

Toronto Maple Leafs pre game on ice projection

Soon To Be HBO Documentary: Lawrence Wright talks about “Going Clear” A Book About Scientology

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Awesome Stuff Around The Internet

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25 Ways You Shouldn’t Ask Someone To Marry You – Bro My God

26 Photos Of Dogs And Cats Tucked In For Bed – Ned Hardy

18 Exercises to Overcome Your Fear of Meeting People – Nick Notas

18 Funny Things Spotted in the Background – Linkiest

Taylor Swift & Friends at the Beach – G-Celeb

Has KFC Has Gone Too Far With Their New Concoction??? – Radass

15 Breathtaking Movie Theaters From Around the World – Unreality Mag

On Blackbeard’s Ship: Syphilis Syringe, Rectal Pump – Newser

Lindsay Lohan’s Photoshop Fail – The Blemish

21 Things You’ve Definitely Eaten If You Grew Up In The Midwest – Thrillist

Sexy Ladies With Hot Butts Are Here To Start Your Week (20 Pics) – Regretful Morning

Paulina Vega is your new Miss Universe – Celeb Slam

Captions That Couldn’t Get Any Better – Bad Sentinel

Hot College Girls On Spring Break – Double Viking

When You See It (20 Photos) – World Wide Interweb

10 Wrestling Careers Damaged By WWE Backstage Politics – What Culture

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I’ve Been Sleeping On Kat Dennings…Gawd Damn!

16 Majestic GIFs For Your Consideration

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He shouldn’t have been sending him mixed signals. This is what happens.

 

Ric Flair being Ric Flair doing Ric Flair things



 

We’re not gonna make it! 

Biggest Wave Ever Surfed

 

“LET ME SAVE YOU!” 

Dude is serving up knuckle sandwiches for lunch

 

Texting while walking

 

Nothing gets past grandma on GTA5 



 

Chicken breaks up a fight between rabbits 

 

What do you mean we’re out of cocaine? 

 

It’s the Earth that’s moving



 

Stupidity level: High

 

120 Mph Crash Test

 

Go on… Take it slow. You got it, bro

 

Missile impact



 

Zlatan being Zlatan



 

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Just A Reminder That The Zombie Apocalypse Has Already Arrived

Love Me Some Hot Cosplay Girls!

10 Rules To Help You Keep Your Mental Toughness Whenever You Feel Lost And In Need Of Direction

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by Andrian

There comes a time in every Man’s life, when frustration starts to dominate every aspect of your reality. You start questioning yourself, your choices, your ideals and even your own existence. You start feeling lost, without even the slightest sense of direction and your understanding of what matters and what doesn’t, starts fading away along with your dreams and aspirations.

This was my reality a few years ago and this is the constant reality of many men I know and interact with. It comes from a deep feeling of uncertainty that characterizes our times and the various choices we force ourselves into. It comes from years of trying to decode the secret meaning behind the terms living and existing and it usually denatures to a wild combination of uncertainty and doubts.

Living our lives in our own terms has never been an easy thing. It is easy to complaint about it but if you don’t really know what these terms are, you will never be able to achieve it.

In the Quintessential Man’s Manifesto, I expressed the 10 rules every man should live by in order to shape a quintessential reality. Today however, I am going to propose a different set of Rules. They are somewhat more fastidious and refined. They try to move away from commonalities and generalities but at the same time inspire and direct.

I wrote them for a friend who found himself in a difficult time some years ago. But then I thought, we are all friends in a way. Lost men in need for direction and hope. Hope that there are people like us that can bring us together and share the same ideas and collectives.

Hope they will inspire you the same way they inspired my friend.

 

1. YOUR VISION IS YOUR FUEL

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The Great Psychotherapist Carl Jung, when asked how can a man create a vision, answered:

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside awakens.

Lack of a clear vision and purpose is probably the foundation of what makes us experience the feeling of being lost and frustrated. A vision is the moving power behind our actions and if this power isn’t strong enough, our “machine” will eventually stop working.

Whether this is called becoming the next Casanova, or achieving 1/100 of Warren Buffet’s fortune, your vision will constantly keep you motivated and help you create a meaning in your life.

It will be your reference point every time you are in need of direction and your anchor whenever you feel the need to reevaluate your actions and achievements.

 

2…BUT FIRST DEFINE YOUR VALUES

I am probably not the most appropriate person to advice you on what your values should be, but bear in mind one thing:

Your values will help you define the reasoning behind the vision of your choice.

If your vision is to get rich for example, there are many ways to do it but your values will define the most pertinent.

When your vision is established, it needs to be in congruence with the set of values that define you as a person. It needs to be like a crazy dance, where the two areas are like perfect partners working together in order to achieve a spectacular result.

Whether your values should be gentle or not this is a question for another post but I can only give you one hint. Hitler had values too.

 

3. MOVE BEYOND SELF AWARENESS TO HEIGHTENED AWARENESS

Heightened awareness

Heightened-awareness comes from a place of deep understanding of your world and the way this world is perceived by others around you.

If I wanted to present it graphically, Heightened-awareness would be the sweet spot inside the triad of:

  • Your identity
  • Other’s perception of your identity
  • Your perception of other people’s identity

Understanding the totality of this triad from a holistic perspective puts you in a position of heightened awareness and improved perceptual identification of your environment.

Your thoughts will be in total alignment with your actions and you will experience a dramatic decrease in self-doubt and negative self-questioning. You will come in absolute balance with the idea of yourself and how to make the best out of it.

It is what most of the so-called Masters have experienced throughout their lives and what caused them to realize how Mastery is actually achieved.

 

4. DON’T JUST GIVE. GIVE-GIVE-GIVE

If you haven’t heard of Gary Vaynerchuck before, you will love me for mentioning him in this article. The guy is a business and marketing genius and in one of his interviews he said something that changed my life completely.

People are more receptive to you when you give first and then ask. Although this is true, there is always a better way to win their gratitude. Give, give, give and then ask.

This is a lesson that apart from business, it also applies to interpersonal relationships. It is a lesson that helped me improve majorly every aspect of my life. It helped me redefine my friendships and at the same time distinguish the people that mattered the most.

Be careful though. No matter how hard you try to earn a balanced energy giving relationship, there will always be people who will try and take advantage of your kind nature and most probably never give back.

Be aware of these people. Be Heightened-aware the way I described it above and try and make the right choices. The quintessential choices.

 

5. DON’T BE ARROGANT. BE CONFIDENT

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David Wygant in his 2011 seddit AMA, when asked what is the difference between a confident man and an arrogant man, answered:

The different between a confident man and an arrogant man is that a confident man actually has nothing to prove. An arrogant man is always trying to prove that he is confident.

119 Upvotes for David Wygant.

As soon as you have an established set of values that result to a powerful, authentic identity, there is nothing you need to prove.

You know exactly who you are and what you want. You are a strong, self-reliant character who leaves no room for questioning and knows how to express himself in an elegant manner.

You never feel the need to impress, because you know that trying hard comes from a place of insecurity and insecurity is a sign of absolute weakness.

You are in total balance with yourself, you know all your strengths and you know how to use them so people can respect you.

 

6. UNDERSTAND THAT WE ALL HAVE ISSUES. WORK HARD ON THEM

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We all have issues. We are all born with this inherited ability to receive and perceive. What most of us receive during our childhood, will most probably stigmatize us for the rest of our lives.

It is these little details in the way our parents treat us that shape who we are and who we want to be. And usually because our parents are ignorant, we end up with psychological issues that affect our evolution and development.

These issues can be real hurdles in our pursuit of the Quintessential Man and for some people, obstacles that can never be overcome.

This is why I want you to pay special attention to this point. You need to learn how to identify your issues and thereupon try and work hard on them. The fastest you realize your psychological problems and the effect they have on you, the easier will be to tackle them and even eliminate them.

And remember, if you cannot afford therapy, Nature is just around the corner.

 

7. HARNESS THE POWER OF BOOKS

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One of the reasons I started my website was that while growing up, I realized that Knowledge never ends and the more we know, the more we can reshape our reality in the most creative and purposeful way.

I remember back in my early 20s, I was a very arrogant character. I thought I had a great understanding of how the world works and I was constantly refusing to accept advice from my elders.

It was the days when I had read around 25 books on philosophypsychologyand self-growth and I thought they were enough to help me decipher the mysteries of the universe.

When these books turned into 100 or 150 though, I looked back at myself and started laughing.

It is a Quintessential Man’s duty to accept that knowledge never ends. Yes you can have a really good idea or even mastery on an area but never ever rush to condemn something you don’t understand or find difficult to perceive.

 

8. GO AGAINST THE FLOW – BECOME ANTIFRAGILE

Unfortunately, we live in societies where most of the time we are being bombarded by elements that try to influence our emotional state. TV, Social conditioning, Disney, your family and other notorious establishments are constantly trying to interfere in the way you think and observe the world.

It is not some kind of coordinated plot or conspiracy theory. It is years of frustration in every person’s mind and the lack of alternatives in the way we live, that force the majority of our surroundings to behave this way.

A Quintessential Man, as I already stated in one of my articles, needs to be antifragile. He needs to know how to turn fear into fuel and misery into excitement.

He understands that excitement is contagious and by using all his emotional abundance and zen-characteristics, never gets discouraged and always finds a loophole in the system in order to turn things around.

 

9. IF YOU DON’T KNOW, ASK

As Steve Jobs very elegantly stated in one of his interviews.

Most people don’t get amazing experiences because they don’t ask. I have never found anybody that didn’t want to help me if I would ask them for help.

This statement can be quite debatable and subject to a lot of factors but you get the general idea behind it. There is no better and fastest way to learn, but to let someone who knows better, help you.

Nobody became an expert on anything overnight. Almost nobody learned anything without guidance and help. Having someone to show you the way, accelerates the process of learning in anything you do.

You might think that people are busy or that they have their own problems and issues but you don’t really know unless you try. You will be amazed by how many people will respond to you and offer advice unconditionally.

You have every right to wonder why this is happening but this is a story for another time.

 

10. TRANSFER YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND SHOW COMPASSION

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Don’t be an asshole. Nobody likes assholes. Maybe some girls do but you don’t really want to be around those girls.

It is part of a Quintessential Man’s reality to identify people who are in need and are open to his guidance and help. It is his duty to see in other people’s lives the same person he used to be and try to give them advice and direction.

It is obviously up to the other person’s discretion and emotional intelligence whether he/she will take advantage of the help you are offering. But in the end of the day you will see that whether we want to believe in the law of attractionor not, the law will always be there to remind us of its hypothetical existence.

 

CONCLUSION

As I mentioned in the beginning of the article, living your life on your own terms has never been an easy thing. Mental Toughness is however the number one attribute you need to cultivate in order to cope with this process. If you have any suggestions and ideas, based on personal experience, on how to evolve and improve the rules above, let me know in the comment section below. And remember:

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

 

Check out more awesome articles at The Quintessential Man

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Obnoxious lady gets kicked out of the US open…lost it when someone told them to ‘taze her’ haha!

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Fifth Gear Tries an F1 Simulator

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Awesome Stuff Around The Internet

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22 Quotes That Will Hit You Right In The Feels – Ned Hardy

20 Unbelievable Photos Of Pollution In China – Linkiest

Libby Powell is a damn fine babe – Bro My God

Kendall Jenner in a See-Through Top at Chanel Fashion Show – G-Celeb

Jessica Alba selling coconut water in Thailand in a bikini – Celeb Slam

How to Stop the Anti-Vaccine Movement – Newser

100 Greatest Guitarists Of All Time – Rolling Stone

Sexy Ladies With Hot Butts Are Here To Make You Go Crazy – Regertful Morning

HBO’s Scientology doc ‘Going Clear’ shocks Sundance filmgoers – USA Today

Childhood photos of football players of the Superbowl – World Wide Interweb

Girls of Instagram: Iryna Ivanova (40 Pics) – Radass

Hot blonde takes a nice selfie – Double Viking

Six Characters You’ll Find in the Background of Every Movie – Unreality Mag

Paulina Vega crowned Miss Universe 2014 (35 Photos) – Bad Sentinel

Selena Gomez Is With Zedd Now – The Blemish

9 Warning Signs You’re in Bad Company – Marc And Angel

Our good friends at Bro My God are trying to launch an app and they need your help! – Kickstarter

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There Are Some Things You Just Can’t Argue With

10 Answers To Questions You Always Wondered About

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It seems like “everyone” is getting cancer. Has it always been this way, or is this something new?

Cancer is what kills you if nothing else gets to you first. We’ve made long strides in general health and treatment of many diseases, which has caused us to live longer, which makes cancer a larger percentage of total deaths than it was further back in history.

Cells that make up your body need to regenerate and every mitosis carries a chance something will go wrong, that’s why most cells have a set limit before they can’t replicate. If something goes wrong in a way that will cause them to get rid of the limit, you have a cancerous growth.

It also explains why certain times of cancer, like colo-rectal, lung or gastric are much more common – cells in those areas can get stressed by your lifestyle more than others and need to replicate more often to keep up, so the chance something will go wrong goes up.

- DiogenesKuon 

 

Why doesn’t In-n-Out Burger open a locations on the east coast?

For one, In-N-Out doesn’t franchise any of its stores, which the chain argues helps it maintain control over “food quality, restaurant cleanliness and its overall image,” the OC Register explains.

Second, none of the restaurants have freezers or microwaves, so all of its food comes fresh from two distribution facilities, one in California and one in Texas. Opening up locations in areas that are farther away would result in a need for more distribution facilities and a big change to In-N-Out’s supply chain.

- Lynsi Torres, In-N-Out President

 

Why could Dennis Rodman get so many rebounds when he was just 6 feet 7 inches?

I don’t think there’s ever been a basketball player who has ever been as focused on things other than scoring as Dennis Rodman. Ben Wallace is probably the only one who is even close. 

(I’m not counting players who were only in the NBA because of their height – Manute Bol, Gheroghe Muresan, Shawn Bradley…)

Early in his career, Rodman was focused on being the greatest 1-on-1 defender in NBA history. That was all he did, and I’ve never seen anyone like him. The Dennis Rodman who played for the Bulls wasn’t even close to being as good a defender as the one that played for the Bad Boys championship teams. He was still better than 99% of the NBA, but he wasn’t as good.

That’s because, by that point, he had switched his focus to rebounding. It cost him a little bit defensively, but no one had ever worked harder on rebounding than Worm. He knew how every offensive player blocked out. He knew how every shot from every angle was going to bounce off the rim and where he needed to be to grab it. He knew precisely which way to tip a ball so that he would be in position to run it down.

Dennis, obviously, is wired a little differently than the rest of us. Early in his career, he was terrified of being in the spotlight, so he was happy to do the grunt work – rebounding and defense – on a team that rewarded that. This was the guy who was unable to speak at the Pistons’ championship rallies, or when he got the Defensive Player of the Year awards. He just wept uncontrollably when he was handed the microphone.

Later on, he found a coping mechanism that allowed him to deal with public attention – he created a persona that was the exact opposite of the real person. The guy with the purple hair and the wedding dresses isn’t Dennis Rodman any more than “Prime Time” is the real Deion Sanders.

Luckily for NBA fans, especially in Detroit and Chicago, Dennis Rodman the basketball player was formed before he discovered that coping strategy. That’s how he turned himself into an almost unique player in basketball history.

(For Wallace, it was just a matter of wanting to be an NBA player, and being willing to work harder than any human being alive in order to make that happen. Ben had the same work ethic that made Jerry Rice the greatest player in NFL history. He would lift more weights than anyone else, he would practice harder than anyone else, and he would play harder than anyone else. Ben Wallace is a terrible basketball player – his shooting range was six inches, he couldn’t handle the ball, and he finished his career with the worst free-throw percentage in league history, despite shooting more free throws in practice than anyone alive. The only thing he could do was make a few decent passes out of the high post. But he outworked everyone, because that was the only way he had a chance to make it.)

- Dave Hogg

 

How do companies such as Twitter, which has yet to turn a profit since it’s creation and has lost $165 million this year so far, continue to run and how can they pay employees?

Twitter has raised a tremendous amount of money: 1.82 billion, to be precise. This has been done by selling off bits of their company to investors. They also raised a shitload in this IPO.

They also have a tremendous amount of revenue – $317M last year.

So the main issue is that they are actually spending more than they take in, but given all the extra money they have from investors, that is more than enough to cover the gap.

In general, however, when a company is “running in the red” (i.e., spending more than they make, and numbers in the negative on income statements and balance sheets are typically put in red, hence the phrase), there are only a few possible situations that explain how they are sustainable:

  1. They have cash reserves which they are spending down. This is the case of twitter.
  2. They have a credit line which they are borrowing against. This is more typical for established companies with a substantial credit history – less so for internet startups. Just too volatile to properly assess from a credit-risk perspective.
  3. They are flirting with insolvency.

Amazon, for instance, doesn’t post good profits, if they post profits at all, because they spend all their revenue re-investing in the company. Twitter, however, is not really comparable – while Amazon is making major capital investments that are non-recurring and building out its infrastructure, Twitter’s costs are likely almost all recurring, and consist of payroll and IT. This is why so many people are skeptical about Twitter – it has the stock performance of a much larger, more established company with an order of magnitude more revenue, but its underlying financials do not support this valuation from a traditional perspective.

- lawstudent2 

 

Why do countries such as Korea have such insane internet speeds, yet countries such as the US don’t have the same, if not better?

Short Answer: South Korea is a much smaller country making it much easier to wire up and maintain connections.

Longer Answer: American companies have limited to no competition when it comes to wire telecommunication services. For instance although my hometown has about four mobile carriers it only one cable provider and one telephone provider. Although both of these companies offer internet, telephone and television services they have a virtual monopoly by having a standing contract with my city. Which means they have no real incentive to make their services better. I have to take their service and pay whatever they tell me or take nothing.

In sort since their is little to no competition there is no reason to improve services or lower prices. You take what they offer you or go without.

- kpanzer 

 

Why is printer ink so expensive, while wildly coloured labels/product packages are abundant and apparently cheap?

The reason printer ink is expensive is that the ink is where the printer manufacturers make their profit.

A company will sell you a color printer very cheap with little/no margin, or possibly even at a small loss. They make these printers so that they only work with the proprietary ink cartridges made and sold only by themselves. These ink cartridges are expensive and have a very high margin, and are where the company makes all of their money. Without the ink your cheap printer is useless, so if you want to use it you are forced to pay out for the expensive cartridges.

- jruhlman09 

 

Why does the USA spend so much money on her military, compared to other countries? $682Bn compared to $166Bn by China, the second biggest spender

There are a few big factors at play.

First, the US came out of WWII relatively intact. Unlike most of the rest of the developed industrial world, we did not have a major war fought right on top of us. Our industrial centers were not bombed into oblivion, so we were in a good post-war position to be the political, military and economic counter to the rising Soviet empire.

Second, the problem of communism – which, remember, was determined to “defeat” capitalism – required a military sufficiently strong to dissuade communist aggression. Not to defeat it directly, but to make it obviously futile or counter-productive, so that it would not expand into more and more theaters of potential conflict. However, the Cold War policy of containment would not work if it was just the US defending itself. It would be like trying to deal with an ant infestation with only enough pesticide for one room. So we needed a bigger military to not only extend the umbrella, but also to persuade potential allies to back our play.

That leads to the third factor. The US building a massive, global defense system allowed other countries to reduce their own defense budgets. This was good, to the extent that it limited regional volatility, but it also meant that a significant reduction in the US defense capacity could create a power vacuum that our allies were not entirely capable of filling. If the US substantially drew down the defense umbrella, a lot of countries would feel the need to ramp up their own defense spending. This makes it a lot more likely that previously-containable conflicts could blow up into all-out wars.

Think of it like your local police. Without a central police force, everybody would be directly responsible for their own protection. That would mean a lot of guns, a lot of paranoia and probably some warlords. The existence of a police force reduces the likelihood of that potentially volatile situation.

- BaronVonCrunch 

 

Why does College tuition continue to increase at a rate well above the rate of inflation?

In part, because they can. The availability of government-guaranteed student loans means that their customers have access to more money than they otherwise would, which allows colleges to increase prices.

Colleges spend the increased cost on (a) administration, (b) reduced teaching loads, (c) nicer student facilities. (b) helps to attract faculty, which attracts students, and (c) helps attract students. Whenever you go to a college and see a new student center with ultra-nice athletic facilities, for example, think about where the money comes from — directly from students, but indirectly from federal student loans.

So, why does it keep going up? Because the Feds keep increasing the amount you can borrow! You combine that with the changes to the bankruptcy laws in ’05 which prevent borrowers from being able to discharge private loans in bankruptcy, and you see a lot of money made readily available to students.

- Bob_Sconce

 

Why is it so easy to notice bad acting? What are good actors doing that makes them seem more natural? Is there a scientific explanation for how we tell the difference?

Humans are social animals. If you want to have a cushy life in the group, you have to pick up on lots of little cues. Body language, tone of voice, facial expression, every little detail is important and we are trained to pick up on discrepencies. A good actor has to fool you on all of these fronts. A bad actor might only fuck up on one. His smile doesnt reach his eyes. His voice doesnt sound as angry as his face looks. His face is scared but his body language says hes calm. He fucks a line or his voice cracks. Theres a million ways for his act to be off in just a tiny way, but you pick up on it because social cues are important.

- silverskull39 

 

Why is it so common for people, while speaking on the telephone, to arbitrarily wander from room to room and about the house?

You do your best thinking when you walk.

It’s well known that your mind is stimulated when you are active and upright. Many scientists and composers adopt this method for idea generation and some of the greatest artists and thinkers from Darwin to Britten were at work whilst walking:

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/jan/30/benjamin-britten-composing-walks

When you are on the phone and focused on the conversation your mind switches to focus on the ‘place’ where the phone call is happening. If you watch people who are deep in conversation they will also be facing downwards and very slightly huddled. As a result you become far less aware of your surroundings and subconsciously your body is telling you to go for a wonder so you can do some thinking – as a sort of coping mechanism. It’s the same as people rubbing their chin or wringing their hands in a meeting (although this is a stress relief). Stress balls also perform this task.

- orwellsocietyguy 

In the UK driving whilst on the phone causes more crashes that drink driving and is banned.

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