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Let's face it! The President does not wish to alienate the NRA. But there is an easy way to enforce gun control without controversy. Establish Gun Free Zones, just like smoke free zones. Make this mandatory by forcing gun manufacturers to add electromechanical triggers that are activated by GPS and fingerprint scans. Set it up in such a way that as long as the gun's GPS recognizes that it is in a Gun Free Zone, it does not activate the trigger even if pressed. The fingerprint scan system will ensure that only the person who purchased the gun can activate the trigger. The government can schedule a target timeline for gun manufacturers such that by 2017, all guns manufactured or imported into the US have this system incorporated. Another tech option would be to include a triggering avoidance system (like the collision avoidance system currently available on most airplanes) - gun free zones will have this system in place and all guns sold in the US can be mandated to have this inc...

Have a check built in to your thinking process so that the second you think you are smarter than anyone else, a red flag shoots up. The moment you realise that whatever you think you achieved over anyone else was just a random occurrence because of infinite other things that fell in to place starting from or even before the Big Bang and that your current situation is so fragile that just one wrong cell division out of about 4.2 million that occur a second that goes unnoticed by the body's immune system could mean the end of you, all ego should vaporise.

Self control is one of the key variables that drives success in life, however you may define it. And now self control has been linked to glucose levels in your blood! That means, what you eat and when you eat has a role in your success or not in life. Lower glucose levels have been tied to poorer self control in studies recently. You need a steady blood glucose level to get through the temptations in life! Complex carbohydrates are the way to go. Of course physical activity is linked to your level of self control as well. Exercise helps you avoid thoughtless decisions and actions, which means you need to put more thought and action into getting a workout whenever possible without falling to the temptation of avoiding it. Apparently recharging yourself with a good night's sleep is also essential if you are to have sufficient self control in a world full of distractions. Healthy food, exercise and sleep are thus key to your future! These were available aplenty historically - so were ...

Don’t hold on to anything. You came into this world with nothing and you will leave it with nothing……sure you can keep your ashes in orbit until singularity happens again probably if you keep hold of enough money and make necessary arrangements in advance. Those ashes don’t help anyone and leave a carbon footprint as well! What you can leave for posterity is a copy of your genes and that doesn’t cost you much including kitting them out to succeed in life. Beyond that, use whatever you have to help your fellow travellers in this journey. Gates and Buffet are doing that and a whole set of folks who they could convince to do the same are doing that too. Life is commerce in essence. But the spoils of commerce, once you have managed to usurp as much as you can – through crook or fluke, which are both random, should be spent to help those who got the short end of the stick in their own random walks. If you keep holding on to those spoils, one of the following is bound to happen: 1) The benef...

Live in the present. There’s no such thing as ‘I shouldn’t have done that’. Whatever you have done has happened already. There is nothing much you can do about it unless you fancy travelling in time or something. All that has happened in the past is experience for you, life experience. If you don’t do much, then you don’t get much experience either. With experience comes the ability to rebound and resurrect. Everything that happens is random. There is no such thing as good luck or bad luck. Living is just taking chances every moment. And there is no way you can decide to take the right path since no path is right until hindsight. Even if in hindsight you feel and others feel that you took the right path, everything that happens from that point on is still random. So what looked right in hindsight at T can look wrong in hindsight at T+1 or T+2. To hell with hindsight then. The best path forward is what your gut tells you is the best path forward. Don’t trust any guru or any consultant o...

If you want something you read to stick in your memory, please read sections of it and write down as much of it as you can remember immediately after. If you keep doing this for each section, you are likely to remember more than if you had just read the material a few times. Even writing down just the relevant points immediately after reading wouldn’t help as much. If you can’t concentrate when you are trying to read, the best medicine is to take 5 deep breaths. You should start by exhaling fully – count to 10 slowly – and then inhale deeply and exhale fully counting to 10 slowly. Do this 5 times and you will be ready to read and absorb anything in your memory. Whatever you are trying to learn, please always try to apply it to a real life situation, whether it be math or physics or chemistry or business studies. That way you will understand the concept and will not forget what you learned that easily.