Welcome, S!!

Hola peke! ¿Sorprendida? :)

Dos cosas:

1. Si quieres quito la foto. De todas formas no te preocupes, nadie visita este blog.


2. No sé si te había hablado de mi blog :)
Sí, está en inglés. Y eres la segunda persona que me conoce y lo ve (la primera fue mi hermano).

Podríamos escribir la historia que escribimos en un blog de estos... queda chulo. ¿Qué opinas?

Un besazo!

PD: Si eres Víctor, ¿qué haces tú leyendo mi blog? :P

Consequences: EXPERIMENT 4

How do things we do change our future?
Can a small deed change our future in a dramatic way?

Of course it can!!

Two years ago I decided to read a book. The author of that book assured that it could change my life if I tried to put in practice the knowledge inside it, so I decided to try.

As I am a very optimistic person, I hoped changes in my life. But now, two years later, I begin to realize how that decision influenced my future. It is fascinating how a little happening drives us to another little one, and another one, and another one... changing the course of our life forever.

Since that moment, I started to pay attention to the consequences of my acts, noticing that every decision we take change our future in a dramatic way.

#EXPERIMENT 4

Do you want to change something in your life?

It is easy! Just take a decision: start taking piano lessons, ask that beautiful girl (or boy) out, read an interesting book, take a long trip, start jogging,...

It is very interesting, because you never know the way in what that decision is going to change your life. But, is that so important? I do not think so. Sometimes we just need to change things out. So, as I said in the earlier post: Just do it!

I'm waiting for your experiences!!

Why don't we try? EXPERIMENT 3

"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win, by fearing to attempt"

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

I have just read by chance (chance does not exist) this famous quote and I have not been able to avoid writing about it.

Have you ever seen a very good opportunity? Have you ever felt that was YOUR time to take action and, however, you did not do anything? Why?

I confess to having done the same. Why? Because of the fear. Fear of taking the wrong decision, of disturbing the others. Fear of doing something stupid.

But most of times it has no sense at all!! And I have found an experiment that proves it.

#EXPERIMENT 3

Look at the following picture, taken from www.xkcd.com (a very recommendable site).

This picture gives us a kind of "regret percentage". As we can see, people who did not take action regret 10 times more than those who did. So if you have the chance to do something you want, do it! Maybe you will regret later, but if you don't do it you can be sure you will.

Although I hate the philosophy of the world big companies (always trying to make us think that happiness can be bought with money, and only with money) there is a sentence used by one of them in TV spots that summarize very well this post:

Just do it!

Share your experiments!!

Do you have any interesting, painless experiment you want to share with the rest of the world?

Just write it here as a comment and I will change it into a post (with your name as author, of course)

Collaborate!!

Smile! EXPERIMENT 2

Do you like to smile?

I love smiling and I have just remembered something a teacher told me this summer: "If you smile to somebody (in the street or wherever you are) they will return the smile nine of every ten times."

So let's check if my teacher was right...

#EXPERIMENT 2: SMILE!

Just try to smile while you walk on the street and look at the people reaction. Do they smile too?

Questions: EXPERIMENT 1

The first idea about this blog was to create a place where people could find interesting (and painless) experiments to try. So...

#EXPERIMENT 1: ASK!

Find a person you don't know yet and try to begin a conversation with him/her/it as shown below:

- Hi! What's your name?
- (doubtingly) Hi... My name is #&%
- I must ask you something: Would you like to know the precise date of your death?

Ok, maybe that is not the best question you can ask ;)
Just choose one question of the list and try.
I will do it, I promise :)
And, of course, I will write here the results.

Answers... (1)

As I want you to answer the previous questions, maybe I should do it before.
So these are my answers:




Would you accept twenty-five years of extraordinary happiness if it meant you would die at the end of the period?

Yes, I would. Not only would I win 25 years of "extraordinary happiness" but I also would ensure 25 more years living. I am 24 now, so I would live happy until 49 and then die happy. It is not a bad plan.

For a person you loved deeply, would you be willing to move to a distant country knowing there would be very little chance at ever seeing your family again?

Yes, I would. I love my family, but if I was sure about my feelings (and her feelings, of course) I would be able to move to the farthest place in the world.

Would you willingly have one finger removed if it somehow guaranteed immunity from all major diseases?

Hmmm... Yes. I have ten fingers and only one heart, one brain, one liver,... I can sacrifice one finger to protect the other organs. No problem with that.

Your house, containing everything you own, catches fire. After saving your loved ones and pets, you have time to safely make one final dash into the house to save any one thing. What would it be?

I don't have special affection for things. Maybe I would save my pictures in order to refresh my memory in the future.

You are given the power to kill people. They would die a natural death and no one would suspect you. How would you use this power?

I think I would never use it... Hmmm... Maybe if someone kidnapped a very loved person or tried to kill him/her... I don't know.

Would you rather be extremely successful professionally, with a fairly ordinary private life - or a very happy private life and only an ordinary professional life?

No doubt about it: a very happy private life and an ordinary professional life. I work to live, I don't live to work. I know that job is a very important thing in life (you spend A LOT of time there) but it is not the most important one.

Would you be willing to become extremely ugly physically if it meant you would live for 500 years at any physical age you choose?

Yes!! I don't know why almost everybody answer "No" to this question. 500 years!! With the age you choose!! You would be able to live young for half a millennium!! You would know millions of people, travel to thousands of places all around the world, discover what the future is going to bring,... I know there are some important disadvantages, but I think I would do it.

To be continued...