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In my opinion its more about being comfortable in your own skin.

It is ok to have insecurities. Everyone does. I am sure there are a tonne of women out there that would love you for who you are.

"Especially with other Men" sounds like you are trying to compete too much with other guys at least in your head. So stop trying to do things just so that you can "pound your chest".

For me reading books boosts my "manly power and confidence" and my girlfriend loves me for it. I have a mighty phobia of bugs so she is in charge of taking care of that. I guess she is the "man" of the house.

Point being don't beat yourself too much over it just because one girl didn't love you and told you that. It is OK and very very common.

Here is a nice table describing all three : https://camo.githubusercontent.com/7ddc56aa95ab03ebf7194a3fa...

Would be interesting to see it correlated with average working hours per week.

My teeth haha! I just listed it down as it is sort of a trigger to follow up with other things.

Not sure where I read it and I have not heard of the tinyhabits program. Will surely have a look.

That is really great! Being grateful everyday does increase general level of happiness over time I guess.

5 months. I started with meditating and running for 5 minutes each and increased it every two weeks or more whenever I felt like it. As mentioned doing 15 minutes of each now.

Got my dad to do the same. I actually made him start with just 1 minute of each. He is upto 10 minutes after a month. Plus has started weight training. He is 60.

I guess the main takeaway is do the smallest possible interval you can ( have no excuses to not do) and don't beat yourself about it. Build it up gradually

I have heard that too but never really got down to testing it out. In fact I have resigned to the fact that when it comes to sleep to each their own.

For eg I have experienced better quality of sleep after taking ZMA ( I weight train ). But I have heard anecdotes where people have said that its just a placebo.

I second that! I have tried sleeping for 8 hours and I just end up feeling sluggish all day. Less than 6 hours has the same effect. 6 hours just happens to hit the sweet spot.

I would suggest meditating anytime in the day. I dont believe that it specifically has to be in the morning. It could be a placebo but just sitting still for a bit does some to help.

The main thing that has really impacted my productivity and happiness is following a set routine for an hour whenever I get up. So I do the following :

  1. Brush
  2. Meditate - 15 minutes
  3. Write - I usually write "3 things that I am grateful for" and "3 things to focus on that particular day"
  4. Exercise - 15 minute run

I do this whenever I get up. So it's not like I get up at 6 in the morning everyday. I just get up 6 hours after sleeping. The advice was given one one of Tim Ferris' podcast and has done wonders for me. I would highly recommend trying it out.

Start small. If 15 minutes of anything is too much start with 5 minutes. That's what I did.

In the book "Thinking Fast and Slow" the author Daniel Kahneman states that we remember our memories and that is one of the main reasons that people take photographs on vacations and such rather than being in the moment and actually experiencing.

Completely agree. I have found myself more often than not trying to "bet" which framework I should learn next that will give me an edge. And this always leads to the fear of missing out and sometimes learning seems a chore.

Using Asana. Integrates nicely with Slack.

Same! Love it

Interesting you say that. I am able to set my own hours most of the time ( I work a lot but by choice). Maybe that is why I have avoided being burned out and work is still fun.

Media extolling people who pour themselves into work does not help. Those are the people many of us ( at least I ) look up to.

I am working on my second start up. On top of that I freelance for income. There is little time for "life". The problematic part ( or maybe not ) is that I am loving it. It has definitely affected my relationships, I have lost a few friends but I really enjoy work. Maybe it will have a negative effect as I grow older. Maybe I will burnout soon. Time will tell.

Could be. Richer regions would have better health care, emergency services, sanitation, etc

2. We actually thought of them as our competitors but that is a very intersting point of view.

3. Robinhood yea we would love to partner with them ( sounds like counting the chickens before they hatch but anyhow ). And yea our priority is and should be teaching.

4. Awesome!

5. That is a good idea. and yea the part of projects was way into the future and borrowed from Udacity, apparently a lot of people are paying for their Nanodegrees.

6. Yes and yes.

That sounds really good!! Clearly you have the validation part nailed down!! Good luck going forward :)

I know the integration was a little poor. A number of our testers did complain about that. But yea it was the quickest option when it came to building the prototype! Will definitely do a better job in the next iteration.

I dont have to enough domain knowledge to offer much critique but having known a few very close people with mental health issues the though of having at home care and therapy seems like a boon.

Also it would be great if there is a little more information on the website before I have to sign up. But I think you are in early stage and working on that :)

haha love it! the harder the better! :) The things that we have thought about right now are:

1. After we have built community trust, and become the go to place for financial education, we can bring in mentors who can offer personal financial advice on a 1 on 1 basis. 2. We can enter into partnerships with other applications that act as financial instruments but are not offering the financial know-how. 3. We can provide financial tools ( platform for investing n such) to people in the future. 4. We can license customized courses for school students and university students. 5. Freemium model where interesting and challenging projects are offered, which advanced students, would pay to do - and get mentoring on. 6. After we have built an audience we can also make money off digital advertising and sponsorship.

We know these are very broad and vague but this what we have so far. That is why in the starting we want to be laser focussed on building up the content. Would love to know your thoughts about it.

Would love to know more about it. At the moment is sounds like a platform for selling real estate?

Hmm intersting point! The reason we did that was sometime back YC released a list of its graduating startups and each company was described as something like "Uber of dog walking" and that is the reason we stuck with it! Point noted though!

Awesome!! Thanks for your valuable time!! You just motivated us to work a lot lot harder. Do let us know if you have any tips/criticism about the idea too !

Thank you for checking it out. We totally agree with you. I think we should have spent more time getting the right market fit.

We want to make Finance as cool as programming. I think you pointed out the chief advantage yourself, books sometimes do get boring ( we love books but not everybody has the time or the inclination) . By making this platform we can have access to a much larger user base and just add a little bit of fun to sometimes not too exciting (but very essential) concepts of finance.

We have also thought about adding financial advisors ( WAY into the future), partnering with schools to bring this to teenagers who are about to leave for universities and guiding the audience to tools ( partnering with other companies that provide such tools ) or providing them with same tools.

But in the starting we want to stay focussed on just making educational content.The paradigm is shifting to learning stuff online and we hope to take advantage of that.

Thank you for taking out the time to check it out. I agree the prototype is subpar but we are working on the second iteration that will surely be a lot better. Would love to ask you a couple of questions if that's ok :

1. Would you be interested in an approach to learn which includes text and videos ( like Udacity.com) or something which is mostly interactive ( like Codecademy.com / what we planned to convey via prototype )?

2. Are there any particular topics in Finance that you would be interested to know about? (Stocks, mutual funds, investing in general, taxes, etc. )

I think that is awesome. I will start then. Our idea in a line would be "Codecademy meets Finance".

So we are trying to bring financial education to the masses in an interactive fun way. With hoards of apps available to invest and save now we think that financial education will go a long way in helping people out.

We made a quick ( and dirty, frankly a little embarrassing prototype) at : www.thefinac.tk . Do check it out :) We apologise for the bugs that you may encounter.

Also if you want to look at the standings of all the Apply HN startups you can do so at www.thefinac.tk/applyhn . Another quick hack we made.

Would love to give some feedback on other ideas as well so start posting :)

Thank you so much for the invaluable feedback. I totally agree with you we did fall short with the prototype. The content was very vague and the clear value proposition of the product was not coming across. So I think its a real problem.

We have been posting about the prototype on various platforms where people discuss finance. But I think our UX is pretty crappy at the moment which has led to a very high bounce rate.

We are planning to rework the entire product, be A LOT more professional with the content and the delivery. I will surely check out Khan Academy's video on finance stuff.

Thanks again for being so honest. We would love to be in touch in the near future when we are done iterating on our prototype. Drop me a message if you would like to receive an update regarding the same :)

I tried what you said...The results were very inconsistent. As there is no particular format for posting there was no coherence at all