Imagine yourself climbing a ladder made out of ten steps. The highest step is, ideally, where you want to be in life. But at which step are you at this point? This is, roughly, the question whose answer is presented in the World Happiness Report, after surveying people in 158 nations. The point where you envision yourself to be on the ladder is your level of happiness. The higher you are up the ladder, the happier you are. Conversely, the closer to the ground you are, the lower your level of happiness is.
When we think about the world we live in today, one of the first words to come to our minds is “data”. Huge, overwhelming amounts of data, both in our personal and professional lives. As people as increasingly applying the “visual is better” principle when trying to communicate information in the most effective way, there seems to be a real love story between personal performance and data visualization nowadays.
In the last few years, there has been increasing emphasis placed on physical performance, especially when it comes to training and nutrition. However, all throughout this hype, you should not lose focus of what really matters: the quality of your physical training, and its relevance for the purpose you have established. This translates into being aware of what you want to achieve, having first-hand information in the field, and using it in order to make decisions.
Gluten-free? Seeds? Low-fat diet or back to carbs? White or red meat? These are some of the questions that roughly comprise the main trends, and even the main dilemmas, of 2015 when it comes to nutrition, an aspect that anyone interested in living a healthy life and achieving high personal performance should pay attention to.
The social integration of young people represented no considerable problem in the previous centuries, as intermediary stages existed, such as the apprenticeship, which evolved under conditions of severe tutelage by adults. Towards the end of the last century, things changed dramatically. Visible mutations of the individual role and statute determined the reconsideration of the primary values and understandings of human condition. Youth has established itself as a distinct period in the social life and the specific problems have been amplified, creating the so called “crises”. As a consequence, young people suffer the most, as they are strongly aware of the contrast between reality and desideratum.
