Education

Dirty Mythbusting Jobs Versus Nature With Bizarre Foods in The Wild

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I love Mythbusters.  That's a tame statement actually, but human vocabulary is limited.  Let's just say now and then when I fire up Netflix, the people I live with dread I'm going to watch some episode for the 3rd or 4th time.  Seriously though, how can you not watch a hot water tank take off like a rocket again and again?

In fact, I love shows like Mythbusters, though they're my prime love.  I love these oddball reality-esque shows that look at weird jobs, foods, areas, history, and more.  You know the formula – get the right host with a good personality, a subject, turn them loose, and film the fascinating results.  From blowing up toilets to eating tuna eyeballs, these shows are addictive to people like me.

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Fandom Takes The Edge Off Of Learning

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I'm a big booster on the idea that you can use your hobbies to learn something – practice your accounting helping out a local con, practice your HTML making a website, practice your writing doing anime reviews.  Hobbies are a great way to gain and improve skills.

However there's another thing hobbies do for our skill improvement that makes them even more valuable – they provide a kind of mental and emotional buffer to the stress of learning.  This is very useful if you've got a lot of stress to deal with or had some negative experiences with training or education

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Pop Culture On The Job: The Things You’ve learned.

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One of the things we've talked about here is the advantages pop culture knowledge provides to people in their jobs.  I've decided it's worth taking some time just to explore why it's useful.  Or in short, all that knowledge in your head about video games, manga, movies, and sports is probably a lot more useful than you realized.

Let's see how you can apply it, and the first thing is . . .

You know what succeeded and what has failed.

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