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Luke 19:28-40After Jesus had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. When he had come near Bethphage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples, saying, “Go into the village ahead of you, and as you enter it you will find tied there a colt that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it here. If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?' just say this, ‘The Lord needs it.' ” So those who were sent departed and found it as he had told them. As they were untying the colt, its owners asked them, “Why are you untying the colt?” They said, “The Lord needs it.” Then they brought it to Jesus, and after throwing their cloaks on the colt, they set Jesus on it. As he rode along, people kept spreading their cloaks on the road. Now as he was approaching the path down from the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the deeds of power that they had seen, saying,“Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest heaven!”Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, order your disciples to stop.” He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the stones would shout out.” Why do we do hard things? Why do we voluntarily endure pain, like summiting mount everest, writing a novel, or finishing all the New York Times games, including Sudoku! I don't understand for the life of me why people run marathons… 26.2 miles? Hours of running just to run? And people pay money for that?! Why do we choose things that will undoubtedly bring us pain? Most of us are wired to pursue pleasure and avoid pain. We tend to choose activities with low cost and high reward. Effort is hard; pain isn't fun—so we try to reduce both whenever possible. We say we want things to be easy. But strangely, we often value the things that cost us something—things that ask more of us than we thought we had. We want some place or thing to pour our effort into. But why?There are a few theories. One is called the Effort Paradox. Ian Hutchinson wrote about it in The Atlantic recently. While effort is typically something we shy away from, it can paradoxically draw us in and enhance the value of what we're doing. Hutchinson gives the example of the Comrades Marathon - a 55 miles race in South Africa. But here is the kicker, you have twelve hours to complete it. Right at the twelve hour mark, a group of people link arms and block the finish line! You're not even allowed to complete the hell you've put yourself through. And yet, those who don't finish often come back year after year—because the effort itself is satisfying.We see this paradox elsewhere, too. Kids at play make up extra rules or obstacles, just to make the game harder—and more fun.Now Hutchinson admits the appeal of hard work varies among people. Some are motivated by the joy and purpose derived from tackling difficult tasks. But the Effort Paradox doesn't explain which hard things we choose, or why. Yes, effort can make us feel good and imbue a sense of value. But is that enough to explain the hard things we really choose? Things like parenting. Marriage. Leading a team. Starting a business. Caring for a dying parent. The pain isn't part of the appeal—so why do we stay in it?This is where our friend David Brooks offers a deeper take. He asks: how do people endure the most severe challenges and overcome the most alluring temptations? It's generally not through heroic willpower and self-control. If those faculties were strong enough, diets would work, and New Year's resolutions would be kept. No, we tend to endure great pain only when we are possessed by something more gripping, namely love. When something or someone seizes us, we can't help but fall in love. And love demands devotion. It animates us — but it also conquers us. It calls for persistence, obedience, and sacrifice. This is not just why folks get married but how they stay married. It's why you make a third breakfast for your toddler after he fed the first one to the dog and threw the second one across the table. It's why after decades you continue in the same vocation, no matter how maddening it may be at times. It's this kind of love—not satisfaction from a completed task—that makes hard things meaningful. And paradoxically, Brooks argues, the more we embrace difficulties in this life, rather than avoid them, the more meaningful, passionate, and purposeful this life becomes.So all week I kept asking myself: what seized Jesus? What love compelled him? Because that's the only way to make sense of what he does. Why would Jesus willingly make his way into Jerusalem? Why does he choose the pain that lies ahead? He doesn't just allow it—he pursues it. Why is he determined to face death?All week as I read the text, it just made little to no sense to me. Why would anyone get on a young donkey that has never been ridden and ride it down the side of a mountain? Have you ever ridden a horse or a donkey downhill? I have. It's terrifying. And that was on a trained animal! Jesus zigzags an untrained donkey down a steep slope to the very city where he knows he'll be crucified, all while seemingly celebrating the ceremonial chants of his kingship? What kind of king chooses this? What kind of God volunteers for death? Why would anyone, Jesus included, go through such effort? And, is there any effort greater than bearing the sin of the whole world with open arms? Than defeating death once and for all? It can't just be about grit. This isn't the kind of effort that brings satisfaction just because it was difficult. No, it has to be something else. It has to be that for some reason Jesus is captivated by love, a deep irradiating love for you, me, and all the world. A love that is beyond our logic of pleasure and pain. A love that is so animating and self-denying that it demands devotion and obedience, obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. That's what Palm Sunday is all about. It's not just the triumphal entry, but the choice to love us all the way to suffering and death. It's a celebration of such all-consuming love.This Holy Week, allow yourself to be consumed by that love. Let this story, which is about to unfold over the next few days, grip you. Let it captivate you, whether you've heard it eighty times or it's your first. Brooks says, “The capacity to be seized is a great and underappreciated talent.”So be seized—by this God in flesh, riding on a donkey to his death in order to give you and me life. Don't turn from the pain thats coming. If anything lean into - ponder it, see it for what it is - effort! Effort on your behalf. As one psychologist wrote, “effort is one of the things that gives meaning to life. Effort means that you care about something”. And it is Jesus' effort that gives meaning to our life, to your life. All through Lent, we try our best to do hard things, painful things; not because we want the satisfaction of doing something difficult, but because the effort is a sign of devotion, an outpouring of love. This week, take your practice one step further. If it's fasting, add a day, if it's not eating something, remove something else. If it's prayer, add more time. If it's generosity, give even more. And if you didn't start a practice—don't worry. It's not too late.Come to the prayer vigil. Make Maundy Thursday a priority—hear again the Last Supper and Judas' betrayal. Witness the pain of Good Friday. Feel it. It will make Easter Sunday all the more joyful!We do all of this not so that we will be loved, but to see and experience just how much you are loved already. Maybe—just maybe—you'll begin to feel the devotion that led Jesus to his death. Yes, I'm asking you to voluntarily choose pain this week. But paradoxically I think it will make the week all the better. As C.S. Lewis said “When pain is over, it is over, and the natural sequel is joy.” The same is true for this week. There will be pain. There will be death. And there will be resurrection. But let's not skip over the first two.Why do we do hard things? Because love demands it. And this week, Love rides in on a donkey, walks through betrayal, bears a cross, and cracks open a tomb. Let this love seize you.Amen.

Today we are joined by physicist and philosopher Emily Adlam for her first appearance on Theories of Everything to challenge one of the deepest assumptions in science: that time flows. In this thought-provoking conversation, Adlam presents her “all-at-once” view of physics, where the universe is more like a completed Sudoku puzzle than a film playing forward. We explore the measurement problem in quantum mechanics, the role of the observer, the illusion of causality, and why these foundational questions demand both philosophical clarity and scientific precision. As a listener of TOE you can get a special 20% off discount to The Economist and all it has to offer! Visit https://www.economist.com/toe Join My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com Listen on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/SpotifyTOE Become a YouTube Member (Early Access Videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join Links Mentioned: •⁠ ⁠Emily's profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Emily-Adlam •⁠ ⁠Spooky Action at a Temporal Distance (paper): https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7512241/pdf/entropy-20-00041.pdf •⁠ ⁠Quantum Field Theory and the Limits of Reductionism (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.20457 •⁠ ⁠Two Roads of Retrocausality (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.12934 •⁠ ⁠Taxonomy for Physics Beyond Quantum Mechanics (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.12293 •⁠ ⁠Strong Determinism (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.02886 •⁠ ⁠Carlo Rovelli on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF4SAketEHY •⁠ ⁠Stephen Wolfram on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YRlQQw0d-4 •⁠ ⁠Emily interviewed about Nonlocality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR7aPlZg7dE&ab_channel=GeorgeMusser •⁠ ⁠Tim Palmer on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlklA6jsS8A •⁠ ⁠Tim Maudlin on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU1bs5o3nss •⁠ ⁠Algorithmic Randomness and Probabilistic Laws (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.01411 •⁠ ⁠Governing Without a Fundamental Direction of Time (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.09226 •⁠ ⁠Matt Segal on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeTm4fSXpbM •⁠ ⁠Jacob Barandes on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oWip00iXbo&list=PLZ7ikzmc6zlN6E8KrxcYCWQIHg2tfkqvR&index=33 •⁠ ⁠Sabine Hossenfelder on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3y-Z0pgupg&t=1s •⁠ ⁠Bernardo Kastrup and Sabine on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJmBmopxc1k&t=755s&ab_channel=CurtJaimungal •⁠ ⁠Sean Carroll on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AoRxtYZrZo Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 00:56 Observers in Quantum Mechanics 02:15 The Measurement Problem 06:23 Dogmas in Quantum Foundations 08:24 Causation and Its Philosophical Implications 09:12 The Arrow of Time and Its Mysteries 10:28 Exploring Coarse Graining and Reductionism 13:21 Non-Locality: Temporal vs. Spatial 16:06 The Nature of Non-Locality 19:34 Temporal Non-Locality and Its Implications 21:51 Retrocausality: The All-at-Once Perspective 26:25 The Measurement Problem and All-at-Once Framework 28:24 Observer-Centric Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics 31:29 Probabilities in Physics 32:51 The Process Matrix and Causal Structures 38:33 Foundations of Physics and Philosophy 1:05:16 The Emergence of Space-Time 1:08:11 Exploring Correlations in Physical Parameters 1:10:44 Epistemology of the Measurement Problem 1:13:26 Lessons in Patience and Persistence Support TOE on Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs #science Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our 206th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 04/07/2025 Try out the Astrocade demo here! https://www.astrocade.com/ Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/. Join our Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP In this episode: Meta releases LlAMA-4, a series of advanced large language models, sparking debate on performance and release timing, with models featuring up to 2 trillion parameters for different configurations and applications. Amazon's AGI Lab debuts NOVA Act, an AI agent for web browser control, boasting competitive benchmarking against OpenAI's and Anthropic's best agents. OpenAI's image generation capabilities and ongoing financing developments, notably a $40 billion funding round led by SoftBank, highlight significant advancements and strategic shifts in the tech giant's operations. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (00:01:46) Meta releases Llama 4, a new crop of flagship AI models (00:13:55) Amazon unveils Nova Act, an AI agent that can control a web browser (00:17:06) Alibaba Preparing for Flagship AI Model Release as Soon as April (00:17:59) Runway releases an impressive new video-generating AI model (00:19:10) Adobe launches Premiere Pro's generative AI video extender (00:20:54) OpenAI prepares reasoning slider and memory update for ChatGPT users Applications & Business (00:21:28) Nvidia H20 Chips: $16 Billion Orders from ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent (00:24:45) Elon Musk sells X for $33 billion to his own AI startup company xAI (00:28:00) SoftBank dethroned Microsoft as OpenAI's largest investor, pushing the ChatGPT maker's market cap to $300 billion — but reportedly buried itself in debt (00:30:48) DeepMind is holding back release of AI research to give Google an edge (00:34:06) SMIC Is Rumored To Complete 5nm Chip Development By 2025; Costs Could Be Up To 50 Percent Higher Than TSMC's Version Due To The Use Of Older-Generation Equipment (00:36:04) Google-backed Isomorphic Labs raises $600m to advance AI drug discovery Research & Advancements (00:38:03) PaperBench: Evaluating AI's Ability to Replicate AI Research (00:43:50) Crossing the Reward Bridge: Expanding RL with Verifiable Rewards Across Diverse Domains (00:48:39) Inference-Time Scaling for Complex Tasks: Where We Stand and What Lies Ahead (00:54:34) Overtrained Language Models Are Harder to Fine-Tune Policy & Safety (00:58:28) Taking a responsible path to AGI (01:02:32) This A.I. Forecast Predicts Storms Ahead (01:06:24) The Secrets and Misdirection Behind Sam Altman's Firing From OpenAI OpenAI's new image generation capabilities represent significant advancements in AI tools, showcasing impressive benchmarks and multimodal functionalities. OpenAI is finalizing a historic $40 billion funding round led by SoftBank, and Sam Altman shifts focus to technical direction while COO Brad Lightcap takes on more operational responsibilities., Anthropic unveils groundbreaking interpretability research, introducing cross-layer tracers and showcasing deep insights into model reasoning through applications on Claude 3.5. New challenging benchmarks such as ARC AGI 2 and complex Sudoku variations aim to push the boundaries of reasoning and problem-solving capabilities in AI models.

Oui, le sudoku peut contribuer à ralentir le déclin cognitif, mais ses effets doivent être nuancés. Plusieurs études scientifiques ont exploré l'impact des jeux cérébraux, dont le sudoku, sur la santé cognitive, notamment chez les personnes âgées.Une étude publiée en 2019 dans The International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry a examiné l'effet des jeux de réflexion comme les mots croisés et le sudoku sur les capacités cognitives de plus de 19 000 participants âgés de 50 à 93 ans. Les résultats ont montré que ceux qui pratiquaient régulièrement ce type de jeux obtenaient de meilleurs scores dans des tests de mémoire, de raisonnement et d'attention. Plus spécifiquement, les performances cognitives de certains participants étaient équivalentes à celles de personnes 8 à 10 ans plus jeunes. Cela suggère une association positive entre la fréquence de ces activités et la préservation des fonctions mentales.Cependant, corrélation ne signifie pas nécessairement causalité. Une revue de la littérature menée par Simons et al. en 2016 (Psychological Science in the Public Interest) a mis en garde contre l'idée que les jeux cognitifs, dont le sudoku, puissent à eux seuls prévenir ou inverser le déclin cognitif. Selon cette analyse, si certaines études montrent des améliorations dans des tâches spécifiques après un entraînement cérébral, ces bénéfices ne se généralisent pas toujours à d'autres aspects de la vie quotidienne ou à la cognition globale.Cela dit, d'autres recherches appuient l'idée que maintenir une activité intellectuelle régulière — que ce soit via le sudoku, la lecture ou l'apprentissage d'une nouvelle compétence — est bénéfique pour le cerveau. L'étude ACTIVE (Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly), lancée aux États-Unis en 2002, a suivi plus de 2 800 personnes âgées. Elle a montré que des séances régulières d'entraînement cognitif pouvaient améliorer les capacités mentales et en ralentir le déclin pendant plusieurs années.Le sudoku, en particulier, mobilise plusieurs fonctions cognitives importantes : la mémoire de travail, la logique, l'attention et la vitesse de traitement. En le pratiquant régulièrement, on stimule ces fonctions, ce qui pourrait contribuer à maintenir la plasticité cérébrale. Mais pour que l'effet soit réel, l'activité doit être suffisamment complexe et renouvelée, afin de continuer à « challenger » le cerveau.En résumé, le sudoku ne constitue pas une solution miracle, mais s'intègre efficacement dans un mode de vie intellectuellement actif, qui, selon les données scientifiques, joue un rôle non négligeable dans la lutte contre le déclin cognitif lié à l'âge. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Supersized Episode Alert!This episode goes deep—and for good reason. Eric Collett didn't just escape burnout and corporate stress. He rebuilt his life around brain health, longevity, and optimal performance—and now helps thousands do the same.This two-part-in-one episode blends Eric's escapee origin story (and the moment he realized he couldn't go back) with a practical brain health masterclass for GenX escapees looking to stay sharp, focused, and fired up.Eric's mission? Save the next million brains.

Our 205th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 03/28/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/. Join our Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP In this episode: OpenAI's new image generation capabilities represent significant advancements in AI tools, showcasing impressive benchmarks and multimodal functionalities. OpenAI is finalizing a historic $40 billion funding round led by SoftBank, and Sam Altman shifts focus to technical direction while COO Brad Lightcap takes on more operational responsibilities., Anthropic unveils groundbreaking interpretability research, introducing cross-layer tracers and showcasing deep insights into model reasoning through applications on Claude 3.5. New challenging benchmarks such as ARC AGI 2 and complex Sudoku variations aim to push the boundaries of reasoning and problem-solving capabilities in AI models. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:01:01) News Preview Tools & Apps (00:02:46) Gemini 2.5: Our most intelligent AI model (00:08:41) OpenAI rolls out image generation powered by GPT-4o to ChatGPT (00:16:14) Ideogram presents version 3.0 of its AI image generation system (00:19:20) New Reve Image Generator Beats AI Art Heavyweights MidJourney and Flux at a Penny Per Image (00:21:56) Alibaba Releases Qwen2.5 Omni, Adds Voice and Video Modes to Qwen Chat (00:23:58) The official version of Tencent's Hunyuan Deep Thinking Model T1 is here, with fast articulation, instant responses, and a decoding speed increase of 2 times Applications & Business (00:25:45) OpenAI Close to Finalizing $40 Billion SoftBank-Led Funding (00:29:26) OpenAI reshuffles leadership as Sam Altman pivots to technical focus (00:33:23) Nvidia shows off Rubin Ultra with 600,000-Watt Kyber racks and infrastructure, coming in 2027 (00:35:23) China's SiCarrier emerges as challenger to ASML, other chip tool titans (00:38:24) Pony.ai wins first permit for fully driverless taxi operation in the center of China's Silicon Valley Projects & Open Source (00:40:27) A new, challenging AGI test stumps most AI models (00:45:16) Challenging the Boundaries of Reasoning: An Olympiad-Level Math Benchmark for Large Language Models (00:48:13) Wan: Open and Advanced Large-Scale Video Generative Models (00:50:38) DeepSeek V3-0324 tops non-reasoning AI models in open-source first (00:54:46) OpenAI adopts rival Anthropic's standard for connecting AI models to data Research & Advancements (00:55:56) Anthropic can now track the bizarre inner workings of a large language model (01:06:00) Chain-of-Tools: Utilizing Massive Unseen Tools in the CoT Reasoning of Frozen Language Models (01:11:50) Inside-Out: Hidden Factual Knowledge in LLMs (01:15:14) Sakana AI super-powers AI reasoning using Japan's own Sudoku Puzzles Policy & Safety (01:18:38) Senator Wiener Introduces Legislation to Protect AI Whistleblowers & Boost Responsible AI Development (01:21:50) NVIDIA & Other Tech Giants Demand Trump Administration To Reconsider “AI Diffusion” Policy Which Is Set To Be Effective By May 15 (01:23:17) U.S. blacklists over 50 Chinese companies in bid to curb Beijing's AI, chip capabilities (01:26:44) Netflix's Reed Hastings Gives $50 Million to Bowdoin for A.I. Program (01:27:55) Judge allows 'New York Times' copyright case against OpenAI to go forward (01:29:48) Judge rules that AI can continue training on copyrighted lyrics, for now

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Block scheduling can transform your productivity into profitability. Kiera makes the implementation as easy as 1, 2, 3: Identify your practice's production goals. Design your ideal block schedule. Implement, train, and track. Episode resources: Sign up for Dental A-Team's Virtual Summit 2025! Subscribe to The Dental A-Team podcast Schedule a Practice Assessment Leave us a review Transcript kiera Dent (00:02.36) Hello, Dental A Team listeners, this is Kiera. And today, I just really wanted to dive into, are you truly tired of missing production goals? Because if you are, block scheduling is honestly the secret to hitting them consistently with ease. And I know this is something that's talked about so often. So what I wanted to do is I wanted to break this down into three easy steps to make sure that you're able to do this with your team in a fun, effective, and just like overall amazing way for you.   Block scheduling can truly transform your productivity into profitability. And it's something as simple as doing a quick puzzle in your practice where we're able to add the pieces, have an incredible patient experience, incredible team experience, incredible doctor experience. And to me, that's a win-win-win. So for that, these three steps are going to really make it easy for you and your team to...   chunk this down into a tactical practical way. You guys, I'm Kiera Dent, owner and CEO of the Dental A Team, a consulting company where we are committed to not just understanding you, but actually being you. All of our consultants have worked in every position in the practice where we're able to understand what it's like to not be able to hit productivity goals, to schedule with no frustration, to have cancellations that are dropping off on us, to where we know what it's like to lose team members. All of those things are something that our Dental A Team   consultants are experts at and something that I'm really really proud of as a company because I know that when we understand you we're not just coming to you with theories and ideas but actual tips that have been proven, tried, consistent across hundreds of offices in all the states in multiple different countries to make sure that we're giving you guys efficiency that helps your team stay focused. So this is gonna be able to help you guys out and today it's gonna be short and actionable because I want you guys to able to take what we talk about and implement it today.   So step one is going to be identify your practices production goals. Now that what we got to do is we've got to look to see what did our practice produce last year and a healthy standard benchmark is that we want to actually be increasing a minimum of 10 % year over year. We also want to make sure that we've increased our fee schedules every single year and most practices go up about 5%. Now, if you're concerned about that with your fee for service patients or your out of pocket patients, I want to just remind you that this is standard across the board with most businesses to increase 5%.   Kiera Dent (02:14.402) And if you wanna keep those preventative ones out, by all means go for it. I just wanna be able to remind you that by doing so, when we actually send our statements out to insurance and we bill out to insurance, it actually helps the insurance companies determine what the fee should be within our area. So I wanna make sure that we're not missing opportunities and possibly a membership plan could actually help our patients when we're concerned about those preventative services. So make sure that we know what we need to do for that 10 % growth.   make sure we understand how many days we're off in the practice. So I like to go through every single month. What are the vacations? What are the holidays? What are the times off? What are our high and low months across the board? I know for some pediatric practices, our certain months in the year are actually not great, but our summer months are incredible. I know for other areas based on where they are, they get a lot of snowfall in February. So February actually becomes a terrible month for them. There's also other offices where there's a notorious, suck timber or slam dunk September.   where we actually have a dip right after school gets back in session. So knowing those trends are actually gonna be able to know your practice's production goals to be able to hit them successfully. And while yes, this might take a little time for us to go through, map these things out, what it What it it does is it actually helps us go through and see what does our production need to be? How can we realistically hit it based on the days that we're working? What does each day need to be? What does each provider goal need to be for our doctors and our hygienists? And then we're able to actually bring all that information together.   and make a perfect puzzle for us. And then we start to place it into place. So when an office does this, usually I'm seeing a minimum of a 10 % increase, but oftentimes I'm seeing a 10, 20, 30, 40 % increase year over year. I've added multiple millions to practices and our consultants have done as well just by effective block scheduling where we're not increasing the new patients. We're not changing the hours that they're working. We're not adding more days for them to work. We're just being very consistent with how they actually schedule. And it's like I said, it's a puzzle.   I can put in five puzzle pieces of one type, or I can do five different puzzle pieces. Again, I put five puzzle pieces in same amount of time in a day, but I'm actually able to make a thousand dollars versus a $5,000 a day. It was crazy. had an office that I went into and I remember they had never been scheduled to 10, $10,000 in a day. And so when I went in and I showed them, here's how we can actually do 10,000, I scheduled them to 10,000 the next day. What was wild was the day I was there, they were producing 4,000.   Kiera Dent (04:35.778) The next day I scheduled them to 10,000 showing them how to do this. And at the end of the $10,000 day, they looked at me high-fiving. We were out the door on time and they said, Kiera, that was actually easier than our day was yesterday when we only produced 4,000. And I said, it was just with blocks. It was just with us being strategic of where we put people as being intentional. And from there, we were actually able to be productive. So just helping you guys see, we've got to figure out what our specific production goals are before we restructure the schedule. That's step number one.   Step number two is design your ideal block schedule. Some doctors like to start early in the day with a crown. Some like to start later in the day with their crowns. Whatever it is, we need to design it of where do we actually want these to be? And I like high value, follow ups, zero dollar appointments. And instead of just saying a crown, I actually like to build a block schedule based on dollar amounts. Like I said, it's puzzle pieces. So that way if a crown or a quad of fills comes through, I know there are 1500 or a thousand, whatever it is, they're going into this block.   Blocks are held for us for 24 to 48 hours, pending upon your practice to make sure we're able to put the puzzle piece in that we want. We're able to actually map it out and we're able to then tell patients when they're coming up, hey, Dr. Smith likes to do crowns in the morning. I have an eight o'clock or a nine o'clock on Monday or Wednesday, which do you prefer? Now I'm not asking the patient, where do you wanna go? I'm literally asking the patient, this is what we do. This is where I can put you. This is how we do it. What works best for you?   We actually eliminate a lot of the excuses. We eliminate a lot of the frustration and we're directing and guiding the patient rather than trying to come back after they've told us they want a four o'clock when our doctor really doesn't do crowns at four o'clock. This is going to help you exponentially build the blocks. Also, I'm not putting implants and fillings next door to each other because that can get tricky. I'm not doing two crowns back to back where I can't see it. We're literally building a puzzle that our doctors can actually do. All of us get our lunches. All of us get out on time.   Doctors can get over to their hygiene exams. So I'm also then playing Sudoku across the board where I've got my doctor procedures, my new patients and my SRPs. Square up your SRPs and your implants. So that way the doctor can literally get the implant done and not have to go do the hygiene checks. It's a way for us to truly make a puzzle that's 80 to 90 % effective and efficient. So when we do that, that's step two of design our ideal block schedule and build that out. Now, the way I do this is I draft block schedules in Google Sheets.   Kiera Dent (06:58.242) So in Excel, map it out of what the perfect amount is, put the dollar amounts there of what this is actually going to equate to for the day, and then figure out where my hygiene blocks need to be. I need to also figure out the number of new patients that we're seeing, the number of SRP and the number of perio maintenance blocks that I also need to add into my schedule to make sure I have enough hygiene hours to accommodate the patients that we have in there. So that's in how we're gonna draft this up. So that's gonna be what you'll need to do next is draft a block schedule template for your practice that will actually be effective.   And then step three is to implement it, train our team and track our progress. So what we do is we then go put it into place. I understand that hygiene is usually blocked out six months. And so that does take a little bit longer to get into place, but our doctors can get their blocks put in right away. And we need to train our team, put those blocks in, educate them of what do we do when a patient wants a four o'clock, but we only do crowns at two o'clock. And I want to just remind you that an ideal schedule for our doctor is an amazing schedule for our patients.   us being on time, us being happy as a team, us having our doctor fresh and prepped and ready to go is so much better for these patients than us like trying to shove them in because the reality is patients can adapt the schedule as long as we're using our words, which are free to be able to put our patients where we want them to go. So how do we do this? So we host a team meeting, we explain the block schedules, we assign a point person who's going to oversee and implement, and then we actually help them make sure of...   What happens when we put this in a block when we're not supposed to? What's the follow-up? And I really get offices to work on this for six weeks to two months where we are rock solid on this. And then we come back and we adjust it after that. So when I've done this, there was an office and they were producing about 2 million a year. We put in block schedule, like I said, no extra days, no extra time. So we went from 2 million up to 3.5 million simply by being effective with our time with block schedules. To me, that's a wild growth. We have gone   Exponentially, we've gone from 2 million to 3.5 just by putting these blocks in. were like, Kiera, patients are happier. Our team is happier. We're having our lunches on time. Our doctors are getting out on time. And to me, I just feel if those are the wins, then amazing, this is worth it. So for you getting your team excited about it, helping them see like, understand teams don't like change. Why do you think I love being the Dental A Team where we do this in a fun and effective way? I love to do this because I help teams see what's possible when it feels impossible.   Kiera Dent (09:18.488) helping them see where we can create ease when there's chaos, helping them see how we can be more efficient rather than cumbersome. So the reality is block scheduling is going to change your life. It's going to help you be effectively productive. It's going to help you hit your goals with ease. One of my favorite quotes is by Walt Disney where he says that he was able to create predictable magic because of the systems behind the scenes. And so for you to be able to create predictable production with the systems behind the scenes of block scheduling to me is a gift that you can give yourself and your team this year.   So what I want you guys to know is this is going to honestly simplify your productivity and give you guys goals to be able to hit them with ease. You don't have to be perfect. We have those snow days. We have the slow summer days. We have the December that's only two weeks. We have all these different things put in so we know exactly what we need our blocks to be. And then we're able to hit our goals with ease and more consistency. I really don't love having success be happenstance where I'm like, will I get it or will I not? I like your success to be inevitable. And I believe that block scheduling is one of the greatest ways to do that.   So if you're interested, DMS or email us for a free block scheduling template, Hello@TheDentalATeam.com And as always, you guys, this is how we're able to help you run a successful dental practice with ease. I don't believe that running a practice should be hard. I believe that this could be easy. And I want you just to ask yourself, what if it could be easy? How would you feel? How would your team feel? How would your patients feel? Because that can be a reality. This is what the Dental A Team does. And if that's helpful for you, reach out. Hello@TheDentalATeam.com And as always, thanks for listening. I'll catch you next time on the Dental A Team podcast.

Why do so many students (and adults) believe they “just aren't good at math”? How can educators shift that mindset and build confidence in STEM learning?In this episode of The TechEd Podcast, host Matt Kirchner sits down with Kathy Meyers, a veteran high school teacher who blends sports psychology with math instruction to help students overcome self-doubt, develop resilience, and master problem-solving—critical skills for both the classroom and the workforce.Kathy shares how techniques used by elite athletes—positive self-talk, goal-setting, and focus strategies—can transform student outcomes in STEM education. From tackling math anxiety to fostering leadership and teamwork, she provides practical strategies that educators and parents can use to support student success.Listen to learn:The role of self-talk, confidence, and mindset in learning math and technical subjectsHow Sudoku puzzles teach problem-solving and resilience from day oneWhy playing to win vs. playing not to lose matters in both sports and educationHow to help students reframe failure as growth in STEM classroomsReal-life stories of students who applied these lessons in college, careers, and beyondThe power of a positive mindset can completely change the trajectory of a student's life! Educators and leaders, these are great tools to instill in your classroom and workplace.3 Big Takeaways from this Episode:1. Mindset Matters in Math and STEMStudents often struggle not because they lack ability, but because they believe they aren't “math people.” Applying sports psychology techniques like positive self-talk and goal-setting helps reframe their approach to learning.2. Failure is Part of the Learning ProcessJust like in sports, students need a growth mindset to push through challenges. Teaching strategies like trying different problem-solving methods (as with Sudoku puzzles) encourages resilience and adaptability.3. Confidence and Preparation Lead to SuccessWhether it's a test, a job interview, or a big presentation, students perform best when they train their minds like athletes—visualizing success, controlling self-doubt, and focusing on small, actionable steps.Resources in this Episode:View Kathy's YouTube channel with math tips & tricks!Other resources:The Happiness Advantage by Shawn AchorNapoleon Hill booksNorman Vincent Peale booksTony Robbins resourcesRudy - A football movie about perseverance and goal-settingWe want to hear from you! Send us a text message.Instagram - Facebook - YouTube - TikTok - Twitter - LinkedIn

We're back with the rest of my conversation with Michael Murphy, discussing his experience with NLD (NVLD) and his book-writing and Sudoku endeavors!Support the showNew Website: badattitudespod.comBad Attitudes Shop: badattitudesshop.etsy.comBecome a Member: ko-fi.com/badattitudespod Follow @badattitudespod on Instagram, Facebook, Threads, and BlueSkyBe sure to leave a rating or review wherever you listen!FairyNerdy: https://linktr.ee/fairynerdy

Make sure you have a fresh bottle of Kombucha ready for this episode! We dig into Eric's passion for his work and the importance of intellectual exercise. With his new book out and the stories he shares that got him where he is today, I'll let him tell you all about it! Enjoy. Mentions: Eric: https://www.ericjaysonnenschein.com/ HighSpeed Daddy: https://www.highspeeddaddy.com/?rfsn=7178368.317ce6 Live Rishi: Use the code "TABLE50" and get 50% off your entire order: https://liverishi.com/ Me: https://berawpodcast.com/ 'til next time! The Importance of Intellectual Exercise: Because Who Doesn't Love Using Their Brain? Ah, intellectual exercise—because using your brain is apparently just as important as using your body. Who knew? In a world where scrolling through social media counts as reading and binge-watching ten seasons of a TV show in one weekend is considered "commitment," mental stimulation is somehow still relevant. Crazy, right? Now, let's talk about why flexing those mental muscles is crucial. Because, let's be honest, relying on autopilot for the rest of your life might not be the best strategy—unless, of course, you enjoy being outsmarted by your toaster. 1. Keeps Your Brain from Turning Into Mush You know what's fun? Having a brain that actually works. Just like muscles deteriorate when they aren't used, your brain also gets lazy when it's not challenged. If you think solving a crossword puzzle or reading something more complex than a fast-food menu is too much work, then congratulations—you're on the fast track to becoming a human houseplant. Keep it up, and pretty soon, forming coherent thoughts might require Google assistance. 2. Prevents the "What Was I Saying Again?" Syndrome Ah, memory loss—the fun little trick your brain plays when you treat it like an old piece of furniture. Studies suggest that engaging in intellectual activities like reading, problem-solving, and, you know, actually thinking, can help prevent cognitive decline. But sure, go ahead and rely on your phone for everything. I'm sure Siri won't mind reminding you of your own birthday in a few years. 3. Boosts Creativity—Because Original Thoughts Are Rare These Days Want to be the kind of person who actually contributes something interesting to a conversation instead of regurgitating TikTok trends? Well, congratulations, intellectual exercise is your secret weapon. Reading, debating, and analyzing ideas help develop critical thinking skills, which means you might actually have a fresh perspective on something. Imagine that—being able to form an opinion that wasn't spoon-fed to you by an algorithm. Revolutionary. 4. Makes You Less Gullible (Hopefully) Ever wonder why some people believe everything they read on the internet? Lack of intellectual exercise, my friend. A well-exercised brain can detect nonsense from a mile away. So, if you'd rather not fall for the latest conspiracy theory about how Wi-Fi signals are controlling your thoughts, maybe—just maybe—consider engaging in some critical thinking activities. 5. Gives You Something to Talk About Other Than the Weather Nobody wants to be that person at a dinner party whose conversational skills are limited to “Wow, crazy weather we're having, huh?” Reading books, learning new skills, and challenging yourself intellectually make you a more interesting person. Because let's face it—there are only so many times you can get away with saying, “I don't really read” before people start questioning your life choices. Conclusion: Use It or Lose It At the end of the day, exercising your brain is the difference between staying sharp and becoming that person who calls tech support because their computer won't turn on… only to realize it's unplugged. So, do yourself a favor—read a book, learn a language, play chess, or at the very least, do a Sudoku puzzle once in a while. Your future self (the one who actually remembers where they put their car keys) will thank you.

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In der allerersten Gastfolge von Doktopus geht es um das faszinierende Thema Quantencomputing! Julian erklärt uns, wie diese Technologie funktioniert, wo sie eingesetzt wird und warum sie so komplex ist. Was hat ein Quantencomputer mit Molekülen, Uhrzeigern und Sudoku gemeinsam? Und wann werden Quantencomputer unsere Verschlüsselungen knacken können? Erfahrt, warum diese Geräte als die möglichen Wundermaschinen der Zukunft gehandelt werden – und wo sie an ihre Grenzen stoßen. Material zu dieser Folge Grundlagen von Quantencomputing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhHMJCUmq28  https://www.quarks.de/technik/faq-so-funktioniert-ein-quantencomputer/  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d85lACs3Z08  https://www.zdf.de/dokumentation/terra-x/lesch-und-co-quantenmechanik1-100.html  Quantencomputer und Sudoku: https://blog.theodo.com/2022/10/quantum-sudoku/  Ein tieferer Blick in Quantencomputer: https://www.youtube.com/@XanaduAI/videos https://www.youtube.com/@qiskit https://www.youtube.com/@GoogleQuantumAI/videos Fachbücher rund um Quantencomputing: Dancing with Qubits Introduction to Classical and Quantum Computing Social Media und Kontaktmöglichkeiten Instagram: http://instagram.com/doktopuspodcast/  Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@doktopuspodcast E-Mail: doktopuspodcast@gmail.com  Credits Recherche, Hosting & Produktion: Dora Dzvonyar & Dominic Anders Sound-Design & Post Production: Julian Dlugosch Ansager: Marcel Gust KI-Songs: Suno KI-Visuals: Bing Image Creator Intro-Musik: Oleggio Kyrylkoww from Pixabay Intermezzo-Transition: MAXOU-YT from Pixabay

Rätseln Sie gerne? Sudoku oder Kreuzworträtsel? Vielleicht arbeiten Sie ehrenamtlich als Hobby-Archäologe bei Ausgrabungen mit oder als Archivar in einer Bibliothek? Egal, wo und wie Sie rätseln und knobeln: Sie sind so ein wichtiges Puzzleteil des großen Ganzen. Das animiert auch Autorin Judith Vonderau ...

Highlights has teamed up with the founder of National Puzzle Day, Jodi Jill to get kids and families excited about puzzling together. Whether it's a crossword, jigsaw, trivia word searches, brain teasers or Sudoku, puzzles put our minds to work. Founded in 2002, National Puzzle Day is a way to share enjoyment of puzzles. As a syndicated newspaper puzzle maker and professional quiz maker, Jodi Jill developed classroom lesson plans especially for the observance and the popularity has grown year after year. Partnering this year with Allison Kane, Head of Puzzle Innovation at Highlights, they have developed some fun ways to celebrate Puzzle Day with fun free resources for your puzzle fun. Studies have found that when we work on a jigsaw puzzle, we use both sides of the brain.  And spending time daily working on puzzles improves memory, cognitive function, and problem-solving skills. Word searches and crossword puzzles have the obvious benefit of increasing vocabulary and language skills. Sudoku, a puzzle sequencing a set of numbers on a grid, exercises the brain as well. By testing memory and logical thinking, this puzzle stimulates the brain and can improve number skills. Puzzles also offer social benefits. When we work on these brain teasers with someone, we improve our social interactions. Whether we join a group or play with our children, those interactions keep us socially active and teach our children social skills, too. Even working them quietly together provides an opportunity to focus the mind.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-unplugged-totally-uncut--994165/support.

Just as there are aspects of our physical health we can improve, there are ways we can improve our brain health. Many of these are quite simple and attainable. In this episode of Breaking Bread, Ted Witzig Jr. proposes six ways we achieve better brain health.  Show notes:    Six keys to better brain health:  Physical Exercise:  150 minutes of moderate-intensity or 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity aerobic activity each week. Muscle-strengthening activities on 2 or more days each week.    Food & Nutrition:  Mediterranean and MIND diets are brain and heart healthy.  Olive oil, nuts, salmon, leafy greens, vegetables, etc.  Cut out alcohol and smoking.    Medical Health:  Engage in regular, proactive check-ups/physicals with your healthcare provider.  Learn the medical history of your extended family.  Know your numbers.  Blood pressure  Blood sugar  Cholesterol  Weight    Sleep & Relaxation:  Sleep between 7-9 hours per night.  Deal with common sleep conditions such as insomnia and sleep apnea.    Mental Fitness:  Keep it logically sharp with activities such as crossword puzzles and Sudoku's.   Keep it artistically sharp with activities such as music and creativity.  Be a lifelong learner.    Social Interaction:  Stay connected with other people in relationships.   

Highlights has teamed up with the founder of National Puzzle Day, Jodi Jill to get kids and families excited about puzzling together. Whether it's a crossword, jigsaw, trivia word searches, brain teasers or Sudoku, puzzles put our minds to work. Founded in 2002, National Puzzle Day is a way to share enjoyment of puzzles. As a syndicated newspaper puzzle maker and professional quiz maker, Jodi Jill developed classroom lesson plans especially for the observance and the popularity has grown year after year. Partnering this year with Allison Kane, Head of Puzzle Innovation at Highlights, they have developed some fun ways to celebrate Puzzle Day with fun free resources for your puzzle fun. Studies have found that when we work on a jigsaw puzzle, we use both sides of the brain.  And spending time daily working on puzzles improves memory, cognitive function, and problem-solving skills. Word searches and crossword puzzles have the obvious benefit of increasing vocabulary and language skills. Sudoku, a puzzle sequencing a set of numbers on a grid, exercises the brain as well. By testing memory and logical thinking, this puzzle stimulates the brain and can improve number skills. Puzzles also offer social benefits. When we work on these brain teasers with someone, we improve our social interactions. Whether we join a group or play with our children, those interactions keep us socially active and teach our children social skills, too. Even working them quietly together provides an opportunity to focus the mind.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-like-it-s-live--4113802/support.

Auch im Alter geistig fit bleiben: Wie kann das gelingen? "Es gibt nicht die eine Übung," sagt Alterspsychiaterin Katharina Geschke: "Es ist wichtig, wirklich alle Bereiche zu trainieren." Das bedeute kognitive, soziale und körperliche Aktivität. Von WDR 5.

It's the season 8 premiere, can you even believe it? That's right, they let us get away with seven whole seasons so we decided to do another one! Speaking of doing another one, have you done today's Wordle? We all spent the holiday break commiserating with our families over the New York Times Games and how dumb the purple group in Connections is. Well this experience inspired us, so we're opening our season in kind. Without further ado, we ask the question, "Which NYT Game should become multiplayer?" Todd is ready to unpack some early-childhood trauma. Andrew is creating some middle-aged trauma. Matt's speaking in numbers and we're not quite sure what that means. We're running a Listener Survey for the first time ever! We'd love your input. If you have 5 minutes, check it out here: https://forms.gle/AQBnkg1C83hkkap28 Sponsored Recommended Reading: Check out our friends at Candy is Dandy: https://pod.link/1632162083 The title of this week's episode was selected by our Patrons in our Discord Community! If you want to help us choose the next one, join our discord, and/or get some bonus content, become part of #ButtThwompNation at patreon.com/debatethiscast! Have you seen our Threads? threads.net/debatethiscast Have you seen our Instagram? instagram.com/debatethiscast Want to send us an email? debatethiscast@gmail.com MERCH! We have that! Right now you can go on the internet and order things that say Debate This! On them! All you need to do is head to MerchThis.net and give us your money! Ever wanted socks with the DT! logo on them? Well now you can get em! One more time that website is MerchThis.net! Properties we talked about this week: New York Times Games, Wordle, Connections, Spelling Bee, Sudoku, Tiles, Scrubs Music for Debate This! is provided by composer Ozzed under a creative commons license. Check out more of their 8-bit bops at www.ozzed.net!

We all love detective stories: we enjoy watching, reading, listening to them. Sherlock Holmes's adventures are our all-time favorites. We love guessing who the mastermind is, which move from the criminal to expect, who the next victim will be, what the main evidence is. When we were kids, many of us dreamed of becoming policemen, right? Riddles are a new way to stimulate our brains to go along with some kind of investigation. Human beings are curious and they can't resist solving an interesting puzzle: be it Sudoku or a Rubik's cube. Our brains need practice and some refreshing exercise. Just like our bodies! Without exercise we get lazy and lose our muscles and without brain exercise we stop being quick minded. Music by Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/ Subscribe to Bright Side : https://goo.gl/rQTJZz ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Social Media: Facebook:   / brightside   Instagram:   / brightgram   5-Minute Crafts Youtube: https://www.goo.gl/8JVmuC Stock materials (photos, footages and other): https://www.depositphotos.com https://www.shutterstock.com https://www.eastnews.ru ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Big time grocery store beef, Beast Games, Sudoku, Blurred Lines, Wolf of Wall Street Style Fake Mobsters, Luigi and Muscle Harvey, Squid Game, Kiss Dad on the mouth, Juror #2, Sister Wives ATV Accident, Big Island Vibes, Stealing Vacation Valor, Mouth Guards, Airbrushed T-Shirts, The Blake Lively Drama, Scaring Your Wife Awake, Facehuggers, SNEEZES, Body Cam footage, Carry On, Conspiracies AND More!**NOT PART 2 is WAAAAY better than part 1 this week LOL*** Sign up for the premium to hear this episode's part 2 and all the others! Totally worth it!↓ GET TERRIBLE PERSON PREMIUM HERE ↓ http://www.terribleperson.co  OR  ↓Get the Premium Eps on Patreon ↓https://www.patreon.com/TerriblePersonPremium

Sudoku, Kreuzworträtsel, Escape Games oder Quiz: Viele Menschen lieben die kleinen Herausforderungen für zwischendurch. Rätseln macht glücklich – und schlauer? Autorin: Simone Wienstroer Von Simone Wienstroer.

Advent Day 9 - Perfect PeaceScripture: Isaiah 26:3 (NIV)"You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you."Hey friends! Today's verse is from Isaiah 26:3, which promises, "You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you." Think about when you're engrossed in an intense game like Chess or Sudoku. Your focus blocks out distractions.Similarly, keeping our minds steadfast on God means focusing on Him amidst life's distractions. Perfect peace isn't just the absence of conflict; it's a profound sense of wholeness and well-being that comes from trusting God completely.In a world filled with uncertainties—news headlines, personal struggles, global issues—it's easy for our minds to wander into worry. But when we fix our thoughts on God's unchanging nature, we find a peace that the world can't offer.Prayer:Heavenly Father, help us to keep our minds steadfast on You. Teach us to trust You more each day. When worries arise, let us turn our thoughts back to Your promises. Fill us with Your perfect peace. In Jesus' name, Amen.

Luštění sudoku se lidé věnují po celém světě. Vznikají dokonce zájmové spolky a konají se světová mistrovství v luštění tohoto druhu křížovky. Víte, že vítězkou světového šampionátu z roku 2006 je Češka? Proč si sudoku získala takovou popularitu? Jaké jsou metody luštění a co to je takzvaná killer, neboli „zabijácká“ varianta sudoku? A je pravda, že pravidelným luštěním sudoku trénujete mozek tak, že lze dosáhnout jeho omlazení až o 10 let?

Featuring: Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen   Hey Folks! We are all reeling a bit from the past week, but we start off things with the joyful return of Ammo from her trip to Japan.  She spends a bit of time talking about all the arcade hopping and wonderful food that she found along the way. From there we dive into the furious growth of Pokemon TCG Pocket and how it has swept through our friend group.  Ash talks about his experiences with Monster Hunter Wilds Beta and Bel shares his own comfort gaming in the form of the weird Path of Exile Necro Settlers Event League.  Bel also talks a bit about playing the Brighter Shores Early Access, and how it has some core design problems that will keep him from playing for very long.  Kodra talks a bit about GeekGirlCon where we realize…  that he has in fact been talking about it every year since the very first year in 2016.  Our podcast…  is old.  He also talks a bit about his role in the upcoming SudokuCon Stream and some of the nonsense he is going to be doing combining two of his loves: Sudoku, and Celeste.   Topics Discussed: Ammo Returns from Japan Pokemon TCG Pocket Monster Hunter Wilds Beta Path of Exile POE2 Delay Necro Settlers League Brighter Shores Early Access GeekGirlCon 2024 SudokuCon Upcoming Stream

On the latest episode of the podcast, Jamie confuses Sudoku with Wordle, Doug somehow works Goodfellas reference and terrible Ray Liotta impression into a slasher movie, and we both agree that Cropsey should stop bathing in kerosene before bed each night. Be sure at camp to sign up for Raft Building 101, tune in for the latest episode of Tough Guy Theater, and join us as we have flashbacks of Sleepaway Camp while discussing, The Burning!Visit our YouTube ChannelMerch on TeePublic Follow us on TwitterFollow on InstagramFind us on FacebookVisit our Website

In this enlightening podcast episode, Dave welcomes guest Charles Lantz, also known as Sudoku Sam, a world-class sudoku ninja and published author to share his profound journey into the world of Sudoku. Our conversation covers Charles's beginnings with Sudoku during a vacation, his background in zoology and pharmacology, and the development of his unique solving method, 'Modus Fortis.' Listeners will gain insights into the artistic philosophy and logic behind Sudoku, including concepts like the 'pairing principle,' empirical falsification, and logical frameworks such as Modus Ponens. Charles also highlights the empowering role his wife played in his Sudoku journey and his contributions to the puzzle community through national championships and authoring books. The episode delves into the fascinating origins of Sudoku, its global popularity, and the broader applications of logical problem-solving in everyday life. Charles has a real gift for explaining complex mathematical concepts in layman's terms. I feel like my IQ rose a (much needed) points because of this episode. You can literally hear me getting smarter. I hope you'll enjoy!

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In this episode of, "Power Minutes for Project Managers," we take a look at the surprising lessons you can learn from Sudoku puzzles.  Whether you're a project manager or a team leader, this episode will help you approach your challenges with a new mindset. #ProjectManagement #Leadership #ProblemSolving #Collaboration #Agile #Sudoku Reach out to me on LinkedIn    

Elder Jon Clark expresses his hatred of logic puzzles as he explores the complexity of pursuing the Cross

"How do you find time for yourself when so many things are happening around you? There are countless tasks to do, and it often feels like there's hardly any time left for self-care. Most people think of self-care as taking two hours at the spa or going on a week-long vacation—focusing on the big picture. But sometimes, this way of thinking turns self-care into just another thing on your to-do list, something else you *have* to accomplish, which can feel overwhelming. Instead, it's helpful to find something you can do for yourself on a daily basis, something that will ground you and bring you back to your center. These small activities don't have to be grand gestures; they can be simple things that help you stay connected to yourself and give you the strength to keep moving forward. Ask yourself: What soothes your senses? What calms your mind? Is it something like doing Sudoku, meditating, or reading? How do you stay physically active? Is it stretching, working out, or just taking a walk? And how do you stay connected with others? It's important to identify the little things that ground you—those small, daily practices that give you a sense of stability and peace amidst the chaos. These simple habits can become your anchors, helping you recharge and face life's challenges with renewed energy."

Here's what we're reading, recommending, and revisiting this week.Catherine's library find is a follow-up to the Grammar Zoo series from a few weeks ago. Now, we have dinosaurs doing the wordplay, in Triceratopposite and Stegothesaurus from author Bridget Heos. Also mentioned: Little Pea and its sequels, Little Hoot, and Little Oink. Catherine also has a bonus pick: Clio Greek Yogurt Bars..Terri's random recommendation is back this week, since Dancing with the Stars took a break. She suggests checking out Web Sudoku for all your brain-building, time-wasting needs.In the archives, we return to 2022 to talk about Apple Watch features parents need.​Next week's lineup: Lost S1 E14, "Special," on Tuesday, October 8Only Murders in the Building S4 E7, "Valley of the Dolls," on Wednesday, October 9Weekly roundup (including two episodes of DWTS​) on Thursday, October 10Until then (and anytime you're in need), the archives are available.

Send us a textThe first ever DNA computer engine and storage deviceA revolutionary approach to computing has just been published by a team of US engineers. Instead of using silicon to underpin our tech, the researchers have used DNA - the very molecules present in all living cells that encode the fundamental aspects of our existence. Teams from North Carolina State University and Johns Hopkins University have achieved this ground-breaking advancement, referring to it as a "primordial DNA store and compute engine." This innovative system is reportedly capable of solving basic Sudoku and chess puzzles. The DNA structure they have developed can be used for data storage and also data retrieval, computation, deletion, and rewriting and could be used to store vast amounts of data in just a few cubic centimetres. This could replace current servers in mass data centres that use vast amounts of energy and water. From North Carolina State University the lead authors of the work, Professor Orlin Velev and Associate Professor Albert Keung are on the show.The programme is presented by Gareth Mitchell and the studio expert is Ania Lichtarowicz.More on this week's stories:A primordial DNA store and computer engineSupport the showEditor: Ania LichtarowiczProduction Manager: Liz Tuohy Recording and audio editing : Lansons | Team Farner For new episodes, subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or via this link:https://www.buzzsprout.com/2265960/supporters/newFollow us on all the socials: Join our Facebook group Instagram Twitter/X If you like Somewhere on Earth, please rate and review it on Apple PodcastsContact us by email: hello@somewhereonearth.coSend us a voice note: via WhatsApp: +44 7486 329 484Find a Story + Make it News = Change the World

Subscriber-only episodeSend us a textThe first ever DNA computer engine and storage deviceA revolutionary approach to computing has just been published by a team of US engineers. Instead of using silicon to underpin our tech, the researchers have used DNA - the very molecules present in all living cells that encode the fundamental aspects of our existence. Teams from North Carolina State University and Johns Hopkins University have achieved this ground-breaking advancement, referring to it as a "primordial DNA store and compute engine." This innovative system is reportedly capable of solving basic Sudoku and chess puzzles. The DNA structure they have developed can be used for data storage and also data retrieval, computation, deletion, and rewriting and could be used to store vast amounts of data in just a few cubic centimetres. This could replace current servers in mass data centres that use vast amounts of energy and water.  From North Carolina State University the lead authors of the work, Professor Orlin Velev and Associate Professor Albert Keung are on the show.The programme is presented by Gareth Mitchell and the studio expert is Ania Lichtarowicz.More on this week's stories:A primordial DNA store and computer engineEditor: Ania LichtarowiczProduction Manager: Liz Tuohy Recording and audio editing : Lansons | Team Farner For new episodes, subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or via this link:https://www.buzzsprout.com/2265960/supporters/newFollow us on all the socials: Join our Facebook group Instagram Twitter/X If you like Somewhere on Earth, please rate and review it on Apple PodcastsContact us by email: hello@somewhereonearth.coSend us a voice note: via WhatsApp: +44 7486 329 484Find a Story + Make it News = Change the World

There's a significant mismatch between our ancient brain's capabilities and the rapid advancements in technology. Simply put, our brains just can't keep up in the digital age. But what does that impact look like from the brain's point of view? What's really going on with the neurotransmitters when we take in all that information? Richard Cytowic is a professor of neurology at George Washington University. His books like Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age: Coping with Digital Distraction and Sensory Overload and The Man Who Tasted Shapes examine the effects of technology on the brain and explore the rare but very real phenomenon of synesthesia. Richard and Greg chat about the energy economics of brain function, the inherent limitations of multitasking, and the benefits of a digital detox. They also explore synesthesia, how human neurology is uniquely wired for metaphor, and how babies might all have some form of synesthesia early on. *unSILOed Podcast is produced by University FM.*Episode Quotes:Why multitasking is exhausting your brain04:05: Our brains today are no different from those of our distant ancestors. I mean, they have not evolved one iota, whereas technology has been advancing ten thousand, a million times more than that. So I do think we've reached the point where we're asking it to do what it simply can't do anymore. The brain has a fixed level of energy that it can use, and no amount of diet, exercise, supplements, or Sudoku puzzles can possibly increase that. So when you're asking it to multitask or to keep switching attention from one thing to another, you're asking it to do things that it was never designed to do, that it can't do very well, if at all. And so that's why people are burned out and fatigued.Why are people so concerned about what they put in their bodies, but not about what their mind consumes?35:13: People are so concerned about what they put in their bodies—non-GMO, vegan, no sugar, no artificial colorings. But why aren't they as picky about what they ingest through their senses? I mean, the mental garbage that we take in is certainly less harmful than the occasional cheeseburger and Twinkie. So people just don't think in terms of, "What is my sensory diet?" And again, I'm so unusual because I'm thinking neurologically and neuropsychologically, and most people never have the opportunity or the inclination to think about the way that they think—this metacognition kind of thing.Quiet is an essential nutrient 15:03: Quiet is the antidote to everything. I call it an essential nutrient. We need it to give ourselves space to think. And part of it has to do, I think, with people feeling that they don't like solitude. They think being alone is an odious, difficult state. But I say that solitude has. Loneliness wants. And so if you can distinguish between the two—that here, sitting in a park with a tree and a green space, and I'm quite happy, eating my lunch here in solitude—then this is a positive experience for me. I'm giving myself a nourishing experience. But if I'm thinking, Oh my God, I'm all alone. There's nobody to talk to. I don't know what to do; you're doing a number on yourself and freaking yourself out.The iPad as babysitter29:52: The iPad is the worst babysitter in the world. Look at a baby when they get to be on the move and start crawling. They put everything in their mouths. They're touching, feeling, and having a visual apprenticeship with the world. And when you put this screen full of mediated images in front of them, those characters, if they're Disneyfied or not, don't engage with the child in the same way that a real human being does. They talk at a child. They don't talk with a child. Whereas an adult who's playing peek-a-boo, and "so big," and other kinds of things like that, they're speaking to the child in normal adult language. And these kids are picking things up like sponges, believe me, and that's what they need to have. They need to have that one-on-one interaction.Show Links:Recommended Resources:What percentage of your brain do you use? | TED-EdWilliam JamesClifford Nass Her (film)Bernard-Henri LévyThe Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter by David SaxDaphne MaurerGuest Profile:Faculty Profile at George Washington UniversityProfessional WebsiteLinkedIn ProfileHis Work:Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age: Coping with Digital Distraction and Sensory OverloadSynesthesia The Man Who Tasted ShapesWednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia

Today on the Salesforce Admins Podcast, we talk to Rangsk, a Wordle and Sudoku educational YouTuber. Join us as we chat about how solving puzzles every day can help you sharpen your critical thinking skills. You should subscribe for the full episode, but here are a few takeaways from our conversation with Rangsk. The role […] The post Puzzle Solving as a Key to Success in the Workplace appeared first on Salesforce Admins.

Britt and Tiff talk about how to look outside your department's corner of the schedule, including the power of X's and slashes and why this method will set your practice up for success. Episode resources: Reach out to Tiff and Britt Tune Into DAT's Monthly Webinar Practice Momentum Group Consulting Subscribe to The Dental A-Team podcast Become Dental A-Team Platinum! Review the podcast Transcript: The Dental A Team (00:07.502) Hello, Dental A Team. I am so excited today. I normally bring you Dana. She is my tried and true like can grab you in a pinch podcaster. And today I'm so excited. I am podcasting with the one and only, no BS, Britt. Brittany Stone is here with us today. Britt, thank you so much for being open to this. I know I like last minute through it on our schedule this week. Totally appreciate you.   How are you? Welcome back to the podcasting world. How are you?   Britt (00:39.891) I it's been a little while. I've done like some book club, but it's been a while since I've been on with consultants. So I'm excited to be here doing good. I mean, it's always fun. Whenever you get to spend some time with Tiff, it's a good time.   The Dental A Team (00:50.061) Well, thank you. Thank you very much. I totally agree with you on that. I love spending time with you. And I remember way back when we started doing the video ones, we were in Zoom and I was like, you and I were trying to figure it out. And I like, this is so cool because we get to hang out. But then also I have to make sure my hair is done. So like, there's that aspect to it. But I'm excited you're here. Thank you, Dana. Thanks to you. We did a ton of podcasts the other day.   Britt (00:52.945) you   Britt (01:09.967) Thank   Britt (01:14.866) you   The Dental A Team (01:17.727) And we like we went on this one that gosh guys, it's so good. So go back and listen to all of the ones that have that have released this month because it was really good. But we went a little long and so I was like, shoot, we got this one more we got to do. So let me shift it over to Britt. It was perfect. And today, it's actually perfect as well because I know you've got your hygiene background, which I love to pull in from you and Dana, I've got my assisting background, but you also have   HR management, you've done like health management, you've done, obviously you've ran practices, you've ran multiple multiple practices, you've done all these pieces. And what I wanted to talk about today was really learning how to read the schedule like a pro. And I think you have seen the schedule in so many different aspects as a provider, as a manager, as a scheduling coordinator, treatment coordinator, all of those places that it'll be really cool to see and hear your thoughts on that. So I'm excited to bring that in. And I think   To start us off reading the schedule like a pro, I really, really want to hear from you, Britt, what your thoughts are from a hygiene perspective on sitting in a hygiene chair, you've got your hygiene schedule, and then the rest of the schedule, right? There's the rest of the practice has a schedule. What is it like as a hygienist sitting in that chair, reading the schedule, your own schedule and looking around? Is that something that like hygienists are trained to look for?   Are they prone to look at the other spaces and see where is my doctor? What is that like? Cause I've, I've not sat in that chair before, so I'm personally intrigued.   Britt (02:52.39) Tiff's the assistant chair that is like, what I'm watching like three chairs at once and you've got one. So I mean, with hygiene, it's easy for hygienists, I think, to get siloed, whether we're running a single column or we're running like an accelerated hygiene and running two columns. It's really easy for us to just get stuck in what we have for the day and not always take a look out at the schedule and see what's going on as a whole. So I'll encourage all the hygienists out there to   The Dental A Team (02:56.393) Yeah, exactly. Yes, exactly.   The Dental A Team (03:13.311) Yeah.   Britt (03:20.498) look outside of just your column. think morning huddles help big time because that allows us to see, right, I can see what I have going on in my day. Assistance doc can flag things that they have going on in their day. If there's a time that's super crazy that I can be aware of around 10, like if I happen to have some time, let me go check in on them and see what's going on. Or if we have open time, is there anybody in my schedule that might have treatment that we can convert over to same day treatment to help look at the schedule as a whole?   So for hygiene, it's super easy for us to get siloed in our little column and just take care of our little world over there and not always be aware of what's going on. I think assistants can do it too, if it's a multiple doctor practice that they just get stuck in their one doctor and we're not looking out at everybody else, but definitely encouraged, look at the schedule as a whole. And if you have an idea in the morning of what's going on and if the team communicates really well, like whatever we're using messaging wise, if something changes in the schedule and we make sure everybody knows, especially if it's something that   I can help out with, then keep that communication open, because I think that helps us all work the schedule together.   The Dental A Team (04:17.618) Yeah.   The Dental A Team (04:23.24) I love that. love that. Okay, I was just curious. I was like, gosh, reading the schedule is not it's not easy. First of all, like it's not easy learning how to read the schedule when you've got a ton of providers or you've got I've got some doctors who love a single column and they love to work out of one column with one or two assistants and like they've got it. But then I've got other doctors who are like, give me three or four three or four hygiene plus at least three rooms dedicated to me and I want patients across the board.   I'm like, okay, that's where it gets a little wild. So I always wonder for those practices, either direction, like, is it easy from that space to look across the board for a hygienist to say, this is where my doctor's at, or this is why he's not here yet. So thank you for that perspective. I think so I say when I was younger, my younger years, I used to say that the schedule was like a game of Tetris.   Britt (04:51.082) huh.   The Dental A Team (05:18.545) And I was like, it's a game, it's Tetris and I love Tetris and it's like putting it all together. And then as I grew into dentistry and I learned some more, I realized it's not actually Tetris, right? Because Tetris is like, where do things just fit together? And if we build a schedule like Tetris, those are the days when our providers, our doctors and our assistants even are like, what did you do to my schedule? So those are, I think of the Tetris schedulers.   Britt (05:18.748) That's it.   The Dental A Team (05:48.078) as the no white space. They're like, well, you see a space, fill a space. It doesn't matter what's there. It doesn't matter what goes there or who goes there, whatever else is happening. So, Tetris is the no white space game. Sudoku is the schedule game. Because you've got this little box and you've got one to nine numbers that need to go into this one box. But then you've got other boxes that one to nine also has. And you have to look in all of these different directions. So, you're looking up, down, across, diagonal.   Britt (05:50.96) Thanks.   The Dental A Team (06:16.589) and you can't have a repeated number in any of those spaces. So when I'm putting an appointment on a schedule, and if I'm gonna sit here and say you're gonna learn how to read a schedule like a pro, you need to go learn how to do Sudoku first. So if you know how to do Sudoku, you know how to look at the schedule because if I'm an appointment on the schedule, I'm looking across at all of those different spaces because sometimes what might be diagonal from me, from this space, might not be the same exact time, but diagonal.   Britt (06:27.189) Hahaha.   The Dental A Team (06:42.807) maybe my doctor is still in a new patient exam over in hygiene and I've discredited that not realizing it because I didn't look at all of the different angles. So when I'm putting an appointment on the schedule, I'm looking at it like Sudoku from whatever chair, even hygiene. If I'm putting an appointment in hygiene, I'm looking across the board to see, can my doctor get over and do the exam? Is this a good space for a new patient or is my doctor?   in the sedation, right? How many times do practices have that? They're like, tip, I'm literally the sedation provider. I'm the only doctor in the practice and they've got new patients over here on the, on the hygiene schedule. And I'm like, my gosh, we did not look across the board. So I love to think of Sudoku and then adding that factor, which I know Britt you love and probably loved as a hygienist as well, the X's and slashes. So we can Sudoku it and then put those X's and slashes in there. Now, Britt, you even in hygiene,   Britt (07:22.527) Yeah.   The Dental A Team (07:40.034) You can just look at the doctor schedule and know where he or she is. I love X's and slashes. I know we talk about it a lot. We talk about blocks to simplify. That's another aspect, but Brit, tell me implementing, you consult, you've consulted for years. You have a handful of clients still that are near and dear to your heart. Hello to all of you. She loves you. And you've implemented X's and slashes.   Britt (07:44.636) Mm -hmm.   Britt (08:00.912) Yeah.   The Dental A Team (08:06.527) and how to read a schedule in a lot of those practices, not all of them. So when I say Xs and slashes, number one, mean, Xs are doctor time, slashes are assistant time in most cases. Some of your programs, think, Eagle, soft and open, then I'll do like colors or blocks or whatever, but it's the same theory. Just switch it out. How did you, Britt, and how do you help teams to implement the Xs and slashes?   within the clients that you work with, because you do work with a lot of teams and how do you find is the easiest way to implement those X's and slashes and gain the understanding on.   Britt (08:42.928) Yeah, Xs and slashes. So two things that help us to be able to at least set us up for success with a schedule a little better. Block scheduling, because it's something like we've had a chance to review, we create our blocks. So in general, in general, we're creating kind of an ideal day with our block scheduling. And then our Xs and slashes implementing those is just all right, by the appointment, let's say it's a crown appointment.   How much time at the beginning is assistant time? How much at the end is assistant time? And it's doctor time in the middle. So it's just breaking down truly for an appointment, which as you do this and as you think about it, I would just go through all our procedures. How much time is doctor time? How much time is assistant time? It's also a chance for some of you to evaluate how efficient we are with some of our appointments. Because I've definitely sat there with some clients and it's like, well, after this, well, then they might just sit there for like 10, 15 minutes. And it's like, all right, well.   The Dental A Team (09:29.685) I love that.   The Dental A Team (09:36.79) huh.   Britt (09:38.876) Just sitting there is an efficient use of patient's time, nor our time. So how can we tighten it up, get it more efficient by looking at those Xs and slashes? And that's really it is seeing breaking down the time. How does it break down most systems? You can pre -program those things. not, you combine treatment. It's not always going to come up perfect. So reevaluate it. And there's ways to communicate those Xs and slashes from the doctor to the scheduler. So we make sure we get them set up right.   The Dental A Team (10:04.242) Thank you.   Britt (10:06.14) but it's really just planning it out, seeing how much time it's gonna take. And then between your blocks and your Xs and slashes, just remember it's not always gonna be an automatic like plug and play. Like we still wanna look at the schedule as a whole and confirm that like, yep, everything looks good there. That makes sense with where I'm putting it. I think it's kind of like a scenario where it's like.   Great, go put the box on the table. But I forgot there's something else on the table. And if you put that box on there, it's going to fall off. But someone's like, well, I put it on the table and it fell off. But you told me to put it on the table. So look at the whole schedule. some common sense. Make sure it makes sense when you actually put that appointment in the schedule when you're using your block scheduling and your x's and slashes.   The Dental A Team (10:51.291) I love that. That's so much good information. So reading the schedule like a pro, we're thinking about it like Sudoku rather than Tetris, but then we're adding that aspect of the blocks and the Xs and slashes to enable us to read it. So Xs and slashes taking what you just said, Britt, right? We're going to time probably time journal, right? You said let's make sure that we're efficiently using our time. And I think to bringing reality so that we can schedule it that way.   Britt (11:19.665) Mm -hmm.   The Dental A Team (11:20.061) When it comes to that, I find with a lot of my clients that number one, one of the first things I hear from my clients is it's never the same. It's always different because every patient is different. And I'm like, totally. I do not discredit that we are not working on robots. We are working on human beings a hundred percent, but there is a trend. There is a commonality somewhere. And when we start doing what Brett's talking about, where we're really looking at the amount of time that we're using,   that's where you find those trends. So you're going to find spaces where you're like, holy cow, this takes me way longer than I thought it did. I need to like be more efficient and use this time more wisely. And then there's going to be spaces where you're like, wow, this is the same every single time you're finding the average time per procedure. And then you're allocating where was my assistant time? Where was my doctor time? The reason that I love access and flashes for it is because a lot of practices forget to   Britt (11:55.739) Mm -hmm.   The Dental A Team (12:17.341) they forget to remember that the assistant needs that time. so doctors oftentimes will be like, yeah, well, we'll get you in for that crown. It'll be like, my time's like 40 minutes max. Your time is 40 minutes max, right? But it's an hour to an hour and a half appointment, depending on the time, the assistant, like all of those pieces. And we forget those in what we're saying. So then we come back to a schedule and   The assistants are like, what the heck did you do? And then like, doctor said 40 minutes. Well, yeah, but our assistant's new time. So the X's and slashes ensure that that gets in there. And then building the blocks based off of your average time helps to make sure that it's easy to schedule. So when we're reading the schedule, if we already have these pieces allocated in our system to make it easy, now reading the schedule like a pro isn't an issue.   Britt (12:59.474) Mm   The Dental A Team (13:12.484) It's when we over complicate things, we forget that there are systems to make things easier and more efficient, we over complicate it. And then we're like, gosh, they don't understand it. They don't know how to schedule. just don't. They're not intuitive enough to understand what the schedule needs to be. Take that out. Like don't require people to be intuitive. That's crazy. Don't require people to just know, put things in place that makes it so that anyone can build and read a schedule.   like you're asking them to. So that's my soapbox for the day. Sudoku reading. If you don't know what Sudoku is or you've never done it, go do it at least once. It's not super easy. They have like an easy version. That's my favorite. But just kind of see what it's like. I think it just makes, I it challenges your brain to look in different ways. So treat the schedule like Sudoku.   Britt (13:46.46) Yes.   Britt (13:57.906) Thank   The Dental A Team (14:06.026) Utilize your X's and slashes in your block. So go time journal if you don't know what it is or if you haven't time journaled in a while Britt, how often do you have doctors time journal? What are you? What's your cadence for that? Like I don't have a set where I'm like always like, it's time to time journal But when do you think that pops back up because I have a lot of doctors listening right now They're like, I did that. I don't need to do that again. When do you think that pops back up for people?   Britt (14:31.11) Well, I think that yearly is not a bad idea, but if we're struggling with our schedule, either running late or having extra time, it's time to do it because we need to reevaluate where our appointments are. So if you're like, what we did a few years ago, but we're having this struggle, well, guess what? If you're having a struggle, it's time to do it again because we need to dial in or adjust those times, right? And sometimes, a lot of times it's doctors getting quicker on things, right? That's a lot of times what it is.   The Dental A Team (14:49.476) Yeah.   Britt (14:58.298) Sometimes it's that we start jamming too much in together. They're running a million places and an appointment that really should, like it's still taking them the same amount of time if they went and sat in one spot, but we've got them jumping around. So we need a reality now of how long does it take now with how we have the schedule set up.   The Dental A Team (15:15.609) I love that you said that. Yes, because things change. It's kind of like expecting your patients to never have a medical history change or like your patients that came in with the laundry list of medications two years ago that they're still on the same laundry list of medications. Like there's either added ones or they've changed. So to think that our schedule is the same as it was the last time we did it is just crazy talk to me, even if you're using block scheduling.   your new patients have fluctuated, your team size has fluctuated. If you've added providers, hygiene or doctor, if you've added assistance, front office, like anything that's changed within the practice, it's like expecting people's mouths to be the same every time, but they've changed medications or they've changed the type of food that they're eating. You guys know what gut health does. Like all of those things change the body. All of those aspects of life change the practice. So doing your time journaling and just checking yourself every   I think once a year is fantastic. Absolutely. And then every time you see like, something's changed. like to say, if it's not easy, it's not working. It's not that life is so easy. You don't have to work. It's that if you're pounding your head against a wall and something is hard, continuously difficult, and you're like, gosh, I'm just like running uphill. That's the universe saying something's not working. So take a step back, look at it from a different view and make sure that those   Britt (16:13.98) you   Britt (16:20.454) The Dental A Team (16:40.919) times that your calibration is actually in place correctly, and maybe go back and recalibrate your appointment. So time journaling, figuring out those X's and slashes, implementing block scheduling, and then looking at the schedule like Sudoku, even if you have the blocks in there, still look you guys like the blocks and the X's and slashes are meant to take some of the thinking out to make it a little bit easier because it makes it so it's not so hard. But it doesn't mean that it's a perfect system.   Sometimes things pop in there sometimes things change and you have to still look at everything like Sudoku So you're looking at it from every different angle time journal X's and slashes Blocks to simplify the scheduling and then learn how to play Sudoku in real life and with your schedule you guys those are the biggest tips I have on reading the schedule like a pro now Brit real quick to wrap up from sitting in a hygiene perspective because that's gonna be dental assistant inside or   mostly from office utilizing those those aspects and those tips from a hygiene perspective. How how do you think would be easy? Like what's an easy way you could tell them to be able to see the full schedule? Maybe you know, three columns on doctor and we've got four hygiene or something from their chair, like how are they able to look at it? And what do you suggest for your hygienist when you have these conversations?   Britt (18:05.776) Yeah, my biggest thing is make sure that you look at the schedule in the morning, right? So you know what the day is going to be and you're not just looking at your schedule. Look at if you've got multiple hygiene, right? Look at hygiene team and look at doctor side and look at your day and see if there's anything that you can do to help that schedule run smoother. And sometimes even you guys know, right? Hygienist, sometimes you'll see something in the schedule that it's like, that's   That's going to be a rough time and sometimes other team members may not notice it. And that's where we work together as a team. So I will plug huddle all day long and walking out of huddle, I will tell my teams walking out of huddle, you should feel like we have a plan to win the day. The day should run smooth. If you're walking out of huddle saying, well, we'll figure it out.   You're setting yourself up for failure and a really rough day. So work together in the morning, make sure we review it, make sure we've got a plan for the day. And then my other plug will be for the entire team is then communicate. So like if you need help with something in this schedule or if something changes that's going to impact someone, I think all clinical Tiff, you could probably even like chime in on this, will appreciate if something changes in the schedule, whether it falls off the schedule or you've added something.   It's good for me to know even if I'm trying to keep an eye on it, because we're thinking, we might be with a patient, we're thinking of the next thing. And if I'm rushing because I have that next patient and that next patient just fell off the schedule, which means I can be a little more present with this current one, it's really helpful for the team to communicate it so we know what's going on and we can make those little pivots or adjustments. Or if I don't think I have something and you add something and I'm kind of not to lollygag, but I'm like, I've got some time, spend a couple of extra minutes with that patient.   but then I realize I've got someone else that I didn't see there before, it's good for me to know so I can better manage time.   The Dental A Team (20:01.683) Yeah, I love that. I've done that to my hygienist before and they were like, I had no idea and I'm like, well, now we're 10 minutes behind. then everybody sat. So everybody sat each other's throat. So I always say over communicate those types of situations like tell people even if you feel like they knew or they saw the schedule that comes like over communicate. So I love that. So morning huddles, make sure that you guys are talking about the schedule and morning huddles. And that means like reading the schedule, right? Not like we're doing five fillings on this patient, but   Britt (20:07.013) Exactly.   Britt (20:11.8) Hello?   The Dental A Team (20:29.423) really looking at the schedule and what those aspects are. Look at the schedule like Sudoku. Over communicate you guys when there's changes or things that you need. And then to make it super easy, utilize those X's and slashes on the block scheduling and time journal frequently to ensure that those are spot on, especially if you feel like you're hitting a wall. Brit, I love your perspective. I love that I can pull the hygiene side out of there. So thank you for that. I loved having you here today. This was so much fun.   Thank you for being here. Thank you for all of your tips and for your hygiene aspect there. I truly value what you're able to do for all of our clients and all of our listeners. So thank you.   Britt (21:08.7) I mean, thanks for having me. I love the hygiene assistant duo. Like it really is the best. It's so much fun. And maybe it's coming from being around assistants so much, but I love the assistant brain and I appreciate that our brains work a little different. And so it's fun to come together on these things.   The Dental A Team (21:12.185) Yeah.   The Dental A Team (21:22.096) Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. I have to tell you, my sister this morning is like, have all this laundry to do. And I'm like, I would just do it. And I'm like going through the process of how I would do her 16 loads of laundry. And she was like, I just look at it and think I have laundry all day and you look at it as how can I make this the most efficient? And I literally said, I think it's from assisting for so many years that I'm like,   Britt (21:36.397) Hahaha   The Dental A Team (21:46.788) just like weave in and out and fit things where they go. But thank you for that. I appreciate it. We could, we can build a beautiful life together.   Britt (21:51.954) Thank   Britt (21:55.218) Assistants are the master multitaskers to make it as easy as possible and Tiff truly is ease. Tiff will look at anything which is the great thing about her and say how can we make this easy?   The Dental A Team (21:59.779) my god, yes. Thank you.   The Dental A Team (22:05.711) Yeah, thank you. Thank you. I don't like stress. I hate being stressed out. So if it's stressful, and it's not easy, it's not for me. And that means it needs to be changed. So I appreciate that. But thank you so much for being here. You guys. This was an amazing podcast. I hope you're taking notes if you were driving, then stop take some notes when you get to where you're going. We listen to this, you can speed it up. You know, you probably have us on like 1 .75 already. But you can speed us up. re listen, take the notes, reach out when you need to reach out.   Britt (22:08.69) Let's not.   The Dental A Team (22:34.958) We're here Hello@TheDentalATeam.com. We love chatting with you guys clients. Now future clients, just a listener like whatever you are, we love to hear from you. So please don't hesitate to reach out and as always drop us a five star review below. Helps us know that this content was super beneficial for you. And also as you're in there, you can give your own tips and tricks and telling you people do listen to that or read them excuse me while they're listening here.   They do read them and so they are taking away your tips and they are understanding that this is a valuable podcast. So thank you so much you guys and we'll catch you next time.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: What Depression Is Like, published by Sable on August 27, 2024 on LessWrong. I was thinking to myself about the difficulties I have explaining depression to people, when I thought of a relatively good metaphor for it. Bear with me. Sudoku For anyone unaware, Sudoku is a puzzle where one tries to fill in a 9x9 grid of numbers according to certain rules: Each row, column, and 3x3 square must have the numbers 1-9 in them, without repeating any numbers. Black numbers are given, red numbers start as blank squares and must be solved by the puzzler. It's a common form of brain teaser, much like a crossword puzzle or logic puzzle. Some Sudoku puzzles are difficult and some are easy; for our purposes we'll think about ones that are relatively easy. Brain App Imagine, for a moment, that someone hacked your brain, and installed an app in it (don't worry about the how). What this app does is force you to - whenever you want to do something - solve a mild Sudoku puzzle first. Not a hard one, it's not difficult, just annoying. Want to get out of bed? Solve a Sudoku puzzle. Want to start work in the morning? Solve a Sudoku puzzle. Want to get dressed, workout, eat, talk to someone, etc.? First you've got to solve the puzzle. At first it's irritating, but you adapt. You figure out shortcuts for solving Sudoku puzzles. It's brainpower you're not expending on anything useful, but you get by. This is the base case, the core of the metaphor. Now we expand it. There are two dimensions along which this nefarious app gets more annoying as time goes on: 1. It decreases the granularity of the actions to which it applies. In other words, where before you had to solve a Sudoku puzzle to go to work, now you've got to solve a puzzle to get dressed, a puzzle to get in the car, a puzzle to drive, and a puzzle to actually get started working. Before all of those counted as a single action - 'go to work' - now they're counted separately, as discrete steps, and each requires a puzzle. 2. It increases the number of puzzles you have to solve to do anything. At first it's just one Sudoku puzzle; eventually, it's two, then three, and so on. Having to solve a single Sudoku puzzle whenever you want to do anything is annoying; having to solve five is downright irritating. So what happens to you - what does your life look like - with this app running in your head? Dimension 1 As the depression gets worse, the granularity of the actions requiring Sudoku solves gets smaller. What does this look like? At first you go through your normal morning routine, except that upon waking up, you need to solve the Sudoku puzzle to get started. Then you have to do a Sudoku puzzle to get out of bed, another to make coffee, another to get dressed, another to shower, and so on. Then you have to do a Sudoku puzzle to open your eyes, another to sit up, another to swing your legs around and another to actually stand up. Finally, each individual muscle contraction comes with its own Sudoku puzzle. Want to sit up? That single action is composed of many pieces: your arms shift to support your weight, your stomach contracts to pull you up, your leg muscles tighten to keep your lower body in place. All of those now require their own puzzles. Each puzzle, on its own, isn't particularly difficult. But they do take some nonzero amount of effort, and when you add that required effort to every single thing you do, suddenly you find yourself doing a lot less. 'Getting out of bed' is now a complicated, multi-step operation that takes way more work than it used to. Solving all these puzzles takes time, too, so you're slower than you used to be at everything. Activities or jobs that you used to breeze through in seconds can stretch into minutes. Parts of your routine that never left you tired now leave you feeling like your brain has been lift...

In this heartwarming and motivational episode, we welcome Rahul Karan Sharma, a true example of authentic leadership and a global inspiration. Rahul isn't just an accomplished author, empowerment speaker, and mindset coach; he lives by his father's empowering mantra, "Where there is a will, there is a way," demonstrating how a powerful mindset can conquer any obstacle.Here's what you'll discover:- Mastering Your Mindset: Understand the significance of mental mastery through Rahul's engaging stories and insightful analogies, like the "cockroach theory," which highlights the importance of staying focused amidst distractions.- Real-World Advice: Get actionable tips on embracing positivity, overcoming life's challenges, and the critical process of unlearning old habits to pave the way for new growth.- Key Insights: Explore key takeaways through the stories shared by both Rahul and Elaine which are brimming with practical strategies for achieving your goals.Rahul's dedication to continuous learning and helping others evolve shines through every word. His authentic approach provides a clear path to success through resilience and positive thinking. Join us for a conversation that's not only insightful but also deeply inspiring, and take the first step towards unlocking your true potential!About the Guest:(bio, personal links, resource links)Meet Rahul Karan Sharma, a true example of authentic leadership and global inspiration. He's not just an accomplished author, empowerment speaker, and mindset coach, but someone who lives by his father's saying, "Where there is a will, there is a way." Rahul's impressive academic background, including an MBA in Human Resources and a Master's in Organization Development, shows his commitment to personal growth. He's got a knack for understanding organizational dynamics and helping individuals and teams reach their full potential. His books, like "Habits4Miracles" and the bestseller "Be Action Oriented," are packed with insights for building extraordinary careers. Living in Ashburn, Virginia, Rahul loves spending time with his family, tackling Sudoku puzzles, swimming, and constantly learning and evolving.Free Gift: Complimentary ebook - "Be Action Oriented" Ready to seize control of your life and make your dreams a reality? "Be Action Oriented" empowers you to succeed, find balance, and happiness. This transformative book reveals the life keys for consistent action towards your goals. Lead a purposeful life with a positive mindset. Stay motivated with this life-changing read. Download your copy here: www.habits4miracles.com/jumpstart How to Show Support: I would appreciate it if the audience could comment, share, and like our podcast episode.Social Media Links:www.youtube.com/@rahulkaransharmahttps://www.facebook.com/Habits4MIRACLES. https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahulkaransharma/ https://www.instagram.com/preparewithrahul/https://twitter.com/rahulphrAbout the Host, Elaine Starling: (bio, personal links, resource links)An international TEDx speaker, bestselling author, coach and mentor, ElaineStarling is recognized for her video show and podcast, The Abundance Journey.After a comprehensive conversation with our higher power during a stroke, Elaine created The Abundance Journey 6 week course to share what she learned. As the Abundance Ambassador, Elaine mentors spiritual, growth-oriented women to align with Divine guidance to achieve their dreams. Elaine's clients experience more clarity, confidence, and commit to action that achieves their goals.Elaine Starling Social Media Links:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elaine.abundance Linkedin:...

You have a limited offer you can use now, that gets you up to 48% off your first subscription or 20% off one time purchases with code ITCHY20 at checkout. You can claim it at: https://magicmind.com/itchyKaren explores the topic of improving focus and concentration, sharing research-backed methods to help listeners sharpen their mental clarity. From brain training games like Sudoku and crossword puzzles to the benefits of regular exercise and proper sleep, Karen provides practical tips for enhancing cognitive function.

All the links: LINKTR.EE/BARBARAFAISON 2024 - Week 30 - How are You Sleeping? You can listen to this on my podcast - 5:42 mins or click the link here for the YouTube Channel version (audio only) This is an episode about sleep! Have you ever had a night where you didn't sleep well? I didn't rest well for a few days because I had some pains in my body. It was rough. My left shoulder was bothering me so I couldn't get be on my left side, and my right lower back above my hip was hurting and when I turned to lie on my back, I just couldn't get comfortable. I could feel the after effects of the restlessness several days later. I'm grateful that my sleep is back to normal now . Having a sleep hygiene routine has been very helpful. I usually get off my phone or tablet about 30 minutes before I go to bed and lately I have been either reading a book with essays or doing a jigsaw puzzle to calm my mind down and get ready for bed. The mind likes to have something to do, so I do my best to make my before bed that stuff, relaxing. I did a little research to find out how common sleep issues are. According to the State of Sleep in the U.S. and Sleep Statistics from the Center for Advancing Health, I found out a few statistics about sleep and sleep habits: 53% of U.S. adults say worrying about inflation/cost of living has negatively impacted their sleep. 43% of U.S. adults say they experience insomnia. 18% of U.S. adults say worrying about the 2024 presidential election has negatively impacted their sleep. 51% or more than half of Americans say their symptoms prevent them from getting enough sleep. Symptoms include back pain, joint pain, and heartburn. 41% say their anxiety over what will happen the next day keeps them up at night. Temperature also plays a role, with 31% saying it's either too hot or too cold to sleep. 73% of U.S. adults follow a regular bedtime routine. 20% of U.S. adults say they stop using devices with screens 20-30 minutes before going to sleep. The mind is usually still active until we give it something to do to calm it down. My current sleep hygiene routine may include: Getting off my devices (phone, computer & tablet). Reading a few pages from a book that isn't stimulating. A short bedtime qigong practice (about 10-12 minutes) Deep breathing while in the bed- 4 breaths in through the nose and 8 breaths out through mouth. Here are a few suggestions for you to consider before bedtime: Put away your phone/tablet/devices at least 30 minutes or longer before bed. Turn off the television before bed. Do a jigsaw puzzle. Do word search, Sudoku or crossword puzzles (not in the bed). Bedtime Qigong (search on YouTube for short practices). Deep breathing - try 4 breaths in through the nose and 6 or 8 breaths out the mouth. Practice Yoga Nidra for sleep (search on YouTube for short practices). Take a warm bath with epsom salts (Dr. Teal is one of my favs.) Sleep with the phone in a different room. Listen to a bedtime story or meditation. A few years ago I collaborated with another teacher, JuneB, on the Insight Timer APP to create a few adult bedtime stories, she wrote the scripts and I narrated them. You can find time on the Insight Timer APP if you are interested. I also have them on my Bedtime with Barbara Playlist on my YouTube channel. Going to bed at the same time is part of a routine that many sleep experts recommend. I'm not there yet, on the weekends, I tend to stay up later than usual. Lol. Do you have a bedtime routine that you use? You can leave a comment wherever you are listening to this podcast. If you'd like to share your thoughts with me - barbarafaisonllc@gmail.com is the best way to reach me. And if social media is better for you, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram, are best. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/barbara-faison/support

Do you revel in solving a good brain teaser or completing a crossword puzzle?  Climbing your family tree can feel a little like piecing together a tricky jigsaw.  It is certainly about more than just collecting names on a pedigree chart like a simple dot to dot.Early in his career, Josh Harman was a young, slightly overconfident, product manager at Ancestry who thoroughly enjoyed solving technical problems but thought genealogy was boring. He didn't understand the obsession.  Listen in as he shares some of the transformative moments that helped him evolve from simply doing his job to truly embracing the role he played in facilitating deeply meaningful experiences for others. This journey not only changed his professional outlook and contributions but echoed through his personal life and helped reshape his understanding of his own identity and values.Join us to explore how piecing together your own family history can deeply connect you with your past and illuminate your place in your family narrative.  That process will light up your brain as much as any puzzle._______________________________________________Please rate and review this podcast and then share it with your family and friends.For ideas on how to connect more deeply with your family through family stories, follow Crista on Instagram @CristaCowan.

I recently got into the Wordle craze (a bit late I know).Got me to thinking though – why do we like games like Wordle, Crosswords, Sudoku, etc.? And does this same thought process apply to pickleball?Start here: why do we play a game like Wordle?Is it because of the game's solution? The solution, itself, is what we are after.Or is it because of the work it takes to get to the solution? The solution is relevant because we are working toward it, but the reason for the game is the steps it takes to get there.Stay with me here because it might just be the mental breakthrough you need to hear.Wordle does not teach me new words when I play it. In other words, I am not discovering a new word when I solve the puzzle. That is not the point of it.In any event, in a few weeks I will forget the ones from this week. That is not the point of it.The reason for playing Wordle is in the act itself of working to solve the puzzle. That is the point of it.In a year I will not remember the exact words I work on this week, but I will have gained the benefit of a more nimble mind, having worked through somewhere around 300+ Wordles during that time.Pickleball is exactly the same.What were your pickleball scores when you played on April 10, 2024? June 15, 2023? You get the picture.The scores do not matter. Neither do the outcomes of specific rallies (think it through – there's no difference).What matters is that you are playing. You are hitting the ball. Trying to do your best each time you swing the paddle.The joy of pickleball is in the process – the playing. Not in the results – the winning or losing.Each time you play, you try to do the best you can. If you want to play better, you can study the game and put in some work. Even in those moments you can embrace the journey – because there is value in that.As you play, your life improves. Your body is better for it. Your mind is better for it. Your soul is better for it.Don't let the outcomes rob you of the joy that is present with every shot you hit on a pickleball court. Outcomes are not the point of it. Playing is.Join us for the Summit. Get your ticket at pickleballsummit.com or just click here.And for the best coaching available, join us inside The Better Pickleball Academy. Visit BetterPickleball.com and click on classes to get a list of all our courses. Or you can click here.Join our email list: https://betterpickleball.com/See you there.Tony

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Today on the Salesforce Admins Podcast, we talk to Rangsk, a Wordle and Sudoku YouTuber. Join us as we chat about critical thinking, problem-solving, and why puzzles are a great way to practice and improve your thinking. You should subscribe for the full episode, but here are a few takeaways from our conversation with Rangsk. […] The post How Can Solving Sudoku and Wordle Enhance Your Critical Thinking Skills? appeared first on Salesforce Admins.

Dementia is common – more than 400,000 Australians are living with it – but it's not an inevitable part of ageing.There are ways to lower your risk, and the sooner you start, the better off you'll be.Norman and Tegan give us the top tips needed to lower your risk of developing the illness as you get older.References:Physical and Mental Activity, Disease Susceptibility, and Risk of Dementia: A Prospective Cohort Study Based on UK BiobankAssociation of Lifespan Cognitive Reserve Indicator With Dementia Risk in the Presence of Brain PathologiesDrugs Contributing to Anticholinergic Burden and Risk of Fall or Fall-Related Injury among Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment, Dementia and Multiple Chronic Conditions

We're dropping a fun little treat in your feed today: it's an episode of The Puzzler, a new podcast from writer A.J. Jacobs, who was my guest on Ten Percent Happier at the beginning of December. His new book, also called The Puzzler, is all about his exploration of the world of puzzles – everything from word games to jigsaw puzzles to Sudoku and beyond – and how what he calls “the puzzle mindset” can really improve your life.So then he asked me to be his guest on The Puzzler, a daily podcast that he hosts, with so-called “celebrity” guests trying to do puzzles. I've said before that I'm not really a puzzle guy, but A.J. is a delight and it was a lot of fun getting to be on his show – and that's the episode we're sharing with you today. You can find “The Puzzler with A.J. Jacobs” wherever you get your podcasts. And thanks, A.J., for having me. Sign up for Dan's weekly newsletter hereFollow Dan on social: Instagram, TikTokTen Percent Happier online bookstoreSubscribe to our YouTube ChannelOur favorite playlists on: Anxiety, Sleep, Relationships, Most Popular EpisodesFor tickets to Dan Harris: Celebrating 10 Years of 10% Happier at Symphony Space: click hereAdditional Resources:Download the Ten Percent Happier app today: https://10percenthappier.app.link/installSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.