The care and feeding (and shunning) of vampires

Vampires, of course, feed on something that we desperately need but also can't imagine being a source of food.

You have metaphorical vampires in your life. These are people that feed on negativity, on shooting down ideas and most of all, on extinguishing your desire to make things better.

Why would someone do that? Why would they rush to respond to a heartfelt and generous blog post with a snide comment about a typo in the third line? Why would they go out of their way to fold their arms, make a grimace and destroy any hope you had for changing the status quo?

Vampires cannot be cured. They cannot be taught, they cannot learn the error of their ways. Most of all, vampires will never understand how much damage they're doing to you and your work. Pity the vampires, they are doomed to this life.

Your garlic is simple: shun them. Delete their email, turn off comments, don't read your one-star reviews. Don't attend meetings where they show up. Don't buy into the false expectation that in an organizational democracy, every voice matters. Every voice doesn't matter--only the voices that move your idea forward, that make it better, that make you better, that make it more likely you will ship work that benefits your tribe.

It's so tempting to evangelize to the vampires, to prove them wrong, to help them see how destructive they are. This is food for them, merely encouragement.

Shun the ones who feed on your failures.

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"Bring us your problems"

We're far more aware of our problems than our opportunities. Our problems nag at us, annoy us and paralyze us.

Every organization wrestles with its problems, and is eager to solve them.

When you generously invite people to bring you their problems, they might just do that.

Solving problems—actually solving them, not just claiming you do—solving perceived, urgent problems, is a surefire way to get the world to beat a path to your door. [HT to Adrian for the photo.]

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最傷腸胃食物大盤點

  1.油炸食品

  像炸雞塊、炸薯條之類的油炸食物不可避免是富含油脂和高脂肪的,而這兩種物質堆積在胃裡就會造成疾病。油脂在高溫下會產生一種叫“丙烯酸”的物質,這種物質很難消化。

  某營養學家說:“如果你已經患有等方面的疾病,那麼尤其要注意少吃多油、多脂的油炸食品,否則會引起一些不適癥狀,比如反胃、腹瀉等。”

  對策:

  其實要滿足口腹之欲,放棄油炸也能獲得可口的感覺,比如想獲得咯吱咯吱的享受,吃咸味薯片肯定是不健康的,但是可以尋找制作土豆片的其他方法,比如烘焙而不是油炸,或選擇吃低脂或無脂食品,比如脆餅乾、空心的爆米花等。

最傷腸胃食物大盤點

  2.辛辣食物

  辣椒能刺激食道的內壁,吃完後會有種令人討厭的心痛,並且增加胃的負擔。

  即使你想加一些酸奶油使它變涼,你仍然能獲得同樣的刺激。而且,加上酸奶油之類的東西反而會遭受其他的副作用。

  對策:

  對於腸胃不好或是身體燥熱的人來說,如果實在拒絕不了辛辣食物的誘惑,不妨選擇一些微辣的食品,少吃青、紅辣椒。


  最傷腸胃食物大盤點

  3.巧克力

  大量食用巧克力不但會帶來多餘的熱量,而且遭受胃食管反流病折磨的人,都經歷過食用巧克力後帶來的難受刺激。這是因為巧克力會引起下食道括約肌的放松,使得胃酸回流,刺激食道及咽部。

  對策:

  在巧克力品種的選擇上,最好是黑巧克力。這是因為,黑巧克力含有鈣、磷、鎂、鐵、銅等多種對人體有益的礦物質,在所有巧克力中,它是含糖量和脂肪量最低的。


  最傷腸胃食物大盤點

  4.柑橘汁

  酸性飲料能夠刺激食道,使感覺神經受到刺激,刺激的部位就會變得紅腫。

  如果你早晨起來後,第一件事就是喝下一大杯柑橘汁,就會提高胃腸內的酸性。如果此時你喝的是含有高濃度果糖的甜檸檬水,那就更要注意了,因為攝入過量的糖會造成腹瀉。

  對策:

  柑橘汁含有大量的維生素C,適宜經常飲用,只要選對飲用的時間就不用擔心刺激食道的問題了。飲用柑橘汁之類酸果汁的最佳時間是隨餐,或者在兩餐之間。

  此外,黑巧克力還有降壓、預防動脈粥樣硬化的作用。但是,再好的東西也不能吃太多,每天最多只能吃兩小塊。


  最傷腸胃食物大盤點

  5.土豆泥

  土豆是低熱量、高蛋白、含有多種維生素和微量元素的食品,被稱為理想的減肥食品。似乎沒有東西比一碗土豆泥更受人們歡迎的了。這就是為什麼當提到所謂的“方便食物”時,土豆泥總被列為榜首的原因。

  但加有奶油或奶酪的土豆泥就沒有那麼想象中那麼好了。在美國,有3000?5000萬乳糖不耐受的人,但是如果你也是這樣的人,就不適合享用奶油土豆泥。這是因為,土豆泥裡加的牛奶、奶油或乳酪,會讓你的胃很難受。

  對策:

  最好不要購買外賣的土豆泥,自己在家完全可以用新鮮的土豆,蒸或煮出不添加任何作料的純味土豆泥。


  最傷腸胃食物大盤點

  6.生洋蔥

  洋蔥、大蒜、韭菜裡面充滿了多種營養元素,它們對健康大有裨益,比如保護心髒,但是它們也會導致腸胃不適,比如脹氣、腹部絞痛等。但是通過烹飪似乎可以使引起腸胃不適的營養混合物不起壞的作用。

  對策:

  營養學專家建議,吃這些食物時可以生熟混合的烹飪方法,這樣可以使你不僅能收獲健康,而且不用遭受負面的影響。

  7.冰激凌

  沒有一種迅速的方法能測定你是不是乳糖不耐受,只有等你坐下來吃一大碗的冰激凌纔能知道。當你腹脹、腹部絞痛、脹氣時,這些身體的反應就是告訴你要遠離這些富含乳制品的食物。

  像冰激凌、冰棍、冰冷飲料等生冷食物如果吃得過多,就會影響功能的正常運轉,造成食物很難消化,容易損傷脾胃。吃的時候雖然美味無窮,但之後卻會導致食欲下降,也會刺激脾胃,形成腹脹、腹痛的惡性循環。

  對策:

  如果你不想放棄涼爽的冰凍食品,那麼惟一的解決辦法就是改吃無乳糖的冰凍食物,比如使用豆類、米粉煮成的糊糊。但是即使你不是乳糖不耐受,冰激凌裡面含有大量脂肪,而脂肪在胃裡面滯留的時間比其他食物都長。因此生冷的食物最好少吃或者不吃。


  最傷腸胃食物大盤點

  8.西蘭花和卷心菜

  西蘭花和卷心菜都是“十子花科”蔬菜中的佼佼者,不但富含大量維生素和膳食纖維,還有防癌、抗衰老的功效。

  但即使富含膳食纖維和多種營養素,這些蔬菜也不能完全相信是健康的。因為高纖維的蔬菜能幫助橕大你的胃容量,容易導致腸胃內多餘的氣體累積。

  對策:

  解決問題的方法很簡單,只要在吃之前,將它們在熱水中焯一下,使其變軟,這樣便可以使產生氣體的硫磺混合物失去作用。這兩種蔬菜最適合涼拌和烹炒。


  最傷腸胃食物大盤點

  9.豆類

  豆類在引起消化不良方面可謂聲名狼藉。豆類所含的低聚糖如水蘇糖和棉子糖,被腸道細菌發酵,能分解產生一些氣體,進而引起打嗝、腸鳴、腹脹、腹痛等癥狀。

  嚴重消化性潰瘍病人不要食用豆制品,因為豆制品中嘌呤含量高,有促進胃液分泌的作用。急性胃炎和慢性淺表性患者也不要食用豆制品,以免刺激胃酸分泌和引起胃腸脹氣。

  對策:

  以湯的形式烹飪豆類,對消化這類食物是有幫助的,通過補充水分,有助於消化豆裡面含有的大量纖維,或者延長烹飪時間。另外就是要逐漸把豆類食品增加到飲食中,這樣會慢慢增加消化豆類所用的?的需求,而不會出現副作用。

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昨天,南崗教化廣場附近某咖啡店老板剛從老家過年回來,就張羅著“慶功”。原來,春節前她在微信發布了一條“轉讓”消息,稱春節假日一元“轉讓”咖啡店,被選中的合作者可以每人全權管理一天。一時間引來了近百位報名者。最終,選定7位“代理老板”每人經營一天。沒想到,春節假期,銷售額達到了4000多元,遠遠超過了老板的預期。

  記者看到,該微信消息中寫道:“從初一到初七,我們把咖啡店全權交給你管理!象征性收一元轉讓費,期間營業額我們五五分賬。”在咖啡店裡,老板回憶起節前面試“代理老板”的“盛況”:“我春節想休息,結果一些老顧客提出還想來店,我說乾脆你們自己管吧。後來一想,試試交給別人管理也不錯。發消息第一天就有50多人報名,最後報名近百人,實在是沒想到。”

  據了解,報名條件十分簡單:光顧過或者聽說過該店、喜歡該店的即可。參加面試並最終入選的馬女士興奮地對記者說:“我一直想自己開個小店,沒成。這次就是希望可以體驗一下,也算圓夢一天。”

  據介紹,大年初五的“代理老板”小欣創造了1200元的日銷售紀錄。7天長假身兼廚師、咖啡師和代理老板多種職務的老顧客文文、天昊和小然也都業績斐然。來店客人並非都是熟人、朋友,慕名而來的新面孔反而居多。老板透露,以後的長假或節假日還會考慮這種形式經營。

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Modesty and hubris

When you're seeking to succeed with your art, it's helpful to see how those before you have done it. And so the conference was invented. The ones where recently successful internet entrepreneurs tell their stories are particularly popular right now, but you can certainly find designers, novelists and others that are generous enough to talk about how they succeeded.

Some speakers at these events are brimming with false modesty. "I'm incredibly successful and happy, it happened really fast and I have no idea what I'm doing." The appeal here is the same that works for the lottery. Someone has to win, it might as well be you, it's easy, buy a ticket.

Some speakers, on the other hand, bring false hubris to the table. "This is incredibly difficult, I worked harder than you can imagine, and only a perfect storm of effort and connections that were created directly by me led to this moment."

The truth, of course, is a combination of both. "I worked really hard, back against the wall, thinking I was going to fail, almost did, and I got lucky." And that's like hearing that there's a lottery and the tickets are very expensive.

But it's true.

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