The lynda.com Story: 10 things i know to be true

The lynda.com Story: Bruce Heavin and Lynda Weinman share accounts of learning, teaching, and building their company.

  1. Things i did early in life may not seem to have meaning then. But today they make all the sense in the world.
  2. Business doesn't have to be a win / lose or winner take all proposition. Everyone can win.
  3. Your passions are your drive in life, love & career. Do not ignore them.
  4. To master anything in life you must do it again and again, over and over. Often without success, but learning and fine tuning along the way.
  5. Education is life long. Stay hungry. Stay curious.
  6. Our biggest successes happened when the biggest doors of opportunity were slammed shut. Learn to look for other ways to achieve your goals when opportunities close. Own your problem and invent your own solution when others will not solve the problem for you.
  7. Do what you love and do it really, really, really well.
  8. My best education experiences happened when I was the motivated learner, making up my own experience.
  9. Curiosity only kills cats.
  10. Make your mistakes, frequently, fast and often. Just not repetitively.

Primal Blueprint

It all sounds very logical, but on the other hand we have been doing agriculture for the last ten thousand years. So why do we do it if it's not what our body needs? The best thing about eating unprocessed foods, I think, is you don't get all the conservation crap :)

".. I call it the Primal Blueprint. It eschews complicated workout regimens, tedious calorie counting, and weight loss gimmicks. My Primal laws are based on a rock solid foundation: evolutionary biology and anthropology mixed with modern human ingenuity. I take what worked for tens of thousands of years throughout human prehistory and incorporate contemporary science to confirm its veracity. When you go back and look at the fossil records of our hunter-gatherer, pre-agricultural ancestors, you find that they were healthy, strong, and largely free of degenerative diseases – especially compared to the health of post-agricultural and even modern humans.

The result is an incredibly simple, incredibly effective way to live, move, and eat: eat the things our ancestors ate, get the amount of sleep our ancestors used to get, and make the same movements our ancestors used to make before agriculture.

Take Action

If you take anything from this post remember these two action items:

1. The ideal human diet should consist of only whole, unprocessed foods – meat, fish, fowl, plants, fruits, and nuts. Whatever you can kill, pick, or dig up and eat on the spot. This is what your ancestors ate and what your body is meant to consume.

2. By the same token, the best exercise consists of natural, full-body movements – lifting heavy things, sprinting, walking, swimming, hiking, climbing, crawling. This is how your ancestors moved and how your body is meant to function."