how to eat when you have to

It's a draft of TM speech #9 Number 9... Number 9... Number 9... Fellow ToastMasters! It took me 9 speeches to realize I only have one speech to give. I was talking about cooking, negotiations, technology, motivation, weight loss, growth mindset, but I was just beating around the bush. This is the speech I wanted to give forever.  This is the city where I need to tell my story. In a speech number 9 I am supposed to persuade my audience. Well I must be suicidal, because I'm trying to convince a bunch of new yorkers in a middle of New York to stop being efficient. But hey, all I have is 5 minutes of your time and an urge to tell a story so I'd better get to it. First, we'll go back in time to see what's wrong with efficiency. Then we'll try to find some alternatives for it, and finally, I'll show you how the decision to stop being efficient changed my life. Nimrod was leading a high profile real estate development project in ancient Babylonia. He motivat...

A draft for a contest speech In 1971 Walt Disney opened the doors of Disney World Magic Kingdom in Orlando, Florida. A year later I was born. When I was 6 years old my father brought me the news: We are going to Disney World!  A place of Futuristic Technology, Magic and Movies. A place where Mikey Mouse can be spotted in the wild. A place where a dreamer like you would feel at home. But first we have to run away from Soviet Russia, get to America and make a lot of money. This journey would be long and hard, but it would be worth it. Mrs. Contest Chair, Most Gracious Judges and Lovely Audience. I had NO IDEA how long my journey would be. It took 11 years to run away from Soviet Russia, another 11 years to get to America and another 11 years to make a lot of money, but last week I finally made it! I was there! I was in Disney World! And today I'm going to share  The How, The WOW and the Vow  of Disney World with you. How to go to Disney World. Step One: Find a Crazy...

I am redoing my previous post, to make it speech worthy. A teacher asks a class to tell about their objects of worship. Other kids are telling about stone Buddhas and wooden Jesuses, and this cute but chubby boy sais: we have a metal object of worship. Every morning my mother stands on it and says "Oh My God!" Mr Toastmasters, fellow Toastmasters and welcome Guests, Please raise your hand if you know someone who made new year resolutions related to diet, exercise or weight loss... Great! I think I found my audience! I was thinking about weight loss forever. I remember sitting down in elementary school , grabbing my tiny belly with my tiny hands and proclaiming to myself: this gotta go! 30 years later, my self-image did not change a bit: I still see myself as cute but chubby. I still think about weight loss. By the way, I lost some weight in the last two weeks. 2 1/2 pounds. According to Mayo Clinic , this is the healthy way to lose weight: 1-2 lbs per week. I'm just sho...

6 months ago I did a post on losing 40 lbs. Now it's time for a rehash of that post. It's also a draft for my 7th TM speech, "Research your topic" I lost 45 lbs in less then two years, and today I'm going to tell you how I did it. First of all, let's see what we're talking about: (Snatches a 45 lbs kettlebell) This is 45 lbs. You can pass it around. Please don't loose it! By the way, let's revisit the terms. Do you think it's possible to loose 45 pounds? Try it! I'm sure it would be easy to find. So first of all, you never lose 45 lbs at once. You need to slice it and dice it, chip little pieces, an ounce here, a quarter-pound there, and you keep doing other stuff to keep your mind occupied. Weight loss is what happens to you while you're busy doing other stuff. Same goes for weight gain. And growing old. And getting strong. And loosing your mind. It all takes time and consistency. Now let's see if we have some weight loss experts h...

-Hello I'm a Verizon FIOS customer service representative. -No. You are not. You are a machine. Can I speak to a real person? -I can help you. -No. You can not. We tried it before and you could not help me. I want to speak to a human being. Take me to your leader! -Please listen carefully because our menu options have changed... -I don't care about your menu options! I care about my problem! You don't understand it because you are a stupid robot! I want to speak to an agent! A Human! Flash and Blood!!! -I don't understand! -YOU IDIOT!!! GO AWAY!!! GIMME HUMAN!!! HOMO SAPIENS!!! AAAAAHHH!!! ... and then the voice answering service turned passive-aggressive on me. It turned the elevator music on and became unresponsive. There's a happy end to this story, but first let's talk about what technology wants. "What Technology Wants" is a book by Kevin Kelly , a founding editor of Wired magazine.  If you read it you'd learn that Technology is ver...

You can't shock a 20-something native Russian speaker with a curse word. For two reasons: Russian language has 45 million curse words, and most curse words are just nicknames for lovemaking tools and preferences. But this word I first heard in Israeli army really shocked me. I'll tell it to you in Hebrew so that it sounds as foreign to you as it sounded to me back then. Alex hu maniack , sociomat, ein lo Motivatzia... Which means, "Alex lacks motivation" Ladies an gentlemen, Motivation is a curse! Hear me out and you'll learn about the history the word 'Motivation', how to use motivation as a glue when you build your corporate pyramid, and how you, my friend, are different from a wind-up monkey When I first heard the word Motivation, I knew it meant something really bad, but all I understood was that motivation is an ability to want something you don't want. Like dying in a battle serving your country. Call me crazy, but I was happy that I ...

When it comes to food pyramids, I totally trust my government ( I like MyPyramid, I think my people should have copyrighted this term back in ancient Egypt). If you look at the picture it's very clear that in order to be healthier you should walk on the rainbow while skipping stairs and at the end you die. In other words, you should eat whatever you are hungry for, an the higher you are on the ladder, the less food you need. But food pyramids are not interesting. Because eating is just a bodily function, and is definitely not as interesting as walking on rainbows. Cooking , on the other hand is a fascinating topic. And in the next 5 minutes I'm going to tell you all I know about cooking. I compressed my knowledge into a Cook Pyramid. Each level of the pyramid is a level of understanding. The levels are : People, Ingredients, Timing and Construction. First and foremost, cooking is about people. You cook to make someone's life delicious. You cook because you care. You cook ...