壓力大易“上火”
大熱天的，仍然有不少人喜歡邊嘆空調喝冷飲邊吃紅油火鍋。有不少人吃時嘴上過癮，但一齣飯店門口就感嘆肚子裏似燒著“一團火”，甚至拉肚子、肛門出血，第二天咽喉發炎、口腔潰瘍，一齣家門就直奔涼茶鋪急著要“滅火”，連續堅持幾天，喝得胃口全沒可“火氣”似乎仍在，搞不清原因一個勁地埋怨“鬼天氣，太熱了”！
“中醫講‘天人相應’，夏季氣溫高，人體陽氣也偏旺，確實更容易上火。”楊小紅分析稱，天熱只是一個外部的誘因，其實飲食起居不當造成體內陰陽失調，才是虛熱或實熱偏盛的主要原因。
特別是喜歡熬夜、吃辣或是壓力大的人群，陰陽更容易失調，往往更容易出現聲音沙啞、口乾口苦、咽喉發炎、口腔潰瘍等“上火”症狀。
降火需先分清“虛”、“實”
核心提示：春節日日臨近，人人都盼望著回家與自己的父母團聚，而對於成了家的人來説，回誰的家過年成了難題。婆家娘家，都是需要自己盡孝的老人，除夕該回哪邊？
異地媳婦想回家過年成心病
肖女士是外省人，在外漂泊20多年，只有春節，她才能回老家陪陪父母，盡盡孝道。但在昆明成家後，春節回不了娘家就成了她的一塊心病。
“以前年三十都在昆明過，對爸媽實在愧疚，他們養大我多不容易，平時沒有時間回去，過年也不能回去吃個團圓飯，雖然父母沒説什麼，但我明白，他們很失望！”
去年，肖女士跟公公婆婆提出了回老家過年的想法，公公和婆婆答應了，“但事後他們話裏話外難掩不滿，但想到去年和父母久違的親情帶來的幸福感，今年我還是想回娘家過年，但跟公公婆婆還有丈夫怎麼開口呢？”
哪一對伴侶沒有獨特的愛稱呢？ 我的小心肝，我的小貓咪，我的小寶貝，我的小老鼠……法國搖滾歌手班納巴爾唱的《愛之語》，給我們列出了一張伴侶愛稱的清單。
給心愛的人一個愛稱，是一種世界性的癮——很多法國人稱自己心愛的人為“我的小白菜”；很多阿拉伯人則稱親愛的人為“我的黃瓜”。傳説美國總統喬治·布希把“外夫”芭芭拉稱為“親愛的叫喳喳的喜鵲”，好笑吧——這説明，稱也就兩人之間才能説和聽，要是被人知道了，就有點難為情。法國兩性關係治療師羅伯特·內博格説的：“在人前互相叫愛稱，似乎顯得不莊重，好像是把彼此的親密關係暴露在人前，那感覺就像是在説‘看，我們正親熱呢！’”
雖然有不少人覺得，愛稱就像是我們穿的內衣，不能示人，可還是會有另外一些人，無論人前還是人後都毫不猶豫地這樣稱呼對方——這樣使用愛稱時，他們感覺像在家裏一樣自在。熱戀期的情侶更是如此，愛稱就是他們在全世界面前的愛情宣言。
把兩個人變成一對兒
不管是耳邊細語還是盡人皆知，愛稱都有一個共同的作用：把兩個人變成“一對兒”，一個“我們”。這是創建情侶文化的方式之一，雙方都會有種只有自己才知道如何解讀這些愛的密碼的感覺。愛稱越是特別，就表示他們的愛情故事越是與眾不同。
謊言（一）：沒有父母不愛自己的孩子
這是天下無數謊言中的No.1。
這個謊言如此絕對，以至於很容易被駁倒。實際上，我們只需要找出一個例外就可以駁倒這個斷言，而這樣的“例外”又實在是太多太可怕了。譬如：
廣州花都區的女孩阿俊，被母親割掉雙耳；
復旦大學研究生ZLL，因虐殺幾十隻貓而轟動一時，但他虐貓的另一面卻是愛貓，而這種“我愛你，所以虐待你”的變態心理卻源自父親對他的苛刻和虐待，譬如多次因小事暴打他，還常將其關在家門外過夜；
Most of all, money is a story
Money's pretty new. Before that, we traded. My corn for your milk. The trade enriches both of us, and it's simple.
Money, of course, makes a whole bunch of other transactions possible. Maybe I don't need your milk, but I can take your money and use it to buy something I do need, from someone else. Very efficient, but also very abstract.
As we ceased to trade, we moved all of our transactions to the abstract world of money. And the thing about an abstract trade is that it happens over time, not all at once. So I trade you this tuition money today in exchange for degree in four years which might get me a better job in nine years. Not only is there risk involved, but who knows what the value of anything nine years from now is?
Because of the abstraction and time shift, we're constantly re-evaluating what money is worth. Five dollars to buy a snack box on an airplane is worth something very different than five dollars to buy a cup of coffee after a fancy meal, which is worth something different than five dollars in the grocery store. That's because we get to pretend that the five dollars in each situation is worth a different amount--because it's been shifted.
In search of competition
Most companies (and non-profits) fear competition. American Airlines, our worst possible domestic airline, always does best in routes where travelers don't have a choice. When customers don't have a choice, you can raise profits and lower quality and people just have to deal with it. You can happily be the profitable choice of last resort, the place for people with nowhere else to go.
Some organizations, though, work to find competition instead of fleeing from it. If you have a system, a point of view and a process for growth, then a market that already exists is your friend, the next place you can grow. And so, for example, small chains like Five Brothers and Shake Shack are happy to set up shop right next to fast food places that might represent competition.
This is one reason Amazon's efficiencies are so fearsome--they prefer to start in a market with competition.
On the other hand, if you're depending on being alone in your field, then your charitable cause, your brokerage business or your industrial entity is going to have a hard time finding the next place to grow.
