This is LOVE

You like a girl. And you want her to like you back. All you need to do is follow ten little steps. Find out how to make a girl like you without even asking her out. When a regular guy likes a girl, he wears his heart on his sleeves and asks her out. But he really doesn’t know if she’s going to accept his proposal or walk all over him. Being straight forward is a nice way to ask a girl out, but it’s not perfect. If you want to know how to make a girl like you, you need to know how to do just that without really ever telling her that you like her in the first place. By asking a girl out, you’re putting her in a spot, probably because she’s never looked at you as a dating potential or because she likes someone else.

But by warming her up and making her want you first, you’d be able to make her like you without ever telling her that you want to go out with her. How to make a girl like you When a girl feels comfortable around you, you’re a nice guy. When she has a great time with you, you’re definitely a great guy. If she has a great time with you and feels a flutter in her heart when she’s around you, well, you’re definitely on the right track to making her like you. Most guys try to be nice guys, and there’s really nothing wrong in that. If you want to get a girl to like you, you definitely have to play nice. But as the friendship progresses, you have to learn to subtly move away from the friend zone and let her notice you as a dating potential. [Read: How to charm a girl] Many guys get this part wrong. They want to go out with a girl, but they never really make any move towards letting the girl know what’s on their mind. And eventually, all that happens is that she gets swept away by some other guy, while they whine about how unfair life is to them. Don’t be that loser of a guy. Attractive friends and dating potentials

If you have an attractive friend, never let her see you as just a friend, unless you have no intentions of ever dating her or making out with her. But can any guy ever not fall for an attractive cutie, friend or otherwise? I think not. Girls may find it easier to stay friends with an attractive guy, but guys just can’t. It’s in a man’s competitive nature to woo anyone he finds attractive. But there are exceptions here, like when the girl is already dating another guy, or if she’s so way out of your league that you can’t even think of asking her out. If you really do like a girl and want to make her like you, you can always overcome the exceptions if you want to. If she’s dating another guy, learn how to steal a girlfriend. And if you think she’s way out of your league, let me tell you something, no girl is ever way out of league for any guy. If you believe in yourself and truly realize that you’re worthy of her, you’ll find a way to leave a lasting impression on her. [Read: How to be a better man]

 Don’t smooth talk all girls you meet If you want to know how to make a girl like you, you need to stop trying to be a serial flirter. Do you have a friend who flirts with every single girl he meets, even if there are two or more girls at the same time? Now his flirting abilities may be a gift to die for, but when you publicly flirt with every single friend or girl you meet, you’re not treating one girl any different from the other. All the girls may end up assuming you’re just a serial flirter who just flirts with all his friends.

Genius crazy

The way I see it, if you want to be successful in ANY walk of life, you gotta be a little bit f*cked up too. I mean, all the “good ones” are. Take Albert Einstein, for instance. Absolute GENIUS when it came to modern physics, nobody's questioning that, but the dude also never wore f*cking socks. Yeah, ever. I don't care how brilliant his theories within the realm of quantum physics may have been – until his views on personal hygiene improved – he probably wouldn't be allowed to step (dirty) foot in my house (no pun intended). At least not without some plastic bags strapped to his feet or something. If you're still not sold on Einstein being a little f*cked up, he married his cousin; yeah, so that should put that argument to bed. Like I said though, all of the good ones are. Think back to Hunter S. Thompson, iconic journalist and author of the American classic

“Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.” Anyone who's read any of his work would never dare contest the man's grandeur as a thinker and storyteller, but he, like Einstein, had more than just a few screws loose. Let's be real here, the guy was bat sh*t crazy. But in the good way, obviously. I mean, he sold tickets to the greatest heavyweight fight of all time for a sack of weed; he autographed his novels by shooting bullets into them and furnished his home with sticks of dynamite – so yeah, he danced gracefully along the border separating genius and psychopath. And the list goes on: Vincent van Gogh cut off his hear, Michaelangelo was opposed to bathing and Freud had a fetish for the sex life of eels. As you can see, the same people we regard as the brightest minds of our species history all sound like they could have their own hour-long feature on Dr. Phil, as well. I suppose that's why Aristotle once said, “no great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness,” and, according to Rob Waugh of Daily Mail, there might be some scientific evidence behind his claim.

Then again, Aristotle also named his daughter the same name as his mother – and is widely considered as the smartest dude of all time – so yeah, I'm not sure how much more evidence is needed. As told by Waugh, “there IS a link between creative genius and madness — with both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder frequent in highly creative and intelligent people.” This theory results from studies conducted on Swedish teenagers, all 16 years of age, that showed how those considered more academically gifted than their counterparts also had a higher proclivity to develop certain disorders (specifically schizophrenia and bipolar disorder). According to Kay Redfield Jamison, of Johns Hopkins school of Medicine, who suffers from bipolar disorder, “they found that people who excelled when they were 16 years old were four times as likely to go on to develop bipolar disorder.”

 The “people who excelled,” whom Jamison is referring to, are those considered more intelligent after taking part in a number of different intelligence tests and performing higher than others. Waugh continues to extrapolate upon the notion linking intelligence and madness by introducing the possibility of one genetic trait that could, in fact, be its driving force. According to Waugh, one specific gene – referred to as DARPP-32 – allegedly connects genius and madness. A version of DARPP-32, a gene that “enhances the ability to think,” as Roger Highfield of Telegraph reports, can be found in the genetic codes of almost three-quarters of people. And while the majority of these people will experience cognitive improvements by carrying the gene, scientists have found this gene can also foreshadow a certain set of risks. According to Highfield, “the DARPP-32 gene also shaped and controlled a nerve circuit, which links the prefrontal cortex with another brain region, the striatum, and is closely involved with schizophrenia.” Highfield quotes Dr. Daniel Weinberger of the US National Institute for Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland, who believes the nature of this gene – whether it be advantageous or not – revolves around the presence of an antecedent (or pre-existing) brain impairment, such as schizophrenia.

 As Highfield explains, one specific variant that elevated the use of DARPP-32 in the brain was linked with higher intellectual levels in the carrier, however, “preliminary analysis indicated that this variant was also associated with an increased risk of schizophrenia.” Genetics aside, it's hard to contest the correlation of madness and genius in more practical terms – and Natalie Wolchover, of Live Science, mentions the depiction of the “tortured genius,” one that transcends across American literature and film. As Huffington Post Writer Sarah Klein explains, based on research by Harvard's Shelley Carson, Ph.D., “The idea that a person’s chances of mental illness, and her chances of being creative may stem from the same place, but that neither one causes the other.” This provides reason to believe both “madness” and “genius,” respectively, could almost be viewed as the results of different styles of “nurture,” or upbringing. Ultimately, if you keep your head in the right place, take an interest in the right things, and stay focused – I feel as though you can dictate which side of the spectrum your behavior will fall upon.

When everything goes Wrong

Fear and failure are illusions that are self-created. Close your eyes and ask yourself. “What is your biggest fear?” Typically mostly will answer with, “failure” hoping to demonstrate they don’t look for failure in their future. When you close your eyes.

What you’re sitting down on, that is substance. It’s real, it’s holding you together. We know that is a fact, because you haven’t fallen. But, everything you see, everything you touch, everything you hear, everything you taste, and smell is self-created in your mind. It’s something you create from perception. If you can understand you can create something just from your perception, you’ll realize you’re able to create anything. You can make the impossible, possible. So, before you open your eyes, remember that power you hold within.

And, with that power, try to move forward only with the substance and power you control. One of my favorite quotes that I try to live by is, “Miracles are just a shift in perception from fear to love.” The truth is, is that if you are fearful of failure, it’s impossible to move forward in life. Failure is just a matter of perspective. You can fail, but how you choose to react to it defines what kind of future you will have. We can choose to see failure as ‘the end of the world,’ or as proof of just how inadequate we are. Or, we can look at failure as the incredible learning experience that it is. Failure stop us only if we let it. Failure isn’t substance, it’s just a mere illusion of our insecurities. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison Read

Kim watching Obama

On a cold afternoon in February, several former American officials hurried to the Hilton hotel in Berlin, a city long known for its Cold War spies and intrigue. They had traveled there for a private meeting with senior representatives from North Korea, the most reclusive government in the world. Over the next two days, the Americans gathered in one of the hotel’s modern conference rooms and listened to a surprising new proposal. Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, the North Koreans said, wanted to resume negotiations in hopes of ending decades of hostility between the two countries.

The timing was significant. A month earlier, the U.S. had agreed to talks to formally end the Korean War, but that effort collapsed when Washington demanded the North’s nuclear weapons program be part of the discussions. A few days later, the Hermit Kingdom, officially known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), set off what it claimed was a hydrogen bomb at an underground site in the country’s rugged northeastern mountains.

That nuclear test, the country’s fourth, left U.S. officials scrambling for new ways to deal with the threat from one of the world’s last communist regimes. Obama then adopted a hard-line approach that essentially echoes the stringent policies of President George W. Bush. Obama refused to engage in direct talks with Pyongyang until the regime first demonstrated it was willing to give up its nukes. In the meantime, the U.S. tightened sanctions against North Korea, believing the poor, isolated country would eventually collapse or agree to denuclearize. Two years later, famine forced Pyongyang back to the negotiating table. In early 2012, Obama and Kim reached an agreement that required the North to freeze its nuclear and ballistic missile programs in return for 240,000 tons of U.S. food aid. But soon afterward, that deal fell apart when Pyongyang fired a missile to launch a satellite. In 2013, North Korea conducted its third nuclear test.

The best Repair

FLINT, Mich. — As I walked into Jackie Pemberton’s petite white house in the southeast corner of Flint, she apologized for the mess (there wasn’t one) and offered me a cup of coffee. “River water all right?” her husband, John, asked without a hint of irony. Jackie burst into laughter. Jackie has lived in Flint for much of the past 48 years, and for many of those, she owned a drain-cleaning business that counted several industrial factories as clients.

 “I saw what they put down those drains,” she told me, shaking her shoulder-length salt-and-pepper hair in disgust. So when the city switched its water source from Lake Huron to the murky waters that ran through Flint in April of 2014, she refused to drink it. The idea of it made her ill, she said, thinking about all the industrial chemicals, sewage and road salt that had made their way into the river over the years. John, however, keeps an old soda bottle filled with water by his side whenever he’s home, and he filled it with tap water frequently. Mindful of her limited budget as a retiree, Jackie gave in after six or eight weeks and started drinking the water as well. By late summer, they both started having stomach problems, losing hair and developing rashes, as did several of their children and grandchildren who either lived elsewhere in the city or periodically came to stay with them. In August, E. coli was found in the city’s water, forcing Flint to issue multiple advisories to residents to boil the water before use.

By October, the Pembertons had become regulars at City Council meetings along with a group of other residents concerned about water that smelled of sulfur and chlorine, often came out of the tap tinted the color of urine or rust, and appeared to be causing a long list of health concerns. “I drank the water for eight or nine months,” John said. “In the poor parts of town, those people drank it for one and a half years. Some still are.” Today, we know that those health concerns include poisoning from a well-understood neurotoxin: lead. That realization has led to international outrage, protests from Flint residents, and the resignation of several federal, state and local employees, though not as many as some Flint residents would like. More than a year after residents started sounding alarm bells, it’s now clear that employees at the state’s Department of Environmental Quality collected insufficient data and ignored the warning signs visible in what they did collect. In the process, they allowed the residents of Flint to be poisoned.

Officials at the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, the agency in charge of making sure water is safe in the state, made a series of decisions that had disastrous consequences: Against federal guidelines, they chose not to require the Flint water plant to use optimized corrosion control, despite telling the Environmental Protection Agency they were doing so in an email on Feb. 27, 2015.