1. Flowers that can be given to a man: chrysanthemums, roses, carnations, delphiniums, orchids, bamboo, callas, lilies, anthuriums, gladioli, tulips, irises, gerberas, plumerias, heliconias, daisies, sunflowers.
Don't forget about the color scheme when giving flowers to men.
The following colors are welcome: purple, burgundy, white, blue, green.
Cases when it is customary to give flowers to a man:
1) Film premiere;
2) Concert premiere;
3) Book publication;
4) Publication of the article;
5) Serious discovery;
6) Birthday;
7) Award presentation;
8) Sports record.
It is believed that it is better to give calla lilies of green or emerald color to the boss. It is better to give the composition to professional florists.
2. Handshake
It is not customary to shake hands with women, but if she extends her hand first, you should shake it, but not as firmly as men. Your handshake should not be weaker than a woman's or she will think you are a weakling.
The eldest shakes his hand first, the teacher or mentor to the student, the boss to the subordinate. You shouldn’t change the rules of the game, even though there are no castes in our society, you can cause rejection and misunderstanding among others.
When shaking hands, you should look into the eyes and smile a little as a sign of friendship. Averting your eyes or even looking away when shaking hands is disrespectful. Sometimes turning away your eyes is perceived as deceit and serves as a signal that such a person cannot be trusted.
3. According to the rules of etiquette, the plate of soup must be tilted away from you while eating! Some sources write that you can’t tilt it at all.
4. Men should always stand up when a lady leaves the table.
5. There is nothing wrong when a husband calls his wife “bunny” and she calls him “bunny”. However, these endearing nicknames are not intended for prying ears. In front of strangers, it is better to call each other by name.
6. Sometimes it is very pleasant to drink a drink through a straw, but in such cases you should not suck it out to the last drop, as the shrill gurgling will introduce dissonance into the general conversation.
7. Basic modern rules of restaurant etiquette:
a) Cut large pieces into smaller ones;
b) When eating a dish with your hands, there is no need to hunch over and invade your neighbor’s space with your elbows;
c) You can’t blow on hot food, you need to wait until it cools down;
d) When eating with your hands, it is better to bite off a little at a time;
e) Use a napkin and do not lick your fingers;
f) Always blot your mouth with a napkin;
g) Never wipe your mouth with your hand or speak with your mouth full;
h) Even if everyone around you eats with your hands, it is quite acceptable to eat yourself with a fork and knife;
i) You should never put your phone on the table.
8. Chewing gum in public and during a conversation is considered vulgar.
9. It is considered the height of bad manners to be distracted by your watch, mobile phone or notebook during a conversation. Even if you are tired and bored, don't show it!
10. On the stairs:
According to statistics, only 10% know these points. Stay tuned for future parts of the article. We will fight together against bad manners. from Revealed SECRET - smart magazine
Did you know that:
Bugs taste like apples, wasps taste like pine nuts, and worms taste like fried bacon?
What is called the "French Kiss" in English-speaking countries is called the "English Kiss" in France.
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
Horace Nelson, one of the most famous English admirals, was never able to overcome in his entire life:
:"sea sickness".
In 1386, in France, a pig was sentenced to hang for killing a child.
The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is pronounced the same as if the last four letters were missing.
Of all the words in the English language, the word "set" has the most meanings!
The word "Almost" is the longest word in the English language, in which all the letters are arranged in alphabetical order.
"Rhythm" is the longest English word without vowels.
A cockroach can live with its head cut off for several weeks!
You can kill yourself by holding your breath.
A city called Rome exists on every continent.
It is illegal to own a pet dog in Iceland!
Your heart beats, on average, about 100 thousand times a day!
Jeremy Bentham's skeleton is present at all the most important meetings at the University of London.
Right-handed people live, on average, 9 years longer than left-handed people.
Your ribs make about 5 million movements a year - every time you breathe!
The elephant is the only mammal that cannot jump!
A quarter of all the bones in your body are in your legs!
Just like fingerprints, each person has a unique tongue print!
The world's first blood transfusion was performed in 1667, when Jean-Baptiste gave two pints of sheep's blood to a young man.
Your fingernails grow almost 4 times faster than your toenails!
Most of the dust in your home comes from dry human skin!
It is predicted that the total number of people inhabiting our planet today will grow to 15 billion by 2080.
A woman blinks almost twice as much as a man.
Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian and only had one testicle.
Honey is the only food product that does not spoil. Honey discovered in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs was tasted by archaeologists and found to be edible.
Months whose first day falls on a Sunday always have "Friday the Thirteenth."
Coca-Cola would be green if it weren't for the dyes added to it.
A hedgehog's heart beats, on average, 300 times per minute.
More people around the world die from bee stings than from snake bites.
With an ordinary graphite pencil you can draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50 thousand English words.
There are more people allergic to cow's milk than people allergic to any other food.
To protect against sandstorms, camels have three centuries.
The donkey's eyes are placed in such a way that he can see all four of his paws at the same time!
The six official languages of the United Nations are English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.
Earth is the only planet (of the eight in existence) in the Solar System that was not named after any god.
In churches in Nebraska, USA, it is illegal to burp or sneeze.
When a person is born, he has 300 bones in his body, but when he grows up, he only has 206.
Some worms eat themselves if they can't find any food!
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
The oldest piece of chewing gum is 9 thousand years old!
The longest flight of a chicken was 13 seconds.
Queen Elizabeth I considered herself a paragon of purity. She stated that she takes a bath every 3 months regardless of whether it is necessary or not.
Larvae have 4 noses.
The owl is the only bird that can see the color "blue".
One man named Charles Osborne suffered from hiccups until he was 69!
A giraffe can clean its eyes with its 21-inch tongue!
The average person laughs 10 times a day on average!
An ostrich's eye is larger than its brain.
And now a knowledge question:
One of these interesting, but completely unnecessary facts is fiction. Guess which one?
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1. Ten Commandments according to the Synodal Translation of the Bible:
"1. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; Let you have no other gods before Me.
2. Do not make for yourself an idol or any image of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth below, or that is in the water below the earth; You shall not worship them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me, and showing mercy to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
3. Do not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not leave without punishment the one who takes His name in vain.
4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy; six days thou shalt work and do all thy work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: on it thou shalt not do any work, neither thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy livestock, nor thy stranger. who is in your dwellings; For in six days the Lord created the heavens and the earth, the sea and everything in them; and on the seventh day he rested; Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and sanctified it.
5. Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
6. Don't kill.
7. Do not commit adultery.
8. Don't steal.
9. Do not bear false witness against your neighbor.
10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house; You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”
2. One of the seven wonders of the world is the Pyramid of Cheops. It is considered the oldest miracle on the list - its construction is estimated to be around the 26th century. BC e. Despite its antiquity, this is the only structure of the seven old wonders of the world that has survived to our times. Its height is 137.2 m (originally 146.6 m), the length of each side at the base is 230.38 m, it is made of 2,340,000 limestone blocks, each of which weighs more than 50 centners and is supported by its own gravity, without any fastenings. During construction, primitive tools were used (diorite hammers, copper saws and axes, tools made of polished stone), but the blocks were so skillfully processed that the gaps between them did not exceed 0.5 mm.
Location: Egypt, city of Giza, cemetery of ancient Memphis on the left bank of the Nile. Today it is part of Greater Cairo.
3. The Nobel Prizes are awarded in accordance with the will of Alfred Nobel, drawn up on November 27, 1895, which provided for the allocation of capital for the award of prizes in five areas: physics, chemistry, physiology and medicine, literature and contributions to world peace.
For this purpose, the Nobel Foundation was created in 1900 - a private, independent, non-governmental organization with an initial capital of 31 million Swedish crowns. The first prizes were awarded on December 10, 1901. Since 1969, on the initiative of the Swedish Bank, the Prize in Economics has also been awarded (the official name is the Prize in Economics in Memory of Alfred Nobel, awarded by decision of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences).
4. Cyrillic (Cyrillic letter) is an alphabet used to write words in the Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Serbian and Macedonian languages, as well as many languages of non-Slavic peoples inhabiting Russia and its neighboring states. In the Middle Ages it was also used to write numbers. The Cyrillic alphabet is named after Cyril, the creator of the Glagolitic alphabet - the first Slavic alphabet. The authorship of the Cyrillic alphabet belongs to the missionaries - followers of Cyril and Methodius. The oldest monuments of Cyrillic writing date back to the turn of the 9th–10th centuries. Most likely, this letter was invented in Bulgaria. At first it was a Greek alphabet, to the 24 letters of which 19 letters were added to indicate the sounds of Slavic languages that were missing in the Greek language. From the 10th century They began to write Cyrillic in Rus'.
5. Anthem of the Russian Federation
Music by A. Alexandrov. Words by S. Mikhalkov.
Russia is our sacred power,
Russia is our beloved country.
Mighty will, great glory -
Your treasure for all time!
From the southern seas to the polar edge
Our forests and fields are spread out.
You are the only one in the world! You're the only one -
God-protected native land!Hail, our Fatherland is free,
An age-old union of fraternal peoples,
This is the folk wisdom given by our ancestors!
Hail, country! We are proud of you!Wide scope for dreams and for life
The years to come reveal to us.
Our loyalty to the Fatherland gives us strength.
So it was, so it is and so it will always be!Hail, our Fatherland is free,
An age-old union of fraternal peoples,
This is the folk wisdom given by our ancestors!
Hail, country! We are proud of you!
6. Researchers are confident that the cosmos was formed after the so-called Big Bang, before which nothing existed: neither time, nor matter, nor light. And then an inexplicable expansion of energy (explosion) happened, and the greatest mystery was formed - the Universe. This explosion occurred in a matter of seconds, after which the Universe, which at first was a fireball, began to rapidly grow and cool. Since the Universe occurred as a result of an explosion, the most likely demise for it is a Big Freeze, scientists believe. And it will happen as a result of the fact that due to the constant movement and expansion of many galaxies, the Universe will eventually lose heat, that is, useful energy.
7. The most widespread of the world's religions is Christianity, with 1.6 billion followers. It retains its strongest positions in Europe, America and Australia.
Christianity emerged at the beginning of our era as a development of biblical wisdom that had been created over the previous 2000 years. The Bible teaches us to understand and realize the meaning of life. Biblical thinking places a critical emphasis on the issue of life and death, the end of the world. Jesus Christ preached the ideas of brotherhood, hard work, non-covetousness and peace. The service of wealth was condemned and the superiority of spiritual values over material values was proclaimed. The First Ecumenical Council, which met in 325 in Nicaea, laid the dogmatic foundations of the One Holy Catholic Apostolic Church for many centuries to come.
8. The human body consists of various chemical elements, and the amount of these elements produced over a lifetime is amazing. Thus, the chlorine in our bodies is enough to disinfect six huge swimming pools, and more than 200 matchboxes can be made from phosphorus. The strongest part of the human body is hair; it takes the longest to break down. Archaeologists have found mummies buried thousands of years before the beginning of our era, and the only thing that has been preserved from living tissue, besides the skeleton, is hair. The human body produces a lot of thermal energy every day: for example, the heat generated by our body per day is enough to boil 30 liters of cold water.
In an adult of average build, the skin area is about 2 m2. Skin is constantly renewed throughout life; our body sheds about 18 kg of skin over a lifetime in the form of dead and dead cells, which are replaced by new cells.
9. Hercules performed his first feat by strangling the huge Nemean lion, which was born by the monsters Typhon and Echidna and caused devastation in Argolis. Hercules' arrows bounced off the lion's thick skin, but the hero stunned the beast with his club and strangled him with his hands. In memory of his first feat, Hercules established the Nemean Games, which were held in the ancient Peloponnese every two years.
10. Countries of the world and their capitals
11. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) - great German composer and organist, representative of the Baroque era. One of the greatest composers in the history of music. During his life, Bach wrote more than 1000 works. His work represents all the significant genres of that time, except opera. He summarized the achievements of musical art of the Baroque period. He is the founder of the most famous musical dynasty.
12. The Julian calendar was introduced into use by Julius Caesar in 46 BC. e. It is believed that it was developed by Egyptian astronomers. And it was named after the Roman emperor. It acquired its final form in 8 AD. e.
The year began on January 1, since it was on this day that the elected consuls took office, and totaled 12 months or 365 days, sometimes 366. It is this “sometimes” that distinguishes it from the Gregorian calendar.
The problem was that the Earth completes a full revolution around the Sun—a tropical year—in 365.24219878 days. In a calendar, the number of days is an integer. It turns out that if there are 365 days in a year, then every year the calendar will go astray - it will go ahead by almost a quarter of a day. In the Julian calendar, they did it simply - to correct the discrepancy, they assumed that every fourth year would become a leap year (annus bissextus) and would have 366 days. Thus, the average length of the year in the Julian calendar is 365.25 days, which is much closer to the real tropical year. However, the calendar began to lag every year by 11 minutes 14 seconds. In 128 years this will be already a day. This has led to some dates associated with astronomical phenomena beginning to shift. As a result, a need arose for calendar reform.
13. Ten masterpieces of world cinema (according to directors):
1. “Tokyo Tale” - Yasujiro Ozu, 1953
2. “2001: A Space Odyssey” - Stanley Kubrick, 1968
3. “Citizen Kane” - Orson Welles, 1941
4. “8 and a half” - Federico Fellini, 1963
5. “Taxi Driver” – Martin Scorsese, 1976
6. “Apocalypse Now” - Francis Ford Coppola, 1979
7. “The Godfather” - Francis Ford Coppola, 1972
8. “Vertigo” - Alfred Hitchcock, 1958
9. “Mirror” – Andrei Tarkovsky, 1974
10. “Bicycle Thieves” - Vittorio De Sica, 1948
14. Darwinism has been criticized by a number of religious representatives who believe that it contradicts the divine creation of man. The fact is that Darwinism explains the origin of man by long-term evolution, and this, according to a literal reading of the sacred texts, runs counter to the relatively recent formation of the world. At the same time, the Catholic Church, with a special papal encyclical - Humani generis - recognized that the theory of evolution does not contradict the teachings of the Church and “can be considered as a hypothesis on the question of the origin of the human body.”
15. Tsars and emperors of Russia:
Mikhail Fedorovich Krotky (1613–1645)
Alexey Mikhailovich Quiet (1645–1676)
Fyodor Alekseevich (1676–1682)
Sofya Alekseevna (1682–1689)
Peter I Alekseevich the Great (1689–1725)
Catherine I Alekseevna (1725–1727)
Peter II Alekseevich (1727–1730)
Anna Ioannovna (1730–1740)
Ivan VI Antonovich (1740–1741)
Elizaveta Petrovna (1741–1761)
Peter III Fedorovich (1761–1762)
Catherine II Alekseevna the Great (1762–1796)
Pavel I Petrovich (1796–1801)
Alexander I Pavlovich the Blessed (1801–1825)
Konstantin Pavlovich (1825)
Nicholas I Pavlovich (1825–1855)
Alexander II Nikolaevich (1855–1881)
Alexander III Alexandrovich (1881–1894)
Nicholas II Alexandrovich (1894–1917)
16. The Vatican is a dwarf state, the smallest in the world, located in Rome, the capital of Italy. In international law, the Vatican itself is only the territory on which the Holy See is currently located - the collective name for the Pope and the Roman Curia, one of the main administrative bodies of the Catholic Church. Thus, embassies of other countries are accredited not to the Vatican, but to the Holy See. A significant part of the territory is occupied by St. Peter's Cathedral and the square of the same name, which are the center of worship for Catholics around the world. Almost the entire perimeter of the country (about 3200 m) is limited by a wall that prevents illegal entry. As befits a real state, the Vatican has everything: a railway and a telegraph, a telephone and television, a radio station and a treasury, rulers and subjects, a border guarded by guards.
17. Abstractionism (Latin abstractio - “removal, distraction”) is an art direction that abandoned the depiction of forms close to reality in painting and sculpture. By creating certain color combinations and geometric shapes, various associations are evoked in the viewer. The main representatives of abstract art were: V. V. Kandinsky (1866–1944), P. Picasso (1881–1973).
18. A continent (continent, part of the world) is a large area of land or the earth’s crust. A significant part of it is located above ocean level.
There are seven continents on Earth - Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia and Antarctica. However, one can often find different opinions about the number, because different traditions have different numbers of continents, hence the occasional confusion with numbers. For example, sometimes North and South America are considered to be a single continent, America, since they are, in fact, not separated by water (the artificial Panama Canal is not taken into account). This interpretation is popular in Spanish-speaking countries. There is also an opinion that Europe, Asia and Africa are one continent - Afro-Eurasia - since they occupy an undivided landmass. Europe and Asia, which have a very vague distinction, are often called Eurasia. Hence the results of the calculation, when there are from four to seven continents on Earth.
The largest continent is Asia. This applies to both the area (29 %), and the number of population (60 %). The smallest continent is Australia (5.14% and 0.54% respectively). Antarctica is not on the list because this icy continent is unsuitable for comfortable life and is practically uninhabited.
19. Atlantis, according to the ancient Greeks, is a continent that allegedly occupied part of the Atlantic Ocean to the west of the Pillars of Hercules (Strait of Gibraltar), and later sank into the sea without a trace.
The idea of the legendary Atlantis most likely developed from the stories of Phoenician and Carthaginian merchants who sailed far to the west, but numerous attempts to geographically record Atlantis have so far been unsuccessful. If we collect all the data about where Atlantis could be located, we would get a fascinating book in which we would have to talk about South America, with which the famous philosopher Francis Bacon identified Atlantis in the utopia “New Atlantis,” and about the North Sea, where not far from The island of Heligoland, according to the German pastor Jürgen Spanut, was a mysterious continent, and the search for it at the beginning of the 19th century. from Yucatan to Mongolia and from Spitsbergen to St. Helena. Atlantis was “registered” in Brazil, Scandinavia, Palestine, in the Pas-de-Calais Strait, etc.
20. On July 20, 1969, American astronauts landed on the surface of the Moon. The first person to set foot on the moon was Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong.
6 hours after “landing,” astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin put on spacesuits with a backpack system, opened the hatch and descended to the surface of the Moon. All countries except the USSR and China broadcast television broadcasts about the landing of man on the Moon.
The first people on the Moon paid tribute to all their American and Soviet fallen colleagues: their medals, as well as a capsule with messages from the heads of 74 states (the USSR was not among them) were left on the Moon. Attached to the landing stage was a map of the Earth and a sign with the inscription: “Here people from planet Earth first set foot on the Moon. We come in peace from all humanity." Under these words were the signatures of the astronauts and the President of the United States.
After the flight, crew members and lunar rock samples underwent strict quarantine, which did not reveal any lunar microorganisms.
The successful completion of the Apollo 11 flight program meant the achievement of the national goal set by US President John F. Kennedy in May 1961 - to land on the Moon before the end of the decade, and marked the victory of the United States in the “moon race” with the USSR.
21. The Gregorian calendar was the result of a reform of the Julian calendar carried out by Pope Gregory XIII. The project was developed by Luigi Lilio, and according to this project, in the future, only those century years were to be considered leap years, the number of hundreds of years of which is divisible by 4 without a remainder (1600, 2000, 2400), while others would be considered simple. The accumulation since 8 AD was also eliminated. e. an error of 10 days, and according to the pope's decree of February 24, 1582, it was established that October 4, 1582 should be immediately followed by October 15.
In the new Gregorian calendar, the average length of the year was 365.2425 days. The error was only 26 s, and the discrepancy per day accumulated over about 3300 years. In the future, it will be possible to declare every year divisible by 4000 without a remainder to be a non-leap year, and then the average value of the year will be 365.24225 days, with an even smaller error.
22. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are included in the list of the Seven Wonders of the World. Created in the 6th century. BC e. By order of the king of desert Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar II, for his wife, these gardens were supposed to console her and remind her of her distant homeland. The name of Semiramis, the Assyrian queen, appeared here by mistake, but nevertheless was firmly entrenched in history.
The tiers of the gardens rose with ledges and were connected by stairs lined with slabs of pink and white stone. To water the plants, they pumped water from the Euphrates all day long. Plants from near and far countries, trees, palm trees, flowers, raised to great heights by complex structures - all this made an indelible impression on the people of that time; the gardens in dusty, arid Babylon seemed like a miracle. Location: Babylon, Mesopotamia (Mesopotamia), approximately 50 km south of modern Baghdad.
23. UNESCO World Heritage - natural or man-made objects, the priority tasks in relation to which, in the opinion of UNESCO, are their conservation and popularization due to their special cultural, historical or environmental significance. As of 2016, there are 1,031 properties on the World Heritage List, of which 802 are cultural, 197 natural and 32 mixed.
24. The oldest of the world's religions is Buddhism, which arose in the middle of the 1st millennium BC. e. in India. After more than 15 centuries of dominance in India, Buddhism gave way to Hinduism. However, Buddhism spread widely throughout the countries of Southeast Asia, penetrating into Sri Lanka, China, Korea, Japan, Tibet, and Mongolia. The number of its adherents is estimated at approximately 500 million people.
In Buddhism, all the social and moral dogmas of Hinduism are preserved, but the requirements of caste and asceticism are weakened. Buddhism pays more attention to current life.
25. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) - great Austrian composer, instrumentalist and conductor, representative of the Viennese classical school, virtuoso violinist, harpsichordist, organist, conductor. He had a phenomenal ear for music, memory and the ability to improvise. As a composer who excelled in every genre, Mozart is rightfully considered one of the greatest composers in the history of classical music.
26. Avant-garde (French avant-garde - “advanced detachment”) - a set of experimental, distinctly unusual, exploratory endeavors in the art of the 20th century. Avant-garde painting styles include Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism, Abstract Art, Surrealism, Actionism, Pop Art, and Conceptual Art.
27. The second labor of Hercules is the destruction of the Lernaean hydra. This monster with the body of a snake and nine heads of a dragon crawled out of a swamp near the city of Lerna, killing people and destroying entire herds. Hercules found the hydra in a cave and fought with it. In place of each hydra head severed by the hero, two new ones grew until Hercules’ assistant, Iolaus, began to burn the hydra’s necks with burning tree trunks. He also killed a giant crayfish that crawled out of the swamp to help the hydra. Hercules soaked his arrows in the poisonous bile of the Lernaean hydra, making them deadly.
28. The holy book of Christians - the Bible - consists of the Old Testament and the New Testament. The Old Testament was borrowed from Judaism and was compiled over several centuries. He describes those events and facts that, in essence, led to the appearance of Jesus Christ. The texts of the New Testament tell the story of his life. They were combined into one book only at the beginning of the 2nd century. The authorship of parts of the Testament is currently a controversial issue. The texts of the Bible vary depending on the branches of Christianity, for example, the Protestant Bible contains several additional books of the Old Testament.
29. The statue of Zeus at Olympia is one of the seven wonders of the world. It was created for a temple in the major religious center of Ancient Greece - Olympia. The giant Zeus of the sculptor Phidias amazed the local residents so much that they decided that the god himself had personally posed for the master. Creation time: 440–435. BC e. Location: Greece, the ancient city of Olympia on the west coast of the Peloponnese peninsula, approximately 300 km west of Athens.
30. Cubism (French cube - “cube”) is a modernist movement in painting at the beginning of the 20th century, which highlighted the formal task of constructing a three-dimensional form on a plane, minimizing the visual and cognitive functions of art. The name "Cubists" was first used in 1908 and 1909. by the French critic L. Vaucel as a mocking nickname for a group of artists who depicted objects as a combination of geometric bodies or figures. The most famous artist of this movement is P. Picasso (1881–1973).
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Hello friends! How would you feel if at school we were taught such subjects as “Financial literacy” or “Time management”, “How to stay healthy”? After all, this is exactly what an educated person needs to know. We enter adulthood and often find ourselves completely unprepared for it! In this article you will learn what knowledge a person should have.
Who is an educated person
Today it is a controversial topic: what it means to be educated. So far, everyone is unanimous in the opinion that education can be secondary, higher, humanitarian, technical, vocational, etc. What should we call the education we receive in harsh conditions? school of life?
For example, Nikolai Rubakin, a Russian scientist, said that education should provide such preparation in which a person will make the most of his life deeper, more fruitful and fuller.
However, in reality everything is different. You can be savvy in history or be a professional in your field, but not distinguish between active and passive income, and not be able to set goals. But these skills are necessary for a successful life. It turns out for education not enough possess general and specialized knowledge systems.
In order not to make the same mistakes in trying to reinvent the wheel, I propose to study those applied sciences without which it is impossible for modern man to live. If, of course, he wants to be educated.
Time management
Our daily effectiveness depends on the ability to manage and control our time. Some people manage to do everything, find time for work, study, family and personal matters. And someone is in constant time pressure and rush.
As a rule, this is associated with the ability to competently distribute your time resources. Successful people do not waste a lot of energy on unimportant matters and know how to give up what is unnecessary and not urgent. Know how to save time, for example, by using delegation and where to spend it.
In conditions of an active rhythm of life, a huge amount of information, every person with education needs to be able to:
- analyze your own effectiveness
- plan your own day
- set goals and objectives
- create long and short term plans
- determine priorities
- analyze what has been achieved
- use various tools, including computer ones
Time management, like any science, must be studied not in fragments, but systematically. You can engage in self-education, and best of all, under the supervision of a specialist. 
The Art of Money Management
Another important information layer, which, unfortunately, is not taught to us anywhere. But precisely from financial literacy often depends on whether we will be poor or rich... I have compiled an approximate list of necessary knowledge:
Understanding the global economy:
- Cost of money. Inflation.
- Banking system. What is the refinancing rate? Deposits and loans.
- How does lending work?
- Pricing of oil, gas, etc. Stock indices. World currency.
- Why do crises happen?
Budgets:
Investments:
- Why and how to invest.
- How to choose an investment object.
- Is it possible to get rich by investing?
Financial planning:
- How to achieve financial independence.
- How to make a financial plan.
- What obstacles and difficulties may arise.
- Psychology of poverty and wealth.
The last point, I think, is especially important. Posco 
Therefore, understanding your own financial level, the internal limiters to financial freedom, is decisive on the path to success. An educated person knows himself and his essence.
The pursuit of health
You can have an excellent grade in biology, but not understand how to stay healthy. After all, energy depends on it. And from energy - quality and length of life. Unfortunately, due to illiteracy, many people spend a lot of money on something that does not help them.
Or they do something that harms them. The modern food and pharmaceutical industries are interested in generating high profits. For this they put people's health at risk. We get sick more and more often and we don’t understand why.
To take care of yourself, you need to know the following:
- How to eat right. What, when and with what.
- How to distinguish a high-quality product from a low-quality one. Harmful chemicals.
- Biological rhythms and personal routine.
- Physical exercises for different muscle groups.
- When and how to rest properly.
- How to prevent stress, how to calm down.
- Bad habits and how to get rid of them.
- When to see a doctor.
This is by no means a complete list. But you can suggest any of your options in the comments. I don’t consider myself an educated person, but I strive for it. After all, of course, it’s impossible to know everything. I suggest we study together! 
Family and raising children
For some reason, many of us know what chemical valency or the Pythagorean theorem is, but rarely does anyone understand how to build relationships, a family, and how to raise children. Although these are the primary tasks that one has to face in life.
Without sufficient knowledge in this area, banal mistakes are made, which lead to divorces, ruined destinies and unhappy children. These kind of moral cripples grow up. And without education, this conveyor belt cannot be stopped.
So, what does a modern person need to know about family values and needs:
- True feelings and how to distinguish them from false ones.
- What is the meaning of family, human needs.
- Family roles.
- Why do quarrels happen?
- How to negotiate and solve common problems.
- Readiness for the birth of a child.
- How to raise children (age psychology).
Let me emphasize that such global topics cannot be overcome in fits and starts. Necessary systems study so that the broadest and most comprehensive understanding of the subject is formed.
In addition, studying the laws of family, relationships, and financial well-being is impossible without understanding the psychology of personality and self-awareness.
Therefore, I will say punningly: an educated person is distinguished by the fact that he educates himself!
Good luck and success to everyone! With love June.
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We live in the modern world of technology and information, but we are not aware of what they are and how to apply them in life. We are mostly busy with things that are not really important to the world and to ourselves; we waste time, consciously or unconsciously. We go to work and school every day, doing the same thing every day, which brings us neither joy nor happiness, but only takes away our time, health and our whole life.
The facts given below must be understood as truth, because they are relevant in our time for those who want to live a fulfilling life, filled with joy and happiness. You can understand these facts, you can apply them in life, or you can simply read and forget, since not everyone wants to be happy.
1. Where do we come from and who is our creator?
Today, there is one main question that few people answer knows the answer lies in where We come and who is ours creator. All people today cannot accurately answer this question, since scientists hide this information from us. But many versions of the creation of the world and man have already appeared, of course, almost all of them do not make any sense. Every day, the number of people who believe in the existence of God is growing, this is correct, since it is God He created us, just not the one that priests, churches and the whole religion tell us about.
God exists, just not in the form we are told about. This is due to the fact that no one has seen God, because God is energy. The whole World and a person consists of energy, and this can be checked by simply going to the doctor and checking whether you have energy in your body. The world and all the planets are energy, and the Universe was formed in connection with the accumulation of this energy. This version of the creation of the World and man has long been proven to be the most truthful and confirmed, but scientists hid from us, this information.
2. A person gets what he thinks about most
Also interesting fact, about which every person should know, is that everything we think about materializes. Scientists have been studying the brain for a long time, but have hidden from us that all our thoughts are material. This discovery was made several decades ago, but hidden from ordinary people. Therefore, if you want to become the best in some business, just imagine yourself in your thoughts as a better person, every day and soon, this desire will materialize. Scientists have hidden that wishes come true, that these are no longer science fiction, but serious things that are useful for many people to put into practice.
3. The educational system teaches us to live in a World that does not exist
Schools and other universities annually teach new innocent children who are raised either as obedient slaves or as losers and insecure people. The school divides all students into two groups, those who keep up with the system and those who fall behind. Teachers often humiliate those children who have strayed from the system. But it’s not these children’s fault that they were born with developed creative thinking rather than logical thinking. Teachers want children who learn quickly and answer questions accurately when there is only one answer. Because of this, there are so many unhappy people in the world today.
4. Promises that everything will change soon
Of people more and more often they reassure, saying that soon everything will change, and they will live a happy and prosperous life. But this will never happen, because people are being reassured so that they do not go on strikes, rallies and protests. The system by which we live will never change, since it is unprofitable for the people who created it. We will live the way we live now all our lives until we ourselves begin to change and change the world.
5. The subconscious can do anything
Why is it that today 1% of people control 99%, because 1% knows what they want and have a specific goal, and 99% do not know what they want in life and do not set themselves a specific life goal. The subconscious can do anything because it materializes All thoughts And desires human, which are repeated daily in the brain. Someone who doesn't have goals and dreams will always work for someone who does.
6. Television encourages us to buy things we don't need.
As you yourself have noticed, rich and successful people do not watch television, buy only what they need, live more modestly, read books and enjoy life, appreciating what they have. We watch TV every day, after work or school, where we are told that if we do not buy this or that thing, we will become losers and will be a black sheep, since everyone has already purchased this thing except us. We go to a job we don’t like every day in order to go and buy that thing that television has instilled in us, and which we really don’t need. The one who reads books and develops will always control those who watch television.
7. We strive for fame and success without appreciating what we already have
90% of people today strive for success, freedom, wealth, fame and happiness, but without appreciating what they already have in their lives. Such people are unhappy until they achieve what they have inspired themselves to achieve, and when they achieve it, they will also be unhappy, since they will not value what we have achieved. They will set themselves a different goal, and this will continue throughout their lives, which is why a person cannot find happiness in life, since it does not exist in the material world, it is within us. You need to realize it and become happy right now.
8. Time, the most important tool of man
The main thing that every person should know , so this means that the main resource for today is time. The majority believes that the most important thing is money, since there is always a shortage of it. But money can be earned, lost and returned again. And the spent hour, minute and moment can no longer be returned, but people do not appreciate this, continuing to do what they do not like and does not bring joy.
9. Money comes to those who save it, not spend it
Everyone thinks that rich people are liars and scammers because they have a lot of money and we don’t. But this is actually not the case, because basically, more than poor people are deceivers and swindlers, rich people earned their money with their minds and desires. The main thing that distinguishes a rich person from us is that the rich save and increase at least 10% of their income, while we spend 100% of our profits, leaving not a penny, on things that we don’t really need.
10. Appreciate life, for there is only one
The most important thing is that everyone should know man, from all 10 factors, this is that our life is not eternal and everyone has their own life span. Therefore, learn to save time and spend it only on enjoying life and being truly happy.
If you have any questions on this topic or have any additions, write in the comments.