I am always someone who encourages friends and family around me to be more of a scientist. Make small experiments. Observed the results. If you succeed, you might just push on to build something positive in life, money wise, health wise, state of mind wise. If you fail, you learn something about yourself as well. The most problematic thing is when you do your own experiment and derived an utterly wrong conclusion to your observations. We were talking during lunch time and the topic drift to me leading into the concept of running paid runs like the Sundown Marathon, Half Marathons or JP Morgan runs. I felt its a waste of money being paid to squeeze with everyone to run UNLESS your main purpose there is to mingle with friends that’s all. One colleague said that everyone should try running a full 42km marathon once in his life. He took ......