This column will change your life: How long does it really take to change a habit?

To develop a specific habit takes around 25 days. We owe this information to Maxwell Maltz, an important plastic surgeon. He had observed that amputees took around 20 days to adjust to the loss of a limb. Therefore, he reasoned it must take 21-28 days to change a habit. This knowledge is called “the 28 rule”.
The 28 rule was ruled out for an experiment of an important university. On average, her subjects, who were trying to learn new habits such as eating fruit daily, took 66 days before reporting that the behaviour had changed. Individuals ranged widely: some took 18 days, others 245 and some habits were harder than others to make a change.
The first problem with this 28 rule is very simple: changing habits is hard. The psychologist Ian Newby-Clark asks:"what would be the point of having a habit that didn't free up your mind to crunch on more pressing matters?" Habits are meant to be difficult to change.
The mainly problem in the moment we change a habit is that we tend to think about habit change wrongly. We want to stop watching so much TV, but demonstrably, we also want to watch lots of TV, so what we really want, it seems, is to stop wanting. The way round this, says Newby-Clark and others, is to see that habits are responses to needs. What's required isn't a better habit, but an alternative way to feel comforted and relaxed. The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken, Dr Johnson says that maybe by looking at the problem differently we can still change an habit in a very bit time.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/oct/10/change-your-life-habit-28-day-rule

The Curious History of Benjamin Button

My favourite movie is “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”. It’s about a man named Benjamin, who born in the end of the First World War, with a several aging disease at birth. The doctor gives him only a little chance of survival, but he does survive, and gets younger with time. Benjamin was raised by Queenie, a black woman and caregiver at a seniors home. In this house Benjamin meets Daisy, and fell in love with her, but in that moment there was a very big difference between them: Daisy was only a child, and Benjamin was a child too, but in an old body. Anyway, they became very good friends.
Although separated through the years; Daisy and Benjamin remain in contact trough their lives, reconnecting in their forties, when in age they finally match up. In this time they became lovers and had a child, but time goes on, and he is younger every day...
Finally, Benjamin becomes in a baby and die, looked after in every moment for Daisy, now an older woman driven only by the love that she feel for him.
This movie is a drama, and I like it so much, the Character of Benjamin is interpreted by Brad Pit, such a cut man!, and Daisy is interpreted by Elle Fanning. Her character is a ballet dancer, and there is a lot of dance in the movie, I love that! This film is very long, some people don’t like it but I think that it give a touch of suspense to the movie.

My favourite places

I Have lived here in Santiago all my life, so I have some personal places that I like to visit very often, or when I have enough time. I think that if I was a foreigner tourist, I would like someone give me some advices of what to do or when to go, to enjoy as much I as could this city. In first place, I like to visit the Cultural Center Palacio la Moneda. It is located in the center of the city, under the building government house: La Moneda. This center is very cheap, and always has a lot of interesting artworks. This is one of my favorite places, and all the family can visit it. In a different area of the city, is located the Sculpture Park, this is a very cozy place, is full of very much sculptures, and you can read there, invite your friends or have a good conversation. Other place I like very much is the San Cristobal hill, It’s located in the east area if the city. It have a road from the base to the top that you can walk, and when you arrive to the top you can see all city, and is a very beautiful landscape especially when it has just stop raining. Returning to downtown, there is the Bellas Artes Museum, is a very old structure and is full of Chilean artworks. Every time some foreigner artist come to Chile, it make important and pretty exhibitions. I like this museum because it can show me more of my own culture. The last place that I’m going to describe is the one I visit to chill out whit my friends, the Victor Jara storehouse. There are always concerts in there; I like to go there to listen to my favorite musicians and to have a nice time whit my friends. This are the places that I like more, I hope to continue adding more places to mi list!

transantiago experience!

Since all this Transantiago system was going to beginning, all people had a bad feeling about all situation that was coming, everyone said that it was going to be a chaos, people thought buses were going to be driven so much slower and all the workers in the city were frustrated one month in advance. Personally, I thought in that moment: “because of all the bad energy that all people is putting on it, this is going to be a disaster” and that was what happen. When Transantiago began, all people was so angry about waiting so much on the bus stops, and about the crowded of the buses, I remember that day I was on my summer holydays, and it was the main theme in the news. I think it wasn’t to bad, in the beginning it was obviously a chaos, because people wasn’t have any information and nobody knew what to do or where to go, but that situation was improved little by little…whit necessary tolerance of people, of course. I think there’s no a big difference whit the old system, actually is much cheaper travel in Transantiago because there’s no charge by transferring bus to bus. If I clud improve more this system, first of all I would change the large busses for other ones smaller, because there are have been so much problems whit this size in streets, that the most of times make loose time, and in second place, I would allow admission in the bus paying throught money too, it would be so much useful to us.

Peca's the dog.

When I was a child, my brother beginning a relationship with a very cute girl named Paula, she had a nice dog that brought very often to my house, I was a child, so a get used to play whit the dog and vey soon I wanted one for me. My mom explain me that I was very little to be in charge of an animal, to look after it or take care of it, but I insisted, and one Christmas night I received a little dog, and I put it the name Peca. That was like eleven years ago, and it has became an important part of my family, almost like a new member, it was my friend when I was a child and now I love it, is so kindly! . Because is very small, it never had been mother, and last year it get very sick because of many tumors in the stomach that compressed part of it liver, so we had to brought it to the veterinary for make an operation that taked out all these tumors. Me and my family was very sad because we thought it was going to die, like many dogs that have the same complications, but luckily there was no troubles and suddenly it get better, and now is the same doggy that used to be.

my first semester

this first semester I have lived more things than I ever could thought, and I'm not talking about my career, is much more deeper than that, I think I have realized many things, one of them is that this university is my place, where I want to prepare my career and learn all things I have liked since ever. Well... the first part of the year I went to the pilates class, which is not a sport really, is like a sequence of rutines and exercises that makes your body looks more stretch and stronger, at least that I have heard, but whit me it didn't worked very well!

I think the most diffucult challenge was to become accustomed to this new rutine, whit all this things to do (and to read!) that, I cant not deny, maked me crazy the first months, but I get used little by little.

I lived greats experiences whit the people I met here, I have had lot of fun and I'm very happy whit that, my teachers are good to, although there are some that I can't understand and that makes me a little frustrated, I hope I finish this semester with good reviews off everything, and of course with good califications.

my favourite contry

My favourite country is France. Since I was a child, I always have been a big fan of this country and my childhood dream is make a big trip to Paris, capital of France, and to know the historical places that I have learn in school. It’s not too much the knowledge I have of there, I have studied some historical facts like the French revolution and the features of this reigns, and actually I would like to visit many typical places to know more of their culture and history if I make a trip someday. The most intriguing place to me is the Versailles Palace, I would visit it in first place, and then I would go to the Eiffel Tower, I’d like to make a walk in afternoon for different neighbourhoods, to know a little more about their streets designs and stiles. Although I like very much this country, I wouldn’t like to study there, because that place is very far of my home and my family, and also is very expensive, I prefer, in that case, to study here in Chile and graduate, then make a master and if I want to continue studying, go to another country (it can be France or any other) to make a PHD. Something that I know that I going to do when I finish my career, is to travel for work in France or some country of Europe, well, if fate allows it.