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Make sure you don’t burn bridges down the stretch
Fulfilling your human potential as a professional means that you should avoid the "lame duck" syndrome when leaving your current employer.
It is natural for many employees who give their notice at a job to shift their work gear into neutral and significantly reduce their production. However, this is a slippery slope that should be avoided for many reasons.
For starters, you never know when you may run into a co-worker in the future, in a professional or personal setting. It is best not to gain a reputation as a worker who "phones it in" once they know they cannot be disciplined by their temporary employer.
In addition, your work habits can seep their way into your next professional role. If you are slacking in your final two weeks at work, you are more likely to start off on the wrong foot in your next profession.
The best way to leave a job is to adequately train your replacement – if you have one. By sharing your knowledge and experiences with your successor, your former co-workers, and the company as a whole, will benefit.
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India’s palace that asks: how’d they do it?
Lucknow, India, has one of the world's strangest man-made structures ever discovered.
A massive palace constructed in a maze format, the Bara Imambara has a pretty mesh of European and Arabic architecture and more than just a few secrets.
During the 1700's, a ruler named Nawab Asaf-ud-Daula created the complex, which displays the true force of human potential thanks to its gravity-defying ceiling.
"Bara Imambara's magnificent central arched hall – which stretches 50 meters long and about three stories high – is held up, amazingly, without any pillars, girders or beams," reports MSNBC Travel. "Instead, the hall was constructed solely with interlocking brickwork."
In addition, the palace's intense labyrinth of 1,000 stairway passages is incredibly complicated. Built to deter any possible invaders, many of the stairways drop off suddenly or end up as dead ends.
Travelers can explore the maze with a guide and also enter the nearby mosque and gardens.
While wandering around the gardens, visitors can enjoy the quiet solitude the natural surroundings afford. Or, if they choose to explore the arched hallway, they can consider how amazing of an engineering feat it took to build such a thing.
