Life hack (from English life hack) is a set of methods and ways of ‘breaking’ the environment to simplify achievements of the set goals with the help of various useful advice and fast ones. Life hacker does not usually create new methods but just possesses the existing ones. The movement of life hackers was supposably born in the environment of computerniks.
A Britain journalist Danny O’Brian invented the term ‘life hacking’ in 2004. He connected the words life («life») and hack («breaking»).
In 2006 American society in research of dialects named lifehack as one of the most useful words after podcast.
Life hacking is a set of useful and brief advice allowing to solve various vital and household tasks with less expenses and/or quicker. For example:
- How to wind out a broken lamp from the socket;
- How to get a drink in the crowded bar quicker;
- How to remember the phone number or pin-code;
- How to stand in the line less;
- How to spend time less getting to a job;
- How to fulfill more complex tasks quicker;
- How to draw up a plan of speech quickly;
- How not to get excited in front of the public and so on