Brianne Johnson
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Brianne Johnson
Cognitive load is like playing an iterated game of diminishing returns. Every choice—every click, every scroll—saps a little more of your mental energy. By the time you’re 20 decisions deep, your ability to make intentional choices is shot. It’s not that you’ve lost the game; you’ve been worn down by it.
In behavioral economics, this is known as dec... See more
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The Uncomfortable
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Building resilience isn’t pretty. It’s messy, hard, and it relies on learning how to tolerate frustration. Frustration tolerance is one of life’s most essential skills. The more we can tolerate frustration, the more we can learn, the more we can struggle, the more we can take on challenges, the more we can bounce back from failure. I talk to parents from all around the globe and they all want the same thing for their kids - they want their kids to be gritty and to take on challenges and to not give up when things get hard! And what I want parents to know that kids aren’t inherently born with the ability to do any of these things - but they can learn the skill that enables them to do all of them. That skill? Frustration tolerance. And if you’re thinking about how hard it is for us, as adults, to tolerate frustration… I’m right there with you. It’s more natural to look for a quick exit from our distress or a quick rescue from our struggle or a quick “quit” around our latest challenge. Here’s the good news: we can learn, frustration tolerance skills too! It’s never too late.
instagram.comTo win one of these coveted positions, then, you need to do everything exactly right from your freshman year of high school onward: get good grades, garner strong recommendations, work in the right labs, publish papers in prestigious places, never make anybody mad, and never take a detour or a break. (I occasionally get emails from high schoolers b... See more
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We can all agree that discovering fire was pretty rad. The first humans to do it probably spent a lot of time learning which kind of kindling was best, how to nurse a spark into a flame, and what sorts of fires were best for cooking vs. heating. They must have painstakingly passed this knowledge from generation to generation, and youngsters had to ... See more
Adam Mastroianni • Ideas Aren’t Getting Harder to Find and Anyone Who Tells You Otherwise Is a Coward and I Will Fight Them
The internet has conditioned us to constantly seek new information, as if becoming a sponge of bad news will eventually yield the final piece of a puzzle. But there is also such a thing as having enough information.
“Women asked for clear, no-nonsense literature about how cars worked and what to do when something went wrong; the auto industry gave them cartoonish pamphlets that suggested applying lipstick and “looking helpless and feminine” when needing to change a tire. When women protested that they wanted roomy trunks and adjustable seats, the industry inst... See more
Here is something I wrote years ago about ~creative despair~ (I wrote it a couple years before I started Strange Planet) I am reposting this again - Creative despair is an emotion that I feel sometimes. It is not a place devoid of creativity. ❤️
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Roller skating is Black History. It’s important to recognize the huge impact that the Black community has made on roller skating, and how skating very well may not be what it is today without the impact of Black culture. In honor of Black History Month, we want to shout out @blackdiasporaderby and our league members skating with them! We currently have 3 skaters part of BD: Oreo Slamher, Buttercup, and Filmore Pain. They are fundraising for their World Cup travel fund, so please help support if you can. Head to their page and click the link in their bio! . . . #blackhistorymonth #rollerskating #rollerderby
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