Chelchel Peixoto

What curiosity does is transform that uncertainty from a threat into an invitation.

Suddenly, my doubts became fuel for discovery.

When you write about a subject, you’re forced to piece the information you learned together in a linear format, requiring you to think clearly. What’s more, writing requires you to revisit the information, which strengthens your neural networks, causing you to remember the information better.

Whorf argued that our habitual use of language shapes how we perceive and interpret reality. The hypothesis exists in two forms: a weak version (linguistic relativity) and a strong version (linguistic determinism).

This means that everything that occurs in our minds, every thought, every insight, takes place in words and sentences and is thus constrained by the language we use

Let things go over your head. Then reach higher.

Whatever it is, go too far.

And yet here you are on tiktok listening to a fifty part gossip series.

We treat access to infinite knowledge like background noise.

So let this guide be your reminder, your renaissance, if you will.

To fall in love with learning again

Loving the world, she realised, was a choice, and an act of willing, and the beauty of being together is that one is always coming undone in the dance of knowing and unknowing.