Debbie Foster

“That’s what happens when you’ve had great success in life—when you’ve achieved the one goal you always desired. You lose a sense of purpose. Your smallest anxieties fester and magnify. Your fears turn inward, and attach themselves to irrational concerns.”

In prose, white space can indicate transitions in time, place, or ideas, and it can do some of the work line breaks do in verse. White space can be disruptive, showcasing, or suspense-building. White space is a charged silence that activates the imagination and slows the reader down.

Memory and imagination are closely linked. One reconstructs based on the gist; the other builds on whatever desire or dread is fuelling your image of the future. Both are essentially creative activities; where they differ is not in form but in their source of inspiration.

In economics and data science, there's an adage called Goodhart's law , which warns that "as soon as a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric." By optimizing for engagement to keep viewers online, social media platforms turned engagement into a target, eventually resulting in engagement-maximizing content that nobody actually

Munch's ambition was to paint the story about the self, and the method he found was stylised and dream-like representations of inner experiences which were unified enough and lay close enough to known stories or archetypes to be decoded and understood. He removed everything specific and detailed, allowing only the unspecified sweep of memory to

Precognitive dreams, Dunne argued, show that at night, as well as other times when the brain is in a relaxed state, our consciousness can wriggle free of the present moment and scan ahead (as well as behind) on our personal world-line, like a flashlight at night illuminating a spot on the path ahead.

Helmholtz resonator

Sharif laughed as he wrestle-hugged his bear. He then flipped Judy on his back and played his belly like a bongo drum. Judy's tail thumped the ground repeatedly. One of the great things about Judy was how he let Sharif exorcise complex emotions on him in ways that were unacceptable between humans: rough touch, hard body patting, schnoz-blows,

In 2015, the psychologist Bruce Wampold showed that, while some treatments might be better than others, these differences are small compared to the effects of contextual factors, like patient expectations, the relationship with the healer, and a shared understanding of the reason for suffering. Much of healing, whether by Colombian shamans or Johns