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Color has a large and specific vocabulary, blue, cobalt, topaz. Using these words, a person can describe an exact wavelength of light with little effort or imagination, the listener able to glimpse the experience. Hearing, touch, taste and smell also have their own vivid descriptors. Loud. Sandy. Sweet. Musky. Pain, on the other hand—not considered
... See moreAudrey Schulman • Theory of Bastards
All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push... See more
3-2-1: The simple way to have a good day, why inspiration is unnecessary, playing small vs playing big
Baseball players have to know before the final two hundred milliseconds of a pitch where to swing, so the earlier they pick up anticipatory cues the better.
David Epstein • The Sports Gene
The brain is not just a passive observer in the experience of pain. It shapes pain, amplifies it, echoes it. Brains exposed to prolonged periods of pain become more sensitive to it, the neurons that receive the signals of pain firing more readily, recruiting their neighbors to sense pain, too: pain begetting pain, a relentless cycle of suffering.
... See morePria Anand • The Mind Electric
Users vs. People
Nothing determines what real suffering is except your mind; there is no other test.
