Daniel Wentsch

I can read any number of books all by myself (and do!), ruminating only on my own interpretation and never contending with someone who might disagree with me. Or better yet push a button and get a 10-minute AI-generated summary of that book, and push another button and get an AI-generated blog post about the insights of that book that I can throw... See more

Es war ja nicht so, als könnte ich die Schule nicht leiden. Ich ging sogar ganz gerne hin. Wegen der Leute. Was also gewissermaßen erklärte, wofür ich nicht hinging. Mir war nicht klar, wie Alma das machte oder Johann. Ich hatte einfach immer so viele Geschichten und Bilder und Vorstellungen und Träume im Kopf, dass zwischen Brasilien und nun auch

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Perhaps the most astonishing lesson of World War Two is that, in the aftermath of total war and unconditional surrender, a hard reset of two very different cultures was possible. Judging from the Allied victory over Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, it certainly seems that one can bomb ideas—by obliterating many of the people who hold them. Kill a

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Interest-Driven ADHD Brains

🧠 Non-ADHD brains are importance-driven; they prioritize tasks based on their importance, even if they're not enjoyable.

🧠 ADHD brains are interest-driven; they prioritize tasks based on their interest level, often leading to procrastination on important but uninteresting tasks.

💡 When choosing a career path for someone

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It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.

In other words, there is a network in the brain devoted to inner experience, and a network devoted to exterior experience, and usually activation in one is associated with reduced activation in the other. Typically, being lost in your interiority means being less attuned to exterior experience, and vice versa. But during non-dual experience, when

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