Sublime

Without the weekly respite of choir practice, she gradually became less energised, creative and efficient. She ended up accomplishing less and taking more time to do so.

Pour être équilibré, il faut embrasser cette dualité fondamentale : avoir un pied solidement ancré dans l’ordre et la sécurité, et l’autre dans le chaos, la possibilité, la croissance et l’aventure. Quand la vie se révèle soudain intense, captivante et digne d’intérêt. Quand on est si absorbé par ce qu’on fait qu’on ne remarque pas le temps qui pas

The division of labor between System 1 and System 2 is highly efficient: it minimizes effort and optimizes performance.

Neurologists use the term ‘cognitive reserve’ to describe the brain’s capacity to resist the ravages of old age. For a study published in 2013, a team led by Robert Wilson at the Rush University Medical Centre in Chicago enrolled 300 elderly people, and tested their thinking and memory skills each year. The participants were also asked about how of

True adulthood, or psychological maturity, has become an uncommon achievement in Western and Westernized societies, and genuine elderhood nearly nonexistent. Interwoven with arrested personal development, and perhaps inseparable from it, our everyday lives have drifted vast distances from our species’ original intimacy with the natural world and fr

Thrill and Adventure Seeking (TAS, indexing activities such as sky-diving and mountain climbing), Disinhibition (DIS, indexing behaviours like drug and alcohol abuse, vandalism or unsafe sex), Experience Seeking (ES, indexing travel, psychedelic drugs and music) and Boredom Susceptibility (BS, indexing proneness to boredom and the need to be doing

There are three basic systems at work, two enabling us to be ON, one enabling us to switch OFF. Both of the ON systems manage and direct our energies and attention towards or away from things in our world in anxiety, fear, reward or pleasure.

the more mentally stable and robust you are, the more resilient to sleep deprivation you may be.

three different, yet overlapping, frames for redesigning it. They are homo sapiens, homo faber, and homo ludens—or humans who know, humans who make (things), and humans who play.