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Wallace Stevens wrote in “Sunday Morning”:
Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams
And our desires.
–M.N.
Other social media platforms followed, leveraging Skinner’s three laws to maximize button-pecking. They offered immediate reinforcement in the form of instant responses, conditioned reinforcement in the form of “likes” and “followers”, and unpredictable reinforcement that varied with each post and each refresh of the page. These features turned soc
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The brilliant Japanese writer Haruki Murakami once wrote, “Always remember that to argue, and win, is to break down the reality of the person you are arguing against. It is painful to lose your reality, so be kind, even if you are right.”
from Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds by James Clear
Becoming enlightened, in the Buddhist sense of the term, would entail wholly ridding yourself of the twin illusions from which people tend to suffer: the illusion about what’s “in here”—inside your mind—and about what’s “out there” in the rest of the world.
from Why Buddhism Is True by Robert Wright
What can we do now? Well, there's a
whole lot of things really. We can begin the work of limiting the damage we do to nature and that's, of course, the obvious one and is underway in many very good organisations and human beings in the world today. But I think we also need to reestablish some sense of who we are and what we're doing here. And I thin
... See morefrom Dr Iain McGilchrist: We Are Living in a Deluded World by UnHerd
Let me be clear: there is no way to make social media safe for children by just making the content less toxic. It’s the phone-based childhood that is harming them, regardless of what they watch . Kids need to be freed from the grip of smartphones and social media, especially through early puberty. This is why two of the four norms I propose for sol
... See morefrom Marshall McLuhan on Why Content Moderation Is a Red Herring by Jon Haidt
Resolve to listen better.
If you notice you are lost in your thoughts while someone is talking to you, take a deep breath, smile because you have noticed it, and get back to really listening.
See the world as if you were on vacation. Look at the world with a sense of excitement and wonder, appreciate the local customs and the unique landscape around you. Explore and discover your world, even if it's just your broom closet.