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The things your brain tells you.

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Your mind makes more assumptions about reality rather than seeing it as it really is.

Light plays an important role in colors.

Just try it 👍👍

It’s never too late to stop following the masses. You can alter your course at any time, and it won’t cost you a thing.

Says so right in the background.

(If anyone knows who created this picture please let me know so I can provide attribution to them)

The future will bring with it rapid and frequent change. One will need to develop a versatility to match this and stay current with these changes.

Did you know that you are two? Would you agree or disagree? Either way, who is actually deciding?

While it seems that you are you, patients who have had a surgery to cure certain types of epilepsy by having their corpus callosum severed, (the nerve cluster which connects the left and right hemispheres) show more clearly, that you are two.

Most of the arguments you will have in life, are with yourself. Only you don’t know it.

“It's not just about living forever, Jackie. The trick is living with yourself forever.” -Captain Teague, Pirates of the Caribbean, At Worlds End.

https://youtu.be/wfYbgdo8e-8

You Are Two Watch the other part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQVmkDUkZT4&feature=youtu.behttp://www.cgpgrey.comMusic: http://www.daveconservatoire.org/ - Mark Gove...

Your brain works in ways you don’t always understand. Here’s a good example.

The Thatcher Effect.
This illusion highlights a flaw in how our brains work - we can't process an upside-down face because we are programmed to recognise faces the right way up.
We create a mental map by recognising the face in pieces - eyes, mouth, and nose.
So when we're presented with an upside-down, Thatcherised image, it's not processed properly.
We know it's upside down, but because we so rarely encounter upside-down faces, we haven't evolved to interpret the expressions on them.
The facial features look fine, so our brains assume the rest of the face is as well.
That's why we don't see anything out of the ordinary until we turn the face the ‘right way’ up.

Perspectives.

https://youtu.be/wyzi9GNZFMU

Rethinking Civilization - Crash Course World History 201 In which John Green returns to teaching World History! This week, we'll be talking about the idea of civilization, some of the traditional hallmarks of so-ca...

"In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything & nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true."

— Hannah Arendt

"The ancient Irish had a saying: 'You don't give a man a weapon until you've taught him how to dance.' In other words, a different kind of learning is required before someone can be truly trusted with social power and potent things like weapons. If a man does not know the wounds of his own soul, he can deny not just his own pain, but also be unmoved by the suffering of other people. More than that, he will tend to put his wound onto others. He may only be able to see the wound that secretly troubles him when he forcefully projects it into someone else, in forms of abuse or violence.

So in the old culture-making idea, in order to properly bear arms a person must first become disarmed, as in becoming vulnerable and connected to something meaningful and supportive of life. The idea of forging the temperament of young men took precedence over the idea of simply giving them weapons at a certain age. The tempering of the souls involved discovering what kind of anger each might carry and learning about the inner line where anger turned into blind rage. Becoming tempered also meant immersing in the sorrow of one's life and thereby being in touch with the grief of the world."

- Michael Meade

Stay centred, be flexible with your thoughts and opinions. The environments we live in, be they natural or social, are always changing and so should your mind and actions. The key is to find the suitable combination of ideas, between those that are timely and those that are timeless.

https://youtu.be/E-4zjAleQmI

Brain Bias: Why You Shouldn't Emulate Geniuses and Their Rigid Thinking Processes | Barbara Oakley Brain Bias: Why You Shouldn't Emulate Geniuses and Their Rigid Thinking ProcessesWatch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideoJoin Big Th...

Freethinking... not so common as one might think.

Gizmos & Gremlins the nature of the Mogwai

Mogwai, Cantonese word. Meaning:
Monster, evil spirit, devil or demon.

Perhaps the lessons found in the movie Gremlins are worth re-visiting and are more valuable now than they were in "1984". Maybe what we've recently witnessed so far around the world and in particular, the events endured by our good brothers and sisters in the United States. That is, Gremlins on both the extreme left and right, each taking advantage of opportunities readily found in the ambiguities of a good moral cause. Causes initially started by good people, for good, or at least under­standable reasons. But ended up with the burning of communities, the storming of the capitol, the ruin of many friendships and much needed constructive dialogue between the moderates of both sides. Their situation is not to be ridiculed, because it could easily happen to any society, and it often has. Don’t think for a moment that the same can’t happen to you. Or that if you lived in N**i Germany you would have been someone like Oskar Schindler making a list, and not a N**i proponent. As is said," the road to hell is paved with good intentions.", similarly, all Gremlins spawn out from good Mogwai (Gizmo)

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We all have a Mogwai, and it's yours, if you can keep it. But one weak link, can ruin it for the rest. Don't be that link. If someone or some event tries to water your Mogwai, and spawn gremlins from you, just remember...

"I'm sorry, Mogwai not for sale. With Mogwai comes great responsibility. I cannot sell at any price."

The world as you know it, is the world as you see it. Almost always, it’s a choice based on your own desires, cultural, national and economic predispositions etc. If an effort isn’t made to explore other ideas, then you end up in an echo chamber of your own limited perspectives. Social media algorithms don’t help in escaping this as they tend to serve you more and more of what you’ve been consuming. What you seek is what you find. Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspectivism

Perspectivism - Wikipedia Perspectivism (also perspectivalism; German: Perspektivismus) is the view that perception, experience, and reason change according to the viewer's relative perspective and interpretation. It rejects the idea of "one unchanging and essential world accessible to neutral representation by a disembodied...

Yesterday’s solutions are today’s problems, today’s solutions will be tomorrow’s problems. Each solution buys us more time, to learn more, and develop better ways. But the real problem is that our habits always seem to grow and exceed the limits of those new ways. It’s wise to master our environment, but even wiser to master ourselves in conjunction.

The Great Horse-Manure Crisis of 1894 | Stephen Davies A classic example of this is a problem that was getting steadily worse about a hundred years ago, so much so that it drove most observers to despair. This was the great horse-manure crisis.  

Johannes Gutenberg

c. 1400 – February 3, 1468 was a German goldsmith, inventor, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe with his mechanical movable-type printing press. His work started the Printing Revolution and is regarded as a milestone of the second millennium, ushering in the modern period of human history. It played a key role in the development of the Renaissance, Reformation, Age of Enlightenment, and Scientific Revolution, as well as laying the material basis for the modern knowledge-based economy and the spread of learning to the masses.

I think he’d be impressed with this device.
, timely meets timeless.

To all those friends I’m stuck in the middle with. Ya feel me?

Doodle done on my new paper table. I love this thing!

It’s one of the most iconic images of the war in the Pacific, but George Silk’s photograph of a blinded Australian soldier being led by a barefoot Papuan on Christmas Day 1942 was captured by chance.

"It’s so powerful because it’s got that humanitarian element to it … It’s a photograph during wartime, but not of the conflict; it’s of someone helping out someone else who is in need.” said Dr Lachlan Grant, a senior historian at the Australian War Memorial.

It was mid-afternoon and New Zealand photographer George Silk was walking along the track towards the beachhead battles when he saw the column of wounded men coming towards him. He stepped to the side, quietly took a photograph of Whittington and Oimbari, and the procession moved along. Silk wasn’t going to disturb them, but at the last minute ran back to get the wounded soldier’s name.

Learn more about one of the most iconic images of Australia in the Second World War: http://ow.ly/xSBL50CMGoY

Photographer: George Silk. 014028

Teachers are everywhere, if we are willing to learn.

A simple truth to consider in a complex world.

https://youtu.be/byQrdnq7_H0

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“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.”

-Socrates

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

Everything you see around you today, began in someones imagination. All the materials required to make them, were always here from the start. The only thing that changed is that throughout history, we have progressively imagined different ways of manipulating and combining those materials and ideas.

During trying times, it is important to listen and be inspired from those who themselves have gone through incredibly difficult times. The atrocities Kurt Vonnegut witnessed and survived, as a prisoner of war in Dresden during the allied fire bombing raids and the subsequent body gathering, may have brought many to the limits of their sanity.

In this Excerpt from his lecture at Case Western Reserve University, Mr. Vonnegut dispenses some good insights to the human condition through his famous presentation, often referred to as "The Shape of Stories"

Enjoy.

https://youtu.be/BFXHnDG_PT0

Making Sense, Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut uses the shape of stories to help make sense of things. During trying times, it is important to listen and be inspired from those who themselve...