Category: 16. Mind/Life-Hacking
Personal Improvement: “Fix Yourself” | Jordan Peterson: PragerU (YouTube)
Script: Blaming others for your problems is a complete waste of time. When you do that, you don’t learn anything. You can’t grow, and you can’t mature. Thus, you can’t make your life better. In my three decades as a professor and clinical psychologist, I have learned that there are two fundamental attitudes toward life…
Memory: How To Memorize Lines Instantly (Seriously): Nelson Dellis
Summary (from a commenter): Read over the lines a few times Write down the first letter of each word Read it using first letters only Try it from memory Note: Up very late, really tired, tried this method for the first time, and an hour later still remember the text almost perfectly. This method is…
Cognition: Accelerated Learning: Why Constant Learners All Embrace the 5 Hour Rule | YouTube
Neuroscience: The Neuroscience of “Love” | Limerence and the Biochemical Roots of Love Addiction
“Popular culture has done us a great disservice in our understanding of romantic love. From a young age, we watch movies and read books that form the scripts of our adult relationships. But popular culture usually gets it wrong, often in the name of entertainment, and ends up confusing love with limerence. Click: Limerence and…
Neuroscience: Limerence vs. Love: The Neuroscience of Love and Love Addiction | Addiction.com
“Are limerence and love the same thing?The Neuroscience of Love and Love AddictionIf countless poems and songs are to be believed, they are. If modern brain-imaging studies are to be believed, they most definitely are not. Of course, it’s not just poets and songwriters who confuse the two. Love addicts in particular are notorious for…
Traditional Values: “Farmland” As An Important Metaphor
If farmland is plowed (especially with fertilizer laid down)… by four, five, ten, fifteen, twenty, or more individual farmers (let alone several toiling around the same time), but none are willing to buy the land (choosing instead to abandon it not long after the tilling begins), there is either something seriously wrong with the land,…
Creativity: The Importance of, the Hindrances to, and the Means of Increasing Creativity
Intro: The ability to think critically is a divine gift, a tremendous responsibility, and a moral/ethical imperative. In our day, such thinking has been displaced by hyper-emotionalism on the one hand and new-agey ‘mindfulness-at-the-expense-of-in-depth-reasoning’ on the other. We absolutely need to think deeply, soberly, and rationally, if we want to have any sense of credibility.…
Human Safety & Dignity: “By the Numbers: Is the Porn Industry Connected to Sex Trafficking?”
“Sex trafficking and porn—most people would think that these issues are completely separate, right? But they’d, unfortunately, be mistaken. Trafficking and porn are both booming businesses, so it’s not out of the question that people are taking advantage of vulnerable people for quick cash. The proof is in the stats and survivor stories. 7 minute…
Cognition: Brain Fog: Brain Fog – The Causes / Treatment / Cure
“Brain fog is a collection of symptoms such as forgetfulness, lack of mental clarity, confusion, and inability to focus. It’s not a clinical term and is also referred to as ‘mental fog,’ ‘clouding of consciousness,’ or ‘cognitive dysfunction.’ It is generally caused by inflammation in the brain, stemming from some underlying cause…” Click Brain Fog:…
Spiritual Wrestlings 