Maria Hanna

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

Walking helps the logical and emotional part of your brain make sense of what you’re going through. Walk after a fight. Walk when your mind is spinning. Walk when you need to remember who you are. Your body knows what to do, just walk.

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

Your partner can’t make you happy.

That’s not their job.

Here’s what they can do:

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

The purpose of negative emotions is not to cause misery. It’s to prevent mistakes.

Outrage is a signal to speak. Disappointment is a cue to persist. Anxiety is a prompt to prepare. Guilt is a reminder to repair.

Pain reveals principles. Where we hurt is a clue to what we value.

[Zoe Wang @zoewangai]

Breakdown of the paper:

The study explores the neural processes involved in silent reading. It investigates whether reading silently activates the auditory cortex, including voice-selective areas, and whether this activation is driven by bottom-up sensory inputs or top-down attentional processes.

The results demonstrate that the activation of auditory areas during silent reading is not automatic and bottom-up, but rather depends on top-down attentional processes. The delayed and variable timing of the auditory response compared to the visual response suggests that the multimodal experience of reading involves a heterogeneous and asynchronous set of neural processes, rather than a seamless integration of visual and auditory information.

full paper: https://t.co/1cxBWKHqgc

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

I just learned that silent reading isn't silent for everyone.

Some people hear the words in their heads as they read.

🤯

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Why smart people often do stupid things: Intelligence isn't a substitute for wisdom.

Intelligence is the capacity to learn. Wisdom is converting learning into good judgment.

Using brainpower requires willpower. It takes self-control to choose future gains over current impulses.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

We learn more from reading on paper than on screens.

54 studies, 171k people: we process print more deeply than digital content—as long as it's informational rather than purely narrative.

The paper advantage holds across ages and has grown over time. Long live physical books.

[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

A few thoughts from the conversations I’ve been having and hearing over the last week:

The hard question isn’t the 2 points that would’ve decided the election. It’s how to build a Democratic Party that isn’t always 2 points away from losing to Donald Trump — or worse.

The Democratic Party is supposed to represent the working class. If it isn’t doing that, it is failing. That’s true even even if it can still win elections.

Democrats don’t need to build a new informational ecosystem. Dems need to show up in the informational ecosystems that already exist. They need to be natural and enthusiastic participants in these cultures. Harris should’ve gone on Rogan, but the damage here was done over years and wouldn’t have been reversed in one October appearance.

Building a media ecosystem isn’t something you do through nonprofit grants or rich donors (remember Air America?). Joe Rogan and Theo Von aren’t a Koch-funded psy-op. What makes these spaces matter is that they aren’t built on politics. (Democrats already win voters who pay close attention to politics.)

That there’s more affinity between Democrats and the Cheneys than Democrats and the Rogans and Theo Vons of the world says a lot.

Economic populism is not just about making your economic policy more and more redistributive. People care about fairness. They admire success. People have economic identities in addition to material needs.

Trump — and in a different way, Musk — understand the identity side of this. What they share isn’t that they are rich and successful, it’s that they made themselves into the public’s idea of what it means to be rich and successful.

Policy matters, but it has to be real to the candidate. Policy is a way candidates tell voters who they are. But people can tell what politicians really care about and what they’re mouthing because it polls well.

Governing matters. If housing is more affordable, and homelessness far less of a crisis, in Texas and Florida than California and New York, that’s a *huge* problem.

If people are leaving California and New York for Texas and Florida, that’s a *huge* problem.

Democrats need to take seriously how much scarcity harms them. Housing scarcity became a core Trump-Vance argument against immigrants. Too little clean energy becomes the argument for rapidly building out more fossil fuels. A successful liberalism needs to believe in *and deliver* abundance of the things people need most.

That Democrats aren’t trusted on the cost of living harmed them much more than any ad. If Dems want to “Sister Soulja” some part of their coalition, start with the parts that have made it so much more expensive to build and live where Democrats govern.

More than a “Sister Soulja” moment, Democrats need to rebuild a culture of saying no inside their own coalition.

Democrats don’t just have to move right or left. They need to better reflect the texture of worlds they’ve lost touch with and those worlds are complex and contradictory.

The most important question in politics isn’t whether a politician is well liked. It’s whether voters think a politician — or a political coalition — likes them.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

When parents only ask about grades and goals, kids infer that achievement comes first.

To signal that we value their well-being and character, we should also ask about happiness and kindness:

-What made you feel joyful? Sad or worried?
-Who did you help? Who helped you?

[Ralph Nader @RalphNader]

American doctors and health workers back from Gaza have begged President Biden to authorize the airlifting of severely burned and mutilated children in Gaza for treatment at ready and willing hospitals in the U.S. Biden and the White House has declined to respond. How cruel. -R

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

A simple way to improve your mood is to curate your feed.

Evidence: People were randomly assigned to unfollow accounts that spewed hostility, hyperpartisan views, and low-quality information.

6 months later, they had significantly higher well-being and lower outgroup animosity.

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

The best advice for a well-lived life: keep creating, keep giving, keep being who you needed when you were younger.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

No more searching for how to cancel your subscriptions.

Today, the FTC finalized a "Click-to-Cancel" rule to make it as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to sign up for one.

Thank you, @linakhanFTC!

[Amazon Watch @amazonwatch]

From California to the Amazon, from the Amazon to Palestine, we celebrate #IndigenousPeoplesDay by uplifting Indigenous struggles and standing in solidarity with their fight for land rights. Justice for Indigenous peoples is justice for all! #LandBack #IndigenousLandRights

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Don't let what you see on social media skew your view of humanity.

Most bad behavior is due to a few bad apples:

• Just 3% of active users are toxic, but they generate 33% of online content
• 1% of communities launch 74% of conflict
• 0.1% of users spread 80% of fake news

@jayvanbavel https://t.co/tSstCxDIYL

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

The attitude that helps most with intense stress is not mindfulness. It’s hope.

In hard times, it’s overwhelming to live only in the present. What brings strength is anticipating a brighter future.

Resilience lies in remembering that today's burdens may be lighter tomorrow.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

The 8th habit of highly effective people:

They don’t spend all their time reading about the 7 habits of highly effective people.

Extended reflection without action is a form of procrastination.

Doing is a catalyst for thinking and learning.

[Maria @MariaLuckyxo]

This is exactly how I approached my healing & growth.
Closing developmental gaps.

I remember hearing a teacher (not trauma related) talk to his students about closing learning gaps.
The essence of skill development.

As a severely neglected kid, I didn't know what I didn't know but once I accepted I was not mentally ill in need of medication or constant talk therapy but I was someone who was starved out of guidance, support, teachable moments & the attention, love & time needed to let a child flourish, I centred my healing framework as an adult around learning life skills and closing those gaps.

I could deal with a not great, traumatizing childhood if once I turned 18 I magically woke up with the life skills needed to navigate adulthood.
Instead I was ill prepared, unaware of the root causes of my problems or the exact solutions to them & going through life re-traumatizing myself, over and over.

If you feel very behind in life, feel immature or underdeveloped in basic like skills or experienced severe neglect as a kid consider shaping your healing around learning life skills that would have a very practical & positive effect on your life.

Those life skills for me were:
1. Increasing my self awareness (learning myself very well)
2. Boundaries
3. Assertive direct communication
4. Discerning manipulative people & predatory behaviour

I hope this helps you. ����

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

Your triggers are your teachers. You heal your body every time you have one and you choose a different reaction.

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

I wish more people talked about the brilliance of the neurodivergent brain. There are limits— and there are also extreme gifts.