WHAT SCIENCE QUIETLY CONFIRMS ABOUT EVERYDAY LIFE:
1. Sunlight in the morning is one of the most powerful medicines
2. The gut influences mood more than most people realise
3. Deep breathing genuinely changes your nervous system in seconds
4. Cold water does things to the brain that warm water simply cannot
5. Humans are wired for storytelling, not data
6. Silence is a physical need, not just a preference
7. Walking outside solves problems that sitting inside creates
8. The body keeps score of everything the mind tries to forget
9. Sleep deprivation mimics the cognitive effects of being drunk
10. Nature exposure lowers cortisol faster than almost any other intervention
11. Eye contact triggers the same brain chemistry as physical touch
12. The brain cannot distinguish between a vividly imagined event and a real one
When I was a kid, my mom got a a lot of flack for the way she homeschooled us.
She almost unschooled us. She made us do math, but not much. We learned a lot of history because she talked about it constantly. But almost nothing was formal.
The people who ragged on her were usually school-at-home types. Some of them even had a “school room,” complete with desks and chalkboards.
We spent our time with a *profound* amount of boredom. We read encyclopedias for fun. @BowtiedWTRbear read every book in our library, which was vast. My younger brother tore apart computers. I played piano and bass guitar and day dreamed. We didn’t do nearly enough chores and an equal amount of “school work.”
By all measures, we should have been abysmal failures.
But I’m a nurse and my brothers are engineers and my sister works in accounting, all of us with impressive resumes in our fields.
All of us are married with children and happy. Actually, all of us are very much practicing Christians and very conservative politically. We all have three or more kids.
The ones who ragged on my mom have less stellar records.
I think about the differences a lot. Our family was/is FAR from perfect. We’ve had some family drama and nothing comes easy, it seems.
The difference, I think, is that my mom didn’t focus on academics. Her entire goal for us was to grow up to love Jesus. That’s it.
“Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.”
“And I
I chose the path less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
@dioncini@hmmahbeaver@JOKAQARMY1 Do you mean yourself as one of “the big boys”? Because you’ve been banned from multiple theme parks? Is that your tough guy resume?
@goddek@marklevinshow I’d rather eat that bread than ever listen to Levin’s horrid, unbearable screeching again.
He wouldn’t even let Joe Kent speak, so disrespectful.
@Sim2Mike@craz_tom@RedPandaKoala Yes, that’s him. Idk if they’re grifters or not but this post is weird. And their little election integrity thing went nowhere.
@craz_tom@RedPandaKoala Yeah that looks like the guy who worked with the lady, and all the influencers went to some big invite only meeting. He wasn’t a govt official….this is strange.