Matome Motsoko🇿🇦

I Live to Serve & Add Value To Others.🙏❤His Grace Is Sufficient 4 Me🙏❤#GoodVibesOnly
#2 Corinthians 12:9

[The Alpha Mindset @the_alphamind]

If you want to exit poverty, Watch this ‼️‼️

[Nandi Madida 🇿🇦 @Nandi_Madida]

Good morning, my fellow South Africans. 🇿🇦

If you’re an entrepreneur or business owner in a township, rural area, suburb, or city, and you’d like more people to know about your business, please share it in the comments below. Let’s support local businesses, discover hidden gems, and help one another grow. 🇿🇦

With love,
A patriotic South African. 🇿🇦❤️

#SupportLocal #BuyLocal #ProudlySouthAfrican

[Nandi Madida 🇿🇦 @Nandi_Madida]

Please, if anyone has employment opportunities, internships, learnerships, apprenticeships, mentorship programmes, bursaries, graduate programmes, or entry level positions available across any industry for our incredible South African youth, kindly share them in the comments below. 🇿🇦
Every opportunity has the potential to change a life. ❤️🙏🏽 #FutureLeaders #SouthAfricanYouth #YouthEmployment

[blue @bluewmist]

Going to leave you with this tonight:
The best thing you can do for yourself is actively increase your surface area for luck to hit you. Go outside, travel more, go to new cates, museums, events, take a new route home, go for hikes, see cities, countrysides, take your notebook, speak to people, ask questions, start businesses - go on more side quests. You can literally just do things, and the more you do, the more serendipity and synchronicity will find you.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

[🇦🇺Craig Tindale @ctindale]

It’s ironic with SA: they adopt the most Western central banking theory possible, one designed poorly even for Western economies, and apply it completely inappropriately to the type of economy SA wants to become.

A country with mass unemployment, weak industrial capacity, energy constraints and deep inequality cannot run its economy as if it is Switzerland or tge US You can't obsess over inflation targeting, fiscal restraint and “market confidence” while the productive base of the country is collapsing.

They confuse textbook credibility with development. SA doesn't need institutions that only protect price stability. It needs institutions willing to build industry, direct credit, support production and force capital into the real economy.

[Brad @BradleyKellard]

In 2008, Malcolm Gladwell explained why some people succeed & some don't.

This talk reveals:
• Why ability is overrated
• Why effort alone isn’t enough
• How systems quietly decide outcomes

12 lessons from Gladwell that'll permanently change how you think about success:

[Fit_Fusion @FitFusion__]

Easy ways to grow food on your windowsill!

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

24-year-old Tracy Chapman forced to fill in last minute and stuns Wembley Stadium into silence with just a guitar and her vocals (1988)

[Grace Gym🏋️‍♀️ @GraceGym_]

Learning these Life Hacks makes a huge difference, especially the last one.

[Fit_Fusion @FitFusion__]

This is the easiest and best egg sandwich in the world

[Health & Nutrition Tips @healthnutritipz]

She EXPOSED how to Naturally Reverse Diabetes 😲

[Matome Motsoko🇿🇦 @MotsokoJoseph]

@KubuzieDesigns How much is the TV unit?

[Matome Motsoko🇿🇦 @MotsokoJoseph]

@KubuzieDesigns Hello. How much?

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

You just need to take a good look at all the older people who didn't get to live the life they wanted, and it will become obvious that the causes are always the same, generation after generation:

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

I find it helps to develop an interest in things. Visit museums, hit up the library and discover-browse. Read widely. Learn new languages, new words. Watch old films. The world is a wondrous place but the sense of wonder is a muscle that must be cultivated like any other.

[Matome Motsoko🇿🇦 @MotsokoJoseph]

@SamsonAfrica Helo team. Where can one shop those?

[Matome Motsoko🇿🇦 @MotsokoJoseph]

@SamsonAfrica Helo team, where can one shop those Dungarees pls advice 🙏

[Matome Motsoko🇿🇦 @MotsokoJoseph]

@SAReserveBank @KganyagoLesetja @dcfowkes 50 basis points would have made a huge difference, those 5 who favoured 25 are so out of touch with reality

[Skai. @superSaiyanSkai]

On the days I feel lost, I return to this, and it always reignites me.