Sergi Sabando

Passant la vida mirant de trobar-li un sentit

[Farnam Street @farnamstreet]

Excelling at the small choices that compound over time perpetually leaves you in favorable circumstances.

[Sergi Sabando @SergiSabando]

@rodalies @FernandeezBrya1 Hola, @rodalies. Vinc a sumar-me a les evidències dels comentaris, i a dir-vos que sou molt, molt, molt incompetents. Ja de pas, gràcies pel Bryan, també!

[Jordi Unclu Garrot @UncluGarrot]

Anunci amb classe

[Existential Comics (find me on bluesky) @existentialcoms]

Søren Kierkegaard claimed that if a person behaved perfectly rationally they would be so discordant with civil society that people would deem them mad.

[Un Sr de Barcelona @UnSrdeBarcelona]

Os presento a Jean Bastouill, un venerable anciano de 88 años.

Estamos en 2014 y le están juzgando, por volarle la cabeza a su yerno con 3 tiros de escopeta.

Es el acusado de mayor edad de Francia.

Atención, que esta es una historia donde nada es lo que parece…

Hilo ⬇️⬇️⬇️

[Ignatius Farray @IgnatiusFarray]

Si pensamos que el problema es estar absorbidos día tras día por la rueda productiva a la que nos someten las dinámicas económicas neoliberales sin poder tomarnos ni un respiro, espérate a que lleguen las vacaciones y nos podamos tomar el tiempo suficiente para mirarnos al espejo

[Farnam Street @farnamstreet]

“Always remember that to argue, and win, is to break down the reality of the person you are arguing against. It is painful to lose your reality, so be kind, even if you are right.”

— Haruki Murakami

[Forocoches @forocoches]

Este objeto del inframundo en Agosto

[Jordi Dotras Targas @jdotras]

🙃🙃🙃

[CTXT.es @ctxt_es]

"El pensamiento occidental dejará de ser dominante. Por lo tanto, tenemos que cohabitar con otras visiones del mundo sin tratar de imponer ni convertir al otro."

🗣️ Una entrevista de Hernán Garcés al diplomático francés Maurice Gourdault-Montagne.iat
https://t.co/o7OI3ZOWan

[Ignatius Farray @IgnatiusFarray]

La frase "Me cago en Dios, y me sobra mierda para cagarme en la Virgen María" es demasiado impulsiva... Pudiendo haber sido mucho más prudente y haber dicho "Me cago en Dios, y sinceramente no estoy muy seguro si luego me va a sobrar mierda o no para cagarme en la Virgen María".

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

• Study hard.
• What others think of you is none of your business.
• It's OK not to have all the answers.
• Experiment, Fail, Learn and Repeat.
• Knowledge comes from experience.
• Imagination is important.
• Do what interests you the most.
• Stay curious

[Existential Comics (find me on bluesky) @existentialcoms]

people think Ancient Greece is some kind of "high point" in civilization but i recently found out that they didn't even have Nintendo

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

What is your brain doing when you are doing absolutely nothing?

A neuroscientist wanted an answer to that question.

So she conducted the first brain-imaging study of brain activity when the brain is in a "resting state"—free of inputs/free to wander.

The results are interesting...

The neuroscientist Dr. Nancy Andreasen used a positron emission tomography (PET) scan to study brain activity when the brain is at "wakeful rest"

When you are doing absolutely nothing:

"We found activations in multiple regions of the association cortex," Dr. Andreasen wrote. "We were not [seeing] a passive silent brain during the ‘resting state,’ but rather a brain that was actively connecting thoughts and experiences.”

Essentially, Dr. Andreasen demonstrated that the brain defaults to creativity.

When you are doing absolutely nothing, the brain engages in what the researchers termed "random episodic silent thought" or REST.

And during REST, the brain "uses its most human & complex parts."

Takeaway 1: Doing nothing promotes creativity.

Raymond Chandler, Neil Gaiman, Dr. Suess, George Lucas, and many other writers all have/had a similar habit.

They gave themselves two options:

a) You don’t have to write.
b) You can’t do anything else.

@neilhimself explains:

"I go down to my lovely little gazebo at the bottom of the garden, sit down, and I’m absolutely allowed not to do anything...I'm not allowed to do a crossword, read a book, phone a friend...all I’m allowed to do is absolutely nothing, or write. But writing is actually more interesting than doing nothing after a while."

Takeaway 2: REST

Resting, Dr. Andreasen wrote, “allows the association cortices of the brain to converse in a free & uncensored manner.”

This is why ideas come to us in the shower, on walks, and when daydreaming.

A favorite example of this: @Lin_Manuel had the idea for “Hamilton” on vacation:

"I was on a pool float with a margarita in my hand and had a moment when my brain could unplug. [It was his first vacation in 7 years]. The moment my brain got a moment's rest, the best idea I've ever had in my life walked into it."

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“If a plant only gets sunlight, it’s very harmful. It needs darkness too…In the darkness, it converts oxygen into carbon dioxide. We are like that too. We need periods of doing & periods of non-doing.” — Robert Pirsig

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[El Hematocrítico @hematocritico]

Por qué queremos ver videos de gente reaccionando?

[Joan Cantimplora @JoanCantimplora]

Apunt sobre el poder de la cultura a "Jefes, cabecillas y abusones" de Marvin Harris