@TonsTweetings Cmon, as if thais dont look and talk down about lesser developed countries than their own.
Even if they said the word apes, which i suspect is hyperbolic for the story, they are most likely referring to the particular department, not slandering all thai people.
@__cski Agree Thailand is overhyped. It was good because it was underrated, now its getting overated. Totally disagree on bangkok becoming like dubai. Its only private areas that get developed (mega malls, condos) the public spaces, roads, footpaths, infrastructure lags and wont keep up
Instead of starting at an wall to fix your attention span, this exercise daily. It was developed in the early 1900s by William Walker Atkinson in his book The Power of Concentration. The exercise is called the Sentence Drill.
Read one short sentence from any book, then close it and try to write the sentence down word for word from memory. Once you can do that reliably, move up to two sentences. Then three. Then a small paragraph.
The first time you try it you'll realize how loose your reading actually is. You'll get the gist, but you'll miss exact words, change "and" to "the," skip a comma, swap an order.
This exercise forces you to actually see the words, not just glide over them. Your mind has to hold the exact shape of a sentence long enough to reproduce it.
Do this once or twice a day. Within two weeks you'll feel a significant difference, as it strengthens your attention span, strengthens your memory, and makes you pay more attention to detail, a very rare skill nowadays.
@abigbluebird Its not western people who are angry tho. Its people from second world and developing countries who are going there and seeing it. Seeing what it looks like when things actually improve in meaningful ways.
Nassim Taleb: the richest man in the Roman Empire woke up every morning pretending he was poor.
Seneca had more to lose than to gain from his wealth - so he rehearsed losing it. Every so often he'd live on bread and water as if shipwrecked, just to make the downside familiar and harmless.
That's the whole game, Taleb says: arrange your life so you have far more upside than downside - then randomness stops scaring you.
"Make more when you're right than you lose when you're wrong - that's antifragile."
"Always keep more upside than downside from random events."
"The Stoics aren't unmoved by the world - only by bad events."
~70 min, free. the oldest trick for surviving a world you can't predict ↓