You take notes in meetings because you think you'll remember more.
Princeton and UCLA proved the opposite.
Laptop note-takers wrote down 65% more words than longhand note-takers. They also scored significantly worse on understanding questions.
A week later — with their own notes in front of them — they were still worse.
This effect has a name. It's not what you think. 🧵
Dans la dépression, souvent, on arrive même plus à lire.
Perte d’envie, problèmes de concentration, plus d’élan, brouillard mental.
Et pour pleins de gens, les livres ça aide à vivre.
« Délivrez-moi »
La reprise de la lecture est souvent un signe qu’on commence à aller mieux
a lot of people who are into theory are actually just really into a specific set of words that give them a dopamine hit when they are arranged into a sentence
Here's my thing with variants.
If someone strategically releases a staggering number of variants and alternate versions ... they clearly care about charts and commercial performance. You can't convince me otherwise.
But if they're able to successfully SELL so many different versions ... they're clearly organically resonant. You can't convince me otherwise.
"I learned that any difficult problem can be solved by great effort."
Remembering Osamu Shimomura, born #OTD in 1928, who dedicated his life to studying the bioluminescence of the luminous jellyfish Aequorea, and discovered green fluorescent protein, GFP.
Where do you find inspiration?
Han Kang explains that she does not actively pursue moments of inspiration; rather, she embraces life in its entirety.
Kang was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.
#InternationalWomensDay
Campagne de sensibilisation des élèves de brevet du Lycée Français Théodore Monod d'Abu Dhabi sur les conduites addictives à travers le réseau USJ-HDF et écoles affiliées