Jeff Wall

Director of Choirs, lyric baritone, teacher, jiu-jiteiro, husband, father, son.
@voxsolaris
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Opinions are my own.

[Jeff Wall @drjeffwall]

@FixingEducation Exercise and family time, hobbies, friends outside of work. Yes, summer break too.

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@peterboghossian Naw, just keep going until the sub ADCC style 🤣

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@robkhenderson The most intelligent are trained and empathetic, understanding that avoidance is best for both parties, but for very different reasons.

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[✠ 𝔅𝔞𝔯𝔬𝔫 𝔳𝔬𝔫 ℜ𝔦𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔫𝔥𝔞𝔲𝔰 @husafell_stone]

There is no substitute for the real thing (practicing on real piano) but studying and thinking about music, hearing it and analyzing it in one’s mind away from piano, learning it by heart this way, this is also practice. And it makes big difference when one is at the instrument.

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@peterboghossian He is obviously not accustomed to "mat snacks."

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[Justin Amash @justinamash]

It never ceases to amaze me how the same people who imagine themselves skeptics of government—who are broadly hostile to authority and those in public office—are often so obliging, pliable, and easily manipulated when someone who presents as a political/cultural ally holds power.

[DJHed @DJHed]

Stop expecting sincere conversation from the internet

[Jeff Wall @drjeffwall]

There is no worse driver than the parent pulling out of the school parking lot from the pick up line.

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@chrismunce It is. Or, if of the Judeo-Christian variety, three. Ecc 4:9-12

[Angel Eduardo @StrangelEdweird]

Principle is the stone
Circumstance is the storm
And whether we weather it
Depends how hard we hang on

[Jeff Wall @drjeffwall]

It amazes me that millions of people with just as many possible perspectives can experience a singular reality AND STILL filter into a binary political viewpoint.

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[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

“15 years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now, the real world is an escape from the internet.”

— Noah Smith

[Angel Eduardo @StrangelEdweird]

Each of these lights is a galaxy, consisting of billions of stars.

The known universe may contain up to 2 trillion galaxies.

Absolutely massive.

We are very, very, very tiny. Our problems are even tinier.

This perspective can help us deal with them, ourselves, and each other.

[Jeff Wall @drjeffwall]

Social media and online debate, in general.

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

3. Survivorship Bias:
The info in your feed has been selected because it’s surprising. It is a reflection not of the ordinary but the extraordinary, not of reality but of that which is uncharacteristic of reality. Remember this whenever your feed convinces you the world is crazy.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

In 2002, I was asked by Ed Zschau, übermentor and my former professor of High-tech Entrepreneurship at Princeton University, to come back and speak to the same class about my business adventures in the real world.

I was stuck. There were already deca-millionaires speaking to the same class, and even though I had built a highly profitable sports supplement company, I marched to a distinctly different drummer.

Over the ensuing days, however, I realized that everyone seemed to be discussing how to build large and successful companies, sell out, and live the good life.

Fair enough. The question no one really seemed to be asking or answering was, Why do it all in the first place?

What is the pot of gold that justifies spending the best years of your life hoping for happiness in the last?

The lectures I ultimately developed began with a simple premise: Test the most basic assumptions of the work-life equation.

How do your decisions change if retirement isn’t an option?

What if you could use a mini-retirement to sample your deferred-life plan reward before working 40 years for it?

Is it really necessary to work like a slave to live like a millionaire?

Little did I know where questions like these would take me. The uncommon conclusion? The commonsense rules of the “real world” are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions.

[Scott Barry Kaufman ⛵ @sbkaufman]

As a humanistic psychologist I will never stop trying to help people find common ground and see the deeper humanity in each other. It's idealistic but not unrealistic.

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[Chris Williamson @ChrisWillx]

“Somewhere in the future, your older self is watching you through memories. Whether it's with regret or nostalgia depends on what you do now.” — @G_S_Bhogal

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@artofmanliness Seconded from right here in Tulsa.

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