Calvin

Economist, Danida Fellow-UCPH ,Principal Fellow-Mwambao Institute,
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.― Oscar Wilde.|

[Calvin @kassembanda]

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[Kenya Institute of Social Sophists @Socialsophyistr]

Before a man ends his life, he leaves a note. But when that man is one of the greatest literary minds of the 20th century, his note is a 100-page philosophical masterpiece.

Written between 1965 and 1968, Sun and Steel is Yukio Mishima’s ultimate personal testament. It is a text that synthesizes the power of the typewriter and the visceral reality of the flesh.

The masterpiece radically challenges our conceptions about the relationship between the mind and the body, breaking with the Cartesian res extensa vs res corgitans frame that is popular

[Somoina Kapeen @SomoinaKapeen]

Kwa wale wanauliza about the Cassia plant..we call it Osenetoi...Yes it is a herb and a very powerful one! You can use the leaves and the roots for swelling.leaves treat fungal diseasss..good for homa and all things stomach!it is also known to treat malaria btw..na backache...

Mother Nature is so smart! She gave us all we need! She heals and Nurtures!

[Electra @Electrarythm]

Jean-Paul Sartre

[The Shift Journal @TheShiftJournal]

Word of the Day

[Edmund @Kulambq]

'Europe is dying. The European man, tortured to death, rages with electric speed in development; he rages, and only one desire remains to him: to die.'

Prescient words by Srečko Kosovel, written more than 100 years ago. He died at the age of 22.

[Electra @Electrarythm]

If you want to develop your visualization ability and improve your memory, try this exercise daily for 5 minutes. It was developed in the early 1900s by William Walker Atkinson in his book The Power of Concentration. The exercise is called the Picture Recall.

Place a picture, any picture, on a table in front of you and study it for two minutes, every detail. Foreground, middle ground, background. Colors, shapes, lighting, expressions, objects. Close your eyes and try to recall everything you saw, hold the image in your mind as completely as you can. Open your eyes and ruthlessly correct every single mistake you made. Close them again and notice how much sharper the mental image is the second time.

Repeat until your mental image matches the original in every single detail.

Most people's visualization is actually vague impressions, a sense of a thing rather than the actual thing. This exercise rebuilds the ability to hold a real, detailed image in your mind.

Do this every day at a fixed time. Within two weeks you'll feel a significant change, as it strengthens your attention span, strengthens your imaginative capability, and improves your memory.

[Norbert Mao @norbertmao]

I first read Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire as an undergrad at Makerere and then again at Yale. I even secured a Folio Edition in 8 Volumes. Recently I walked into a second hand bookstore at Forest Mall and landed on this old 6 Volume Edition! I had to do repairs.

[Calvin @kassembanda]

@CheptooMerci @NytoP2PMwangi That's the Magistrate

[Electra @Electrarythm]

If you want to train your memory and your focus together in only a few seconds a day, try 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.

[Paul Krause @paul_jkrause]

Plutarch was the original Carlyle, the first On Heroes and Hero Worship in History is his Lives.

[GRITCULT @GRITCULT]

Learn to confidencemaxxx and watch reality bend your way. Winners act like winners. This is your sign to start believing in yourself. This is your sign to start becoming delusionally confident in yourself and the fact that it will all work out.

[Calvin @kassembanda]

@muslimmelange "Kitandani hakuna uadilifu"

[0xDipper @Dipper_pol]

Nassim Taleb sat down with Daniel Kahneman - two of the sharpest minds on risk ever - and the takeaway was blunt: stop trying to be smart

Kahneman's prospect theory explains why almost nobody can do what Taleb does

We're wired to hate the steady trickle of small losses his strategy needs - even when one huge win more than pays for all of them

So you structure it the other way: tiny safe bets plus a few wild ones, never the comfortable middle.

"You'd rather be antifragile than intelligent - any time."

"Trial and error is really just trial with small error."

"Make your gains in small bites. Take your losses all at once."

~1 hr, free. two legends on risk, prediction, and how to win without forecasting ↓

[Hesse Philosophy @HermannHessed]

“Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely.”

– Haruki Murakami

[Dalton (Analyze & Optimize) @Outdoctrination]

You need to be vagus nerve maxxing.

This critical nerve is indispensable for:

◇ Digestion (coordinates enzyme / HCl secretion)
◇ Reducing inflammation (cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway)
◇ Lowering heart rate and increasing heart rate variability
◇ Reducing stress / anxiety
◇ Gut motility

It mainly uses acetylcholine as its neurotransmitter, and thus:

◇ High choline foods (eggs, liver)
◇ Cholinergics (Alpha-GPC, huperzine A, nicotine, etc.)
◇ Methylation support
◇ Humming
◇ Grounding
◇ Slow breathing practices

can all help in its activation.

[Calvin @kassembanda]

@Vicvict83152140 @amerix Outliers have no significance in statistical/empirical analysis

[primordial intelligence @primal_brainer]

the only truth.

[primordial intelligence @primal_brainer]

feed your subconscious

[Rumble Rumble @shoomoz]

Useful chart on the differences between Jarudi and Batri Zaydism (from Najam Haider’s Introduction to Shiism)