Neha Sharma

Advertising enthusiast. Activist. Animal lover. Investor

[Neha Sharma @oxymoronna]

@Meta hey listen! I didn’t sign up for ads on my WhatsApp updates! 😡
Want me to leave this app too?

[Nesh @NeshRelates]

Me with my man after being a strong independent girl all day

[Neha Sharma @oxymoronna]

The “becoming” is enough
In fact that’s the whole thing

[Cartoon Fun Club @cartunfunn]

This is my favourite scene forever 🤩🎬

[Anjula Dwivedi @HeyAnjula]

A Stanford professor stood in front of a full lecture hall and told them that depression has almost nothing to do with sadness. Then he wrote two words on the whiteboard that nobody in the room could define. Anhedonia. Psychomotor retardation. That, he said, is the actual illness.

The man is Robert Sapolsky, the neurobiologist who built his career following wild baboons across Kenya to measure what stress does to a living body.

What makes the video worth 52 minutes is not the subject. It is the method.

No slides. No notes he ever glances down at. One camera, one whiteboard, and a man taking depression apart the way a neurologist takes apart a stroke.

He is doing something deliberate, and it takes a while to catch. Every time the material could soften into sympathy, he hauls it back into biology. Hormones. Neurotransmitters. Genes that do nothing whatsoever until life goes wrong, and then decide everything.

Somewhere in the middle he says one sentence about depression that viewers have been pulling out of this lecture for 16 years. It is 5 words long. It reads like a contradiction until he unpacks it.

Under the video, sleepy_and_caffeinated quoted that exact sentence and wrote two words beneath it. That got me. 4.3 thousand people agreed.

Johnny_boy777 said it from another angle. The best thing about the internet, he wrote, is that any ordinary person can sit in on this without ever enrolling at Stanford. 2.6 thousand likes.

16 years old. 6.2 million views. 9410 comments. One of 25 lectures in the Stanford course Human Behavioral Biology, and every one of them is free.

Most people assume they understand depression because they have felt bad. 52 minutes is enough to learn they were describing something else entirely.

52 minutes. 5 words. It is in the video.

[Neha Sharma @oxymoronna]

Think about what you're thinking, but not while you're thinking

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The "give what you want to receive" philosophy doesn't work with everybody. Not everyone is here to please you.

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@elonmuskmel7

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@elonmuskmel7 I did. I am HOPE

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@elonmusk What happened in 2015??? Lmaoooo

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@aestheticwabi Meadow light

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@ShitpostGate

[Neha Sharma @oxymoronna]

How does twitter even work?
I have totally lost track of it. What is this algorithm 😭

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 STEVE JOBS: THE BEST MANAGERS ARE GREAT CONTRIBUTORS... WHO NEVER WANTED TO BE MANAGERS

"At Apple, we thought hiring professional managers would make us a big company.

It didn’t work—most were bozos who could manage but couldn’t do anything else.

The best managers?

Great individual contributors who never wanted the job but took it because they knew no one else could do it as well."

Source: BusinessX on IG

[Neha Sharma @oxymoronna]

@MattWallace888 The girl with bob is disappointed in both

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@elonmusk However, people want to marry Koreans now more than ever, after the k-pop, k-drama and whatnots

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@elonmusk This is getting outta hands 🤦🏻‍♀️

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@elonmusk UK is wild

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@elonmusk God you tweet so much

[Neha Sharma @oxymoronna]

@PunchingCat Yes, the shipwreck behind was also done by the cat