one thing i've been thinking about lately is how much your brain learns from repetition.
you can spend months telling yourself you're not good at something and after a while you stop even trying. not because you've actually proven that you can't do it, but because your brain has gotten used to the idea that “this isn't for me.”
then you start doing the opposite, you study even when you don't feel like it. you speak up when you'd normally stay quiet. you force yourself to finish things instead of abandoning them halfway. after a while, those things start feeling normal too.
and that's what i find crazy about the brain, it doesn't just remember what you do. it starts adapting to the person you're repeatedly being.
there's still so much about the brain i don't understand, but the more i learn about it, the more i realize how much of our daily behavior is being shaped by things we don't even notice and i will always share.
Four months later, the Epstein Files still have vanished from the conversation, as if one of the biggest scandals in American and Israeli politics never happened.