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Bare minimum doesn't impress me. Decency doesn't impress me. Common sense doesn't impress me. It's only natural that I expect the same standards from others that I expect from myself because anything less is doing myself a disservice. If you want to impress me, go above and beyond, because I do the same.

angelaeleni

This is your reminder that not everything needs to contribute to your future for it to be “purposeful”. Watch that movie, read that book, go to that place that brings you a sense of comfort or joy. All of the ‘little’ things provide you value too. Life is not about an end goal or big milestones, life is about what you do every single day. Life is about balance and finding and enjoying the small pleasures too.

curlymcclain

i dont have like a degree or anything but i think assigning diagnoses to every behavior is probably not good for us in the long run

curlymcclain

every few days i see some tweet or something saying “i just found out that ___ is a symptom of trauma” and it’ll be like getting shivers or rewatching movies or enjoying hot showers. even if it was all true i can’t imagine what seeing that stuff all the time would make me think if i was a teenager. at an age when you’re clamoring so much for identity it seems like we’re encouraging young people to identify with suffering just a little too much

filmnoirsbian

I think a fun thing would be if we simply didn't have access to information regarding famous people's personal lives and relationships. Like i just think that would be fun and productive for us. We could focus on other stuff, like our own personal lives and relationships. I think that'd be neat.

filmnoirsbian

I'd love to go to a movie and watch some employees do their jobs for 2 hours and then leave, satisfied in knowing jack shit abt all of them outside the parameters of a movie screen.

filmnoirsbian

Imagine living life free of the constant bombardment of what grocery store celebrities shop at and who walks home from whose apartment in a backwards shirt at 5am. And then one day whilst perusing a book store, you notice a newly released memoir by an actress you liked in multiple roles. And each page is a delight because you hadn't previously known about any of it and it's well written, and because she only wrote what she was comfortable sharing, so the transaction of information is entirely consensual.

mathed-potatoes

I got a proof wrong on an exam. No points.

Then, I thought about it for fifteen minutes outside of the exam, wrote it down, nailed it.

I showed a classmate and told him what happened. He looked frustrated. He’d clearly had this happen before, too (haven’t we all?). He said, “Don’t you hate it when that happens?”

I almost said yes. What the h*ck!? No. No, I do not hate it when I can fathom a deeply abstracted concept in mathematics. I never hate that. I the opposite of hate that. Expecting myself to immediately understand topics like this is unrealistic. I’m proud of being able to do it at all. Who cares if I did it in the exam or within the next hour? I DID IT. It’s mine now. I can do it whenever I want. Missing points on that problem doesn’t take the knowledge out of my brain. How dare I be taught that my knowledge is useless because I didn’t have it right at that moment. It’s just as good now.

Education is not about the arbitrary numeric number ascribed to your ability to do things quickly in an arbitrary, restricted time interval. Education is about being able to do progressively more things, to understand progressively complex things.

Tenacity and challenging yourself far beyond your limits is a hundred times more important than getting good grades. Because, when you’re one of .4 percent of the population who possess complete knowledge on a very complex topic, nobody cares how long it took you to do it, or how well you did it the first time you tried.

Grades don’t discover new mathematics. Mathematicians do (even the ones who failed a basic topic in mathematics because their base way of thinking was too complex). Grades don’t advance medical research. Scientists do (even the ones who had to apply for their PhD programs 3 times in a row before they got accepted). Grades don’t make science fiction into real-world technologies. Engineers do (even the ones who dropped out of school because they wanted to build things, not talk about building things).

Knowledge is power. Skills are power. Grades are constructs. Never trade actual understanding for a semblance of understanding.

hurricane-euler

Here's a mildly unsettling thing I learned today:

The Principle of Indifference is the rule that if you have some set of mutually exclusive possibilities and no evidence for one over the other, you assign equal probability to all possibilities. For instance, if you have no reason to believe a 6-sided die is unfair, then this principle says you have a 1/6 chance of rolling each side. Seems reasonable.

Here's another example: suppose I have a machine which randomly generates a cube with side length between 0 and 2. Using the Principle of Indifference, I can say:

50% chance the side length is < 1

50% chance it's > 1.

By the same reasoning, it has:

25% chance the face area is <1

25% chance it's between 1 and 2

25% chance it's between 2 and 3

25% chance it's between 3 and 4.

But now, I've given the cube a 50% chance of having side length <1 and 25% chance of having face area <1, and those are equivalent. Whoops.

darkmacademia

random things I do to fool my brain into staying interested during online study

changing my chrome cursor into something cute like a strawberry

changing my chrome theme to a wacky colour

adding stickers onto my laptop

listening to new music in a language I don’t know

or hyped video game music for energy

buying a fidget toy. like deadass I had my doubts but they’re so good

using the web paint extension while in meetings or lectures

changing the appearance of whatever note taking app you use

for epic gamers with light-up keyboards, changing the light’s colour settings

having a very hot or very cold drink

putting said drink directly under my face when working and using a straw, so I don’t forget it’s there and don’t have to move my head much to sip

hav u eaten or drank anything today hey hello it’s already midday

sparkling water perchance?? it’s water but it’s fun and interesting

ambient fireplace 10 hours loop

alternatively, death metal hardcore bass boosted.mp3

putting on a ridiculous outfit and pretending you’re a wizard doing important work. I have given up on being “put together” at this stage

getting up and having scheduled dance breaks to move around

don’t like your chair? are u gay and can’t sit normal? try arranging pillows and boxes to make a diy cross-legged chair or sit on the floor

u kno when you get a million ideas during studying but u don’t want to break focus: hey siri okay google alexa remind me in a sec about this very specific thing that just couldn’t wait 10 more minutes to force itself into brain

giving up. lmao sometimes you genuinely need a break and nothing you do will make your brain focus so don’t feel guilty for needing rest! it’s technically more productive to spend the time resting and recharging than forcing yourself to half assedly focus and get nothing done

tl;dr- changing appearances of devices often for Spice, having small snacks and various drinks, hype music for energy, any and all fidget toys, knowing when to give up

literatureaesthetic

The pain of wanting to start a book club... but not knowing anyone who actually reads 😩

hollysf

““Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.””

—

I was reading Sophie’s World, when suddenly, BAM, quote from Epicurus.

Prophesising yolo?

urnihilistrants

“are you okay” no i annotate books for fun

foulserpent

there is nothing you can say that will make me stop occasionally putting a q tip in my ear to remove ear wax. i know the ear is self cleaning. i know it doesnt need to be done at all, and in rare cases where earwax buildup actually does need to be removed this is absolutely not the way. i know theres a risk of serious injury to the inner ear. i know there is no material benefit and it can only do harm. but heres the deal: i dont care. im fully aware and im going to do it anyway. im fucking crazy.. but im free

dxstructiion

currently obsessed with this absolute cutie 🥺😍 my lil love 💛

asapscience

All of our idols as BABIES 😍 [Reddit]

religion-is-a-mental-illness

Dewey figures out what a grown-ass adult could not.

mapsontheweb

Guide to Figuring out the Age of an Undated World Map.

pyrrhiccomedy

No but take the time to actually read it because I lost like 15 minutes.

dare-to-dm

I have a friend who is really good at this type of thing. He once found an old globe at a garage sale and he was able to pin the date of it’s making down to like a 6 month window, because it only would’ve been correct during a specific point in WWII.

I was mad impressed, because I have no mind for geography. I can barely remember my own state’s capitol.

tinystark616-backup

THIS IS GOLD 😂😂😂

littlethingwithfeathers

This is amazing. Take the time to actually read it.

peredurthefool-deactivated20200

Holy shit the super specific things towards the end

mapsrgreat

Oh wow!

chavisory

I didn’t know anything about the giant lake in California being created by accident?!

jelloapocalypse

ceiye

lastoneout

I love how it differentiates the maps of Narnia based on which book you’re looking at

galaxybrownies

I almost scrolled past this

tlirsgender

You guys sure hate when trans people have sexualities huh. You're like "nooo you can't be straight. Also if you're gay you're oppressing me. Also if you're ace it's just because nobody wants to have sex with you. Also if you're bi fuck you. If you're pan fuck you more" like? Idk how to tell you this but trans people.......... Exist. And. Are going to have more facets of their identity than being trans alone

tlirsgender

Y'all want transness to exist in a vacuum but we're, like, people? And you just can't stand it. It'd be funny if it wasn't deeply distressing to be treated like this