In the middle of the desert you can say anything you want
Their study, published in 2010, posits that a person’s preference for a given color can be determined by averaging out how much that person likes all of the objects they associate with that color. Your inclination for orange, for example, depends on how you feel about pumpkins and traffic cones and Cheetos, among other things; for green, it varies according to your thoughts on grass and American dollar bills and broccoli.
“It turns out, if you look at all of the things that are associated with blue, they’re mostly positive,”
As recommended by … on the FedCSIS conference
Semantic satiation (also semantic saturation) is a psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who then perceives the speech as repeated meaningless sounds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestaltzerfall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamais_vu
Excellent checklist.
Clean Language helps clients to discover and develop symbols and metaphors without any content introduced by the therapist/coach/interviewer.
I’ve noticed that the ENTP archetype is highly valued within the MBTI community, and a lot of people view ENTP strengths as something to aspire to. ENTP weaknesses (especially in ENTP online communities) are typically viewed as idiosyncrasies no one else can fully relate to.
But here’s the truth:
The majority of any personality type will NOT amount to much (in the bigger picture). This applies doubly to ENTPs, who pride themselves on being scatter-brained adventurers. The problem is, ENTPs are the most likely to justify their inadequacies and sell themselves short.
Are you an ENTP who can’t finish anything you start? That’s okay, because that’s just who you are. You’re obviously just too eccentric and smart for the system. The system DOESN’T UNDERSTAND YOU.
Are you an ENTP who utilizes debate tactics to the point of pissing everyone off? Good! It doesn’t mean you’re an antisocial asshole who can’t meet people where they’re at – it just means you’re more HONEST AND INTELLECTUAL than everyone else.
Are you an ENTP who can’t commit to anything? That’s okay – you’re just more OPEN MINDED than everyone else. Fuck commitment and depth; ENTPs are just BUILT to EXPLORE POSSIBILITIES!!!!LOLZ!!!
I say FUCK ALL THAT.
If you’re an ENTP, you’re going to be pulled in a hundred different directions at once. Not only are you going to have many different interests, you’re also going to have a lot of raw talent at your disposal. This means you have the POTENTIAL to excel at different areas of interest, although specialization is your weak point. To commit to one or two primary career paths will seem like spiritual suicide; How could you possibly settle for just ONE THING???!!111
But let’s not kid ourselves:
ENTPs usually settle for mediocrity. ENTPs rationalize their inability to follow-thru with vague appeals to their innate nature.
The reality is this:
If you don’t learn how to FOCUS, SACRIFICE, and COMMIT, you’re always going to be the pathetic “idea guy” who gets by via raw talent, but never pushes himself/herself fully.
The anecdote to ENTP weakness is this:
- Spend several years exploring your talents and proclivities. Don’t commit. Just explore. But do this consciously – take note of what you excel at and what you fail at.
- Limit yourself and set goals. Once you’ve established your natural talents and proclivities, start making goals and STICKING TO THEM. Acute awareness of opportunity costs and fear of missing out will plague you, but that’s okay – you can’t do everything at once. Double-down at what you’re good at, because if you don’t, you’ll just be a dog chasing his/her tail. COMMIT TO A PATH and let distracting opportunities dissolve in your periphery (it’s okay – you can’t have everything).
- Optimize. Optimize constantly. Once you have a good thing going, don’t stop when you’re bored — OPTIMIZE. Figure out how you can streamline and/or outsource the boring parts of your daily routine to maximize the amount of time you spend brainstorming Bigger Picture solutions to problems. NEVER ignore the details – just make them manageable.
- Don’t chase dreams. Fuck your dreams and fantasies. Unless you have actionable strategies for accomplishing your vision, fuck you. You’ll talk a big game to people who don’t know you; everyone who knows you will understand you’re all talk and no action. This pattern will repeat itself until you’re in your mid 30s and sick of doing nothing your life, at which point you’ll double-down on routine and boring procedures which allow you to rise within whatever dominance hierarchy you’ve managed to settle in (and I promise you it won’t be one you truly want). If you want to avoid this issue, accept that whatever path you commit to will require attention to detail and follow-through that will initially drive you insane. The positives? If you’re able to master boredom, you can actually begin to utilize your creative nature to propel yourself forward in whatever area interests you.
Just don’t think for a second you’re “too unique for society.” You’re not too unique – you’re just lazy, unfocused, and arrogant.
Focus on your weaknesses and put yourself through hell sooner than later.
TRUST ME.
The Pirahã language and culture seem to lack not only the words but
also the concepts for numbers, using instead less precise terms like
“small size”, “large size” and “collection”. And the Pirahã people
themselves seem to be suprisingly uninterested in learning about
numbers, and even actively resistant to doing so, despite the fact that
in their frequent dealings with traders they have a practical need to
evaluate and compare numerical expressions. A similar situation seems to
obtain among some other groups in Amazonia, and a lack of indigenous
words for numbers has been reported elsewhere in the world.
Many people find this hard to believe. These are simple and natural
concepts, of great practical importance: how could rational people
resist learning to understand and use them? I don’t know the answer. But
I do know that we can investigate a strictly comparable case, equally
puzzling to me, right here in the U.S. of A.
60 year old historian Martin Bühler (who identified himself to the press, I do not identify activists without consent) appears to ‘photobomb’ a lot of media images of the G20 in Hamburg. In reality he is a long time observer documenting police brutality. In Hamburg he chose to cultivate the most non-activist ‘white bystander in a suit with a bike’ look he could manage and casually walked in front of police. As police slowed down or interrupted attacks and waited for the ‘bystander’ to get out of the way (being caught on camera trashing what look like bystanders is bad press after all), activists had time to regroup or retreat.
Additionally:
If the right people had been in charge of Nixon’s funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin.
in a simple memory span task, pupil size precisely tracks changes in
memory load, ‘‘‘dilating with each new item held in memory and
constricting as each item is […] recalled ‘''
High working memory subjects’ pupil diameters
were 0.97 millimeter larger* than those with low WMC,
*
*‘‘‘Working memory explained 6% of the variance ‘‘‘in baseline pupil
size and with each 1 SD increase in WMC there was a 0.30 mm increase in
baseline pupil diameter, b = 0.30, r = 0.24. Fluid
intelligence explained 12% of the variance
in baseline pupil size and each 1 SD increase in Gf
was associated with a 0.45 mm increase in baseline pupil diameter, *
Additionally, the nice phrase “All grist to the mill.” = All things are a potential source of profit or advantage. ( http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/grist-to-the-mill.html )
The von Restorff effect, also known as the “isolation effect”, predicts that when multiple homogenous stimuli are presented, the stimulus that differs from the rest is more likely to be remembered.
Less pronounced among the elders
Excellent way to view learning mathematics and learning in general.
Tetris mindset vs Mega man
"Here's the trick: every boss has a weakness. After you beat Fire-man with your regular gun, you earn a fire weapon. This makes your upcoming fight with Ice-man easier, which helps defeat the next boss, and so on. '''In Mega Man, you look forward to encountering more bosses.'''"
“Think about Tetris: would you look forward to a variety of new shapes appearing? Heck no. Tetris can be fun in a “survive hordes of incoming zombies” sort of way, but in terms of learning, it’s a frustrating, Sisyphean task. Every new piece is something to move beyond, not a learning opportunity. It’s a test to find your breaking point.”
When learning, I ask: "Did I internalize the concept so much I look forward to seeing it?". Learned ideas become allies, a decoder key to help unlock future equations.