Entertainment or education or addiction
The dopamine hit of using mobile phone
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Entertainment or education or addiction
You are feeding your brain with dopamine. If you are thinking that you are really learning something or educating yourself but do you really learning something. Remember that video 6 months back you watched, do you learn something. Remember the article you read.
We actually get entertained by watching videos and reading blog posts. When you started executing the lessons you learn from that video you have watched or blog you read, that's where the real learning happened.
That's where you are getting value from a mobile phone not endlessly scrolling your smartphone.
⛏️Tools Worth Sharing
Better sheets: Learn about making better google sheets.
📕 Book of The week
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
Benjamin Franklin took daily naked air baths and Toulouse-Lautrec painted in brothels. Edith Sitwell worked in bed, and George Gershwin composed at the piano in pajamas. Freud worked sixteen hours a day, but Gertrude Stein could never write for more than thirty minutes, and F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in gin-fuelled bursts - he believed alcohol was essential to his creative process.
From Marx to Murakami and Beethoven to Bacon, Daily Rituals by Mason Currey presents the working routines of more than a hundred and sixty of the greatest philosophers, writers, composers and artists ever to have lived. Whether by amphetamines or alcohol, headstand or boxing, these people made time and got to work.
Featuring photographs of writers and artists at work, and filled with fascinating insights on the mechanics of genius and entertaining stories of the personalities behind it, Daily Rituals is irresistibly addictive and utterly inspiring.
🗨️Quote worth sharing
“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”
– Napoleon Hill
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools speak because they have to say something.”
– Plato
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
– Maya Angelou
🖼️ Picture worth sharing
I published a note-taking comparison of Flomo notes and google keep. where that’s I made.
Worth exploring
1. Watch
Do you cuddle up, have a chat, talk about deep things, or even request a favor from your lover? According to research, these are all common, but what happens to our bodies during and after sex? That’s what we’ll find out today, in this episode of the Infographics Show, What Happens to Your Body While You Are Having Sex?
— The infographic show
The world’s most mysterious book - Stephen Bax
Deep inside Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library lies a 240-page tome. Recently carbon-dated to around 1420, its pages feature looping handwriting and hand-drawn images seemingly stolen from a dream. It is called the Voynich manuscript, and it’s one of history’s biggest unsolved mysteries. The reason why? No one can figure out what it says. Stephen Bax investigates this cryptic work.
—Lesson by Stephen Bax, animation by TED-Ed.
2. Read
3. Listen
Didn’t understand but loved it.
Question of this week
Do you ever think about your death? What?
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