kittyfoofoo

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   by kittyfoofoo 10y ago

   It is awful that this article invokes the George Carlin routine, which argues that "There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions. And words."
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   by kittyfoofoo 10y ago

   For what it's worth, In the Marshmallow Test book, the author mentions that prior to the test, the experimenter spent 15 minutes interacting with the child to build trust. They gave the child a bell, and the researcher would explain t
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   by kittyfoofoo 11y ago

   Josh Waitzkin describes something like this in his book The Art of Learning. Basically, he broke his arm a few months before an important martial arts tournament. While it was immobilized in a sling, he worked out the other arm then medit
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   by kittyfoofoo 12y ago

   “Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”