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18/10/2020

”We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection, because we get rewarded in these short term signals: Hearts, likes, thumbs up. We conflate that with value, and we conflate it with truth, and instead, what it really is is fake, brittle popularity that's short term and leaves you even more vacant and empty before you did it.”
-Chamath Palihapitiya

16/06/2020

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15/06/2020

The availability heuristic is a mental shortcut that depends on the immediate information that comes to mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method or decision.⁣⁣ @ Planet Earth

14/06/2020

Psychologically, the complexity of a 2-hour task will increase if it needs to be done within a 2-week deadline, most likely resulting in filling the whole 2-week period for the completion of that task.⁣
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⁣You can use the Parkinson’s law to your advantage by running against the clock. Set deadlines for tasks in which you decrease the time taken to complete them. Treat this time limit like any other deadline & watch yourself gradually reverse the ‘work harder, not smarter’ idea that you’re accustomed to.⁣

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12/06/2020

Growing up, I’ve let fear dictate most of my decisions. From the start of my schooling career, all the way up to my adult life. I would blame external factors instead of taking accountability for how I was standing in my own way. I came to one simple realisation this year - you are what you think, change your thought process & you can change your external reality. Your only limit is your internal beliefs.⁣

11/06/2020

During a time of adversity & ambiguity, I was in desperation to look for answers for why we feel the things that we do. “Maybe if I get to the root of it, I’d figure a way to dismantle it”, went through my mind. This post is a combination of science & philosophy, as both have enabled me to figure a way of going forward. Understanding not only triggers a change in perception, but it also enables a discipline of the mind that forces you to take accountability for your emotions.⁣ @ Planet Earth

10/06/2020

We don’t know much, but one thing that we do know for certain is that no one gets out of this game called life alive. It’s an inevitable fact & yet we spend most of the time creating comfortable narratives to avoid this reality. Our time is finite, & yet it’s one of our most undervalued resources. Tragedy strikes, in different forms, & while we don’t have much control over our mortality & others around us, what we do have control over is what we make of the time we have now, in the present moment. @ Planet Earth

09/06/2020

Being ‘busy’ isn’t the same thing as being productive. You can easily delude yourself into thinking that you’re being productive by finding many unimportant tasks to accomplish, but that doesn’t make you a hard-worker or a smart thinker in your approach. ⁣

08/06/2020

Heuristics are rules of thumb that we develop based on our past experiences. They are mental shortcuts/cognitive tools that aid us in fast decision making. These shortcuts generally work well, but they can lead to systematically irrational outcomes. These errors are called biases.⁣ @ Planet Earth

07/06/2020

Okay, now to unpack this heuristic. Our decision making is based on our past experiences. In this case, we assume that the point of reference is a reliable source for making judgements.⁣

06/06/2020

Happiness lies in the right state of mind.⁣

31/05/2020

Do we have to face death head-on before realizing the futility in jumping on the endless treadmill of desires?⁣

29/05/2020

Okay so this is a much more controversial topic than usual & I’ve been contemplating on how to discuss it for quite a while. I may feel a strong sense of free will but I don’t personally believe that we have free will, as the whole concept falls to pieces when examined scientifically & logically. We usually say things like, “if I could go back and change that one thing that I did (or said), given everything I know now, I would”, & you probably would if you had the ability to time travel. But, could the person who you were back then have known better? No. Would you have said anything different or acted differently given the state of mind that you were in at the time? No. You’ve grown to develop yourself in ways that makes you different from who you were & as a result, you feel as though you could have acted differently. You look at other people who behave in immoral ways & think, “I could never be like that?”, but if you were them - atom for atom - making up every bit of their biology, you probably would act in the same way. I know, this sounds ludicrous, it was hard for me to grasp in the beginning too. We feel as though we are in control because of the information that comes into our awareness, & thus, claim moral agency over it. But how baffling is it to know that our awareness is a tiny part of our biological makeup & our decisions are pre-determined before even coming into our consciousness (as many experiments prove). We have grown to believe & feel that we have free will as it does have its evolutionary benefits, however, objectively, it is so far from the mind-boggling truth. @ Planet Earth

28/05/2020

“As Alan Watts puts it, the no-mindedness is, “a state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second mind or ego standing over it with a club.” What he means is that one lets the mind think what it likes without the interference by the separate thinker or ego within oneself.”⁣
⁣-Bruce Lee⁣

27/05/2020

According to Bruce Hood in ‘The Self Illusion’: ⁣⁣
⁣⁣“We can transplant or replace many parts of the body but most people would regard the patient to be essentially the same person after the operation. However, if a brain transplant were ever possible, then even though the patient may look the same as they come out of the anaesthetic, most of us believe that they would be someone different – more like the person who donated their brain in the first place.”⁣⁣
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⁣⁣“Today, the findings from contemporary brain science have enlightened the nature of the self. As far as spirits are concerned, brain science – or neuroscience as it is known – has found little evidence for their existence but much to support the bundle theory (Theory advanced by David Hume to the effect that the mind is merely a bundle of perceptions without deeper unity or cohesion, related only by resemblance, succession, and causation) as opposed to the ego theory of the self.”⁣⁣

26/05/2020

After reading ‘Brief Answers to the Big Questions’ by Stephen Hawking , I was left nothing short of inspired. One of the take-home messages that I got from it, is that a body with limiting functions has nothing over a fully functioning mind.

24/05/2020

This is an ever-evolving process & that’s probably why I’m extremely confused about what to write for this post or how to introduce myself. So I think that I’d rather talk about my motivation behind creating this page. About 2 years back, I got into reading, before that, I hated it. But when I decided to invest more of my time in learning & self-improving, I grew fond of reading. There was a sort of dopamine rush every time I learned something new & I’d make little notes summarising all of it. A lot of the material that I read revolved around self-improvement, & so as a creative, I wanted to visually communicate that in a fun way on my platform. I also thought about the most effective way of learning for me, which is through visually appealing content, & as a designer, it seemed like a great way to utilize my skill to do just that. I got into adding my personal stories & how they relate to things that I’ve learned, as… this is a self-improvement journey after all. So ultimately this page aims to express, teach & learn in the process of doing so.
My name is Nicole, & I am an inquiring thinker.
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⁣ #2020 @ Planet Earth

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