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Attention is necessary for learning. You can only learn what you attend to. If you have ADHD, it is hard to keep your attention tuned to one channel. You keeping switching channels to see what else is on. It’s often easy to spot the hyperactive students (usually boys) but the inattentive students (usually girls) get under-diagnosed because they sit quietly, equally unable to pay attention. [Read more…] about What Is Attention?

The Chinese zodiac is about 3500 years old. It says you are the way you are because of when you were born. It’s a complex calculation. The system combines the motion of planets (5 elements, months (12 animals), two tidal motions (yin and yang) and a 60 year cycle.

This is not a voluntary system. It is deterministic. You don’t volunteer to be born in the year of the ox. You can’t aspire to being an ox. You are an ox if you are born in a particular month of a particular year, using the lunar calendar. [Read more…] about Popeye’s Personality Theory

Addiction is not a moral or spiritual failure. It is a natural process that occurs in your brain when you intake drugs. Addiction is chemistry. [Read more…] about Why I Am Clean & Sober

Have you been home recently? Not where you usually hang out but where you used to live. You know, where all the memories are.

Some memories are exceedingly stable. You remember your name probably better than anything else. You’ve heard it all of your life. It’s the one thing you won’t ever forget. Which is why paramedics ask you: “What’s your name?” If you can’t remember, something is very wrong. [Read more…] about Why We Get Flooded With Memories Of Home

We are just like experts, except different. There are two things experts know that we who are less expert haven’t learned. [Read more…] about Two Things Experts Know