Daily bread 06/13/2025

• The short, dramatic history of alien abduction in the US | Aeon Essays

  • But, in

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Daily bread 06/12/2025

• Should Ethiopian philosophy be universalist or Africanist? | Aeon Essays

  • the works of the French historian Anaïs Wion and the Ethiopian politician Daniel Kibret, I abandoned that position.

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Daily bread 06/04/2025

• Midweek Sanity Oasis: How We Render Reality and Attention as an Instrument of Love

  • we live out our lives in a subjective reality defined by what we agree to attend to
  • we live largely in the territory of the unanswerable because there is no pure attention — the aperture of our attention is constricted by myriad conditionings and focused by a brain honed on millions of years of evolutionary necessities, many of which we have long outgrown.
  • “the very brain mechanisms which succeed in simplifying the world so as to subject it to our control militate against a true understanding of it,”
  • to braid neuropsychology (the way our brains shape our impression of reality), epistemology (the way we come to know anything at all), and metaphysics (our yearning to wrest meaning from fundamental truth as we try to discern the nature of the universe)
  • “love is the quality of attention we pay to things.”
  • The world we experience — which is the only one we can know — is affected by the kind of attention we pay to it.
  • “attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity,”
  • “the type, and extent, of attention we pay changes the nature of the world that we experience,”

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Daily bread 05/23/2025

• Cultural expectations and leadership | LearnEnglish

  • cultural
  • Despite their friendliness,
  • satisfactorily

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Daily bread 05/09/2025

• Taste-testing The Latest Non-alcoholic Drinks | Vogue

  • While quitting booze might save marriages and internal organs, it is worth noting that it does not save money.
  • “Who will ever relate the whole history of narcotica? It is almost the history of culture.”

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Daily bread 03/30/2025

• Language Learning: It’s all about Confidence – Sincerely, Spain

  • the person who tends to be the ‘best’ when it comes to communicating is the person who is willing to break out of his or her shell and just go for, taking advantage of every opportunity to practice.
  • Try to do something that you like and know you are good at and pair it with your language learning. If you are a singer, go to karaoke, if you are a dancer, go out dancing. Anything from doing yoga to playing football to painting can be turned into a way to speak a language with confidence because you already know that you are good at one of the two activities.

• Self-talk, Self-compassion, and Success in Language Learning - Therapy In Barcelona

  • With today’s fabulous technology, we can emulate this process for our language learning by listening to native speakers in podcasts, films, TV, radio, YouTube, etc. and copying what we hear, always led by our own curiosity to learn how different words or groups of words are put together in sentences. It has never been easier to learn a language by immersion, even for people who don’t have the obvious immersion advantage
  • Perfection is a Ridiculous Goal: Let It Go
  • start noticing all the things that are going well in our language learning, instead of focusing on the mistakes, the discomfort, and difficulties.
  • develop more positive self-talk so you can stop holding yourself back and reach your fullest potential
  • Focus on Progress, Not Perfection

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Daily bread 01/30/2025

• Vacations offer longer-lasting benefits than previously thought - Futurity

  tags: australia

  • well-being benefits
  • head back to work
  • a steeper decline
  • you didn’t fully unplug while off the clock
  • The meta-analysis of
  • the positive effects of annual leave
  • take time off
  • rest and recuperation
  • makes a difference in how restorative your time off is
  • psychologically disengaged from work
  • anything that gets your heart rate up
  • once they’re back to reality
  • can ease the transition back into work mode

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