Category: Wonderings
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Diverting the pathways society laid for us
Cognitive bias exists to give us shortcuts, cutting down the processing power needed by our brains. Instead of analysing all the data, considering our response and then making a decision, we can make a split-second call. So fast! So easy! AI is the biggest mental shortcut we’ve come up with to date. Our bias is…
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Finding my true form
One session with a physio taught me something profound: I never learned how to use my body safely and I never learned how to listen to its warnings. As she was prodding and poking my back, she was asking if this hurt or if she should stop doing that, and the honest answer was: I…
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Not waiting
These are 1940s boots from Harrods. I bought them a good while ago from a vintage seller who has sold me several lovely things over the years. What better to wear with striped Edwardian combinations? To get my silly little maple-sea-salt-oat-milk-latte? What on EARTH could be better? I get dressed twice a week, tops. The…
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Atrophy
A Yamaguchi University study on Japanese senior citizens investigated functional memory and dementia in care centres. A key finding was that those with the highest mental acuity tended to be people who kept journals. They wrote down their daily lives and they laboured to do it. Forming thoughts into ideas in order to make a…
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Creative shit
I’ve been doing this a couple of months now and not missed one. Two ended up being Silly Saturdays, but not bad at all. Don’t judge my eye-watering colour selections. This is my one place to enjoy tutti-frutti insanity and quick mess.
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