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Stop Stealing Dreams (the entire manifesto on the web), cleaned up HTML version - Stop ... - 89 views

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  • “The best way to complain is to make things”  
    • Madeline St John
      Madeline St John on 06 Nov 12
       
      This quote is pretty awesome and I think its true. People tend to listen more if you actually have some work and creativity in your complaints. Like Banksy, making art about problems in society. I think satire is also a good way to complain about things. It gets people's attention. The point of complaining is to highlight the problem. Then we have to do something about it.
  • values customization
    • Madeline St John
      Madeline St John on 06 Nov 12
       
      This reminds me of the customization of technology that we have and how people can set their desktop background and bookmark things and have their own accounts on pretty much everything. Everything is customizable and when things are more customizable, people become more attached to them, I think, and value them more. So customizing school could only be a good thing. There is something about everyone learning the same thing, though, that builds community (albeit not a very divers one...).
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  • Being surrounded by educated people makes democracy stronger
  • Being surrounded by educated people makes democracy stronger
  • Being surrounded by educated people makes democracy stronger
    • Madeline St John
      Madeline St John on 06 Nov 12
       
      If people are educated pursue knowledge and think for themselves...yes.
  • If the goal was to raise the standards for rational thought, skeptical investigation, and useful decision making, we’ve failed for most of our citizens.
    • Madeline St John
      Madeline St John on 06 Nov 12
       
      I think because we are spoon-fed a lot of stuff in school and taught to believe whatever our teachers tell us a lot of people will just end up believing whatever people tell them, even if its tv or a chain email or someone on a web forum.
  • Goal-setting
  • be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
  • …be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
  • …be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
  • …be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Madeline St John

Moonwalking with Einstein: How to Hack Your Memory | Brain Pickings - 1 views

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  • niquely human
    • Madeline St John
      Madeline St John on 05 Sep 12
       
      If memory is uniquely human...animals don't have memory? Or do they have a different kind of memory? There seem to be some animals that remember the exact place where they laid their eggs a year ago and things like that.
  • Moonwalking with Einstein works as a mnemonic because it’s such a goofy image.
    • Madeline St John
      Madeline St John on 05 Sep 12
       
      After a while, can this stop working? What if you get so used to thinking of goofy things that they seem normal? And how much time do you have to spend visualizing this in order for it to stick?
  • much bigger: that it’s possible, with training and hard work, to teach oneself to do something that might seem really difficult.”
    • Madeline St John
      Madeline St John on 05 Sep 12
       
      This is a super huge lesson! It's like the lesson that everything always comes to...practice makes perfect! This is like what they were talking about in "The Brain" movie, where the amazing athletes train their bodies to do incredible things with ease through lots of hard work.
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  • Those questions are precisely what science writer Joshua Foer sought to unravel when he set out to cover and compete in the U.S. Memory Championship
    • Madeline St John
      Madeline St John on 05 Sep 12
       
      This article/book is based on the findings of this one guy. Just because it worked for him, does that mean it'll work for the rest of society? Maybe he was just a super genius and didn't know it...
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