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A WordPress plugin to try: Image optimization & Lazy Load by Optimole

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A WordPress plugin to try: Image optimization & Lazy Load by Optimole

Image optimization & Lazy Load by Optimole – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org.

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How to remember things? Practical procedure

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J Swanstrom (Never enough time...) - Memory Without Emotion

How to remember things when I’m having fun doing something else, with a recall system?

I might have already written about this, but perhaps I forgot.

This summer, one day, when I was at the beach, I thought of some things:

First, I thought I would like to know how the sea looks like before going to the beach, so I’ll open each time I go to the seaside a website with a webcam with the Black Sea. So, I formed an image with the shore.

Then, I thought of one thing about a monastery. There was an image of a monastery.

Afterward, I thought of some things in the fridge. There were more memos with this, but they were easy, and not that important.

Now, things started to get complicated when I thought I should visit a friend in Năvodari. At this point, there were 3 + 1 things to remember (Sea, Monastery, Fridge, Friend). I thought of a Map in Năvodari, with all the things, and I could put all 4 things on a sort of a square (more or less, my mind is very flexible with this).

Then I thought I should write about this process, as I currently do. So, I added to the square a top (as in meta-level cognition), and it was now a pyramid.

Then, I thought that at my grandparents we need a special mobile network at my grandparents from my mother’s side. So, there was now a Pyramid and a Map of my Grandparent’ house.

Then I thought of a thing in the past, and while the Pyramid was the present, I added something in the bottom to make it another Pyramid, with the past.

The thing is, by doing the above process, it was much easier to know what I had to remember.

Also, while it is certainly possible that I forget some associations, it’s not that likely as forgetting to do a thing altogether.

Sometimes, when I forget an association, I think of other things. “Oh, there was a fridge. What were the tasks for the fridge?”. And this process helps me discover new things about the fridge.

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If you want any business done for you, you should ask a busy man to do it

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Crusty Da Klown (Busy) - From a distance

Just as it is almost proverbial that, if you want any business done for you, you should ask a busy man to do it, and not a man of leisure, so it is the laborious scholar, who is working hard at languages, who picks up, nay, actually reads and studies more of other subjects than the rest of his fellows at school or college.

Reverend W. J. Kennedy, who was the Inspector of Schools for Lancashire and the Isle of Man in Britain, 1856

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… people who are less agreeable or more disagreeable tend to show higher creative achievement

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corinne glaziou - Happy August

“So it means that people who are less agreeable or more disagreeable tend to show higher creative achievement. […] Those who tend to challenge the status quo, challenge models, and don’t believe things just because other people have said them.”
Via: Optional Interview with Dr. Robert Bilder on Creativity and Problem Solving – What is Learning? | Coursera.

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Nicolae Steinhardt: Să nu citești doar lucruri legate de ortodoxie

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Miorița

Nicolae Steinhardt afirma undeva (locația exactă îmi scapă, deși am căutat citatul): Să nu citești doar lucruri legate de ortodoxie, caută să ai un orizont mai deschis?

De ce? (explicația mea) Că vei citi fizică și astronomie doar chestii tari. Nu vei citi lucrurile slabe din fizică, vei citi titanii.

Când citești doar ortodoxie, ai timp și de lecturi proaste. Când citești domenii diferite, mergi pe lucruri “tari”. Esență dură.

La fel, dacă te uiți la filme, probabil nu vei căuta cele mai proaste filme. Dar dacă vezi doar filme, fără alte forme de artă, o să te uiți și la filme slabe.

De asemenea, poți avea gânduri mai rafinate.

Când te duci într-o țară străină, la reîntoarcere vezi lumea altfel.
Similar, când călătorești în alte domenii cu mintea ta, vezi lumea diferit ulterior.

De citit:

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Never go back to a place where you have been happy

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J Swanstrom (Never enough time...) - Memory Without Emotion

“One cannot, ever, go back to the place which exists in memory. you would not see it with the same eyes-even supposing that it should improbably have remained much the same. What you have had you have had. ‘The happy highways where I went, And shall not come again…’

Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.” ― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

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