1/ Our experience of time as a thing is a modern phenomenon..

Each hour or week or year is like a container being carried on a conveyor belt, which we must fill as it passes, if we're to feel that we're making good use of our time. 2/ When there are too many activities to fit comfortably into the containers, we feel unpleasantly busy; when there are too few, we feel bored. If we keep pace with the passing containers, we congratulate ourselves for 'staying on top of things...

1/ An ongoing thread- MUSINGS ON THE PATH. Each tweet is independent. No observation is original.

It is personal agendas that limit us and cause us to suffer. Imagine living without a personal agenda. Imagine living always for a larger cause/ vision/ benefit of others. 2/ Clouded & compulsive thinking cause our problems. Only through awareness can we make the mind clear. A good place to start is to become aware of the breath & sensations in the body.

4 functions of the mind- swamij.com/fourfunctionsm…

1/ Little boy scared of making friends at his birthday party hides under a table. Mom gives him company there. Then helps him see the funny feelings in his tummy as as a sign of exciting things to come & names them as butterflies... 2/ ... which intrigues the kid. She points out that they can't sit under the table forever & suggests little steps. He comes out & starts taking little steps!

S3E4 of #tryingappletv

From 'The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment' by Thaddeus Golas

1/ The basic function of each being is expanding and contracting. Expanded beings are permeative;
contracted beings are dense and impermeative. 2/ Therefore each of us, alone or in combination, may
appear as space, energy, or mass, depending on the ratio of expansion to contraction chosen, & what
kind of vibrations each of us expresses by alternating expansion and contraction. Each being controls
his own vibrations.

1/ I know quite a few women (age 24-45) in marriages where their needs are not met. Most do not have the courage to voice their needs & put down non-negotiables. Are parents largely responsible for not modelling/ equipping the ability to handle conflict? @docbhooshan 2/ Consideration for others' needs to be balanced with the Courage to express one's own needs. Women (in India especially) are conditioned to be more considerate than courageous on this front.

Even when courage is present, awareness of one's emotions & needs requires skill.

1/ I have been thinking about this comment of @docbhooshan in a @Genwise_ adda on developing socio-emotional maturity in children. It made sense intuitively but I did not fully understand why not being able to give a specific word for an emotion would ‘freeze’ someone.

https://twitter.com/GenWise_/status/1326512170650136577

2/ Some things are becoming clearer as I read about the topic. A child who clubs irritated, frustrated & annoyed- as ‘angry’, can’t acknowledge what they are going through and their emotions may escalate to ‘enraged’ and they may end up beating another child or cry hysterically

1/ Generalists are obsolete in a fast-changing world.

Once upon a time, they probably helped to ‘see problems & opportunities’ because they could ‘connect the dots’ unlike specialists.

But then the pace of change was slow enough for them to have enough context. 2/ Knowledge of 1 area can be made relevant to another e.g. Babbage-from silk weaving cards to computers

Without enough knowledge of 1-2 areas, the generalist’s understanding is too superficial to connect the dots.

Specialists too cannot connect the dots outside of their areas

1/ We may constantly complain about our harried schedules, but the real joy-killer seemed to be the absence of any schedule at all. Considerably less happy than the just-rushed-enough, are those with lots of excess time. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi… 2/ Why is that we cannot really enjoy 'leisure mode' for long? Why does it cede power to 'productivity mode'? The productivity mode deserves credit for scientific progress and technological ingenuity. But it has also brought a “malady of infinite aspiration".

1/ Tweeting live to give a peek into the 'Connecting the Dots' course from @GenWise_ A math assignment 'Journey to Lilliput' is being discussed. The 1st question is easy- it asks what is that single number factor which can be used to scale Gulliver's world down to Lilliput... 2/ Most children answer this correctly, but some use a factor of 3 to convert sq.ft to sq. m instead of using 3 x 3

1/ I just watched 'The Social Dilemma' on Netflix & also started reading 'Calling Bullshit' some days ago. Everybody should watch the film, understand how our 'attention is being extracted', how dangerous this can be and think about how we can change things... 2/ "..never before in history have 50 designers 20-35 yr-old white guys in California made decisions that have an impact on 2 billion people...who will have thoughts that they didn't intend to have because a designer at Google said, "This is how notifications work on that screen

1/ Early specialization leads to more mistakes “The benefits to increased match quality . . . outweigh the greater loss in skills. Learning stuff was less important than learning about oneself. Exploration is not just a whimsical luxury of education; it is a central benefit."

https://twitter.com/Mehulagarwal7/status/1280694896341344264

2/ “Match quality” is a term economists use to describe the degree of fit between the work someone does and who they are—their abilities and proclivities. A researcher, Ofer Malamud, investigated the trade-offs between early & late specializers in the British education system

1/A ban on online classes doesn’t make sense. We’ve seen several positives in the 30+ courses we have conducted @GenWise_ so far- great peer discussions, the quietest students engaging with teachers on chat and even real world explorations! Examples later in this thread 2/As with anything else- the quality of the experience and the ‘quantity of consumption’ decides whether it is good or bad. The lower the age, the more wary we should be of screen time. Educating parents will work far better than regulating schools. #righttolearn @nimmasuresh

1) A 14 tweet story about a lake that exploded suddenly and mysteriously without warning... with important takeaways for education. (Some pictures inside this thread) 2) In 1986, Lake Nyos in Cameroon erupted killing 1800 people + 3500 livestock in a 19 km radius. Bodies were burnt; survivors had eye lesions, neurological problems, paralysis of lower limbs. Similar events at nearby Lake Monoun on a smaller scale in 1984

1/ A friend's 23 yo girl looking to find a marriage partner, asked me for tips. Here's what I said.... Please comment/add your tips. Be as clear as possible on why you want to get married. Everybody doesn't need to get married. Don't get married because everyone else is... 2/ If you are going the 'arranged' marriage route, meet prospects who interact directly with you (not through their parents or relatives), spend time and decide... If you or your prospective partner cannot take responsibility for evaluating partners themselves, it's a red flag...

1/ Much to chew on in this brilliant episode bit.ly/2QijqQL of @sfiscience podcast where @rajivatbarnard is interviewed on the complex system of bias, crime, and criminal justice in the US. Some insights for me... 2/ Stereotyping is a cognitive necessity, but we can become more aware of the process and can be more willing to question the stereotypes that we hold. e.g. 'Pseudosecular' and 'Bhakts' are buckets we put people into.. but does it capture the tapestry of thoughts in these groups?