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Unlocking memory mastery 🧠Cognitive hacks for long-term retention

Spaced repetition 🗓️

Instead of massed practice (cramming), spaced repetition involves reviewing material at increasing intervals. This technique has been proven to enhance long-term retention by leveraging the spacing effect, allowing you to remember information more effectively over time.

Memory palaces 🪑

Discover the ancient art of memory palaces, a method that involves associating information with specific locations in a familiar building or spatial environment. By mentally navigating through these spaces, you can easily recall the information linked to each location.

Mnemonics and acronyms 🔤

Transform complex information into memorable acronyms or mnemonic devices. These creative memory aids can help you encode and retrieve information more efficiently by linking it to familiar or vivid associations.

Visual imagery 👀

Embrace the power of visual imagery to enhance memory. Create mental images or mind maps that represent the information you're trying to remember. Visualizing concepts can make them more concrete and easier to recall.

Teach someone else 👩🏻‍🏫

The act of teaching someone else what you've learned can solidify your own understanding and retention of the material. Whether it's explaining concepts to a friend or writing a study guide for a classmate, teaching others reinforces your own knowledge.

Dual coding 🤹🏽‍♀️

Combine verbal and visual information to encode material more deeply. Pairing words with corresponding images or diagrams can create multiple pathways for memory retrieval, making the information stick in your mind.

Chunking 🧗🏽‍♀️

Break down large amounts of information into smaller, more manageable chunks. By organizing material into meaningful groups, you can improve your ability to remember and recall it.

By incorporating these cognitive hacks into your study routine, you can transform the way you learn and retain information. Say goodbye to short-term memory lapses and hello to long-term mastery of your academic material. Get ready to unleash your memory power and achieve academic success like never before!

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Don’t worry guys they’re just committing to the bit

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"Stop saying 15 year olds with weird interests are cringe, they're 15" this is true however you should also stop saying adults with weird interests are cringe because who gives a shit

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Every new Watcher show reinforces my theory that Ryan is the truly unhinged one and that Shane is just like a. Liberal Arts Major.

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whoever popularized the “amity wants hunter dead” fanon is literally my worst enemy. like look at this. they’re buddies. imagine being wrong about Everything

and the fact that amity is second to the airship before they realize that hunter wasn’t actually taken.. she does not hate that boy!! they are friends!!!

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They were so insane for this

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i had to. i’m thrilled

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these two these two

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one day you think: I want to die. and then you think, very quietly: actually. actually. I think I want a coffee. a nap. a sandwich. a book. and I want to die turns day by day into want to go home, I want to walk in the woods, I want to see my friend, I want to sit in the sun, I want a cleaner kitchen, I want a better job, I want to live somewhere else. I want to live.

- via duckbunny

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heartbeat .

short timeskip animatic

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Lumity cosplaying Spiderman and Spider-Gwen for a kofi!

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i'm not over Nimona and I've rewatched it so many times. I know there have been other posts about the religious symbolism and comparisons between the institute and christianity, but i can't believe it took me until my fourth rewatch to notice that the 'T' looks like a cross in this scene

so i thought "oh, wow. maybe that's just the way the font always is"

but then in the next scene with Ambrosius looking at the news, the font is the same and the 'T's are normal

So i paid more attention to the fonts when text was shown, and the way the capitol 'T' vs lowecase 't' is used is very... intentional??

Maybe its been pointed out, maybe i'm reaching, but. Once i saw it, i couldn't unsee it.

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Rainbow and trans flag in the background, if you even care

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Ballister & Nimona getting hurt and betrayed by the ones they love and trust most

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When arm-chopping IS a love language:

When arm-chopping is NOT a love language:

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i'm thinking about how amity's parents being in an abusive relationship affected her and how that kinda recontextualizes some stuff from previous episodes

i'm especially looking back at eclipse lake, how amity thought she needed to do things for luz and do so without failure in order for luz to continue loving her

of course we could see back then that a lot of that was from how her parents treated *her*. her mother saw her as an asset and was also willing to punish her for the slightest misstep. and her dad neglected her, probably only paying attention to her if she did something big (as shown by how she felt like she needed to win the bonesborough brawl in order for him to finally listen to her). they made her, in her own words, feel like she had to justify existing. amity internalized those things, thinking that that was how everybody would treat her

but there's another layer to it that we wouldn't see until clouds on the horizon. one that really stands out once you realize that amity's need to do things for luz, though somewhat there before they got together, only came out in its full unhealthy force when the relationship became romantic in nature

her mother only valued her father for what he could do for her, and she was willing to leave him the minute he stopped serving her

a kid's parents are often their main exposure to what a romantic relationship looks like. of course they will also see others' relationships or learn from media, but the parents are (especially in a nuclear family setup) the ones they usually see first and most often. and while it appears that odalia and alador tried to hide most of the extent of the issues, kids tend to pick up on that kind of thing, at least subconsciously.

so amity probably internalized a lot of unhealthy notions about romantic relationships from that. she had examples of healthy relationships from books and probably from seeing willow's dads or other adults or peers, enough examples to see romance as a worthwhile pursuit rather than simply a source of more suffering. but she still hadn't fully unlearned the idea that romantic partnerships were about one person serving the other at the threat of being left or punished that she got from watching her parents.

by that point, she had made the conscious choice to stop being like her mother, and she certainly didn't want to play her mother's role in any of her relationships (a choice we'd later see exemplified in follies at the coven day parade when she refused to snoop through luz's phone, even for what could be argued as luz's own good)

but before eclipse lake, she hadn't yet fully realized that she didn't have to -and *shouldn't*- emulate her father and how he interacted with his wife

but luz refused to treat amity the way odalia treated alador. or, rather, the thought never even crossed her mind. instead, she showed amity unconditional love and valued her wellbeing far over her usefulness. and that really got the idea through to amity that relationships, specifically romantic ones in this case, should be equal and full of genuine love

and that's why lumity is so beautiful to me. because there were so many chances for it to have not been so wonderful and healthy.

amity could've been like odalia and saw luz's low self esteem and need to feel useful and not like a burden and took advantage of that, but instead she repeatedly showed luz that she loved her and would always want to support and listen to her.

luz could've been someone different; amity could've done what many of us from abusive family structures who don't get mental help do and sought out someone who felt familiar and would hurt her. but instead she fell for luz *because* she was so different from what she'd always known.

or luz could've been someone who acted kind and loving at first but ended up being manipulative and took advantage of amity's mindset. but no, luz is just a genuinely kind and wonderful person who loves her girlfriend unconditionally and would never willingly hurt her.

i just. i love these two.

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i want them back :,)