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On a very basic level, you are what you remember — your very identity depends on all of the events, people and places you can recall. Improving your memory will help you develop a quicker, more accurate retrieval of information that will increase your intelligence. Sharpening your short-term or “working” memory requires concentration. For instance, study four unrelated words for 15 seconds, then set an alarm for five minutes. Pay attention to another activity until the alarm sounds. Then try to remember the words. As you get better, change and add to the number of words and increase the amount of time. You can do similar exercises with numbers, visual designs, spoken words or even try to recount the scenes of a television show you just watched.

How to optimize your brain by sharpening your memory and refining your emotional recall. (via explore-blog)

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Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven’t the answer to a question you’ve been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you’re alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful if you listen carefully.

Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth (via quotecatalog)

I will reblog this quote until I have it memorized. I need to read it every day.

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So here’s something I know to be true, although it’s a little corny, and I don’t quite know what to do with it: What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded…sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly. Or, to look at it from the other end of the telescope: Who, in your life, do you remember most fondly, with the most undeniable feelings of warmth? Those who were kindest to you, I bet. It’s a little facile, maybe, and certainly hard to implement, but I’d say, as a goal in life, you could do worse than: Try to be kinder.

In his absolutely fantastic Syracuse commencement address on the immense value of kindness, George Saunders echoes Albert Einstein and adds to this year’s most memorable graduation speeches, including Debbie Millman on courage and the creative life, Greil Marcus on the false divide between “high" and “low" culture, Arianna Huffington on success, Joss Whedon on embracing our inner contradictions, Oprah Winfrey on failure and finding your purpose, and Judith Butler on the value of reading and the humanities. (via explore-blog)

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love this and definitely want to get a print to frame and put on my wall

Holstee Manifesto Poster @ ShopHolstee.com

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Illustrator Maira Kalman Explores Art and Existence (by THNKR)

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Illustration by Maira Kalman

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Charting The Great Gatsby – a chapter-by-chapter breakdown by Pop Chart Lab,  who have previously charted the visual evolution of cameras, the varieties of coffee, the history of Apple, America’s bike lanes, the composition of classic cocktails, the wonders of serif fonts, Gotham’s villains, and the 64 guitars that defined rock history.

The best thing since Kerouac’s On The Road, visualized.

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pizza is an acceptable meal at all times of the day

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stop talking about the royal baby and start talking about how today information was released by scientists to the press that dolphins actually communicate to one-another by name. dolphins have names for eachother this is way cooler than a rich baby

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I really love how the writing in Breaking Bad so thoroughly understands the importance of earning the payoff that I can post a bunch of shit from the show that spoils absolutely nothing but are some of the most upsetting/stressful images ever if the context happens to exist for you

Whoever said American TV is inherently substandard is a total fucking dingdong

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I admire people who have the ability to touch you and still be thousands of miles from your presence.

William Chapman  (via thatkindofwoman)