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Thursday, March 09, 2017 She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
Monday, August 04, 2014 A swift slitA crimson red An amber ash No trace Dash You have nothing to be proud of. I was my own product. You A wasted blacked out history Dying for life A pathetic sorrow A circle of hate Poor Poor Soul
Tuesday, May 07, 2013 From "Thinking, Fast and Slow", Daniel Kahneman System 1 - Intuition, impulse (faster, lazy, affected by priming, affected by repetition) System 2 - Thinks, challenges intuitive answers, controls impulses Pupil size dilates and heart rate increases when people are thinking/working/putting in effort, vice versa When system 2 is busy and depleted/ person is cognitively busy, they are less likely to be able to control their system 1 impulses (e.g. sexist language, superficial judgments, overspending on impulsive purchases, reacting aggressively to provocation). Depletion of system 2 can be caused by: trying to impress people, responding kindly to a partner's bad behaviour, inhibiting emotional responses to a stirring film. Reminders of money (or things/words associated to money) make people more independent, selfish, show greater preference for being alone, individualistic. Reminders of old age (or things/words associated to old age) make people act old/slow. Repetition induces cognitive ease and comforting feeling of familiarity, making something more favourable than something unfamiliar. Mere exposure makes something favourable. (words easily pronounceable are more favourable than if they were not) Performance of students increase with bad font because cognitive strain mobilizes System 2, which is more likely to reject an intuitive answer suggested by System 1 (in a seemingly easy but tricky question) Always write the first question/essay the best you can (especially when the profs don't ask you to split different questions into different booklets). Halo effect: When the first question had a high score, the prof gives the student the benefit of the doubt whenever he encountered a vague or ambiguous statement later on.
Monday, April 29, 2013 Amen
Thursday, February 14, 2013 I jumped off the same cliff again.Trying to see, for the third time, if I would again land with a million broken bones, a shattered spirit and slip into months of depression. Nope, I never learn. Try and try and try again.
Wednesday, February 06, 2013 Happiness reached about level 7-8 in the past month. It's extraordinary, best in a decade perhaps. But how do I ever reach 9-10 with the underlying problems still buried under the carpet, with the weight of boxes of meds? I thought I was cured, really. But it's only been 2 months. Medicine is not miraculous, what was I thinking?
Tuesday, January 22, 2013 It's been slightly more than a month. I'm still keeping faith, and the meds.
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