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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
“Living on our planet, today, requires a lot more imagination than we are made to have. We lack imagination and repress it in others.”
― The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
― The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
“The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. The marriage of the two is a challenge and opportunity beyond imagination.”
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“Experiments show that just as the brain can build new or stronger circuits through physical or mental practice, those circuits can weaken or dissolve with neglect. “If we stop exercising our mental skills,” writes Doidge, “we do not just forget them: the brain map space for those skills is turned over to the skills we practice instead.”36 Jeffrey Schwartz, a professor of psychiatry at UCLA’s medical school, terms this process “survival of the busiest.”37 The mental skills we sacrifice may be as valuable, or even more valuable, than the ones we gain. When it comes to the quality of our thought, our neurons and synapses are entirely indifferent. The possibility of intellectual decay is inherent in the malleability of our brains. That”
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
Coty’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Coty’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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99 friends
1,099 books
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180 friends
2,684 books
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231 friends
107 books
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10 books
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118 books
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167 books
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107 friends
20 books
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73 friends
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