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To humans, everything seems indelible, permanent. What would we do, she wonders, if we knew that our actions don’t count, that everything keeps shifting and changing no matter our will? How would we act?
“To quote the supposedly great but mostly incomprehensible Søren Kierkegaard—‘Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
― The Wishing Game
― The Wishing Game
“Meanwhile, less active connections wither away in a process sometimes called neural Darwinism: the survival of the busiest.”
― Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence
― Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence
“and then serenading him like a frickin’ troubadour”
― The Deal
― The Deal
“She was a leopard, camouflaged against her surroundings, but still living her life exactly as she saw fit.”
― Don’t Forget to Write
― Don’t Forget to Write
“Repeated mental/neural activity leaves lasting changes in neural structure: what’s called experience-dependent neuroplasticity.”
― Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence
― Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence
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