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i really enjoyed reading this
Every time you choose the summary over the story, you're performing surgery on your own brain. You're cutting away the neural pathways that let you sit still, that let you stay curious, that let mystery work its slow magic on your bones. You become a creature of surfaces, skimming endlessly across the water but never learning to breathe underwater. Your attention fractures into a thousand glittering pieces, each one catching light but none deep enough to hold it. You're always arriving but never staying, always grasping but never being grasped back.
one thing i notice and appreciate about posting to sn is how there is an obvious struggle to reconcile the high velocity "calculative" thinking with the "meditative." While the incentives push for users to engage with what's timely or relevant, there is a cohort that genuinely seems to care about engaging with content on a deeper level (hence the push for evergreenness). i hope this sticks.
Gazzaley's studies document how "multisensory information floods our brain like water blasted from a firehose, challenges us at a fundamental level (Emphasis mine)
a beautiful metaphor recently brought into my vernacular by our resident assistant janitor, which is incidentally the theme of this week's contest
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