Howdy there, partner! Welcome on into the Stacker Saloon.
Saddle on up to a stool and spill the beans about your day, fire away with them questions, or let loose and give us the lowdown on your wild and woolly life. We're all ears, so don't hold back!
We're open round the clock, so mosey on in whenever you please!
Haha Now everyone is spending sats and hitting every post. I find that comical
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Short weekend survey!
Answer on nostr for zaps: njump link
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So it took me 13 hours to realize my Alby Hub nwc receive connection had stopped working. SATs were going to my SN wallet like the old days. I don't know why. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty!
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Have a great weekend Enjoy... Love from Nepal ❤️
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The Art of War by Sun Tzu
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Is there a v4v YouTube equivalent yet like the podcast one with fountain?
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zap.stream Thanks for the reminder BTW. I haven't played around with it yet myself.
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Also, Flare, but really neither of them are close to what Fountain is.
We need to get more content on them, but that'll come.
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“ MicroStrategy purchased an additional 18,300 bitcoins for $1.11 billion, boosting its total Bitcoin trove to 244,800 BTC acquired for $9.45 billion. ”
Leave some for the kids
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@sn @benwehrman can we get advance notice on AMAs. Had no idea Alex was going to be on. Completely missed it.
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An update is on the way that will allow me to delete hype posts from the ~AMA feed - I'm waiting for that to be implemented because a couple of times in the past AMA guests have been confused when they see themselves being mentioned and think that's their cue to jump in
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Gotcha
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@ek any way I can pay for my territory using on-chain? I am trying to pay but it says no route.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 13 Sep
no, we don't do on-chain payments but we might at some point
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Yeah having trouble paying large lightning payment
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I usually have an incognito window to read the week's stories. This week, I can just switch to anon. Ahh so nice.
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why would you need to be anon just to read stories?
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I didnt use anon for the longest time because it was such a hassle to switch.
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I think @anon now deserves a better profile picture
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lol
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Can you guys please suggest me to which territory I should put a political article link? It's about Election in US, related to Harris and Trump debate as well. @siggy47 @grayruby @Undisciplined
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News if it's recent. If not, try to find a reasonably priced territory that's appropriate, like econ, mostly harmless, fireside philosophy? I've had this problem myself.
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Thanks 🙏
I didn't feel that the article actually fits into any of these. ~News can be as it's recent but it's more like an article on the outcome of the debate.
It's not good not to have Politics in territories. It's a bigger problem for me than the rewards algo.
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Step into the breach, my man.
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Usually ~news, but ~alter_native can work.
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The fees on ~alter_native is so low that your article won't show even in the recent until someone deliberately move to the territory and finds tour article than zap it.
Okay, as @siggy47 and you both have mentioned ~news as priority, no need to wait for @grayruby, let him fight for a cause. He is doing great.
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121 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 13 Sep
don't mind me, I am testing #683221
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Testing in prod, the right way
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Can't help it
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I just noticed one of my posts where I didn't pay the posting fee (some NWC problem), 9 hours ago at the moment of posting it. But when I pay the fee now, it still shows the post as created 9 hours ago. This is an extreme case, but I wonder if this is the desired behavior. See #683600 for screenshot and link to the post.
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mhh, I think it should have used the time the invoice was confirmed but need to check
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Day 231 of the #100aDayTil100k challenge, sets breakdown: 45 normal/narrow, 24 spiderman, 16 pike, 22 pseudo, 32 wide, 16 side-to-side, 24 staggered, 32 normal/narrow on knuckles; Total: 211 (Day 335 of 100+ pushups per day in total; day 234 of 120+ pushups per day)
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Alright, got the NWC kind of working on zaplist.
Ended up using Bitcoin Connect, but need to place and style it in the new start menu.
Would like to figure out zap streaming. I want to give users the ability to stream sats to freaks.
Playing around creating music and short stories, looking to come out with a project called "Billy Death", maybe a combination of 3 short stories and 3 lo-fi beat tapes.
I'm thinking the album artwork should look something like this
Or this
Wish me luck freaks, And stay strong!
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(for personal use only)
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Please consider downzapping this comment from this reward system abuser.
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I had the same thought. Is this the person that adds to a post but doesnt comment?
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Why do you think they're an abuser?
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Not related to this debate, but came to my mind something and wanted to ask you about. If I zap a post, let's say I am the 1st one, with 100 sats. I also comment first. Then after a while, after I wait until more are coming to comment and zap, I zap again same post let's say 1000 sats. Then after a while again 2000 sats. Is this affecting the algo for the OP and for me ?
I am just curious how this plays out. You know I am not interested in gainz...
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31 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 13 Sep
For the OP, it's the same either way. For you, the late zaps are less eligible for rewards than your earlier ones.
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goood, as I expect it.
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Abuser, gaming the system, call it what you will. Three days in a row they have been in the top 5 earning thousands of sats in rewards just by zapping content early. They had no posts and comments two days ago and around 400 sats zapped and generated 4800 in rewards (give or take). Yesterday they had one comment (which was directed at Undisciplined for calling them out and posted one music video that was not a popular post). They did zap over 2k sats yesterday in order to earn over 5k rewards and today have made the one comment on fun fact friday and zapped around 700 sats and are currently in position to earn over 5k sats. I don't consider this value additive behavior.
People may disagree with me and that's fine. Ideally the reward system and community should have an immune response to those trying to take advantage of it and the perpetrators should not have long term success. We will see if that's the case.
I downzapped their comment 1k sats yesterday and that had no effect. Which is understandable as I am only one stacker but I say let the stackers decide if they want to vote with their sats in favour or against this behaviour.
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I agree. Downzapping seems to be not working upon him!
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Zapping early is value added though else these things people later agree are good would never be seen. Careful zapping is expensive even if the effort isn't visible. It's the rarest behavior stackers engage in.
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They are clearly only zapping high value stackers content that is likely to end up as top posts as a strategy to earn sats. Sorry, I don't agree that is value added. That is gaming the system but if you are good with it then so be it. I don't really care about earning sats, pretty much every sat I have ever earned on SN has gone back into the community but personally I would rather see the largest pools of daily rewards sats go to stackers who are actually participating in the daily discourse on SN not judiciously zapping.
Your site though so if you think someone zapping top stackers content early so they can earn thousands of sats in rewards and doing nothing else on site adds more value that people who are posting, commenting, zapping, getting zapped, that's your prerogative but I think most stackers would disagree.
That's my position. I don't want to debate it further. You incentivize what you want on your site.
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I didn't mean to sound like I was debating. I was trying to share more context.
They are clearly only zapping high value stackers content that is likely to end up as top posts as a strategy to earn sats.
fwiw I looked at what they are doing and that's not what they are doing.
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Ok so then you are suggesting that we should all be merely trying to replicate their behaviour as that behaviour is more highly valued than creating content, commenting and engaging with others. Zapping and getting zapped. I realize you have a difficult problem creating a mechanism to avoid spam and sats farming and trying to make it costly for those that try. Maybe the system isn’t always perfect and there will be anomalies but quite honestly the implication that they deserve their position because they are creating more value than some of the amazing stackers that are below them in the rewards ranks is mildly offensive to me.
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I'm not trying to make a judgement about who is valuable and who isn't - especially to me. I was sharing that our ranking algorithm requires brave souls zapping great, widely appealing, content early, which very very very few people do, and so our reward algorithm compensates for that.
I was trying to share the assumptions made when the algorithm was designed. I'm sorry it seems unfair. I want it to be fair.
Sorry to interfere But it does feel bad when someone without making any contribution by posting or commenting becomes the top stacker. If by only zapping we can be in top 10 stackers that too regularly, which makes the behaviour suspicious.
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After reading the comments yesterday, it's clear that to replicate this performance, you need to zap big the posts that will become top posts. But is that really the answer? I believe it's incredibly challenging, as it demands an intimate knowledge of the stackers' preferences.
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It requires subbing to the top stackers and having a bot zap them as soon as they post.
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That's not gonna work. Check out my last comment.
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Great we should all aim to do nothing but try to zap content that will become top posts early.
I don’t want to spend my time doing that but if that’s what is the most valuable behaviour should we not all be trying to create the most value.
Nice knowing you SN when 75% of the content goes away so we can all try to game rewards.
You nailed it! That's exactly why it's valuable.
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It's definitely clear now.
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41 sats \ 1 reply \ @Car 13 Sep
⚡Stacker News Live today at 4pm, Texas time.
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Thanks 🙏 Gonna watch it live.
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SN is getting weirder and weirder LOL
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In the notification, I saw so many links but as I clicked I see a set of gifs.
Are these a suggestion for Stackers to use while posting comments?
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I'm just messing around testing stuff.
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99 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 13 Sep
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Amazing Video 👏👏
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Day 63 POD (Proof of Donation)

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1243 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 13 Sep
Snail family:
  • normal snail: __@_'-'
  • red snail: __@_'-'
  • blue snail: __@_'-'
  • fat snail: __@_'-'
  • scared snail: @
  • sigma snail: '-'_@__
  • happy snail: __@_^-^
  • speedy snail: ===__@_'-'
  • stoner snail: __@_'-'~
  • high snail: __@_*-*
  • superman snail: --@-`-´
  • dead snail: __@_x-x
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"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." ― Viktor E. Frankl
A Stoic Resurrection: #662497
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Amazing race around town. Gonna be crazy with a 5&6 year old!
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@k00b I thought Fun Fact Friday was supposed to auto post today?
Do you want me to whip up a quick bounty?
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It should run at 10a CT
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Ok. I see. I was doing it 9am CT to 9am CT because that is what KR was doing.
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Ah, it should be okay, but I can update it if we think it's too late and preventing participation.
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Day #67 of nut 🌰 dropping 🥜 in the Saloon
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Want to harvest this nut? https://docs.cashu.space/wallets
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They are getting quick.
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it's Friday the 13th
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Are you in Yellow Squad or are you a weirdo like @OneOneSeven?
Get your score #682402
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Awesome chart! Any stackers up in the top left?
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Mathematically, there almost have to be, but I haven't found any yet. @Rsync25 is up in the top right.
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What a leftie
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You're in the green square with me!
(-4.3, -4.4)
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How? Lol
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We spend a lot more than we stack currently.
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Still in the Troll Patrol.
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Me a troll never!! 😆
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@ek, I'm trying to post my newsletter and keep getting this message: Invalidprisma.item.create()invocation: Foreign key constraint failed on the field:ItemUpload_uploadId_fkey (index)`` Edit: I got it to work, but what does all that mean?
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43 sats \ 5 replies \ @ek 13 Sep
Mhh, something is unexpected with the images you uploaded. Not sure how to reproduce. Did it work simply by retrying?
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No, I used the image load (second box from the right above write space and chose the image file). I tried to use the link created by the image load saved in my template. It appears I must reinvent the wheel each post for some reason. To recreate, insert an image, then copy the link code and paste it into a new post draft, then see if the image loads.
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43 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek 13 Sep
Mhh, not sure I follow. You can't reuse an upload link? Are you sure that upload link has been used in the past? This error suggests that the image got already deleted on our server before you used it but for that to happen, there must have been 24 hours between your upload and you trying to submit the post. Could that be the case?
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Yes, it was more than 24 hours
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43 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 13 Sep
Okay in that case, you can use an image link from an existing post.
For example, use that one for the bitcoin beginners newsletter banner: https://m.stacker.news/51654
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Yes. No big deal. I have the .png file on my computer. I can just reinsert it each time I post a newsletter
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Have a great weekend Stackers!!!
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Was cloudy today. Hope for sunshine tomorrow. Coz it's weekend 😁
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I present you ... @siggy47 's new movie: Horizon: An American Saga Part 1
Part 2
Extended preview
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nice one
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🌰 Nut is brewing. 🌰
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Day 515 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k.
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I think I missed something. Why are you posting these as @anon now?
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My tribute to silence
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It's Friday ☠️
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idk what happen but for me Fountain app it doesn't work anymore after they introduced login with nostr. None of the podcasts start playing. I've tried several things, including re-install app and on 3 devices, none of them works. It simply do not play. I can do anything else but not listening.
Before introducing this nostr link it was fine. Now is useless.
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premium supporter?
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Day 270 of posting mining earnings from the day before: 824 sats on 12Sep2024! Running total: 179,305 sats!
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day 43: 45 sats on 9-12-24. total 1421 sats!
bitaxe overheated. going to lower the frequency a bit.
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What frequency were you using?
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i bumped it only from 490 to 500 (what units?!), but it was also a hot day in a small space without a/c. anyways, it's hashing again now.
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Good question on the units. I’ve tried bumping mine before and it didn’t run right, so I just went back to default. I don’t remember the values I changed
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oh, I am number 5. That is amazing, seeing its 0536.
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124 sats \ 1 reply \ @suraz 13 Sep
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haha I smiled.
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158 sats \ 0 replies \ @Lux 13 Sep

Customary Law:

Sometimes referred to as Traditional Law, Customary Law historically is the tradition of indigenous people, who generationally pass on the culture, customs, ethics and procedures on to the new generation, often orally, including song, dance and even story telling.
Overtime a legal custom is then established that follows the pattern of behaviour that can be objectively verified within a particular social setting. A claim can then be carried out in defence of "what has always been done is now accepted by law".
Marriage is one example of Customary Law. Age of consent is another. This is where the age of consent is agreed through history, custom and tradition, which is ethically the right thing to do.
Within history, most cultures celebrate coming of age, this is where all the rights and responsibilities are given to the child who has now become an adult.
Note: There is only one age of consent, within England it is 16. Other ages, such as 17, 18, and 21 are referred to as Legal Age of Majority, which is based in legislation, and have nothing to do with law.
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GM stackers! If you have 5 minutes, please read this post #682979 by @gpvansat about a project in Zambia.
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Key Insights (as per NoteGPT.io summary): 🧠 Neuroplasticity & Learning: Understanding how the brain changes with experience is key to effective study strategies. Engaging in challenging material fosters lasting learning.
📝 Testing as a Tool: Self-testing is not just for evaluation but is a powerful method to reinforce knowledge and identify gaps in understanding, significantly improving retention.
🌙 Importance of Sleep: Sleep plays a critical role in memory consolidation. Prioritizing quality sleep enhances the brain’s ability to integrate and recall learned information.
🔄 Interleaving: Mixing different subjects or concepts during study helps create connections and enhances learning, making it easier to retrieve information later.
🧘‍♂️ Mindfulness Meditation: Regular mindfulness practices improve focus, reduce anxiety, and enhance cognitive flexibility, which aids in the learning process.
👩‍🏫 Peer Teaching: Teaching others helps solidify one’s own understanding and mastery of the material, making it a beneficial strategy for effective learning.
❤️ Emotional Engagement: Leveraging emotional contexts in learning experiences can significantly enhance memory retention due to the activation of neurochemicals associated with strong emotional responses.
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