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craving for forward bends 😄There’s a reason why this angle is not
often used for this pose. It is hard to stand straight. I like to start
with the half virasana half buddhasana then lie down before the pose. It
really helps prepare the quads and hip flexors. .
It’s sad how much of what is taught in school is useless to over 99% of the population.
There are literally math concepts taught in high school and middle school that are only used in extremely specialized fields or that are even so outdated they aren’t used anymore!
I took calculus my senior year of high school, and I really liked the way our teacher framed this on the first day of class.
He asked somebody to raise their hand and ask him when we would use calculus in our everyday life. So one student rose their hand and asked, “When are we going to use this in our everyday life?”
“NEVER!!” the teacher exclaimed. “You will never use calculus in your normal, everyday life. In fact, very few of you will use it in your professional careers either.” Then he paused. “So would you like to know why should care?”
Several us nodded.
He picked out one of the varsity football players in the class. “You practice football a lot during the week, right Tim?” asked the teacher.
“Yeah,” replied Tim. “Almost every day.”
“Do you and your teammates ever lift weights during practice?”
“Yeah. Tuesdays and Thursdays we spend a lot of practice in the weight room.”
“But why?” asked the teacher. “Is there ever going to be a play your coach tells you use during a game that requires you to bench press the other team?”
“No, of course not.”
“Then why lift weights?”
“Because it makes us stronger,” said Tim.
“Bingo!!” said the teacher. “It’s the same thing with calculus. You’re not here because you’re going to use calculus in your everyday life. You’re here because calculus is weightlifting for your brain.”
And I’ve never forgotten that.
This is BULLSHIT. Your brain doesn’t work the same way as a muscle, and current evidence in psychology strongly suggests that the Theory of Identical Elements (i.e. doing hard things with your brain makes you smarter) is rubbish. Taking stuff you learn in one context and applying it to another is really fucking hard, and human suck at it even when the two things are very very similar. The world champion for memorising digits of pi couldn’t remember random lists of digits any better than the average person.
Latin isn’t taught in schools very often any more because we know it’s bullshit to think that learning a hard language will make you better at languages. In fact, from what we know now, you have to practice transferring knowledge in order to be any good at it. If you’ve ever been made to learn ‘critical thinking skills’ at school where they make you critique lots of different stuff, like newspapers and books and movies and tv news, that’s what they’re trying to do.
Bottom line, they SHOULDN’T be teaching calculus as standard in schools. They should be teaching statistics, because everyone in the world has a use for stats, and it’s nowhere near as hard. Learning stats would make you scientifically literate, it would make it much harder for companies to BS you successfully, and it means you can evaluate other people’s evidence for yourself.
tl;dr don’t listen when people tell you this nonsense, it’s not supported by evidence, and the school system needs to catch up
Okay but I don’t really think thats the argument, if i understand what you’re saying correctly, that “learning this very specific hard skill, will make you better at learning this other hard skill because theyre both difficult”. It’s not really a muscle in that you can weightlift it to make it work overall, but it does for some skills work on a “use it or lose it” principle where if you don’t se a skill or practice it, your brain’s neurons will eventually prune them away because its expensive to keep around useless neural networks. Especially when you’re young and still growin - like in elementary and high school.
What I was taught in psychology about these things is that teaching math like this is similar to teaching another language. So with a second language, if you don’t learn one at an early age its VERY difficult later on because your brain begins to prune neural networks you don’t use and once those ones are gone its more difficult to get back. Its often a “use it or lose it” with these types of specifics skills with your brains, if you don’t use those neural networks and continue to expand them you will start to lose them and have a hard time getting them back. So for your Latin example, I’d argue that while yes Latin is kind of useless, but the practice of learning a second language at an early age WILL make you better at learning other languages because your brain still recognizes that as a skill thats being used. Thats why bilingual children are much better at picking up a third or forth language later on but in America, kids aren’t taught till highschool and we SUCK at learning other languages as a result because our brains aren’t readily plastic enough to pick that skill up (you can but its much harder).
Same with mathematics. Math is basically another language, and if you don’t learn it when you’re young your brain will have a very difficult time forming those neural networks later on. So, yes you probably wont practically use calculus in your life. But, if you don’t keep on taking math classes in high school your brain will eventually prune those neural networks that you use for that specific type of abstract problem solving involved in calculus/geometry/algebra etc. Not only that, but learning that specific type of problem solving ability required by math will help with other more practical problems in your every day life even if you don’t make the direct connection.
Such as, simple algebra problems like 12=2+x, being able to look at that and then solve backwards for X is a type of problem solving that comes in handy in other situations where you might have to look at the conclusion and then draw inferences about the causes. And continuing to practice mathematical thinking as a skill in schools will make it easier and quicker for you to access that problem solving ability.
I can’t really speak for Calculus specifically because I dropped calculus in college because I was struggling with it, but definitely abstract math courses should still be learned and taught and its not a useless skill that has no practical purpose.
Of course, research and evidence about our brain is still an ongoing process and our view of it and learning changes each year so the information I’m going on could very well be outdated by now.
Also maybe just fundamentally there should be more value provided by education, even pre-college education, than what you’ll use in your life, and “when will we ever use this” is a misinformed question right from the start.
Granted, education should do a lot more to prepare people for life. But it shouldn’t be wholly focused on preparing people for life. Encouraging a natural curiosity and a desire to learn things that aren’t innately useful but are good for their own sake is a good thing.
This is our Really Big Coin. It is big because it makes other things look small when photographed next to it. Actually, it is a 20:1 replica of the EUR 50-cent, you see it being milled out here. We needed to do quite a bit of sanding, lacquering and smudging to obtain the desired look and some climbing to get into required shooting position (you need to get up real high to take good pictures). The result is a short series of photographs, attempting to visually scale down real-sized objects.
I really, really try to avoid making vent/social commentary posts in general, but I think this is important on a site like Tumblr where community and communication is really important… and I guess it’s just important in general.
This goes without saying, but you’re never obligated to stay around or communicate with anyone. Nothing is stopping you from cutting off communication for any reason - even no reason, because that’s your right as a human with free will. This is especially important to keep in mind with friendships/other relationships that are just generally unhealthy for you.
Please bear with me when I start talking about when this can go too far and turn into self-isolation.
Every relationship requires negotiation and problem solving. As someone who’s very happily married, I still have to exercise those skills regularly. No, this isn’t rolling into “try to work it out with someone who argues with you constantly”. What I mean is that you’re going to argue with everyone who’s close to you at least once, no matter how major or minor the issue is in the course of the relationship. If you and your friend/partner/whatever want to sustain a healthy bond, you both have to work together to communicate when things do go wrong.
I’ve met, seen, and known a good handful of people who have the worst time keeping close friendships, and from my personal experience one of the main reasons people end up that way is self-isolation due to what I like to call “Ride or Die” Conflict Resolution
“Ride or Die” Conflict Resolution CS Definition: When somebody is confronted with a conflict or uncomfortable situation that doesn’t fall under abuse (such as misunderstandings, wording errors, and petty conflicts) and their first response is to burn bridges with the other party.
It’s one thing to keep people away from you that cause you constant stress or that you just don’t get along with, but it’s another thing to cut ties with someone every time a situation doesn’t go the way you planned. I’ve seen people complain about why they don’t have any friends - maybe complain that all their relationships go sour - even decide to call themselves jackasses or “hard to get along with” and move on.
Believe me when I say that if you’ve got a long track-record of your friendships and/or relationships going south, it’s not just the world around you. You need to review your own actions and behavior and ask yourself if you need to work on anything. You cannot complain about “nobody caring about you” if you don’t value your relationships enough to solve simple everyday problems.
In conclusion, it’s important to take care of yourself, but also keep self-aware of why the relationship failed. It will help you immensely in the future when you want to keep a relationship you know is worth it. (BTW, saying “I’m a jackass deal with it” is not being self aware - it’s making excuses for your bad behavior and refusing to correct it.)
Two of a set of custom commissions done for @sudrien as illustrations for this fic. These interior backgrounds are some of my favourites I’ve done, especially the greyscale with pink and cyan accents. I should really try and remember to use that technique for some of my *own* work. c’:
really loving the picture of superman from the justice league movie with his poorly digitally removed mustache
ohhhhhhhh i love it
they couldn’t get henry cavill to shave his mustashe??
the story goes that after they finished shooting justice league, henry cavill grew a mustache for some other movie he’s going in, and they told him “you are NOT allowed to shave your mustache until we are done filming this movie.” but, something happened and they had to do a bunch of reshoots for justice league with joss whedon at the same time.. and for whatever reason, they decided the best thing to do was to just digitally remove his mustache. and here we are
so, i only went in to get the shiny silvally code. should’ve taken like a minute or two at most but i was in there for upwards of ten. it was deeply unsettling right off the bat when i walked in because it was quiet. like really quiet. the tv that plays the gaming news and the speaker that plays the ads weren’t running. the cashier says hello and i get in line to wait. it is dead silent. nobody in the store is making any noise except for the cashier, who is typing. she’s helping a little boy sell 12 PS4 games. the boys mom is walking back and forth behind him sipping her gas station brand cup of coffee. literally just walking back and forth from one end of the store to the other. all the while the entire store is silent, the kid is silent, the mom is silent… all 5 of the other full grown adults in this store are silent. and i’m the only one in line behind this kid, these other adults throughout the store are like standing in one space just staring and being quiet. they weren’t browsing, they weren’t talking. nobody was making any noise. i wasn’t making any noise. i was standing there thinking about how eerily silent it was in this gamestop and wondering what the hell was going on - hyper aware of every move i made because i didn’t want to make a noise and break the silence. this carried on for literally 10 minutes before another cashier came in through the front door and loudly exclaimed “i can’t leave you alone for five minutes.” he called me to the counter and asked me what i needed help with. it was like immediately the ambient noises of gamestop all returned at once and i stepped forward to get my code.
my favorite part of this is the implication that not only was the first cashier somehow responsible for the eerie silence to begin with but also that this has certainly happened before
Jane won my heart instantly when I first began to read her intro, she’s a real catch I think!! She’s a dweeby trickster with this proud heiress-to-be facade, but she’s also embarrassed to express her true feelings about certain things and she can be really self deprecating, something I can relate to, unfortunately.
So, she teaches me that having massive flaws with trusting people I feel close to does not make me terrible, but must improve myself, NOT accept/embrace my reluctance to believe in others as a negative piece of my personality. That I must learn to not bottle up my true feelings as a part of learning to trust others by first being honest to them as well. I think that’s really important. I hope she grows up more in the comic!! I’m rooting for her.
