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But whether it’s music(5) or art(18) or journaling(6), having some kind of hobby(21) and engaging in regular learning has consistently been shown to lower stress. And let’s face it: When you’re on your deathbed, do you really want to lie there thinking about how good your marathon times were? That’s why I play guitar. I practice three times a week for twenty to thirty minutes. That’s it. And considering that I played violin for thirteen years, practicing an hour every day, an hour a week of guitar is easy
Beyond Training
Ben Greenfield
Agriculture—growing food crops for people and feed for animals—must be energized by solar radiation, specifically by the blue and red parts of the visible spectrum.[5] Chlorophylls and carotenoids, light-sensitive molecules in plant cells, absorb light at these wavelengths and use it to power photosynthesis, a multi-step sequence of chemical reactions that combines atmospheric carbon dioxide and water—as well as small amounts of elements including, notably, nitrogen and phosphorus—to produce new plant mass for grain, legume, tuber, oil, and sugar crops. Part of these harvests is fed to domestic animals to produce meat, milk, and eggs, and additional animal foods come from mammals that graze on grasses and aquatic species whose growth depends ultimately on phytoplankton, the dominant plant mass produced by aquatic photosynthesis.[6]
How the World Really Works
Vaclav Smil
If one looks at creativity as a resource that we continually draw upon to make something from nothing, then our fear stems from the need to make the nonexistent come into being. As we’ve discussed, people often try to overcome this fear by simply repeating what has worked in the past. That leads nowhere—or, more accurately, it leads in the opposite direction of originality. The trick is to use our skills and knowledge not to duplicate but to invent.
Creativity, Inc.
Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace
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