Join 📚 Roger's Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what roger's read, .
We are a nation besieged by stress, whether it’s related to career, family, finances, romance, current events, or health problems. Once you’re ramped up, though, it’s overly difficult for your physiology to recover. You’re driving a car that has no trouble reaching a high speed but is incapable of slowing down. This is true for most of us. Think about it: When you narrowly avoid an accident on the way to work or school or get into a heated confrontation with a family member, do you feel your heart rate speed up in the moment, then swiftly return to normal as you proceed with your day? Or does it take you a while to stop ruminating or replaying the incident and release that stress? For most people, the latter scenario is more common and is indicative of sympathetic dominance—an overactive sympathetic nervous system that keeps you stuck in a state of fight-or-flight longer than necessary.
Heart Breath Mind
Leah Lagos
As you’ve already learned, your first order of business with a new piece is to go through it and identify the problem sections: those phrases or sections that are going to need the most work before they become familiar and easy. Once you pinpoint the challenges, you’re ready for chaining and back-chaining. A small phrase or section works best, something that can stand on its own melodically or rhythmically, but it can be as short as one note to the next. Learn the short group of notes slowly and perfectly. Then move to the next group of notes. The chain part comes from the fact that each of the short sections overlaps with the sections on either side.
The Practice of Practice
Jonathan Harnum
However, there are striking differences in how the two sexes relate to clubs. Men seem to enjoy, and work more effectively, in clubs. A set of experiments on cooperation in groups by the American evolutionary psychologist Rob Kurzban suggested that men formed a coordinated group much more readily and cooperated more effectively as a group than women did, when success on a task (and hence the money earned) depended on the degree of coordination as a group.
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise