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It turns out that speed and IQ have a surprisingly strong relationship. In the experimental procedure called “choice-reaction time,” subjects are seated in front of a panel with a light and two buttons. They are told to press the left button when the light is green and to press the right button when the light is red, and to do this as fast as they can. IQ correlates almost as high as +.50 with how fast people can do this.
Flourish
Martin E. P. Seligman
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can’t lick ’em, join ’em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost lost hold; we can no longer describe a happy man, nor make any celebration of joy.
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
Ursula K. Le Guin
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
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