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FIREHOSE OF FALSEHOOD
Traditional disinformation tries to make you believe lies. Today's more sophisticated disinformation tries to confuse you. This is done by overwhelming you with a cacophony of (often contradictory) disinformation, so you can no longer tell what’s real.
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When measured empirically, people were happier at work and less happy relaxing that they suspected. And as the ESM studies confirmed, the more such flow experiences that occur in a given week, the higher the subject's life satisfaction. Human beings, it seems, are at their best when immersed deeply in something challenging
When it comes to information processing, think of the wake state principally as reception (experiencing and constantly learning the world around you), NREM sleep as reflection (storing and strengthening those raw ingredients of new facts and skills), and REM sleep as integration (interconnecting these raw ingredients with each other, with all past experiences, and, in doing so, building an ever more accurate model of how the world works, including innovative insights and problem-solving abilities).
Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker
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