Michele Pasin / Quotes

Our brains are not wired to multitask well

Although we think we’re doing several things at once, multitasking, this is a powerful and diabolical illusion. Earl Miller, a neuroscientist at MIT and one…

Why The Modern World Is Bad For Your Brain (daniel J Levitin) #illusion #task #attention #people

Faith as allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous

Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith—in life, in other people, and in oneself—is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous…

The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are #life #game #people #faith

Servility assumes the aspect of Christian virtue

Being Religious to Some Purpose.—There are certain insipid, traffic-virtuous people to whom religion is pinned like the hem of some garb of a higher humanity…

Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits #religion #life #people

Shackle their minds when they're bent on the cross

"Shackle their minds when they're bent on the cross When ignorance reigns, life is lost" Religious fanatics prey on the minds of those who are lost or weak…

Rage Against The Machine - Township Rebellion Lyrics | Songmeanings #war #people #religion #life #violence

Attachment and what babies tag as important

In that game of peekaboo, it is obvious that the baby and his mother have already formed a reciprocating relationship. In the late 1960s, researchers coined a…

Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina) #attachment #emotions #babies #attention

Babies cry because they have no filters

By 6 months of age, a baby typically can experience surprise, disgust, happiness, sadness, anger, and fear. What babies don’t have are a lot of filters…

Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina) #babies #emotions #attention