No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
Martin Luther King
Luchadoras – the masked female wrestlers who use the sport for empowerment and are cultural icons in Mexico
Solopreneurship is a distinctive approach to entrepreneurship where an individual operates and manages a business single-handedly. According to a report by FreshBooks, as of 2021, there were an estimated 41 million solopreneurs in the United States, highlighting the growing trend of individuals pursuing their entrepreneurial ambitions independently. Solopreneurs take on multiple roles within their business, from ideation and planning to execution and customer service. Unlike traditional entrepreneurs who may build teams, solopreneurs handle all aspects of their business operations on their own.
You want to make America great again? Ditch the silly hat and start reading and watching a variety of news sources. Don’t be scared of the truth because that’s how we will get stronger.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Play: imaginative, self-directed, intrinsically motivated and guided by rules that leave room for creativity. Play can provide a significant amount of joy without offering a specific result. Play benefits adults by releasing endorphins, improving brain functionality, and stimulating creativity. It can help keep us feeling young and energetic. Play can improve our memory and stimulates the growth of the cerebral cortex. Play also triggers the secretion of BDNF, a substance essential for the growth of brain cells. For me, play an essential component of making art.
Photo Monograph– a presentation of a body of work (rarely more than one) to present the photographs in question. Included writing (where present) need not be critical or academic and often serves to enhance (talk up) the photography. Use high-quality and well-focused images and that you proofread your text (especially images captions) carefully.
Artist’s monograph – a concise publication of a single artist’s work. Monographs can be extensive or niche in what they present. A monograph can be structured as an interpretative analysis of an artist’s work written by the artist themselves and/or a selection of scholars, or as a wordless or an almost-wordless picture book.
” To see something spectacular and recognize it as a photographic possibility is not making a very big leap. But to see something ordinary, something you’d see every day, and recognize it as a photographic possibility – that’s what I’m interested in.”
Stephen Shore
You cannot stretch a muscle: muscles simply increase their “stretch tolerance.”
You cannot truly “stretch” a muscle. Muscles are not very elastic, and muscle length does not really change despite what the word “stretch” implies, they extend and retract. The distance you can extend a muscle is determined by the sensitivity of the stretch reflex, which is the body’s automatic defense against the dangers of overstretching.
Muscle inhibition allows muscles to unlock and extend open. Muscles do not “stretch” to a longer length, but they can extend further and further by increasing their “tolerance” to a stretch. More and more research shows that proper stretching does not make muscles permanently longer. Instead, stretching re-educates the nervous system to tolerate a greater degree of muscle extension without firing pain signals.
Learning: acquiring knowledge and skills and having them readily available from memory so you can make sense of future problems and opportunities. Learning requires memory, needs to happen all ours lives and is an acquired skill.
Durable learning is effortful. Rereading text and massed practice are the least productive.
Retrieval practice – recalling facts from memory – is much more effective learning strategy.
All new learning requires a foundation of prior knowledge.
Elaboration– process of giving new material meaning by expressing it in your own words and connecting it with what you already know
Emotion makes something feel relevant and then it’s memorable.
Goals: SMARTER ~ Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Risky, Timeline Driven, Exciting, Relevant
How people think about a country depends on the stories they hear about it.
Robin Sallie
Relentless Robin 