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There is a scientific hypothesis known as the Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve that deals with the exponential decay of human memory over time. The forgetting curve illustrates that information that is not consciously reviewed through active recall, thereby strengthening its retention, is lost very rapidly.
ate like he had been waiting his whole life for that particular meal. He sounded like some sort of apocalyptic human vacuum cleaner running on a “complete annihilation” setting, great slurping sounds of sheer mandibular destruction emanating from his rotund brown face.
nice wordsmithing!
Almost all violence is born of fear,
Injustice always prevails when the people blindly accept the dictates of those in power, whether those rulers were elected or seized their positions by the sword.
Anyone can benefit from writing a gratitude list, and I try to do at least two or three a week to this day. When you consistently and honestly take a look at the things you actually have to be grateful for, your perspective changes, and you begin to realize what is really important. Go ahead, try it. If you’re reading this and thinking that your life is so bad that you don’t have a single thing to be grateful for, I don’t mind telling you here and now that your priorities are all fucked up. Consider this a friendly kick in the ass from good ol’ Uncle Randy. You need get off the pity pot, put
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Discipline will save you when the chips are down. Discipline will temper you and turn you into steel when your ass is burning alive in the flames of life’s hard times-furnace.
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve had to learn not to throw a rock at every bird I see just because a seagull pooped on my head once at the beach.
same, I"ve learned to choose my battles.
Like the old saying goes, pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.
The comfort provided by the irrefutable certainty of one’s internal rectitude is a luxury afforded only to those who prove themselves able of acting with honor in the face of great adversity; for one must be tested to find out what one is really made of.
