And that shows because of this extreme level of consumption, 120 kilos of meat in USA, 80 in Europe, only 3 assimilates novelty when you're training to something new, whether it's playing chess, or juggling, or mindfulness, or altruisitc love, your brain does change.
they like the taste of this sprouted grain. And it was somewhat more nutritious because it was more easily assimilated by the body. And then suddenly found you could dry it and bake it into a bread and it tasted reallynice. It tasted like molted milk balls.
So the fundamental process by which humans assimilate knowledge-- we exist, we find something new, we explore it, we assimilate it, and we change. And of course, what we're doing because of that is we're ordering the world.
And these are tried and tested narratives. impossible to assimilate with the speed that it's happening.
And what I realized is what we were doing at Stonewall is recruiting in a way that said look how diverse we are, but then making them assimilate into our way of working, make them think, act, and work as the Stonewall way. So I had to throw all that away.
And I'm not talking, hey, I've got to be an Olympic weight-lifter, or be a marathon runner. as they try to assimilate and master the material.
We find its essential truth. And then we assimilate it. So we test it, hopefully scientifically, but often with the prejudices we've already learned.
And it's not a ridiculous theory. We see how they assimilate and digest food, how they rear their young, how they reproduce.
Oranges come from the Middle East. Why don’t they assimilate ', blah, blah, blah.
a difference in the world, and we focus on stories of responding to genocide, protecting civil rights, sharing our world, promoting pluralism, finding homes, and standing up to hate. They were fairly assimilated , very well to do Germans.
I wanted to wear it on my sleeve to make people confront that they were among people who were the kind of people And then they assimilated , and then they became respectable, and then they kicked the ladder away, and they turned on the people who came after them.
The founding prophet of Israel was not David Ben-Gurion or Chaim Weizmann, the first President and Prime Minister of the country, but a man named Theodor Herzl. Herzl was a largely assimilated Jew living in Austria. He was a novelist, a playwright, an essayist, and a journalist.
I think in an indirect way, that was a belief that Eisenhower and the Dulles brothers had. So we assimilated this view that what's good for the United States is always going to be what's good for the world.
And he's dealing with new information coming in from all over the place. And he's trying to assimilate this information. He's trying to manage it.
And he got stories from this guy. And he was also trying to assimilate this information and pull it together. And he too made a map.
And so what do we do with all of this information? But we can use that to really assimilate all of these very large satellite data sets into a single place and then have
Though it goes back much further than that. So the fundamental process by which humans assimilate knowledge-- we exist, we find something new, we explore it, we assimilate it, and we change.
And we teach people in our school how to do that. And if you don't assimilate it well, that means you're not getting all the nutrients from it that you need to get.
uh I I don't assimilate new technology well it usually takes me a long like new kids takes me a little long time before
One, we either immediately assimilate it and adjust for it.
They actually have the capacity to digest and assimilate 97 percent of the fat that they eat which is quite remarkable.
the nutrients that are there to be able to assimilate the nutrients if you don't do that you aren't going to have the
on outside appearances, perfectly assimilated .
But I think what has happened is it's being assimilated into American culture.
And the idea was to get them jobs and get them assimilated to the mass culture.
And we're dealing with these technologies without that time frame to assimilate them within our culture.
And I think part of that is because it takes time to assimilate .
colonization into Africans by now, forcing them to assimilate to an existing product that does not respect
And the whole idea was that they wanted to go ahead and assimilate and show respectability and, essentially, that gay people were not
Unfortunately, we're not equipped to assimilate either of them.
There's this whole idea that the ultimate goal of the LGBT community is to assimilate into a cis, heteronormative mainstream.
I just assume it was because the political culture just couldn't assimilate the facts of Nixon.
But it is implicit in the book that some of these nations did not fully assimilate it into their life, into the values that they act on.
Oranges come from the Middle East. absolutely dumb, that they don’t assimilate , that all they wanna do is make money and send it back home, and we should really just clamp down on these borders and not allow these
a difference in the world, and we focus on stories of responding to genocide, protecting civil rights, sharing our world, promoting pluralism, finding homes, and standing up to hate. Also again, even if you were totally assimilated -- like the Miller family that I mentioned.
Because I was exposed to so much as a kid that it assimilated itself to me.
And I think what was extraordinary for me about him was he assimilated everything as well.
I had, something I'd just assimilated .
But fundamentally, each stage is an act. Something confronted by its opposite learns, and assimilates , and changes. So typically in Hollywood, what you see is a character with a flaw.
It's able to metabolize and digest it better, and then assimilate all the nutrients into your body in that way.
when you move to the States, it's hard to not-- you either assimilate or you try to keep the culture really strong.
You can rage against the machine, or you can assimilate and figure out how it works and try to change it from the inside.
Because a lot of-- with my family, there was so much a desire to assimilate into white culture and white neighbors.
And so the second part of the book is really talking about our immigrant experience of trying to assimilate into a culture.
Which I think speaks well to that contradiction of wanting to rebel and not wanting to assimilate , but also really wanting to be accepted,
that when I was younger, I just wanted to assimilate .
So if you can imagine, I grew up in this bubble and then had to assimilate outside of this bubble and go to public school.
So it is easy to say something, but it is not that easy to really assimilate it into your cells and then reproduce it.
In order to have high-level creativity, we have to assimilate a great deal of knowledge.
And we teach people in our school how to do that. If you don't digest your food well, you don't assimilate it well.