Um and then also, you know, I think just thinking about kind of the cognitive effects of, you know, reading and of persisting through something for a long period of time, you know, we know that two decades ago the average attention span on a screen was two and a halfminutes, and five years ago it was 47 seconds. So, you know, I think there is sort of a a change as we become more
did it make sense for a long time? What changed in circumstances that now makes it harmful or even dangerous? And why is it persisting even though it's its time has passed? And uh in in the whole uh the whole issue of company based benefits um there's an interesting history to this which is not the way uh it's not the it's not quite the story
But what I started to realize as I got into adulthood and as I started getting into my late 20s, a lot of that stuff was still persisting . I still felt like, in social situations in particular, I was having to do so much mental work just to make sure I'm understanding context and subtext and all these different things.
It was marshland. So for me, they're kind of ghosts of this marshy past. And they're persisting into the present in a way that I find very comforting. And then the other sort of bird was a pair, which is now a group, of crows that I befriended on my street
You have in your midbrain, hypothalamus and pituitary gland. that has been persisting for a period of time?
You also tried a lot of things. You were relentless in just persisting . I love the story about you buying, it seemed like, 10,000 of fridge magnets.
He insisted on dropping all apostrophes and so wrote "can't" and "he's" without apostrophes-- like that because, he said, there is no-- "not the faintest reason for persisting in the ugly and silly trick of peppering pages with these uncouth bacilli." Lewis Carroll, on the other hand, was a big fan of apostrophes and insisted that the only correct spelling of shan't and can't was,
And then we live our lives in accordance with them and, without knowing it, end up perpetuating them, as well. And that's how these systems and beliefs end up persisting . And so one of the things that I think is really interesting about old happy is that when you have this new lens on looking at well-being
And so I think the model people use to answer and think about the inflation question has to not keep supply fixed when debating that part. and found at the five year mark markedly different earnings even persisting to that level.
in an impossible position. The left had to keep insisting on the truth of climate science while persisting in the fiction that collective world action could stave off the worst of it. That universal acceptance of the facts-- which really might have changed everything in 1995-- could still change everything.
Mason fed all the chords offline. The first is, have you tried sort of persisting some information across several sessions for any of these to try to have the robot develop
Or were you able to just keep that I don't really care, I'm just going to be myself? I wanted to ask, what was the biggest struggle for you in embarking and persisting on the path you have taken to get to where you are now?
And Anna read a whole bunch of wonderful accolades, but the fact of the matter is I've failed way more than I've ever succeeded. And I wanted to pass that along to my four boys that it's all about persisting . And at the end of that last chapter, I talk about teaming up.
of adjusts to improve at what you spend time doing. And so if we spend less time reading, we're going to have less background knowledge to aid in comprehension. You know, we're going to be kind of less accustomed to persisting through text. Um it's going to feel like more uncomfortable and difficult. And you know, there is some evidence kind of