RE: mastodon.social/@impactology/1…
One theme that I keep detecting from this is that your mind sharpens when it experiences structured variation, so the educator's job is to expose them to variation by different constraints and feedback
Your mind sharpens when it is repeatedly placed in situations where it must notice:
What is changing
What is staying the same
Raghav Agrawal (@impactology@mastodon.social)
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Raghav Agrawal
in reply to Raghav Agrawal • • •If nothing varies, nothing new becomes perceptible. So even if you’re reading, thinking, or reflecting, your perception isn’t being disturbed enough to reorganize itself.
That’s why it feels like stagnation.
Raghav Agrawal
in reply to Raghav Agrawal • • •It’s not that people in elite environments have fundamentally different brains. What they have is constant exposure to variation.
Different people disagree. Different contexts clash. Feedback exposes gaps. Situations change quickly.
All of this creates a continuous stream of:
contrast (this vs that)
shifts in context (same idea, different situation)
contradictions (things that don’t fit cleanly)
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
in reply to Raghav Agrawal • • •*#SocialMedia and the #Fediverse*
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"...Different people disagree. Different contexts clash. Feedback exposes gaps..."
Sigh; this is exactly what I miss not having the old #Twitter anymore.
I have contacts here on different continents, in different walks of life and stages if life, but we have to admit that--in contrast to the old Twitter--we live in a (luckily) "sanitized #DMZ" 1): those with opposing #AlternativeFacts-indoctrinated,..
1) DMZ = Demilitarized Zone