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2023-01-09 21:08:19 Seneca, wisdom lies in correctly discerning where we are free to mould reality according to our wishes and where we must accept the unalterable with tranquillity.

Anger does not belong in the category of involuntary physical movement, it can only break out on the back of certain rationally held ideas; if we can only change the ideas, we will change our propensity to anger.

Expensive objects can feel like plausible solutions to needs we don’t understand. Objects mimic in a material dimension what we require in a psychological one. We need to rearrange our minds but are lured towards new shelves. We buy a cashmere cardigan as a substitute for the counsel of friends.

How badly we react to frustration is critically determined by what we think of as normal. We may be frustrated that it is raining, but our familiarity with showers means we are unlikely ever to respond to one with anger. Our frustrations are tempered by
what we understand we can expect from the world, by our experience of what it is normal to hope for. We aren’t overwhelmed by anger whenever we are denied an object we desire, only when we believe ourselves entitled to obtain it. Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground rules of existence.

Excerpts from successive 50 pages Ochish/sharhlash

2023-01-09 14:40:01 Genius Ochish/sharhlash

2023-01-09 12:23:17 And after 8 hours of online classes the real work just starts:
- pay a visit to school to meet with principal and have some stuff done
- pay a visit to maths club to translate some docs
- write rec letter
- read 100+ pages

The last one is actually not a work at all. Remedy for the mind... Ochish/sharhlash

2023-01-09 09:39:43 Electrophoresis. I worked in my dad's lab in late high school in college where we use starched electrophoresis to study population genetics. I remember first learning of and then carefully reading the paper where Linnaeus Pauling and colleagues reported using the new technology of electrophoresis in 1946, to show that sickle cell hemoglobin carries more positive charges than the normal version on its surface. Today, electrophoresis is used for so much more across biology and medicine.

Electrophoresis is a laboratory technique used to separate DNA, RNA or protein molecules based on their size and electrical charge. An electric current is used to move the molecules through a gel or other matrix. Pores in the gel or matrix work like a sieve, allowing smaller molecules to move faster than larger molecules. To determine the size of the molecules in a sample, standards of known sizes are separated on the same gel and then compared to the sample. Ochish/sharhlash

2023-01-09 08:57:05 https://zohairansari.com/css-profile-fee-waiver/ Ochish/sharhlash

2023-01-09 08:49:49 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghetto Ochish/sharhlash

2023-01-08 21:36:43 Leave if you believe that you are not easily manipulated. Ochish/sharhlash

2023-01-08 21:34:39 The validity of an idea or action is determined not by whether it is widely believed or widely reviled but by whether it obeys the rules of logic. Socrates described a correct belief held without an awareness of how to respond rationally to objections as true opinion, and contrasted it unfavourably with knowledge, which involved understanding not only why something was true, but also why its alternatives were false.

A correct statement is one incapable of being rationally contradicted. A statement is true if it cannot be disproved. If it can, however many believe it, however grand they may be, it must be false and we are right to doubt it.

It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.

True friends do not evaluate us according to worldly criteria, it is the core self they are interested in; like ideal parents, their love for us remains unaffected by our appearance or position in the social hierarchy, and so we have no qualms in dressing in old clothes and revealing that we have made little money this year. The desire for riches should perhaps not always be understood as a simple hunger for a luxurious life, a more important motive might be the wish to be appreciated and treated nicely. We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.

True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.

Socrates described a correct belief held without an awareness of how to respond rationally to objections as true opinion, and contrasted it unfavourably with knowledge, which involved understanding not only why something was true, but also why its
alternatives were false.

*Few excerpts that we found useful with Azamkhon after reading first 50 pages of the book. Ochish/sharhlash

2023-01-08 18:41:08 Leave if you believe that you are not easily manipulated. Ochish/sharhlash

2023-01-08 08:47:32 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Pentkovski Ochish/sharhlash