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Why fear

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Fear makes you click. But does it end with clicking and reading? Found this gem on the Reader today:

French surgeon and neurobiologist, Henri Laborit (1914-1995) drew a clear connection between learning and emotion, showing that without the latter the former was impossible. The stronger the emotion, the more clearly an experience is learned.

Nescafé Japan and Imprint Theory

Triggered productive emotions also help you learn the wrong things because learning is associated with emotion. Previously wrote about this in 2018.

How to turn off notifications for likes

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I pushed myself to blog more and the blog started getting likes. I really enjoy receiving these. I hit a bug of a kind, though. There is a way to violently like someone’s site. I’ve not figured out where it stands in the netiquette. Getting one or 5 likes feels great but getting 20 feels like an alien invasion.

So, about a week ago I went to https://wordpress.com/me/notifications and did this to myself:

After 3-4 very quiet days, I went back and turned them on, except for the likes on comments.

Not sure what to do, will leave the decision for some other moment.

Happy Baba Marta!

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We celebrate the 1st of March in Bulgaria and give away wristbands called Martenitsa. Then we wear the received Martenitsa until the storks arrive or the trees blossom. Once that happens, we can put the Martenitsa on a branch or under a stone.

We won’t let ourselves be set back by some already blossoming branches. We’ll wait for the storks this year.