Writing is an invaluable tool for exercising our cognitive faculties. Extensive and diverse research has suggested links between writing and mental capacities in such domains as memory, critical thinking, creativity, verbal skills, and overall health.

How Is Writing Helpful?

Writing can help improve memory by creating deeper connections with the material at the neurological level. Research has shown that writing by hand correlates with a stronger memory than writing with an electronic or mechanical device.In a 2014 study done by scientists Mangen and Verlay, it was demonstrated that the sensory-motor activity of writing by hand relays information back to the brain, which assists in information recall.It may therefore be helpful to incorporate handwriting into tasks in order to improve memory.

Writing And Memory

Writing facilitates a deeper connection with the material being studied. Beyond the typical storage and retrieval of data, critical thinking requires analysis, reflection, creativity, and careful reasoning. Writing can assist with this by helping us review our own thoughts, reflect once again on the material, and repeat what was established before, ingraining the information into our brains even better. Free writing also sparks the curious and thoughtful parts of our brains, exercising our ability to think critically and improving our thinking as a whole.

Writing And Critical Thinking

Research suggests that writing can have an impact on creativity, according to a study comparing expert and non-expert writers.Lotze et al. (2014) found that expert writers showed higher brain activity and performance on creative indices, suggesting a link between writing and creativity. It is unclear if experts become creative through writing or if they write because they are creative, but engaging in creative activities can potentially enhance creativity.Expert writers show higher brain activity and performance on creative indices.Unclear if writing leads to creativity or vice versa.

Writing And Creativity

Writing expands our vocabulary . When we are challenged to express ideas more clearly or creatively, we push beyond the boundaries of our original vocabulary and explore new ways of communicating .One study (Wolsey, 2010) suggests that when we are challenged to write about complex topics , our vocabulary and manner of expression improve, leading to a growth in our verbal skills. These insights support the idea that through writing, we can expand our vocabulary and become stronger communicators.

Writing And Verbal Skills

Research has shown that writing can have a positive impact on health, reducing stress and aiding in coping with trauma.
Expressive writing or journaling has been recommended as a way to work through complex thoughts and improve mood, providing relief from anxiety and physical symptoms.
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<li>Expressive writing or journaling can improve mood and reduce anxiety.</li>
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Love the life you have while you create the life of your dreams. Don't think you have to wait for the latter to start doing the former.

Where you are is a result of who you were, but where you go depends entirely on who you choose to be.

Give up the need to be perfect for the opportunity to be authentic. Be who you are. Love who you are. Others will too.

Replace your judgements with empathy, upgrade your complaining to gratitude, and trade in your fear for love.

Be grateful for all that you have, accept all that you don't, and actively create all that you want.

Life isn't about wishing you were somewhere or someone that you're not. Life is about enjoying where you are, loving who you are, and consistently improving both.

They say misery loves company, but so does mediocrity. Don't let the limiting beliefs of OTHERS limit what's possible for YOU.

Don't worry about trying to impress people. Just focus on how you can add value to their lives.

The moment you accept responsibility for EVERYTHING in your life is the moment you tap into your power to change ANYTHING in your life.

Every single one of us already has everything we need to be the happiest we could ever be; it's simply up to us to remember that in every moment.

There is nothing to fear, because you cannot fail. Only LEARN, GROW, and become BETTER than you've ever been before.

Know that wherever you are in your life right now is both temporary and exactly where you're supposed to be. You have arrived at this moment to learn what you must learn so that you can become the person you need to be to create everything you've ever wanted for your life

Even when life is difficult or challenging-especially when life is difficult and challenging-the present is always an opportunity for us to learn, grow, and become better than we've ever been before.

Who you're becoming is far more important than what you're doing. And yet, it is what you're doing that is determining who you're becoming.

Your entire life changes the day that you decide you will no longer accept mediocrity for yourself. When you decide that today is the most important day of your life, and that now matters more than any other time because it's who you're becoming each day based on the choices you're making and the actions you're taking, that is determining who you are going to be for the rest of your life.

The average person lets their emotions dictate their actions, while achievers let their commitments dictate their actions.

Make bold moves toward your dreams each day, refuse to stop, and nothing can stop you.

Here are some thought-provoking quotes from this amazing book!

"Hal Elrod is a genius and his book The Miracle Morning has been magical in my life. What Hal has done is taken the best practices, developed over centuries of human consciousness development, and condensed the 'best of the best' into a daily morning ritual. A ritual that is now part of my day." -Robert Kiyosaki, bestselling author of Rich Dad Poor Dad What's being widely regarded as "one of the most life changing books ever written" may be the simplest approach to achieving everything you've ever wanted, and faster than you ever thought possible. What if you could wake up tomorrow and any-or EVERY-area of your life was beginning to transform? What would you change? The Miracle Morning is already transforming the lives of tens of thousands of people around the world by showing them how to wake up each day with more ENERGY, MOTIVATION, and FOCUS to take your life to the next level. It's been right here in front of us all along, but this book has finally brought it to life. Are you ready? The next chapter of YOUR life-the most extraordinary life you've ever imagined-is about to begin. Buy the book and WAKE UP to your full potential!

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Hal Elrod is on a mission to elevate the consciousness of humanity, one reader at a time. As the author of the international bestseller The Miracle Morning, as well as his newest book, The Miracle Equation, he is doing exactly that. After overcoming multiple near-death experiences and impacting millions of lives, he has dedicated his own life to showing others how to overcome their challenges so that they can fulfill the unlimited potential that is within each of us.

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Smart kids often find themselves walking down a solitary path, their intellectual acumen sometimes creating a barrier to social connections. In this post we will unravel the complexities behind the solitude that often accompanies exceptional intelligence.

Why are Smart Kids Lonely?

Despite the fact that smart kids are incredibly apt at solving problems, they tend to find themselves stuck and lonely.To understand this better, we have to start by looking at how identity develops, which means going back to ages 5 or 6.

Understanding The Root Of The Problem

When we are young kids, we tend to look at the world in a one-dimensional way. So if I'm a kid, I would say: I like trucks or I like Spider-Man. And if you're a one-dimensional kid, you develop a one-dimensional identity. 🤔 Think back to your own school days. What were people known for? There were jocks, nerds, the cool kids, teacher's pets, etc. The sense of identity is very one-dimensional. And what happens is that some of us will adopt the mantle of the smart kid. People will constantly say "You're so smart" and you start to develop the identity of a smart kid.

One-Dimensional Identities

When people tell you that you're smart, they aren't actually referring to your IQ or anything like that. What people actually equate with smartness is effortless success. When all the other kids are sweating and trying hard, you're waltzing through the work, and it's easy for you, because you're smart. When other people have to study for tests, you don't have to, because you're smart. You don't have to work hard for the success to come.

What Does It Mean To Be Smart?

If kids get the idea that intelligence = effortless success, then that results in a narrowing of possibilities and identities. This is because the smart kid now feels that they can't do something that requires effort. If they do something that requires effort, that makes them feel dumb because it isn't effortless success. Smart kids get to a point where they can't waltz in and easily get top of the class. Then that messes with their sense of identity. "If I struggle with this, does that mean I'm not smart?".

How does this affect kids?

Doing things that are hard feel like a threat to their identities. So they stop doing things that require effort. And while this impresses people when they're young, when they start to grow up, they move away from other activities. This leads to the kid not wanting to try new things, and not really expanding beyond being the "smart kid". Their life gets narrowed down to that one piece of themselves that says "I'm smart enough, right?".

Narrowing down the identity

As a smart kid, it feels like you're sometimes stuck. You're not able to do things other kids can because they aren't burdened with being the smart kid. The other kids are allowed to practice, do poorly, and improve. But for a smart kid, that isn't an option. Effortless success, remember? As you get older, your raw intelligence can't take you much further. You'll start doing more difficult tasks that require more effort, and that's threatening to your identity.

Getting Stuck

As people grow up, their identities grow with them. They begin to have multi-dimensional identities, where they excel in many different things. For example, someone could say: "I'm a basketball player, and I love to play Roblox with my friends after school. I'm 5'11" and I go to church on Sundays." This could be a normal person who is satisfied with themselves. On the other hand, a smart kid isn't able to have a multi-dimensional identity. They don't explore other activities and, therefore, end up with a perpetual one-dimensional identity. That "I'm smart" is the only thing they have left.

Multi-Dimensional Identities

If you aren't multi-dimensional, and just smart, then you end up not putting yourself in places that threaten your one-dimensional identity. So that means not doing things that really challenge you. This results in a loss of hobbies, exposures, and eventually leads to social isolation. What happens is that you end up not taking opportunities to socialize. For example, let's say you chose to not join the soccer team, become an athlete, join a club. As a smart kid, you choose to not do these social activities and that leads to social isolation and lack of social confidence.

How Does This Connect To Social Isolation?

As smart kids lose their opportunities to socialize, it becomes a problem. The smart kid sees this problem as something to be solved with their intelligence. Meanwhile, their empathic circuits in their brain are getting rusty and shutting down. The smart kid ends up leaning more and more into their intelligence and using it as a substitute for emotional interactions.

Cognitive Empathy

Smart kids end up running hundreds of calculations for social interactions. They use their intelligence to compensate for lack of empathy. The problem is that using your intelligence like this is extremely energy-intensive. It's also not very sustainable. Social activity now feels like a chore, something that is cognitively exhausting. In some cases, the smart kid may diagnose themselves as an introvert because they feel that social activity is draining. The difference here is that it is cognitively draining. You are constantly running your brain on overtime while engaging with people.

Cognitive Empathy is Not Sustainable

As the smart kid's social skills start to degrade, they become increasingly lonely. Then their intelligence, ego, and identity step in, and the kid develops defensive arrogance. As the kid gets lonelier, they believe that they are just a "quiet genius" and cannot interact with normal humans. They believe that they're so smart that they can't interact with anyone else because everyone else is "dumb." So, the smart kid feels very reluctant to engage and connect with others. This defensive arrogance also comes with a corresponding low self-esteem.

Defensive Arrogance

As the smart kid progressively uses logic to try to "puff themselves up", they neglect their emotional side more and more.How can we fix this?1. Get rid of the 'smart kid' title.2. Catch the smart kid ego in the act and suppress it.3. Feel okay with taking time to learn new things, and feel okay with not always feeling like you're super smart and know everything.4. Work on your emotions - Interact with people to feel less lonely (Start small by giving people hugs whenever you can.

What Can We Do About It?

Smart kids may adapt to problems by using their intelligence, but that's not reliable. Instead, they should interact with others simply starting with touch. Human contact is a great way to develop empathy and other emotional parts of yourself.

Conclusion

This video provides a deep dive into how being labeled the "smart kid" might actually make you lonely and hold you back from your full potential.

🧠 Smart kids often find themselves walking a solitary path, their intellectual acumen sometimes creating a barrier to social connections. In this episode, we unravel the complexities behind the solitude that often accompanies exceptional intelligence. 

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From heightened expectations to struggling to find like-minded peers, we explore the myriad reasons contributing to this sense of isolation. Moreover, we delve into the emotional toll it takes, revealing the challenges these bright minds face in forging meaningful connections.

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00:00 - Introduction
03:16 - Effortless success
06:02 - Social Isolation
08:53 - Defensive arrogance
11:18 - IQ vs EQ
14:27 - What can we do about it?
20:51 - Conclusion

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🧠 Smart kids often end up lonely due to their one-dimensional identity as being smart.

🧠 The perception of being smart can lead to a narrowing of possibilities and a narrowing of identity, resulting in social isolation.

 🧠 Smart kids who lack social engagement may rely on their intelligence to solve social problems, leading to cognitive exhaustion and social isolation.

🧠 Loneliness and defensive arrogance can lead to low self-esteem, and using intelligence to boost ego is not effective.

💡 People with high IQ often rely on their intelligence to solve external problems, but struggle with emotional healing and self-esteem.

🤔 The core problem for smart kids is that they base their identity on things outside of their control, leading to a fear of failure and a reluctance to try their best.

👥 Engaging in human touch and taking small steps is important for personal growth and overcoming loneliness.

Hugging people leads to a release of oxytocin and facilitates bonding, but not everyone may want a hug.

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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing it's best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Everybody is a genius...but if you judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree, it will live it's whole life believing that it is stupid.

Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Hold fast to dreamsFor if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged birdThat cannot fly.Hold fast to dreamsFor when dreams goLife is a barren fieldFrozen with snow.

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Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Don't count the days, make the days count.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Don't wait for opportunity, create it.

Either run the day, or the day runs you.

When you feel like quitting, remember why you started.

Great things never come from comfort zones.

The real risk is doing nothing.

Success is walking from failure to failure.

Action is the foundational key to success.

In the end we only regret the chances we didn't take.

Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency.

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

80% of success is showing up.

Eager to build a successful business? Here are the quotes of those who have made it, and the DNA and definition of what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur. Bookmark them, screen shot them and use them to fuel your own journey.

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How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness:only light can do that. Hate cannotdrive out hate: only love can do that.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

The love we give away is the love we keep.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt within the heart.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

Quotes about love ❤️

First, let's give a quick intro to Philosophical QuestionsA philosophical question often doesn’t have a clear, straightforward answer. They are questions that usually require deep thought and sometimes don’t have answers.Philosophical questions typically involve human nature, the origins of the universe, morality, ethics, and the afterlife.

What is a Philosophical Question?

Philosophy can be fun! If you think philosophy is all heavily intellectual, overwhelming, abstract, or existential-crisis-inducing, take a moment to ponder if a hot dog is a taco. <ol><li>Are you currently dreaming, and how do you know? </li><li>Do memories exist even if you forget them? </li><li>Does grass feel pain when you step on it? </li><li>Can trees feel pain? </li><li>Does 1+1 always equal 2? </li><li>Would it be ethical, unethical, or neutral if time travel were possible? </li><li>If time travel were possible, would it be wrong to change history? </li><li>What is the purpose of humor? </li><li>Why are jokes funny?</li></ol>

Fun Philosophical Questions

10. If one person doesn’t find a joke funny, does it mean they have a lousy sense of humor, or is the joke flawed? 11. Are humans responsible in any way for caring for wild animals? 12. Can inanimate objects be either bad or good? 13. Does morality bind animals? 14. Is water wet? 15. Are hot dogs tacos? 16. Is it wrong to visit a zoo, thereby financially supporting an establishment that isn’t ideal for the animals? 17. Is it wrong to purchase fast fashion, rapidly produced clothing that uses manufacturing methods that negatively impact the environment and exploit workers?

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18. In a fictional world, could you have a five-sided square? 19. How do we know what words mean? 20. Why do some people feel scared while watching a horror movie even though they know it is not real? 21. What would you say if you had five minutes to defend the human race in front of a group of aliens who were going to obliterate humanity? 22. Are there any physiological changes you would make for humans to make us a better species? 23. Should the legal age for alcohol consumption be different than it is?

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24. If your life expectancy suddenly increased to 500 years, would you live differently than you currently are? What about if your life expectancy decreased and you only had five more years to live? 25. If immortality were possible, would you want to be immortal?

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Philosophy has implications for daily life. Pick a handful of these 255 questions as a starting point for thinking critically.

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You can't go back and change the beginning. But you can start where you are and change the ending.

It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop.

By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.

Keep your face towards the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide to not be reduced by them.

Success is falling nine times and getting up 10.

Inspirational quotes about life✨

In life, we all have different ways of thinking about ourselves and our abilities. Did you know there are 2 main types of mindsets?<ul><li>Growth Mindset: Believing that with effort and hard work, you can achieve anything.</li><li>Fixed Mindset: Believing that you are inherently bad at something and will never be able to do it.</li></ul>It's important to have a growth mindset because it helps us develop and improve, while a fixed mindset can hold us back from reaching our full potential.

Understanding Mindsets

Fixed mindsets can hinder growth and limit potential. It's important to recognize these common thoughts and behaviors so you can break free from them:<ul><li>Fear of embarrassment: Making mistakes is seen as a source of shame</li><li>Avoiding challenges: Stepping out of one's comfort zone is seen as unnecessary because it may result in failure</li><li>Viewing failure negatively: Failure is seen as a sign of inadequacy, and giving up seems like the only solution</li><li>Lack of confidence: Believing I can't do it before even trying</li><li>Instant gratification: Expecting immediate improvement and criticizing oneself if it doesn't happen</li></ul>

Fixed Mindsets

A growth mindset is better than a fixed one. Here are some key ideas to remember!<ul><li>Mistakes help you learn.</li><li>Trying new and challenging things leads to growth, even if there are failures.</li><li>When you fail or get frustrated, you can try again using what you've learned.</li><li>It's okay to ask for help and keep trying until you understand.</li><li>Improvement takes time and you should celebrate even small wins!</li></ul>

Growth Mindsets

When you're in a growth mindset, what that means is that you choose to see the struggle and challenge as an opportunity for growth and for learning and development

Individuals who believe their talents can be developed (through hard work, good strategies, and input from others) have a growth mindset. They tend to achieve more than those with a more fixed mindset (those who believe their talents are innate gifts).

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Did you know that natural honey never spoils? It's true! Even after 3000 years, honey is still edible.<ul><li>Archaeologists discovered honey pots in ancient tombs in Egypt over 3000 years ago</li></ul>It's safe to store and eat honey for a long time, thanks to its unique composition and low water content.

Natural Miracle: The Everlasting Honey

- Contrary to popular belief, the Mona Lisa was not made without eyebrows 🎨- Da Vinci initially gave her eyebrows, but they disappeared over time and cleaning 🧐- The painting's fame has sparked numerous theories and debates about her missing features 🤔

The Mystery of Mona Lisa's Eyebrows 😲

Did you know? The fruit, "orange," was named before the color, "orange."It wasn't until two centuries later that people started using the word orange to describe the color as well.Previously, it was called "yellow-red" before the citrus fruit's name was adopted as the general color name.

The History of "Orange"

Walking in a Straight Line

- Did you know humans can't walk in a straight line without a visual point? 🧐
- Blindfolded, we gradually walk in a circle. 🔁
- Our brain needs a reference point to keep us on track. 🧠
 Why Can't We Walk Straight?
 It's all in our minds! 😵🔝

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