Shakespeare once talked to us about the importance of sleep in our brain’s maintenance and health through a Macbeth’s speech: Sleep that knits up the raveled sleeve of care, the death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath, balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, chief nourisher in life’s feast. Shakespeare was an enthusiast of neurology […]
Macbeth lamenting his insomnia and the brain Read More »
It usually happens to me that, when I spend hours trying to understand or solve some problem, at a certain point I start feeling very tired and block, and the more time I spend, the less fluent my thinking is and the most stuck in the problem I am. This has been quite a difficult
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When I’m diving into an application of some knowledge for the first time —say programming a theoretical model seen in a book— I may feel insecure. Maybe I have read a lot about the model and I’ve reached a good level of understanding about it and I’m ready to apply the knowledge. Maybe I have
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Sometimes you have to do something that causes you unease. At that moment, you look around hoping that something more doable pops out so you can draw your attention from the important task. Of course, you always find something “better” to do and quickly switch to this other mundane task that seems more pleasant. This
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