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Languages

Written text is read left to right or right to left or top to bottom. Why aren't there languages which read bottom to top? 

Attention

The transition from childhood to adulthood is about becoming attention-giving from attention-seeking. Most people don't grow up. 

20 Trends To Observe In 2020

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2019 is coming to an end and continuing my quest to better understand human behavior, I wrote down the twenty trends I have been noticing for a few years. It would be interesting to observe these trends in 2020 to see how they evolve and if they achieve wider adoption. There are multiple reasons why these trends have emerged but in this article we will only look at what the trends are. Unless specified, the trends are for the US.  Source: Wikipedia  Here they are:  1. Phone calls on decline: Millenials and post-millenials do not talk on the phone much. They prefer text or image based messages (SMS, Facebook Messenger, SnapChat, Instagram, etc.) to phone calls and when they do synchronous communication, they prefer FaceTime or other video calls to phone calls. People use different platforms to communicate with different people. Because of the text heavy communication, verbal language is changing. For example, in English, people say OMG inste...

Mind As A Container

The mind is a container that does not like to be empty.