Learning new things, at any age, is crucial to our growth as human beings and as citizens of any democracy:
Let’s redefine Adulting to include learning for life, for citizenship, and for democracy!
Action Items:
1.) Find three different sources describing the ways our brain can grow (four, if you use the source cited in today’s lesson plan…),
2.) Share your findings with us, and
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Very informative post 👍
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Thank you for stopping by! It’s nice to see complimentary posts dealing with similar topics on our blogs!
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Yes, absolutely. Thanks also for visiting my blog too.
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My pleasure.
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Without continuing to learn, we’d really just be stagnating.
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Thank you, Ashley! Excellent point for both mental health and for all other sorts of health, as well.
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Excelente post. Mis mejores deseos feliz navidad. Con cariño Carmen
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Gracias, Carmen!
También tienes los mios y un abrazo fuerte (de sana distancia, por supuesto!) con mucho cariño!
Shira
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:):)
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🙂
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Time Banks is such a fascinating concept.
Love,
D
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It is, and they work quite well when the Time Bank has plenty of volunteers to rotate as Time Broker, and a good variety of skill sets under both Wants and Offers.
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It reminds me of Torah dollars or Mitzvah dollars common in most Jewish school, redeemable in many kosher stores. It’s a great system.
Big air hugs,
D
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Well, it can be made to work that way, but it’s not quite the same thing. Edgar Kahn thought of the initial idea while in the hospital after a heart attack, and that idea still works best, I think: inter-generational mutual aid among many parties, but the reason that Time Dollars are not taxable is that the value is never tied to the market value of an item or service (which is what makes Time Banking less flexible, but a good first step on the way to scrip currencies, like Ithaca Hours, or Potomacs…).
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I can see that, but the idea is the same, i.e. local currency in exchange for something of value, be it product, service, or time.
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Close enough. Layla tov,
Safe Air Hugs
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Layla Tov, darling.
Big air hugs,
D
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Have an easy fast, if you are fasting (and a meaningful one, in any case).
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Shavuah Tov! I had a meaningful fast, darling, but easy it wasn’t. I survived. Did you know that it’s the only fast that occurs Erev Shabat?
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Shavuah Tov, Dolly: glad your fast was meaningful, at least. No, I did not know that.
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The fast is to commemorate the beginning of the first siege and the subsequent destruction of the first Beit haMikdash and the Babylonian exile. Historically, it was the only siege that completely sealed the city, much like the Covid lockdown. The Talmud explains that it was a warning for people to stop their squabbling and learn to live peacefully in isolation. They didn’t heed the warning; the squabbling grew into hatred between different fractions, and the second Beit haMikdash was destroyed because of Sinat Hinum. The Erev Shabbat fast is to remind us of that, and to give us hope, because it ends before Shabbat.
Much love,
D
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But it has to end before Shabbat: no fasting is allowed then.
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It ends 10 minutes before Shabbat; to give hope of the Geulah.
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And boy, do we need hope out here!
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We surely do!
Big air hugs,
D
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I think that looking at the wider context can help us to have that hope needed to come up out of our narrow places. That movement, as you know, requires learning, and it requires the imagination to believe that this hope of making a world possible where it will be better for all of us actually has meaning: in other words, that it is even in fact safe to hope at all. Only then do some of us rise up from those dark narrow places, facing the rising sun of a new day begun, for meaningfulness, and then perhaps, for contentment.
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I agree.
Much love,
D
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I think we need to clarify if you are talking about the physical brain or the mental mind here.
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Thank you for this interesting question!
Both, actually.
New neural pathways are laid down as one practices learning or doing new things, thus growing the brain, physically (not in mass or weight, perhaps: I’ve not dug that much on the neural research), but the brain does actually ‘grow’ physically as well.
But,
I personally mean that our minds grow, or our ways of seeing the world, and our perspectives, as well as our abilities to solve problems, see other perspectives, feel for other people, etc.
Warmest regards,
Shira
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Thanks for clarifying the physical aspect of mind growth.
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My pleasure, Sir, and thank you for visiting and commenting!
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