Why measure by the week and not by the day?
Six levers, measured by the week, not by the day.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine · Parenting Matters: Supporting Parents of Children Ages 0-8
Which matters more to fix: bedtime or waking time?
The screen gets what is left of the budget, not what it asks for.
Organizația Mondială a Sănătății · Guidelines on Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour and Sleep for Children under 5 Years of Age
Which is stronger for a two-year-old: an adult who talks a lot, or an adult who answers what the child initiates?
Not the number of toys, but the number of turns exchanged.
Alison Gopnik, Andrew Meltzoff și Patricia Kuhl · The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind
Why is make-believe play self-control training rather than a break?
Long make-believe play is the gym of self-control.
Elena Bodrova și Deborah Leong · Tools of the Mind: The Vygotskian Approach to Early Childhood Education
What happens if you only start learning to live at fifty?
Living well is a skill practiced for a lifetime, not a gift at birth.
Seneca · Scrisori către Luciliu
Why is it not enough to say the market will self-correct in the long run?
Waiting for long-run equilibrium does not undo the transfers of wealth happening now, in the storm.
John Maynard Keynes · A Tract on Monetary Reform
Through what channel does a bubble's enthusiasm actually spread, if not through statistics?
A bubble spreads through the neighbor's envy, not through numbers: you buy late precisely because others visibly profit.
Charles P. Kindleberger · Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises
Why does a lack of reading fluency block comprehension?
Fluency is not speed, it is the absence of decoding effort.
Daniel T. Willingham · Why Don't Students Like School?
What happens when a truth about life is handed to you pre-chewed?
An idea understood too quickly isn't understood at all, only recognized.
Søren Kierkegaard · Sau-sau
Why does willpower fail when we try to remember, and what succeeds?
The past doesn't answer when summoned: it returns unbidden through a trivial sensation.
Marcel Proust · Du côté de chez Swann
Why does a well-behaved child do risky things at twelve, especially in a group?
Autonomy not practised at eleven is seized by force at fifteen.
Laurence Steinberg · Age of Opportunity: Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence
„He who wants to be praised by everyone will be praised by no one.”
The pressure to win universal approval backfires on the one who exerts it.
Universal praise is impossible, because people hold values and interests that clash. Whoever tries to please everyone must soften his positions and avoid any sharp edge, and the result is a vague character no one can sincerely admire. A politician who shifts his opinion to fit each room loses credibility with both audiences. Admiration comes precisely from firmness, and firmness excludes someone,…
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Maxime și reflecții
Why does it feel revealing when a friend guesses exactly why you postpone a decision?
The real mystery isn't that people are unknowable, but that we understand each other so easily.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Maxime și reflecții
What happens to our knowledge when practical need runs out?
Not curiosity, but usefulness draws the border of what we know.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Maxime și reflecții
Why is it easier to keep your dignity than to regain it?
Dignity is lost in a moment and regained over years.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Maxime și reflecții
Why can long stretches of good days be harder to endure than hardship?
Hardship gives you a purpose; prolonged ease takes it away, leaving aimless restlessness.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Maxime și reflecții
What is the pickup pact and why does it carry no punishment?
A refusal that already exists as a sentence gets used; one invented on the spot does not.
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore · Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain
What is lost first as the world declines: the wonders or the ability to see them?
Miracles never run out; the eye that sees them does.
G. K. Chesterton · Ortodoxia
Why can an educated person live without religion and not feel its absence?
Knowledge and art give the same reverence as religion, but you earn it rather than receive it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Maxime și reflecții
Why does the honest person stay free even when wrongly condemned?
Your conscience is the only judge who witnessed every deed and cannot be bribed.
Boethius · Mângâierile filozofiei