Journal

3 entries for Saturday, November 23, 2024

[Bring some cookies to your neighbour for no reason other than they might need to smile today.]

[I didn’t give her a tip or make her famous, just told her I loved her voice.]

[The point of leaving the flock to go after the lost sheep isn’t to bring them back, but to let them know they’re loved.]

Part of Carlos Whittaker: How to Human.

learn to teach so others can learn

254: Language Transfer with Mihalis Eleftheriou

[We tend to teach by showing but that’s not always what’s most effective; dogs and cats do that too. Sometimes it’s better to explain with words what is helpful for the learner.]

[We’re already translating thoughts into language.]

[Xenophobia that occurs naturally as a brain resonse needs help and solutions more than ostracizing, and learning the foreign language can be super helpful there.]