
đ Bookshelf designs as unique as you are: Part 2 â “Stuffing all your favorite novels into a single space without damaging any of them, and making sure the whole affair looks presentable as well? Now, thatâs a tough task. So, weâve rounded up some super cool, functional and not to mention aesthetically pleasing bookshelf designs for you to store your paperback companions in!”
đą How to overcome Phone Addiction [Solutions + Research] â “Phone addiction goes hand in hand with anxiety and that anxiety often lowers the motivation to engage with people in real life. This is a huge problem because re-connecting with people in the offline world is a solution that improves the quality of life. The unnecessary drop in motivation because of addiction makes it that much harder to maintain social health.”
âď¸ From Tech Critique to Ways of Living â “This technological enframing of human life, says Heidegger, first âendanger[s] man in his relationship to himself and to everything that isâ and then, beyond that, âbanishesâ us from our home. And that is a great, great peril.”
đ¨ Finding time for creativity will give you respite from worries â “According to one study examining the links between art and health, a cost-benefit analysis showed a 37% drop in GP consultation rates and a 27% reduction in hospital admissions when patients were involved in creative pursuits. Other studies have found similar results. For example, when people were asked to write about a trauma for 15 minutes a day, it resulted in fewer subsequent visits to the doctor, compared to a control group.”
đ§âđ¤âđ§ For psychologists, the pandemic has shown peopleâs capacity for cooperation â “In short, what we have seen is a psychology of collective resilience supplanting a psychology of individual frailty. Such a shift has profound implications for the relationship between the citizen and the state. For the role of the state becomes less a matter of substituting for the deficiencies of the individual and more to do with scaffolding and supporting communal self-organisation.”
Quotation-as-title by Cyril Connolly. Image from top-linked post.