Feb 6, 2023: Why Do People Learn Less as They Get Older?
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How's everything going? This is Kei and Kazuki, founders of Glasp 👋
We hand-picked 3 good articles for you to highlight this week. Hope they'll help you get new ideas and perspectives. (You can read this online!)
📚 3 Good Articles for You
Why Do People (Usually) Learn Less as They Get Older? by Scott H Young (4 min) People tend to learn less as they get older due to opportunity costs, lack of time, and the belief that older minds can't learn as well. However, this decline in learning can be minimized with the right attitude. To make learning easier, reduce the effort, carry a book with you, set aside time for experiments, and focus on skills that rely on accumulated knowledge. With the right attitude, you can still learn new things as you get older. 🔗 Glasp Community Highlights
How To Practice Self-Compassion And Build A Stable Sense Of Confidence by Cassie Shortsleeve (5 min) Experts are challenging the idea that increasing self-esteem is the best way to become more confident. Instead, they suggest self-compassion, which involves showing yourself kindness and understanding during difficult times. Self-compassion is about accepting yourself, not measuring up to expectations, and taking active steps to change. 🔗 Glasp Community Highlights
Unbundling Tools for Thought by Fernando Borretti (13 min) Tools for thought promise to let you centralize and hyperlink all your data, but in practice 95% of the use cases can be naturally unbundled into disjoint apps. Building a vast, interlinked knowledge graph is a recipe for burnout and the payoff is uncertain. It is a waste of time to organize things too much. 🔗 Glasp Community Highlights
📣 Community
🟩 Ask Digital Me: We updated "Ask Digital Me" feature! With your highlights, Glasp creates your digital twin, and you can ask any questions. And you can ask any questions to your digital you or others' digital twins. Please see an update here 👀
🟥 Community Meetup: We'll have a monthly community meetup at 11am on Feb 10th (PST). We're looking forward to seeing you all! Please feel free to jump in and out. You can register for the event from here 🤝
🟦 Read5for5: We're going to have the Read5for5 challenge in the week of February 13th! We will share the details this weekend. Let's read good articles and connect with like-minded people 🤝
❤️ Gratitude
We found some people who mentioned Glasp in their articles and blogs, and we appreciate all the kindness!
Thank you for taking the time and chatting with us, Ichi, Maarten, Yuki, r0ze, PON fedlic, and Dalia! Your feedback helps us improve our product💡
Thank you all for sharing and mentioning us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and/or in your blogs 🙂 We appreciate all of your support! Please feel free to ask us anything at any time! Also, feel free to join our Slack community ;)
Hope you enjoyed reading this newsletter! See you next week ;)
Best, Kei and Kazuki
-- Quote of The Day: "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." — Anne Frank
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