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A comment on Google’s former happiness guru's three-second brain exercise for finding joy. Parent comment

Re:Google’s former happiness guru's three-second brain exerc... by adolph on Thursday October 27, 2016 @11:09AM (#12805715)
I too found the anecdotes rambling and in the way. On the other hand, some folks may find the stories to be parables or mind palaces [1] that enhance retention of key points. YMMV

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci

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Re:Google’s former happiness guru's three-second brain exerc... by petra on Thursday October 27, 2016 @02:34PM (#12807973)
Active learning is usually more effective than passive learning , so reading a shorter focused book while building memory palaces should be more efective .
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