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damn, i was just sniffing something wrong. for over a month now, i have been literally bombarded with this ad. like how? if you need money, how can you afford advertising so hard-core? i just googled it, and - here we go. the girl is from israel... and they already have all the needed money gathered. thus reports this post in reddit. i don't see any reason for this post making up the words, as it criticizes campaign from a totally different angle than what i am seeing it as. pay attention, the girl is from israel... imagine if you are bombing innocent people and committing genocide, what would you expect in this age? of course, humanitarian organizations setting off campaigns that will in the end expose your crimes. so what would you do? clutter the youtube recommendation with your ads. even if you don't get the money you put in - your money is 'worth'. what evil geniuses, and how stupid are we - unable to stand for justice, unfit to take the responsibility of being a human.

this understanding of creativity from the angle of the mind was very insightful. for me, it explained many mysteries, particulalry of students' understanding of concepts. have you ever observed - the creative students, those stand-outs, are always faster, better at understanding complex concepts? why is it? because understanding is all about coming up with a personal theory for the data at hand. the better you are at coming up with theories or ideas, the better you are at understanding. so, by definition creative people are better at understanding complex concepts. what's more, have you also observed that students with excessively punitive upbringing struggle with understanding, although they try really hard as opposed to those creative brads playing around? why? i think, it probably is because of the overly applied punishments. how? overly punished children inevitably learn to almost never turn off their judging self, lest they get one more hit for not "controlling themselves". so, pay attention - it is about not turning off the judging self, which says they are not using their creative capacities - which further means they are struggling with understanding. so cool! for me, this line of reasoning is just so amazing, but i do accept that it may be totally wrong. the longer the thought , the more fallible it is. however, if you look at implications you just want it to be true!

build a parallel world and start from the bottom. once you have the foundation, you can shake up the pyramid!

most importantly, the discussion tapped hard on my thoughts about culture. i have been long thinking about different aspects of culture and its importance. my current curiosity is about building it. how do you effectively build a new one? what are the points you need to pay attention to? the only thing i know for now is to build a new one you need copy the existing one and change some value of it leveraging others

the last Sunday, I had an important discussion with my friend "from Finland". the topic - EYUF, whether it will be able to change the status quo in Uzbekistan. my view - EYUFers, once back, will be unable to make the change. unless - they will build a parallel culture*. if they will go back home and be left individually alone, most of them will fit back into the usual "Uzbek" way of doing the things. once they are inside the corrupted culture, there is no way back. they will just have some more skills that helps the despots gain more power and make our society even more unequal. that's why EYUFers need to have a separate, parallel society that will build a different set of values, norms, and lines of intolerance. but I don't know whether they have one or have a plan to build one. * "culture" meant as a specific set of shared habits and values

no, it is not my best...

seemingly strange behaviours are just the tip of the iceberg. so many times we simply fail to understand this phenomenon in others and, surprisingly, in ourselves as well.

my tip, for nowadays, is being to repeatedly listen to "Qizalog'im" by Shahzodabonu. can you relate to what i am saying? what is the tip of your iceberg?

here it is! the answer to the question left in a corner of my mind: does discipline kill creativity? looks like, creativity is about turning off the part of the brain responsible for judgement. so, discipline does not necessarily kill creativity, rather it may substantially help create more, but discipline inevitably involves judging - e.g. is it in line with my plans or not? - which is the point that makes discipline strangely unattractive to creativity. damn, so pleasing is it to see how understanding inner mechanisms of a phenomenon helps answer such seemingly unyielding questions.

creativity is about the judgemental self shutting off https://youtu.be/MkRJG510CKo