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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all — that is myself.
 
[Ὅ τί ποτε τοῦτό εἰμι, σαρκία ἐστὶ καὶ πνευμάτιον καὶ τὸ ἡγεμονικόν.]

Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 2, ch. 2 (2.2) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/7541…

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ResearchBuzz: Firehose

PsyPost: Lack of TikTok self-control strongly predicts bedtime procrastination. “Is TikTok use affecting young people’s sleep? A recent study published in Acta Psychologica explored this question and uncovered an interesting link between TikTok and bedtime habits. The research showed that when teenagers and young adults experience a sense of failing to control their TikTok use, especially […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/04/psypost-lack-of-tiktok-self-control-strongly-predicts-bedtime-procrastination/

#tiktok#sleephygiene#sleep
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Prentiss Riddle 🎛

Hoping to waste less time and emotional energy on social media, I've removed the social apps from my phone.

Last time I tried that, I just wound up logging into the web versions.

It reminds me so much of one of my favorite Frog and Toad stories, in which they try to stop eating so many cookies by putting them on a high shelf. 🙂

Drawing of anthropomorphized frog and toad in human clothing. One of them is climbing a ladder to place a box on top of a cupboard. Text reads: "Frog got a ladder. He put the box on a high shelf."
#frogAndToad#socialMedia#selfControl
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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Steven Moffat

JEFF: You’re not ready for the Giggle Loop. […] Basically, it’s like a feedback loop. You’re somewhere quiet. There’s people. It’s a — it’s a solemn occasion. A wedding. No — it’s a minute’s silence for someone who’s died. […] Minute’s silence ticking away. Tick. Tick. Tick. The Giggle Loop begins. Suddenly, out of nowhere, this thought comes into your head: the worst thing I could possibly do during a minute’s silence is laugh. (Overturns an empty beer glass) And as soon as you think that, you almost do laugh, automatic reaction. But you don’t, you control yourself. You’re fine. Whoo — but then you think how terrible it would have been if you’d laughed out loud in the middle of a minute’s silence. And so you nearly do it again, only this time it’s a bigger laugh. (Stacks a beer glass on top of the first one) And then you think how awful this bigger laugh would have been. And so you nearly laugh again, only this time it’s a very big laugh. (Stacks another glass) It’s an enormous laugh! Let this bastard out, and you get whiplash! (Stacks another glass) Suddenly, you’re in the middle of this completely silent room (Stacks another glass) and your shoulders are going like you’re drilling the road! And what do you think of this situation? Oh, dear Christ, you think it’s funny!

Steven Moffat (b. 1961) Scottish television writer, producer
Coupling, 01×03 “Sex, Death and Nudity” (2000-05-26)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/moffat-steven/74360/

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Futurist Jim Carroll

Daily Inspiration: "Opinions are like stomach gas. Sometimes you need to keep it to yourself!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

Way back in January 2022, as some series of ongoing madness unfolded around the pandemic, I wrote my "Social Media Serenity Prayer" - "Grant me the maturity to understand the things I should not post, the insight to share the things I should, and the wisdom to quickly know the difference!"

A lot is going on in the world right now, and this might be a good time to once again share this wise counsel. After all, what's the upside in rushing into things, at least in the short term? Volatility will rage for some time, uncertainty will rule, and megaphones will blare.

That's why I wrote this at the time:

"I try to work hard to keep my opinions to myself. As a futurist, I'm on the side of facts, in a world in which for many people, facts don't matter - agendas do."

Borrowing from what I said then, and given what I do (I have a social media presence - Facebook, LinkedIn, Threads, and Instagram) I share insights on trends, innovation, creativity, and things that capture my mind. But at every moment that I consume media, I often feel obliged to post to it. I also know that it's not a good idea to do that if you find yourself bubbling with rage, consumed with incredulity, or struggling with disbelief at what you see. Like many, I often want to lash out, respond, and try to set things straight.

And often, to my credit, I don't.

I've come to the point that I am still learning not to engage, debate, negotiate, or get into a squabble with many of the views that now permeate our online world.

It's a challenging world. Sometimes, we should keep our opinions to ourselves.

Just like stomach gas.

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#SocialMediaWisdom #ThinkBeforeYouPost #StayProfessional #SelfControl #BrandIntegrity #PauseAndReflect #ChooseWisely #StayPositive #MindfulPosting #StayFocused

Original post: jimcarroll.com/2024/11/daily-i

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T. T. Perry

"If a barber or a motor mechanic does shoddy work or behaves badly with his customers, he receives immediate critical feedback which forces him to reevaluate and improve either his work or his behavior if he desires to prosper in his trade. Doctors very rarely receive this kind of feedback from their patients because patients feel it may be dangerous or unwise to criticize a person in whose hands they have placed their health."

The control of the patient through compliance becomes many a physicians principal and relentless preoccupation. Just as “the parent uses the child to cure' himself, demanding that the child control himself because the parent cannot control himself” (Shatzman 1983: 384), many physicians unwittingly use the patient to “cure” themselves of the problem of control. The problem of self-control in the physician and the problem of control in the wider society are inextricably linked. The physician, struggling for self-control, is delegated by society to control the patient in behalf of a society that can scarcely control itself. Such widespread diagnoses as hypertension, diabetes, obesity, bulimia, anorexia nervosa, alcoholism, drug abuse—all problems of control—signify how pervasive is the culturewide problem that medicine is singled out to solve. From within the sacred microcosm of the clinical relationship—officially regulated by confidentiality and patient advocacy—the physician often attempts unconsciously to achieve (tenuous) self-control and to serve as an agent of social control. The patient, who is the official focus of patient care, is in fact often a medium through which the physician and society struggle with the problem of self-control.
#Medicalism#Medicalization#SelfControl
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Sean Murthy

When you let your mind follow the call of the senses, they carry away your better judgement like storms drive a boat off its chartered course on the sea.
- Sri Krishna, 2-67

#Sanskrit:
इंद्रियाणां हि चरतां यन्मनोsनुविधीयते ।
तदस्य हरति प्रङ्ञां वायुर्नावमिवाभंसि ॥

#Kannada script:
ಇಂದ್ರಿಯಾಣಾಂ ಹಿ ಚರತಾಂ ಯನ್ಮನೋsನುವಿಧೀಯತೇ |
ತದಸ್ಯ ಹರತಿ ಪ್ರಙ್ಞಾಂ ವಾಯುರ್ನಾವಮಿವಾಭಂಸಿ ||

#philosophy#easternPhilosophy#judgment
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