#brainpickings — Public Fediverse posts

> The common assumptions that, if the [person] only thinks, one thought is just as good for his mental discipline as another, and that the end of study is the amassing of information, both tend to foster superficial, at the expense of significant, thought...

> The best mental habit involves a balance between paucity and redundancy of suggestions.

https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/08/18/how-we-think-john-dewey/

#JohnDewey #MariaPopova #TheMarginalian #BrainPickings
#SignificantThought #SuperficialThought

@mariapopova
I ❤️ #BrainPickings and missed it and was delighted to find you here! Maria, thank you for your ongoing labor of love. I always enjoy your writing, densely informative yet conversational, and I always learn some gem worth sharing with others. It’s like having a super smart friend introduce me to her even smarter friends. I’m now happily supporting #TheMarginalian like I once subscribed to Brain Pickings. Thanks again for feeding my mind with fact and inspiration.

All is well in the world - the amazing Maria Popova has joined us here. @mariapopova She was one of the first people I followed on the bird site when I joined a very long time ago. She is an amazing writer and collector of ideas and knowledge - her #Brainpickings are a delight to read ..now renamed #Marginalian her website and newsletters are full of fascinating pieces of writing on everything you can imagine from #art #music #science #poetry #nature #literature #letters #love #grief #friendship #inventions and much more... as this place has grown so much and it's very mycelial in nature..thought you might appreciate this recent post of hers about #soundwaves and #mushrooms 🍄😃 https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/11/13/mushrooms-sound-waves/