#tao — Public Fediverse posts
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Fun fact:
🇷🇴 Romania’s president, Nicușor Dan, was one of the 11 students to solve the legendary Problem 6 at the 1988 IMO.
He scored a perfect 42/42 that year, alongside future Fields Medalist 🇻🇳 Ngô Bảo Châu. 🇨🇦 Ravi Vakil also solved it.
🇦🇺 Terence Tao, aged just 13, got 1/7 on that problem, aced almost everything else, and still won a gold medal. @tao
In fact, Dan won two consecutive perfect-score gold medals at IMO (1987 & 1988).
#Romania #NicușorDan #TerenceTao #Tao #Dan #IMO #1988IMO #RaviVakil #NgôBảoChâu #GoldMedal #Meritocracy #MathLegend #MathematicianInPolitics
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"The notes themselves—the sound waves, that is—are heard alike by musician and nonmusician and are universally acknowledged to be real in the purely physical sense. But what about the melody itself? Is it something real or does it exist only in the mind or imagination […] The musician does not need to have "faith" that there is a melody, nor does he have to accept the existence of the melody on some scriptural authority; he obviously has a direct experience of the melody itself. And once the melody is heard, it is impossible ever again to doubt it."
(Richard #Smullyan, The #Tao Is Silent) #perception #PhilosophyOfPerception #Music #MusicPerception #Psychophysics -
Anyone remembers being #dumped, and your friends would say, "Well, if it's meant to be, then it's meant to be, and you'll get back together."
I can not stress enough how unhelpful that kind of #mentality is.
Yes, the #world will keep spinning and you'll both keep living your lives. HOWEVER, giving the dumped person hope that some miracle will bring them back together without them intentionally doing anything is... kind of cruel.
You can't just sit there and expect everything to work out exactly how YOU want in YOUR #favor.
If I want to learn french, I can't just stare at my French book. I have to read it, study it, and practice it.
Don't watch your #life pass you by. Even if you wanted to retreat to live in the woods, you're still doing what you want and what you #love. You have to go do it.
Being in #harmony with the #Tao doesn't mean sitting there doing nothing. It means doing what comes naturally for your self.
Reach for your #dreams. Plan for them, and then go do it.
