I feel the same way regarding online connections. I wouldnât personally outright abandon them, but I believe people should be OK (if not happier) were they to disappear all of a sudden. So I think itâs best practice to try oneâs best at them, but also, at the end-of-the-day, place very little weight on them.
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âWelcome to the Internetâ is baller as heck, yo.
Obviously, we should all strive toward balance, but, hypothetically, if we could choose our affinity for which side of the fence we lean more on, Iâd choose the positive side in a heartbeat. As a whole, we seem to possess a negativity bias.
We had a (ugh) âconsultantâ come by (he wasnât that bad actually), but one thing he said years of K12 research backed was that it takes 4x (QUADRUPLE!) the amount of positive reinforcement / encouragement to get struggling / borderline students over the success hump where it tends to sorta auto-snowball itself from than negative / critical feedback. A ratio of 4:1.
Jesus Christ, I donât know about you guys but getting to the point where I compliment / support ALL of my students at that ratio, AND that it sounds / comes naturally? I mean, I think thatâs just like a complete mindset change for a countless number of people.
Just food for thought.
Been about a month since my last blog post, so I wrote some Surgery Thoughts.
This sounds rough, but I suppose itâs better than the alternative. My wife had to go through a lot of this after being diagnosed at 40.
Iâm sorry your wife went through that, cancer sucks. My mum was a similar age when she was diagnosed, although being 5 at the time I donât remember it very well.
I updated not my main blogâalthough I need to todayâbut my dream journal, if anyoneâs interested in weirdo dreams, lol.
https://keysklubhouse.com/dreams/posts/2024-05-11-The-Museum-Out-Back
Such a vulnerable thing to share dreams! The idea of Ms. Frizzle visiting you in your sleep is so canon-adjacent lol.
I donât care if that museum was a dream, I want it to be real so I can take all the lil trinkets they leave around for anyone to take, including the swords
A short blog post on my observation when it comes to socializing with people and how it affects me
I mean I am fairly careful to remove personal information from my dreams, but I have such weird ones it seems a shame to keep them all to myself, lol!
Oh I know, it was kinda a bummer to wake up from it! I wanted the âstuffâ too, lol.
My Weekly Wrap Up is posted! I talk about my siteâs new section, what Iâm reading, the movie I just watched and share some links of things I either read or watched this past week that I thought were interesting.
My new retirement goal is to become a toy doctor who repairs broken, cherished toys. I talk about that and the Japan Toy Hospital Association in my latest blog post about repairing my tamagotchi.
I do this! my local community shop sells - basically gives away - unwanted things, & I buy up 20 pence nude dolls to wash their hair and make them an outfit before giving them back so theyâre a tad more appealing.
It is so, so satisfying. Mending a tamagotchi sounds amazing!
Thatâs so sweetâIâd love to see any doll transformations if you keep any sort of log. Itâs common for toy hospitals / toy doctors to keep repair logs, and itâs fascinating to read through them. They sometimes talk about a particular challenge they had with fixing the item and how they triumphed in the end. Itâs really lovely.
Had kinda a wild experience about a week ago that I finally remembered to upload.
Years ago, before I lived in my current apartment, I woke up to the apartment block next to mine on fire. By the time I was awake enough to be like âoh no, fireâ, the fire dept. was already putting it out.
Lucky you guys were there! Fire is no joke. 
just a brief post to say i did. I burn the candle at both ends » saturn town
trying to scratch and claw my way back to the things iâd like to be doing.
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