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I have an assignment to write down three new things I've learned every day. I might as well include them here.
1. John Green did a video about a charity called 'Partners In Health' (IIRC) and visited *the* mental health hospital in Sierra Leone. There is only one. They're very proud that in the last few years they've stopped chaining their patients to beds. This is a result of getting something they didn't have before when they were chaining patients to beds- namely, any medications at all. Also, electricity and running water. Jesus.
2. Apparently, Sierra Leone is a country. I thought it was a city. It has 7 million people (NYC is 8.5 million, for comparison).
3. John's wife Sarah Urist Green) has an art history YouTube video channel. She did one about a nun named Sister Corita Kent (1918-1986). Among other things, she came up with the idea of "plork", where making art (or doing anything) should be a combination of play and work. She said that plork is "the one responsible act necessary for human advancement" and represents the "ecstasy we feel when work and play are one". It sounds like she is describing what I'd call "flow".
1. John Green did a video about a charity called 'Partners In Health' (IIRC) and visited *the* mental health hospital in Sierra Leone. There is only one. They're very proud that in the last few years they've stopped chaining their patients to beds. This is a result of getting something they didn't have before when they were chaining patients to beds- namely, any medications at all. Also, electricity and running water. Jesus.
2. Apparently, Sierra Leone is a country. I thought it was a city. It has 7 million people (NYC is 8.5 million, for comparison).
3. John's wife Sarah Urist Green) has an art history YouTube video channel. She did one about a nun named Sister Corita Kent (1918-1986). Among other things, she came up with the idea of "plork", where making art (or doing anything) should be a combination of play and work. She said that plork is "the one responsible act necessary for human advancement" and represents the "ecstasy we feel when work and play are one". It sounds like she is describing what I'd call "flow".
