Trafficked, 2020 In Pictures, and Morality | Feeding Frenzy 49
Feeding Frenzy is a weekly post that is a collection of knowledge to absorb. Every week you can expect something worth listening to, reading, watching, and pondering. Think of this as a boost of the signal above the noise!
On this edition, we have a podcast with Mariana van Zeller a journalist and correspondent for National Geographic. Worth reading we have an article on Cancel Culture. An article from Whoop with a story from a doctor's heart rate while saving a life. Worth thinking about we have a quote from Aldous Huxley. And as always, a few other ideas for you to absorb!
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Worth Listening
Mariana van Zeller | JRE
Mariana van Zeller is a Peabody Award-winning Portuguese journalist and correspondent for National Geographic Channel. In this conversation, they spend much of the time talking about her work with the National Geographic TV show Trafficked (Amazon). The show explores the underworld from scams to drugs and how complicated it is for regular people to take these kinds of jobs. It's easy to understand what they do is wrong and even evil from a moral standpoint, but many are forced into these situations because they have no choice left open. If your survival was at stake, what would you turn to?
Worth Reading
The Long and Tortured History of Cancel Culture | New York Times Style Magazine
"It's instructive that, for all the fear that cancel culture elicits, it hasn't succeeded in toppling any major figures — high-level politicians, corporate titans — let alone institutions."
At first, the author's tone confused me, as I thought he was defending cancel culture because it was a trivial matter with too much focus being put on it. If that was the author's intent, then I do agree with it. Cancel culture is an overreaction for civilian justice on the internet. Thinkers on the internet point out, in my view, are the canaries in the coal mine if we allow for those who want cancellation to happen.
2020 In Photos: A Year Like No Other | New York Times
Another way to reflect on a strange year even though much of the year blended together with quarantine, is plenty to remember for the year. Enjoy!
A Doctor's Heart Rate While Saving a Life & Combating Stress in the Intensive Care Unit | Whoop
One of the significant elements that stuck through to me is what is strain? Most of us think of strain in the sense of working out physically. But strain can manifest physically but be put on mentally. I've always believed in wearable devices' power to help those in high stakes environments such as doctors. For example, the total sleep possible while on-call ICU is just a fact of the job, so learning what you can do to maximize your recovery is ideal for performing well at your job. By having data sets on.
Worth Watching
Your Moral Compass Could Be Broken | Freethink
Morality is one topic that interests me immensely in the last few weeks. This video looks into moral psychology. The exciting part is the moral psychology is fluid on a personal level depending on our feelings toward that person.
Worth Pondering
"Take the piano teacher...he always says, Relax, relax. But how can you relax while your fingers are rushing over the keys? Yet they have to relax. The singing teacher and the golf pro say exactly the same thing. And in the realm of spiritual exercises we find that the person who teaches mental prayer does too. We have somehow to combine relaxation with activity… The personal conscious self being a kind of small island in the midst of an enormous area of consciousness... What has to be relaxed is the personal self, the self that tries too hard, that thinks it knows what is what, that uses language. This has to be relaxed in order that the multiple powers at work within the deeper and wider self may come through and function as they should. In all psychophysical skills we have this curious fact of the law of reversed effort: the harder we try, the worse we do the thing."
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Aldous Huxley
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