Thought Provokers: 6/19/2024

Our instincts often think of us as being taller than we are.

Sometimes, you learn more from people who disagree with you than those who agree with you.

The average lifespan is 76 years. Middle age isn’t 50 - it’s 38.

People rarely have an accurate assessment of their abilities. Most either over or underestimate their strengths and weaknesses.

The thing you’re looking for will always be in the last place you look.

There are 8 billion people worldwide, but only 2 billion seconds to think about them all.

The first cloned human will simultaneously be the least unique and the most unique person alive.

You’ll never know exactly when you reached the midpoint of your life until it is too late.

High pain tolerance is considered incredible until the extent where they either cannot feel pain at all or instead revel in it.

No one ever mentions that people above 400 pounds who can still walk unassisted have absolutely insane muscle power.

A dream of a life situation can help prepare for the situation in real life.

Dopamine is a farmable resource.

Many trivia questions are not trivial at all.

Our first impression of someone almost always impacts our thoughts about them more than actually getting to know them.

Drama tends to disappear when you’re around smarter, more thoughtful people.

Uneducated people have more control over the future of the English language than educated people do.

AI might raise the value of handwritten content and printed newspapers because internet content will become a fictional world generated by AI.

Scent in disinfectant makes it more difficult to assess whether malodorous material was fully removed.

It’s okay not to know how things are going to turn out.

So many moments tell that it might be fate, and every point in life is already decided.

Tea sets and tea cozies are artifacts of a lost human ritual.

Movie characters never struggle to choose the right music; the soundtrack will play by itself.

We don’t consider time zones for historical events.

We usually learn more from failure than success if and only if we have the right context.

Orphans are well represented in entertainment.

Rob McElhenney is a goofier-looking Ben Affleck.

The more mass we send outside of Earth’s gravity, the easier it becomes to send more mass outside of Earth’s gravity.