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The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.
Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen.”



~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Finding Flow



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IT’S COMING, ROME: Jubilant scenes across Italy as the country celebrates winning Euro 2020, beating England on penalties in a dramatic final for its first major soccer trophy since 2006.

There’s A Specific Kind Of Joy We’ve Been Missing

We find our greatest bliss in moments of collective effervescence ( the sense of energy and harmony people feel when they come together in a group around a shared purpose. )

Collective effervescence is the synchrony you feel when you slide into rhythm with strangers on a dance floor, colleagues in a brainstorming session, cousins at a religious service or teammates on a soccer field. And during this pandemic, it’s been largely absent from our lives.

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Collective ecstasy has been part of Italian
Way of life since at least the Roman Empire

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Saint Ubaldo Day (La FestadeiCeri)
celebration in Gubbio, in honor to the life of Bishop Ubaldo Baldassini who was canonized as Protector of Gubbio.The procession through the streets features small statues of Saint Ubaldo, Saint George, and Saint Anthony.

45% of Italians age 18-21 vote for the far-right

A plurality of 23% support the Fratelli d'Italia, successor to the post-fascist Italian Social Movement

51% support the right-wing coalition (FdI+Lega+FI)

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Facial resemblance enhances trust


Subjects were shown faces of ostensible playing partners manipulated to resemble either themselves or an unknown person. Resem- blance to the subject’s own face raised the incidence of trusting a partner, but had no effect on the incidence of selfish betrayals of the partner’s trust. Control subjects playing with identical pictures failed to show such an effect. In a second experiment, resemblance of the playing partner to a familiar (famous) person had no effect on either trusting or betrayals of trust.

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American builders’ productivity has plunged by half since the late 1960s
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Walking the plank at 4,500 feet above Yosemite Valley

EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales (2017)


no robust statistical evidence of displacement of sales by online piracy.
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NASA Is Quietly Funding a Hunt for Alien Megastructures
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Alpine Mountaineering Where the borders of
Italy 🇮🇹 France 🇫🇷 and Switzerland 🇨🇭meet .

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Flow is the magical state of awareness where our self actually dissolves and is replaced by experience and action.

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Finding Flow


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