To be wise a man must take a look within - to embrace what he's becoming, and to learn from where he's been. If a man attempts all this, then he truly has the heart and soul it takes to be a man.

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Are you crazy or normal?

Answer just one question - which way is the mask rotating?

Correct answer - right.

People with schizophrenia, however, aren’t fooled by this illusion. If you show them a hollow mask, they tend to see it for what it is – a hollow mask.

A 2009 study came up with dramatic results on just differently people with and without schizophrenia perceive this illusion. The 16 participants without schizophrenia mistook 99 percent of the hollow faces they saw as convex faces, but the 13 schizophrenia patients perceived the hollow faces as convex only 6 percent of the time.

The study also suggested a possible explanation: it may be that people with schizophrenia experience differences in brain connectivity that lead them to process things in a more “bottom-up” way – whereas people without schizophrenia process things in a more “top-down” way, which leads them to conclude based on previous experience that seeing a hollow face is unlikely.

𝗗𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗸. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗯𝗮𝗱 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿.
𝗟𝗮𝘆 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗽𝘀.
𝗘𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝘂𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼𝘂𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗮 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗺.
𝗕𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗹𝘆 𝗽𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗺 𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝘀𝗶𝘁.
𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝘀.
𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗻𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗶𝘁𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳.
𝗗𝗶𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁.
𝗚𝗼 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘂𝗽 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗿𝗱𝘀 – 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗽 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀.
𝗘𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻 – 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁, 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁.

Day 68 - DON'T UNINTENTIONALLY HAND OVER YOUR FREEDOM
Instinctively, we protect our physical selves. We don’t let people touch us, push us around, control where we go. But when it comes to the mind, we’re less disciplined. We hand it over willingly to social media, to television, to what other people are doing, thinking, or saying. We sit down to work and the next thing you know, we’re browsing the Internet. We sit down with our families, but within minutes we have our phones out. We sit down peacefully in a park, but instead of looking inward, we’re judging people as they pass by.
We don’t even know that we’re doing this. We don’t realize how much waste is in it, how inefficient and distracted it makes us. And what’s worse—no one is making this happen. It’s totally self-inflicted.
To the Stoics, this is an abomination. They know that the world can control our bodies—we can be thrown in jail or be tossed about by the weather. But the mind? That’s ours. We must protect it.
Maintain control over your mind and perceptions, they’d say. It’s your most prized possession.

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