10almonds tip: be content to seem the kind of person that you are

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Reading is not an innate human ability—not just in the sense “nobody is born knowing how to read”, but also biologically: the brain evolved for vision and speech, not for interpreting written symbols (which innovation so recent as to be a mere tick of the evolutionary clock), so it repurposes visual, auditory, language, attention, and affect circuits to create a neural network that can handle reading, where none existed in our infancy.

This has some interesting resultant quirks and consequences:

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Yesterday we asked you to choose between blueberries and dates—and, surprise, we picked the dates (click here to read about why), as did just 18% of you!

Now for today’s choice:

Click on whichever you think is better for you!

Wishing you a peaceful Sunday ready for the week ahead,

The 10almonds Team