It’s New Year’s day. Billions of people give and get strokes… ((A stroke (in Transactional Analysis) is a unit of social transaction. A hug. A nod. A smile. A hello, a thank you, a “how are you?”, or an f… you…. these are all social transactions. The more you get the less your spine shrivels up on you…
Experiments show that babies stop thriving if they have insufficient social transactions… Other experiments how that rats are the same way. But the most surprising thing is: for a rat (and I guess for a human) an electric shock, a slap on the face, and insult also count as a stroke… preventing their spine from shriveling up.
My personal interpretation is: as long as life tells you you exist, you want
A distinction is a new way of looking at the world. Really new. It is also like a framework, like a whole punched into a solid wall… when you look through that hole, what you see is unfamiliar. You can look at the world and suddenly that distinction starts to show up everywhere. I was … 
Humans are designed to be continuous learning machines. If you aren’t a learning machine, you have stopped being a human. New people to interact with, new ways to do things, new way to accomplish, new things to experience and interpret … 
