MINDRAMP PODCASTS
BRAIN HEALTH
MENTAL MANAGEMENT
A GOOD DEATH
Let's not just fade away; let's FLOURISH as we age!
The MINDRAMP Podcasts focus on three key components that have been shown to contribute to flourishing in the later years of your life. You will find mini-series of episodes that explore each component.
1) Keeping your brain and body healthy - see The Roots of Brain Health
2) Managing your mental states - see Flourishing
3) Planning the kind of death you want to have - (coming 10/1/24))
You will also find the occasional episodes that focus social concerns that I feel have an impact on our well-being, for example "Elections."
MINDRAMP PODCASTS
MIND - Manage your mind, see like an artist
Why do all beginning artists draw stick figures? Why is it so difficult to draw an accurate picture of what we see?
The reason, I believe, is that unskilled artists draw concepts of what they see rather than drawing what they actually see. Their conceptual brain dominates and prevents the sensory brain from guiding the drawing.
Skilled artists have learned to suppress this impulse to draw concepts and instead focus on sensory details. This is what I believe art teacher Betty Edwards discovered and explained in her influential book Drawing On the Right Side of the Brain.
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