How to learn any language in six months:

• Focus on language content that is useful to you
• Use your language as a tool to communicate
• Comprehension is key
• Physiological training
• Talking takes muscles, train them
• Psycho-physiological mood is IMPORTANT
• Listen A LOT - doesn't matter if you understand it or not
• Get meaning first - body language
• START MIXING - 10 nouns, 10 adjectives, 10 verbs = 1000 phrases
• Get a language parent
• Same box different path

Alexa Meade : Your body is my canvas:

• Uses a variety of objects/bodies as a canvas
• Very unusual

Barry Schwartz : The paradox of choice

• More choices in today's society is supposed to liberate us/give us more freedom
• Paradoxically, it appears to paralyze us
• You feel like you want to make the best choice
• Even if you somehow manage to choose, you are less satisfied because you think about the other options and what IF you chose them
• Opportunity costs subtracts from our satisfaction
• More options means increased expectations ( can't help but feel this way )
• The secret to happiness is low expectations!!!
• Too little choice is bad, too much choice is bad as well

Jon Ronson: Strange answers to the psychopath test

• Capitalism breeds psychopathic behavior because it rewards it e.g. being cunning, lacking empathy, manipulative
• Everyone's a bit psychopathic :P

Esther Perel: The secret to desire in a long-term relationship

• Being an individual causes desire within the other
• Desire and Love/Commitment seem contradictory
• Neediness is a turn off ( seen in children and parents )
• Anticipation and desire
• Desire is somewhat selfish whereas Love is selfless
• Need sexual privacy
• Responsibility and Desire butt heads