Contrast Priciple

Scientists have long demonstrated this contrast principle with a neat trick. Take three buckets of water—one hot, one cold, and one room temperature. Start by putting your left hand in the hot and your right hand in the cold for 30 seconds. Then put them both into the room temperature water. The one that was in the hot water will feel cold and the one in the cold will now feel hot. Einstein it’s not. Relativity it is.

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“The whole universe is change, and life itself is but what you deem it.” So said Roman ruler Marcus Aurelius. And centuries later Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet, “for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

The value of silence

As the cliché goes, there’s a reason we have two ears and only one mouth. Its interesting that Pythagoras in 500 BC and Leonard Da Vinci were separated by a millennium but had the same idea. The former said, “It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.” The latter invoking much the same imagery said, “Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener.”

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