99.7% of general questions about statistics have this same joke at least once in the replies

I don’t really remember, I guess that wasn’t a problem for me. Do you mean the left brain/right brain thing? I think I just treated that as metaphorical…

Good to find out you’re right, huh? 😁

Of course there are still lots of technique related skills to learn too, but this is by far the biggest boost I ever got.

I’ll be honest, I didn’t make it all the way through, but the core concepts are explained well on the first few chapters, and some of the early exercises are good enough to give a pretty deep understanding of how it works. The two exercises that really hit home for me were the one where you re-draw the line drawing of the man, and then do it again upside down;, and the excerise where you draw the empty shapes between and around a chair.

Get yourself a copy of Betty Edwards’ Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain. Her main point is that drawing isn’t your problem, seeing is, because the logical component of the brain gets in the way of the visual cortex, and wants to draw symbols for things, instead of the actual shapes and shades. The book is packed with exercises that will flip your brain into understanding how to see. Then it’s just a matter of practice, but it feels a lot less daunting then, because it also gives you the tools to better critique your own drawings constructively.

It’s a post sorting option on your instance home page. I basically sorts by recent activity, but normalised by community size, so if something gets 10 upvotes on a community with 100 users it will be pushed much higher than a post with 10 upvotes from a community with 2k users

Oh, I mostly use it with subscribed, not all, perhaps that’s the difference?

That sucks dude. I hope some change shows up for you at some point.

Use Scaled, it’s awesome. Much better visibility on small communities, so less dominated with samey news.

Wild how close this comment is to https://lemmy.world/post/27970420/16353904

Ooh yeah… I as lucky enough to have a parent with back pain, so paid attention early on how to avoid it. Still got a sore back though 🥲

Damn, I really should have thought about these responses before I posted this question. My inbox is flooded with comments that are kinda anxiety inducing, until I remember the context 😂

I was also an atheist, but moved more towards some kind of materialistic animism (I’m aware that doesn’t sound like it makes sense).

Eastern philosophy has some cool stuff in it, I need to read some more of it.

Also: I fucking love your username. Excellent work.

Oooh, another one that’s well worth a read is Richard Dawkin’s The Selfish Gene.

I think Dawkins is a bit of a dick, and his brand of combative atheism is unpleasant at best, and probably counterproductive. But he is (or was) an amazing writer on evolutionary biology, and that book’s the best explanation of how evolution works that I’ve read. (Also, it’s NOT about selfishness at the human scale, the world is used metaphorically, and there is even a chapter or two explaining how altruism could have developed).

His book The Blind Watchmaker is also good for it’s exploration of abiogenesis, though it’s a bit later and it has a bit of the anti-religious arrogance of some of his newer approach.

These aren’t really about atheism, but more providing an alternative world view that undermines the obviousness of creationism.

Haha, I read this thread hours ago, and then just came back and posted almost exactly this comment, before seeing that you already had 😂

Small Gods by Terry Pratchett is a fun and thought-provoking fantasy, focused on religion and it’s social effects. It also has a pretty funny take on atheism.

Some of his other books makes some really great points about belief in general, particularly The Hogfather, the witches books, and Feet Of Clay.

Ah, I see. I rest it as your now self giving your younger self advice

Wow, that sounds like some bullshit. I’m in Aus, and though I said I can’t remember it, I feel like it wasn’t that completely useless here. Or maybe it was for some.

Maybe that’s because “the Australian Dream” (if it exists), is going to the beach and drinking beer 😆

:(

Are you OK? Have you got access to some kind of therapy?

You could do what you like, but that doesn’t answer the question