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Why Your Child Should Learn an Instrument Early (opens the original)
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I am 56 years old, and I am learning to play the guitar.Something unexpected happens when I practice. I can sit down intending to play for twenty minutes, look up, and realize an hour has passed. For that hour, very little else enters my mind. My eyes are on the fretboard. My left hand is trying to find the chord. My right hand has to keep the rhythm. My ear knows immediately when something is wrong, often before I can explain what went wrong.At first, my fingers arrive late. I see where they ne
The City Beneath Tashkent (opens the original)
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I had planned to write this article after reaching Samarkand. It should have gone out yesterday. But after spending the day exploring Tashkent’s metro, I decided to write it here, in Uzbekistan’s capital, while the stations were still fresh in my mind.Tashkent tells one of its clearest stories underground.This is a city shaped by several periods of history. At the Hazrati Imam complex, blue-tiled buildings preserve the memory of Islamic scholarship. Across central Tashkent, broad avenues and mon
What Should a Civilization Do with Angry People (opens the original)
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Open social media today and anger seems to be everywhere. People are furious about politics, war, religion, corruption, inequality, immigration, or the latest outrage captured on a phone. Some of that anger is justified, some is misplaced, but the deeper problem is what happens next.Every civilization has had to decide what people should do with their anger, because anger can confront injustice, but without discipline it can also become vengeance.The Greeks tried to educate it, while the Stoics
The Ideas That Quietly Control Your Life (opens the original)
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We study philosophy because every life is governed by ideas, and freedom begins when we examine those ideas before they govern us.A few years ago, Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert visited Yale to describe an experiment about mood and perception. Researchers wanted to place some participants in a good mood, so they gave them statements such as “I see,” “I understand,” and “Now I get it.” Another group read statements such as “I’m lost” and “I don’t understand.”Yale philosopher Shelly Kagan hea
Five Ways Your Camera Changes Your Journey (opens the original)
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The camera can preserve a scene. Only attention can turn it into a memory.In 2015, I was walking through Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter when I heard a street performer singing opera. His voice carried through the narrow streets of the old Roman city, where stone walls held the sound long after each note ended. I stopped and listened. For several minutes, I forgot about my phone, the next landmark, and whatever else I had planned for that night. By the time I remembered to record him, the performance
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