News - Naps and memory

Time ago, I read an article that explained some curious and really usefull "not much knowed" things about our spanish contribution to the world: the siesta.

I've read that siesta improves our learning process and also our long term memory. In addition, it told that if we sleep after studying, we'll memorize better the studied thing, because we would have eliminated disturbing influences.

I knowed something related to this, but I didn't remember that I have that importance. We have many "needs" that demand us a big and progressive mental effort, so some times we could underestimate the sleep just to satisfy them. But the reality is that if we don't sleep enough, we'll learn slowly and it'll be more difficult. I know that's hard to sleep always our 8 hours, because we can do things at night that we can't in day, or just because we want to extend the day. I'm not the most appropiate person to say this, I love to go to sleep late, I like to see the darkness of my street with his fresh smell and the sheen of the moon... and also because I'm more calmed, relaxed and inspired in late hours than in early hours. I would like to have more "free" time to sleep calmly, or to satisfy some "needs", but we all are imprisoned in a cultural prison... but I'll talk of it later, when I'm more inspired.

About "Kings"

That person that controlls his group of friend, a person that if goes to X, his friends will go to X. That "omnipotent" person that can control mind and actions of his plebeians... They exist, and I'm sure that we all know one of them and, in some moment, wanted to be like one of them. People likes to be powerful, to be able to control other people and to be accepted. I think that those "kings" just exist when we are young, when we are more easily influenced and just another child that we know, someone that are better in X that the rest of children, someone that just have more friends or is more "guay" can get a "higher" social status.

Maybe we can hate that person, but if our friends go with him, I'm sure that we'll go with them (with our friends, not with the "king"). And it's the beginning. In this moment we have three different ways: to become a new and more charismatic "king" and to "recruit" our friends, to continue with the new "king" and, slowly, to incorporate his philosophy or maybe to look for new friends. We often change our influences, and we won't go with "rotten apples", I think that everyone'll go with the people he wants being agree with his ethics. We need a 3rd person to critizice our friendships to have an idea about them, but it's difficult to reduce (mentally) the social status that the "King" have.
In sometimes I experimented some of these situations (to choose between my friends and to follow a "King", or to be independent) and I have to admit that in some times I choosed the "wrong" way... But now, I think that if someone wants to be a free-thinker he'll lose friends and opportunities. We can't be absolutely independent, we'll be influenced now and later.

Things that I've learned

I'm not glad to tell this, but in many moments I've felt really interested in one subject. I mean, that kind of interesting that make you to search about it, to fascinate with the new discoverys, to really learn ("really learn" = not to repeat to learn) about what you are reading or experimenting etc. I think that if you can't choose what you want to learn, if you just have to learn, you won't feel the same interest that if you can choose what you want and investigate for your own.

Of course that there are variables that can influence the learning, like the teacher, the part of the subject that you're studying, the ambient (classroom, friends), the use of the subject, etc. etc. But if you want, you can remove these variables and learn without impediments.

In my case, I've learned "a lot" about psychollogy and I can use that in my daily life, I've learned some things that explains me things that didn't have any reasonable explanation (what are dreams, how to interpret them to know a lot about the person, etc.). And now I can learn more about this subject cause I'm taking it in school, and it looks really interesting.

But it's difficult to attend to other "less interesting" subjects... so it's good to know a bit of all and to "specialize" in what you want.

Again

Well, here I go again... I've success 1st of bachillerat and now I'm on the 2nd year. I remember when I felt a bit depressed because I failed some subjects (5, exactly), but I retaked them (except Maths, that today I've just done the recuperation exam) so I passed a "carefree" summer.
It's been one of my bests summers (maybe the best one), I couldn't do some things that I wanted to do, but it was so nice. I've could read some interesting psychology books (1 of persuasion and 2 of psychoanalysis) two of philosophy etc. I read them sat in a swing, alone, in a park that there are near of my house. This park has become like a symbol, I was so calm there and I could think without interruptions.
I've lost some important things (excuse my "mystery", but I don't want to give details... personal matters), things that were so important to me, like paramount. But it was too much bad. I don't know if it could be solved...
But well, like I've said before, it was a "perfect" summer. Thanks.

Final evaluation

I think that this year have been difficult. But this subject hasn't been a big problem for me. Even if I had successed all 3 terms, I still have to improve my English level, because my grammar is not allright, and I don't speak English with so many fluency and frecuency. Thanks to this blog, I've been able to express my own thoughts and feelings and at the same time, to pass a subject. Maybe I've been a bit monotonous with some issues like religion, but I think that they are very important and they induce a lot of thoughts and opinions.

I also have expressed my inspiration in other texts, like "An image for everyone", "To listen my memory", or more recents texts, like "A language without lies" or "Maturity". They could be my best writings, but I don't have a "best writing"... I don't have a "superior" thought so I won't focus in anyone. I think that there've been a progress since the origins of this blog, but it's not enough, of course. I haven't post musics or many news because I think that they're "too easy" matters. They often induces the same thoughts or feelings to everyone, so I believe that these thoughts aren't much important, because they are homogeneous and a bit empty. For this reason, I've tried to look deeply into these matters and avoid those current "pseudo-sentimentalism" in other typical topics of life.

If I should change something of this year... I would change the oral presentations. I know that they are instructive and beneficial for us, but I've suffered a lot before my turn. They are so "specific"... I know that we could (or should) do them like robots, just saying what we've learnt, without feelings, we have to interest our listeners, and it's not easy if we have to talk about a specific matter. In the other hand, our class were amusing and different than the other classes, so they were good. Specially our "free" days in our language room, that freedom were fantastic!

If I success (I hope so!) I will continue with this blog in the next year. Since then, good bye!