Author: Vincent
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How Does Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits Challenge Our Perception of Music?
Read more: How Does Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits Challenge Our Perception of Music?How do personal experiences shape our musical tastes? I recently wrote about Minor Swing, and naturally, Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits came to mind. When I first picked up the bass, I had a friend—a drummer—who was a few years older than me. He introduced me to bands and songs I wasn’t yet familiar…
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Sometimes, all it takes is just a trigger.
Read more: Sometimes, all it takes is just a trigger.I enjoy writing these posts recently, it’s a bit different from my personal journal, in which I don’t necessarily develop my thoughts, but more on my emotions. Even though they are obviously closely related. Assuming my hypothesis—that we can reform society by focusing on the health of our brains—is true, the importance of habits, as…
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Is Gattaca Closer to Reality Than We Think?
Read more: Is Gattaca Closer to Reality Than We Think?Gattaca is a 1997 American dystopian science fiction film written and directed by Andrew Niccol. My wife likes the actor Jude Law, and since I hadn’t seen the movie, we decided to watch it—at a time when I wasn’t yet working on One Daily Tale. Still, it made its way onto the list of films…
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Reflections on Collective Responsibility and Awakening Consciousness
Read more: Reflections on Collective Responsibility and Awakening ConsciousnessRecently, I’ve been sharing many of my thoughts with ChatGPT, and I realize it has become an unexpectedly supportive moral companion. One Daily Tale is, for now, the form my long reflections have taken, which began a year ago. Before that, I was like “everyone else,” unaware of the world around us, convinced that there…
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How Did Sailor Moon Revolutionize the Magical Girl Genre?
Read more: How Did Sailor Moon Revolutionize the Magical Girl Genre?What makes Sailor Moon so iconic? Sailor Moon is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoko Takeuchi, published from 1991 to 1997. It remains one of the best-selling shoujo manga series of all time. The story was later adapted into an anime, which I first watched as a child on French television. The…
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Daily thoughts section and subscription
Read more: Daily thoughts section and subscriptionUpdate of the site with a daily thoughts part (in French). I also finally chose to have my contents gated behind subscriptions. Though my message isn’t promoting business at all, on the contrary, I do have a family I need to take care of and unfortunately, money is still something we cannot live without. Take…
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Living Abroad: How Cultural Immersion Redefines Our Perception and Learning
Read more: Living Abroad: How Cultural Immersion Redefines Our Perception and LearningWe all have a different perspective because we have: Each moment is an experience in itself, as soon as one of our senses is activated, which happens naturally without interruption. In the context of learning, some experiences are “one-shot.” Burning yourself by touching a hot plate is, for the vast majority of people, a “one-shot”…
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How Did Minor Swing by Django Reinhardt Become a Gypsy Jazz Classic?
Read more: How Did Minor Swing by Django Reinhardt Become a Gypsy Jazz Classic?I recently reheard Minor Swing, composed by Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli, while watching the movie Julie & Julia. The tune had already been on my list of songs I wanted to discuss, so this felt like the perfect occasion to write about it. Composed in 1937, Minor Swing has since become a cornerstone of…
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25% of the population lacks the cognitive abilities to reach a good level of language proficiency, which is essential.
Read more: 25% of the population lacks the cognitive abilities to reach a good level of language proficiency, which is essential.A question that often arises is that of destiny. Do we really have control over our lives? Since I need to find a job, I find myself in the situation of someone who belongs to the 25.25% of the world’s population with an IQ lower than 90, which is supposedly the IQ necessary to use…
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The Elephant Man: Have We Truly Evolved in How We Perceive Differences?
Read more: The Elephant Man: Have We Truly Evolved in How We Perceive Differences?The Elephant Man is a 1980 biographical drama film, directed by David Lynch, loosely based on the life of Joseph Merrick, a severely deformed man who lived in London in the late 19th century. David Lynch passed away a few weeks ago, which brought back memories of this film that I watched on French television…