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New Positive Facts About the Coronavirus Pandemic - Rest Your Mind

I want you to be at peace! What pops up, every single day is bad news about the Coronavirus. I know that we're living scary times, but the media have been hiding the positive news about the pandemic. Why? They need more material to sell. Although, they forget that some people do need positive information. I went after the facts and here's what I found through reliable sources and THROUGH MY EYES because I've been following the subject through the Data on Worldometers.info . 1. The number of cases is decreasing!  As we are approaching the summertime in the North Hemisphere, the number of cases has been decreasing since the start of April, mainly because of the ' quarantine policies ' that were input as general laws throughout many, many countries. While the cases rise in the United States, Europe now sees the light at the end of the tunnel. The cases, both in Italy and Spain - the most dramatic areas in the number of positive cases by the New Coron...

How to become motivated (all the f* time)

A study was made at the Columbia University where they took a large group of fifth graders and had them work on numerous puzzles by themselves. These were very challenging for them, but regardless of how well each child did, they were told that they scored very well - that they did better than most of the other kids. Afterward, half of these students were told they scored higher because they worked very hard to achieve that while the other half were told that they achieved it because they were smart. Then they presented each student with three different types of puzzles to work on - easy ones, medium difficulty ones, and extremely hard ones. What they found was the interesting taking point at the end of this challenge/study. The students who were told that they did well because they were smart spent the majority of their time on the easy puzzles while not spending any time on the hard ones, saying "I don't want to do this anymore" which means, signs of lower levels of...