âOur greatest source of suffering isnât the default mode,â Kaufman says, âbut when we get stuck in the default mode.â. The key is what brain science people call âcognitive flexibilityâ: being able to more freely choose your mental habits, and have greater agency in your cognitive phenomena.
(Canadian Pacific Railway) A plaque commemorating the driving of the last spike. Craigellachie British Columbia - The Last Spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway was the final spike driven into the Canadian Pacific Railway at Craigellachie, British Columbia, at 09:22 on 7 Nov 1885.
My own interest in the Golden Spike, or, as David Hewes' called it, The Last Spike, dates back to my early childhood when I heard grandparents, parents, and aunts and uncles talk about it. A much deeper and more immediate concern with Hewes's Spike was most amazingly dropped right in my lap in November, 1937.