Mark Berman
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And now they've reduced that down to about 20 minutes.
And the teachers have now been telling me that they are having a lot more behavioral issues in school that they had in years past.
And they're thinking part of that might be because the kids are not having as much time outside.
I just think this is something that's really, really important for parents, for kids, for employers and employees that, yes, that might take some time away from the desk, but you might actually gain more productivity overall because when people then sit down to work or sit down in class to learn, they're gonna have more ability to focus and then will be more productive.
And one thing that we found in our research is that people really like images that have more curved edges, even built images.
So images of architectural scenes that don't have any nature in them.
If the architecture has more curved edges, people tend to like that architecture more.
Jackson Pollock moved from California to New York to be with his brothers.
When his father died, he had extreme depression.
and alcoholism and, you know, he was taking sculpting classes, but he was just not very happy, very mentally disturbed, having a lot of problems with depression and alcoholism.
At an art gallery, he yelled that he was a much better artist than anyone that had their art being displayed in the art gallery.
And subsequently, he lost the ability to be in that art gallery.
He got into an argument one time and was so angry that he turned over a whole table that had all of the food on the table and like 12 roast beef dinners were just flying all over the place.
It was a huge mess, essentially ending the dinner party right then and there.
I think she wanted to get him out of the New York environment where, you know, there were so many bars that he frequented, to remove him from that environment, maybe also removing him from some of the people that he was hanging around at the time, and to maybe sort of take him to a more natural, a quieter environment out in Long Island, that the fresh air might be good for him.