Tag Name "Elongate" (3)

To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well.

When we unnecessarily elongate the process of learning to read, we postpone reading to learn learning itself - by years.

I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.