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I just found this website today, and some of the scholarships seem very nice, but people have collected hundreds of items already, and my family is low income so I can't purchase any products to donate either. I'm not sure how they choose who will win, so I'm wondering if anybody here knew? I like to help people out, but I don't see a point in applying for the scholarship is it's due next week and I have nothing vs others who have a lot. I could just donate in my freetime, but it would be nice to earn 1000 back while do so haha.

This code is just breaking my brain. What were they thinking? And how do I parse this code? Are they being too clever, or do I just need to learn?

function doRender(
    ui,
    {
      initialState,
      store = configureStore({
        reducer,
        middleware: getMiddleware()
      })
    } = {}
  ) {
    const renderRedux = render(<Provider store={store}>{ui}</Provider>);
    const {rerender} = renderRedux;
    const rerenderWithRedux = ui =>
      rerender(<Provider store={store}>{ui}</Provider>);
    return {
      ...renderRedux,
      rerenderWithRedux,
      // adding store to returned utils enables referencing it in tests
      store
    };
  }

So.... my questions:

1. initialState is undefined... why bother? Just to be explicit about it? Is it because there is a difference between a property being undefined and its value being undefined?

2. This:

   {initialState, store=...} = {}

is the main part that I'm struggling with. What is the intent and why do it like this?

I posted this as a response to how to get motivated after a long day of work and thought it might make for a decent post.

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A common belief around achieving a goal is that we need to get and sustain motivation

• We need to motivate ourselves to go to the gym.
• We need to motivate ourselves to eat healthier and resist junk food.
• We need to motivate ourselves to turn off the Netflix and get to bed

Motivation might get you to the gym once but it doesn’t get you to keep going. Actually going to the gym gets you motivated to keep going to the gym.

Motivation might get you to eat one healthier meal but it doesn’t keep you eating healthier. The more you eat healthier, the more motivated to keep eating healthier you’ll be..

The key to become more motivated is to keep taking action. Any kind of action, no matter how big or how small.

Action = motivation

Then why is it so hard to get yourself to take action? This is because most of us only take action when we’re hit with emotional inspiration or deathly afraid of the consequences of not taking action.

You go to work each day because the consequence of not going is chowing down on half eaten sandwiches, and take out Chinese from a trash can in a seedy back alley.

Another large problem around motivating yourself is that it’s usually associated with difficult emotions.

• The pain and struggle of going to the gym.
• The boredom of a healthier diet.
• Going to bed earlier instead of staying up late with friends.

Finally, we struggle with motivation because we do the same thing over and over again. We tell ourselves that to accomplish X we just need to do it – to display more motivation or willpower.

We never create an action plan that focuses on our behaviors and addresses our current habits, past failures, and the environment that influences us.

It’s important to acknowledge that at some point you’re not going to feel motivated to workout or do another meal prep. And this is ok.

When you’re motivated, take advantage of it - it’s an opportunity to do hard things. But when you’re not, here are a few things to try to get you going.

1). Make getting and staying started easier

Using exercise as an example. Instead of trying to commit to making it to the gym 6 days per week for 60 minutes. Remove some of the steps that you need to take to do this. Forget trying to go to the gym – instead, focus on a 5-minute workout you can do at home.

Instead of downloading a complicated meal plan off o

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I have ideas as to the purpose of each of these, but they're all concepts which never got off the ground. I don't want to restrict any of your ideas about these before you adopt, so if you want my thoughts, go ahead and tell me.

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#EDIT 2: r/HumanViolations and r/SchoolyardMemes are taken.

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