5 Posts found for source_day: 23

Motivated reasoning, bias, fake news, conspiracy theories, and more, explained.

Author: Brian Resnick | Source: Vox (October 23, 2018) | Subjects: Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy, Psychology | Behavior

Notes taken from “Book Review: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” by Ben Casnocha

How many young college graduates have taken demanding jobs in high-powered firms, vowing that they will work hard to earn money that will enable them to retire and pursue their real interests when they are thirty-five? But by the time they reach that age, they have large mortgages, children … [ Read more ]

Authors: Ben Casnocha, Yuval Noah Harari | Subjects: History, Life & Society, Religion

1. Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind. Cultivate that capacity for “negative capability.” We live in a culture where one of the greatest social disgraces is not having an opinion, so we often form our “opinions” based on superficial impressions or the borrowed ideas of others, without investing the time and thought that cultivating true conviction necessitates. We then go around asserting

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Author: Maria Popova | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) (October 23, 2016) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Insight, Wisdom

According to Emily Esfahani Smith, happiness arises from a deep sense of contentment rather than the incessant and unyielding grasping for pleasure. This contentment can be derived by seeking, cultivating, and maintaining the four pillars of meaning,

1. Belonging. Only through focusing on others do we build the pillar of belonging for both ourselves and for them. If we want to find meaning in our own

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Author: Derek Beres | Source: Big Think (January 23, 2018) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Happiness, Meaning, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

We humans have a habit of going into phases of mass destruction, generally self imposed to some extent or another.

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At a local level in time people think things are fine, then things rapidly spiral out of control until they become unstoppable, and we wreak massive destruction on ourselves. For the people living in the midst of this it is hard to see happening and hard … [ Read more ]

Author: Tobias Stone | Source: Medium (July 23, 2016) | Subjects: Excerpts, Health & Medicine, International, Military | War | Peace, Politics & Public Policy