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Why your brain needs everyday rituals
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About three quarters of students are convinced that revising their answer will hurt their score. Kaplan, the big test-prep company, once warned students to “exercise great caution if you decide to change an answer.4 Experience indicates that many students who change answers change to the wrong answer.” With all due respect to the lessons of
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first-instinct fallacy
That Nike post is the perfect articulation of the fact that as soon as all the corporations learned how to be “data driven” all the leverage had already shifted back to those able to make decisions based on taste, insight, and intuition.
TJ Parker⚡️x.comPerhaps the knowledge of the future is neither purely rational nor purely mystical. Perhaps it is relational: a dialogic state between what we can measure and what we can experience. Science is one language. Spiritual experience is another. But they coexist, in the same room, without being in conflict. They are simply two different ways of seeing... See more
Anna Branten • The immeasurable
As envisioned by May, the daimonic includes and incorporates Jung’s concepts of the shadow and Self, as well as the archetypes of anima and animus. While Jung differentiates the shadow from the Self, and the personal shadow from the collective and archetypal shadow, May makes no such distinctions. This recalls a recent caution by Marie-Louise von
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As Elizabeth Gilbert says, ideas are alive and always looking for a human collaborator to bring them to earth.
Sara Pintado • Your ideas need a home: grow your digital garden in 2026
“Water is versatile. It can be big and powerful, it can quench thirst, it can be healing, it can drown us. It finds its own level, always. That is, water is always seeking balance and has a place it has to go. It can be scarce, it is necessary. We’re utterly, devastatingly dependent on it. It’s beautiful and tragic and it feeds us sometimes. When
... See moreadrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
To become an Essentialist requires a heightened awareness of our ability to choose. We need to recognise it as an invincible power within us, existing separate and distinct from any other thing, person, or force.
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
When we forget our ability to choose, we learn to be helpless. Drip by drip we allow our power to be taken away until we end up becoming a function of other people’s choices – or even a function of our own past choices. In turn, we surrender our power to choose.