Are You a Jerk, or a Liar?
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Are You a Jerk, or a Liar?
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
David Brooks • 46 highlights
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Failing to prioritize stupidity over malice causes things like paranoia. Always assuming malice puts you at the center of everyone else’s world. This is an incredibly self-centered approach to life. In reality, for every act of malice, there is almost certainly far more ignorance, stupidity, and laziness.
Rhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
“I can’t tell whether this is so obvious it doesn’t merit mentioning, or so fundamental it’s hard to see.”
Cate Hall
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If I had to guess, I think the general disappearance of good manners has something to do with how we’ve been conditioned to view each other: as things, not people. We see other people as things that can get us things. Maybe we have such little respect for one another because we have such little respect for ourselves. The commodification of the self... See more
