into a psychological sensation of helpfulness.” Fletcher is interested in how novels, plays, and movies can give readers and audiences that same beneficial feeling of foreknowledge. He recommends Greek tragedies, which often start by warning the audience of all the terrible things that will happen by the end of the play, as most reliably

Reproductive epidemiologists have found that over the past fifty years, the total sperm count of men worldwide has dropped by more than 50 percent, and the DNA carried by sperm is increasingly damaged. Miscarriage rates for women have also increased every year for the past two decades.

“Any useful statement about the future should at first seem ridiculous.”

we become willing to take in information that challenges our assumptions about what can and cannot change.

When I playtest a scenario,

here is a choice you have to make right now

Professional game developers will tell you that if you want someone to stick with a game, you have to give them an opportunity to be successful in the first few minutes.

In order to train your brain to think the unthinkable, you have to actively put possibilities in your brain that your brain will naturally resist.

The research shows that children typically develop all of the basic cognitive abilities necessary for EFT by the time they are just four or five years old.