feature or a bug?
how advantages can be disadvantages and strengths can be weaknesses
by Eli · updated 1mo ago
feature or a bug?
how advantages can be disadvantages and strengths can be weaknesses
by Eli · updated 1mo ago
We’re good at learning by tinkering—which is fortunate, because we’re terrible at getting things right the first time.
Eli added 2mo ago
A 2018 study found that people typically pursue higher levels of education because they believe it will lead to more leisure time. But, in fact, more educated people tend to have less leisure time.13 They earn more money, but also work more hours. This upends their expectations and ends up having a net zero effect on overall happiness.
Eli added 2mo ago
Our cognitive apparatus is designed, at least in part, to sustain us in the long term rather than balm us in the near term.
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life is the very definition of uncertainty.
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human belief systems are good at absorbing contradictions into their thinking.
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The human mind is a remarkable contraption, great at keeping us psychologically buoyant in periods of chaos and allowing us to pay the price later, once the storm has settled.
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