Human behavior
How we think and feel
Human behavior
human belief systems are good at absorbing contradictions into their thinking.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
That impulse to scour away the messiness that makes life resilient is what many conservation biologists call the “pathology of command and control.” Today, the same drive to centralize, control and extract has driven the internet to the same fate as the ravaged forests.
Maria Farrell • We Need to Rewild the Internet
For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much--just hearing of someone else’s accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work--to make us feel that we are not okay. Beginning to understand how our lives have become ensnared in this trance of unworthiness is our first... See more
Tara Brach • Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of R.A.I.N.
Fake news isn’t meant to change minds. As we know, beliefs are hard to change. The potency of fake news is that it entrenches beliefs its intended audience already has, and then amplifies them.
Annie Duke • Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
People pay to see others believe in themselves.
“I’M REALLY SCARED WHEN I KILL IN MY DREAMS” (FROM A LYRIC BY GLENN BRANCA)
If you are successful, it’s almost always because some people went out of their way to help you. You have a moral obligation to pay it forward.
Sam Altmantwitter.com“Research shows that every time the size of a city doubles, innovation or productivity per resident increases by 15 percent. But when companies get bigger, innovation or productivity per employee generally goes down.”
Brian J. Robertson • Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World
the gift of desperation compels us to move forward. Without fire in our lives, we sometimes don’t have the internal combustion necessary to change and take risks. We get too comfortable being comfortable—even
Phil Jackson • The Mindful Athlete
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Writer and activist James Baldwin on the power of reading:
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been
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