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
Notes From Prince Harry’s Ghostwriter
J. R. Moehringer
I am a part of all that I have met.” It might’ve been that first night, or another, but at some point I shared that line from Tennyson, and Andre loved it.
J. R. Moehringer
I am a part of all that I have met.” It might’ve been that first night, or another, but at some point I shared that line from Tennyson, and Andre loved it.
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C.S. Lewis, how did you understand human nature so well? https://t.co/C91vBpvOS4
From X - CS Lewis
“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
gradually discovered that ninety-nine percent of the things I worried about never happened.
Dale Carnegie • How to stop worrying & start living
"Kierkegaard gives us some portrait sketches of the styles of denying possibility, or the lies of character-which is the same thing. He is intent on describing what we today call "inauthentic" men, men who avoid developing their own uniqueness; they follow out the styles of automatic and uncritical living in which they were conditioned as children.... See more
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Who becomes a good sailor without knowledge of storms?
Martin Shaw • Navigating the Mysteries
“Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction.”
Christopher McDougall • Born to Run
Because the brain mediates our experience of the world, any neurosurgical problem forces a patient and family, ideally with a doctor as a guide, to answer this question: What makes life meaningful enough to go on living?