psychology
How people think about something makes the crucial difference in how they will experience it.
Charles Faulkner • NLP
To understand the power of goals, we also need to understand how they impact brain function. The brain is a prediction engine.6 It’s always trying to predict what is about to happen next and how much energy will be required by that situation. To make those predictions, three systems come into play: information acquisition, pattern recognition, and
... See moreSteven Kotler • The Art of Impossible
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When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
Dale Carnegie • How to Win Friends and Influence People
The relationship between status and space is of course more nuanced than just “higher status equals more space.” Elevation, centrality, connectedness, and proximity to things of value can privilege a smaller space over a larger one. Case in point: cities are higher-status locations relative to rural or suburban areas — not because, but in spite of
... See moreKevin Simler • Status as Space
A similar phenomenon occurred in a separate study in which participants were given a pain reliever before receiving small electric shocks. Half were told the pain reliever cost $0.10 per unit while the other half were told it cost $2.50. Although, in actuality, all received the same pain reliever, those who thought it was more expensive rated it
... See moreRobert B. Cialdini • Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion
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Only when priests used these fears and rituals to support morality and law did religion become a force vital and rival to the state.
Will Durant • The Lessons of History
Very interesting thought on transition of Religion from rituals to get away from fear to adhering to rituals for morality and hence by extension it becomes law. When religion goes into the domain of law , it becomes and extension of State
the individual human mind is like a computer terminal connected to a giant database. The database is human consciousness itself, of which our own consciousness is merely an individual expression, but with its roots in the common consciousness of all mankind.
David R. Hawkins • Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior
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You can see that the range of probabilities between 5% and 95% is associated with a much smaller range of decision weights (from 13.2 to 79.3),
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
From the very start, Watson is predisposed to think well of their guest. After all, he is already in a relaxed, happy mood, bantering in typical fashion with his detective flatmate. And rightly or wrongly, that mood will spill over into his judgment. It’s called the affect heuristic: how we feel is how we think. A happy and relaxed state makes for
... See moreMaria Konnikova • Mastermind
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