psychology
He often turns to analog methods of early creation , like sketching on paper or handwriting notes, instead of immediately resorting to digital tools. The slower pace offers deeper focus and naturally restricts the ideas to their simplest.
every.to • Sailing Against the Current of Frictionless AI
If it scares you, say it. You don’t need to go full bore just yet.
Eric Barker • Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong
Ever the curious scientist, Pavlov spent months studying how the flood changed his dogs’ behavior. Many were never the same—they had completely different personalities after the flood, and learned behavior that was previously ingrained vanished. He summed up what happened, and how it applies to humans:
Morgan Housel • Same as Ever: Timeless Lessons on Risk, Opportunity and Living a Good Life
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He will also be susceptible to the classic correspondence bias: everything negative about Mary will be seen as a result of external circumstances—stress, strain, bad luck, whatever it may be—and everything positive of her character.
Maria Konnikova • Mastermind
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Accurate intuition, the intuition that Holmes possesses, is of necessity based on training, hours and hours of
Maria Konnikova • Mastermind
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when faced with multiple demands, our mental capacity is simply too limited to be able to handle everything at once, and the verification process is one of the first things to go. When that happens, we are left with uncorrected beliefs, things that we will later recall as true when they are, in fact, false. (Are there poisonous snakes in Maine?
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This exacerbates their problem of downward immobility.
Clayton M. Christensen • The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change)
Interest: Your level of interest sets the direction of your attention and, therefore, your level of focus.
Kevin Horsley • Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive
Finally, the fifth rule is to choose immeasurable rewards over measurable ones. Seeing numerical scores increase is satisfying in the short term, but the most valuable things in life — freedom, meaning, love — can’t be quantified.