psychology
He must be mindful of even those conclusions that he reached mindlessly,
Maria Konnikova • Mastermind
.process .psychology
If you want to feel your positive memories more intensely, you can simply move them closer to you in your mind’s eye. If you want difficult memories to have less intensity, you can just move them farther away from you.
Charles Faulkner • NLP
Unfairly imposing losses on people can be risky if the victims are in a position to retaliate.
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
As a character in Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan replies when told of the theory of Pythagoras that the earth is round and revolves around the sun: “What an utter fool! Couldn’t he use his eyes?”
Henry Hazlitt • Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
Subjects’ unwillingness to deduce the particular from the general was matched only by their willingness to infer the general from the particular.
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
Very important that we do not want to go too down. But very quick to infer a general case from a particular instance
Social support provides even more neurochemistry, which produces an even greater boost in intrinsic motivation. More crucially, other people provide actual help. Financial, physical, intellectual, creative, emotional—they all matter. Simply put, on the road to impossible, we’re going to need all the help we can get.
Steven Kotler • The Art of Impossible
.psychology
Pessimists outperform optimists in law school.
Eric Barker • Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
Simply put, we let our own personal past experience guide what we perceive to be possible. Our repertoire becomes an anchor of sorts; it is our reasoning starting point, our place of departure for any further thoughts.
Maria Konnikova • Mastermind
.psychology
But the influence of the frontier doesn't end at the individual. The frontier also shapes the cultures of the tribes who inhabit it.
The most striking effect is forcing solidarity. Out on the fringe, short on resources and surrounded by wilderness and potential enemies, a tribe must either unite or perish. Most tribes — and certainly all the
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