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1. Anti-projection action: When you’re doubtful of doing something and projecting negative scenarios, write them down in detail. Have a predetermined place to write it down or you won’t do it. Then experiment in that situation and compare the actual results to your projection. Before you start jumping off cliffs (an action that merits doubting), you c

Linked with the witch’s essential outsiderhood, witchcraft builds on a recognition, unique among humans, of other minds just like our own combined with a countervailing conviction that other people are not exactly like us, and are indeed ‘others’.

Shortform note: A disagreement is worth your time and attention if the dissenting opinion is specific, objective (rather than a personal attack), and focused on the future—it’s concerned about outcomes rather than something that happened in the past. Otherwise, it’s likely just an empty complaint.

there is a common cortical basis for spatial cognition and social cognition. That friend who is ‘close’ to you, even if they live on the other side of the world, is being mapped by the same part of the brain that has determined you are ‘close’ to the screen you are using to read this essay.

Estas peticiones se pueden relacionar, en parte, con la sociedad en la que vivimos por la gran exigencia y el estrés que genera. Es destacable una serie de factores contextuales que influyen en estas demandas, como son: el uso excesivo de las redes sociales, la tiranía de la positividad, las expectativas ilimitadas en relación a la salud, relacione

The ego refers to the self-identity you’ve constructed throughout your life. How was this identity created? Put simply, the ego was created through your thoughts and, as a mind-created identity, has no concrete reality. Events that happen to you bear no meaning in themselves. You give them meaning only through your interpretation of those events. A

Individuals with time blindness struggle to predict how long a future event will take — and they also have a skewed sense of time that's passed

Steve Chandler writes. They don’t see ‘that leaving things unfinished is what’s causing the low levels of energy.’ (He suggests spending one day robotically completing as much unfinished business as you can: ‘Notice at the end of that day how much energy you’ve got. You’ll be amazed.’)