shifting perspectives
things that make you change the way you see something
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shifting perspectives
Accomplishments just feel like inevitabilities that you have to work really hard for.
“We’re pretty good at allowing our incorrect certainties to slowly fade into the background, without a crisis or reckoning. We gradually move on, now even more certain about the other things we’re certain of.
Resilience can be found by holding onto our certainties just a little less tightly. One way to do that is to remember just how often the old ones fade away.”
The current scientific consensus isn't truth. It's a temporary agreement among specialists working within shared assumptions. Scientific dogma that excludes uncomfortable or challenging ideas isn't science at all—it's intellectual cowardice. True scientific inquiry requires us to investigate even those phenomena that challenge our fundamental... See more
Laura London • In Defense of Carl Jung: Beyond Scientific Dogma
It’s not my job to entertain the children. It’s their job to be part of the team
Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us about the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans a book by Michaeleen Doucleff
Are Attention Spans Actually Shrinking? (Pt 2)
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While Kaczynski wanted to demolish industrial society and return humanity to an agrarian life, US defense secretary Robert McNamara wanted the opposite: to use American industrial might to crush the agrarian society of Vietnam.
McNamara was a statistician who believed what couldn’t be measured didn’t matter. He charted progress in the Vietnam war by
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