Things that make you go Hmmmm
by @Lumi · updated 8d ago
Things that make you go Hmmmm
- “Genius is not a gift, but the way a person invents in desperate circumstances.”
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Jean-Paul Sartrefrom A quote by Jean-Paul Sartre
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- More generally your goal should be not to let anything into your head unexamined, and things don't always enter your head in the form of statements. Some of the most powerful influences are implicit. How do you even notice these? By standing back and watching how other people get their ideas.
from How to Think for Yourself by bad time
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- Effectiveness is always contingent on the desired effect.
The effects we're least likely to examine closely are often those that perpetuate the status quo or serve interests other than our own.
When a woman who's been socialized within diet culture asks another woman who's been socialized within diet culture if a workout is effective, there's a good... See morefrom What Works? by Tara McMullin
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The mind, if preoccupied with a problem or question long enough, will tend to come up with possibilities that might eventually lead to answers, but at this stage are still speculations, untested hypotheses, and early epiphanies. (Epiphanies often are characterized as “Aha! moments,” but that suggests the problem has been solved in a flash. More of
... See morefrom A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas by Warren Berger
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Summary.
From “I like to be efficient” to “I trust my gut” to “I can make a rational decision,” there are a number of deeply ingrained — and counterproductive — myths we tell ourselves about how we make decisions. Underlying these myths are three common and popular ideas that don’t serve us well: First, as busy people, we d
... See morefrom 11 Myths About Decision-Making by Cheryl Strauss Einhorn
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- As a good rule of thumb, "When I hear a story, when should I be especially suspicious?" If you hear a story and you think, "Wow, that would make a great movie!" That's when the "uh-oh" reaction should pop in a bit more, and you should start thinking more in terms of how the whole thing is maybe a bit of a mess.
from Be suspicious of stories | Tyler Cowen | TEDxMidAtlantic by Tyler Cowen
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- In any bond of depth and significance, forgive, forgive, forgive. And then forgive again. The richest relationships are lifeboats, but they are also submarines that descend to the darkest and most disquieting places, to the unfathomed trenches of the soul where our deepest shames and foibles and vulnerabilities live, where we are less than we would... See more
from 18 Life-Learnings From 18 Years of the Marginalian by Maria Popova
@Lumi added 8d ago
- Every choice that we make individually and collectively is a kind of prayer that aligns us with a certain reality and a certain future. It's a declaration of what a human being does in this circumstance. It says, Here is who I want to be. Here is the world I want to live in.
from Find the common thread by Charles Eisenstein
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when women do minister to men’s hurt feelings, they tend to be rewarded. And when they do not, they are liable to be punished.
from Entitled by Kate Manne
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