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Cognitive science, cognitive biases, behavioral science
The fundamental issue is that these are subtle and esoteric arts. These ways of experiencing and interrogating reality depend (almost) wholly upon our
People with an optimistic mindset are associated with various positive health indicators, particularly cardiovascular, but also pulmonary, metabolic,
Umwelt, as I learned from Ed Yong’s book, An Immense World, is the world as it is experienced by a particular organism. How does the organism that is
What you allow your milieu to feed into your mind is what you will be processing. It is what will carve the pathways of your brain. This is perhaps we
a big theme from opening sessions at @bowmansschool is the importance of paying attention to your feelings a few people have said they don't have acc
How to be more emotionally intelligent (without trying so hard) 🧵 for @threadapalooza
The most competent people I know are pretty good at basically anything they put their minds to, because they just design a process and run it. I think
Overthinking is always pointing at a deeper unmet need — the topic, as urgent as it feels, is just the form the need assumes when it can’t be felt. U
One of my favorite quotes in psychoanalysis, from Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok: "What haunts are not the dead, but the gaps left within us by the s
Neverrr neverrrr look desperate in life. Remain calm during hard times. Understand it’s just your time to suffer like every great man before you.
“The strongest version of you is buried under the habits you're afraid to break.”
THEN Almitra spoke again and said, And what of Marriage, master? And he answered saying: You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore
And yet, as is often the case, those of us who need love so badly at a particular moment can be off-putting to those who want to love us, and to those
Two loves hold reality and make our universe unique to the rest: tetrahedron → “hollywood love” hypertetrahedron/pentachoron/5-cell → “real love“ —88
