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“You can recognize the people who live for others by the haunted look on the faces of the others.”)

Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: How to Live a Creative Life, and Let Go of Your Fear

People feel (or presume) an authorship of their thoughts and actions that is illusory.

Sam Harris • Free Will

“It’s an incredibly consistent effect,” Mr. Keltner says. “When you give people power, they basically start acting like fools. They flirt inappropriately, tease in a hostile fashion, and become totally impulsive.” Mr. Keltner compares the feeling of power to brain damage, noting that people with lots of authority tend to behave like neurological

Venkatesh Rao • Be Slightly Evil

who lied about her, and colleagues who loved her, and (mainly) colleagues who were entirely

Matt Haig • The Midnight Library: A Novel

philos can be conditional or even selfish.

Joel Manby • Love Works: Seven Timeless Principles for Effective Leaders

Psychology

Dean Millson • 3 cards

Psychopathy in its extreme form affects probably 1% of people, maybe 2%. We all have met somebody who's psychopathic, right? Everybody knows somebody who's like this, and many of us have been burned by them. In fact, most people have been burned by them at least once.

The neuroscience of extremes: Ruthless psychopathy to extraordinary generosity

Either way, people decide for themselves early on what their own deal breakers are, and, typically, we select partners accordingly. But these conspicuous similarities are not match makers. They may bring us together, but they don’t necessarily make us happy.