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iii. Grief is key to our survival & the polycrisis
john silkey • 3 cards
Behavioral Psychology
Alec Olschner • 1 card
“My mother’s grief was primitive and all-encompassing: it sucked the oxygen out of the air,” Gornick wrote in that memoir.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology which found, ‘The importance of intellectual talent to achievement in all professional domains is well established, but less is known about the importance of resilience.
Ross Edgley • The Art of Resilience: Strategies for an Unbreakable Mind and Body
“The psyche’s job is to keep us blissfully ignorant of who we are, what we think, and how we’ll behave in any situation. We’re all operating in a dense fog of mutual reinforcement.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
On death and dying
Martin Black • 1 card
Most extraordinary, perhaps, was Gould’s ability to sustain reverses that would crush another man, then to pull himself off the floor and to carry on, learning more, working harder, never complaining, just looking for the next chance.
Charles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
Freud jotted down a few more sentences