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Literacy changes people’s biology and psychology without altering the underlying genetic code. A society in which 95 percent of adults are highly literate would have, on average, thicker corpus callosa and worse facial recognition than a society in which only 5 percent of people are highly literate. These biological differences between populations ... See more

Joseph Henrich • The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

The basis for any predictions would be represented by biological, psychological or sociological conditions. Yet one of the main features of human existence is the capacity to rise above such conditions, to grow beyond them. Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.

Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning

Psychology

Roman • 2 cards

Jung understood that the psyche isn't a mechanism that can be dismantled and studied piece by piece. It's a living reality that responds to being observed, that shifts and transforms under examination, that contains paradoxes and contradictions that defy statistical capture.

Laura London • In Defense of Carl Jung: Beyond Scientific Dogma

Profound Knowledge: a theory of psychology.

John Willis • Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future

Your body does everything it can to stay alive. When your life is threatened, it reacts — strongly. Fear and panic seize you. Fight, flee or freeze — the basic survival tactics take over. Even when you face other kinds of death — the end of a relationship or the loss of your job — the same mechanisms run. You are conditioned to live, biologically a

Ken I. McLeod • Reflections on Silver River

Our Inner Ape

Frans de Waal

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Noel Zapata • 1 card