Sublime

An inspiration engine for ideas

AllPeopleCollectionsArticlesAudioBooksFilesHighlightsImagesLinksNotesTextTweetsVideosSocial

confidence.

Kevin Dutton • The Wisdom of Psychopaths

we would need to focus more on how to alter the behavioral impact of our thoughts.

Steven Hayes • A Liberated Mind: The essential guide to ACT

The less we like ourselves, the more we appear in our own eyes as plausible targets for mockery and harm.

The School of Life • On Being Nice (The School of Life Library)

“fundamental attribution error.”

Keith Payne • The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Changes the Way We Think, Live and Die

We develop a personality made up of our primary selves that is, in effect, a defense against vulnerability.

Hal Stone Ph.D. • Embracing Our Selves: Voice Dialogue Manual

Optimal distinctiveness is the theory that layering multiple affiliations into one identity can be predicted both mathematically and intuitively; in essence, humans are always balancing the need for inclusion and the need for differentiation.

Joey DeBruin • Communities Aren’t Buckets -- They’re Clouds

If you are repeatedly deceived and exploited, you will cease to trust everyone you meet, and confine yourself to the handful of people that you trust most.

Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships

Remember, our lack of self-control is due to discounting the future—because we are not emotionally attached to it—and to our willpower’s failure to overcome the temptations of the present.

Dan Ariely • Dollars and Sense

Edward O. Wilson, “Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.”