The recent fuss over our oversharing culture and over the possible loss of privacy is just noisy ignorance. As a citizen of the Internet, you obfuscate the truth of your character. You hide your fears...
THE MISCONCEPTION:
THE MISCONCEPTION: People who are losing at the game of life must have done something to deserve it. THE TRUTH: The beneficiaries of good fortune often do nothing to earn it, and bad people often get...
Any extended period of negative emotions can lead to you giving in to despair and accepting your fate. If you remain alone for a long time, you will decide loneliness is a fact of life and pass up opp...
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[If you hear a] story about how eating sausage leads to anal cancer, you will be skeptical, because it has never happened to anyone you know, and sausage, after all, is delicious.
Kids who were able to overcome their desire for short-term reward in favor of a better outcome later weren’t smarter than the other kids, nor were they less gluttonous. They just had a better grasp of...
You see people who speak slowly as being less intelligent—slow.
The restaurant employees hoaxed by Officer Scott would later say this was what happened to them.
Son otuz yıldır yapılan çalışmalara göre, hepimizin kendimizi iş arkadaşlarımızdan daha becerikli, arkadaşlarımızdan daha ahlaklı, sokaktaki insanlardan daha dost canlısı, tanıdıklarımızdan daha zeki,...
Remember, your capacity to fool yourself is greater than the abilities of any conjurer, and conjurers come in many guises. You are a creature impelled to hope. As you attempt to make sense of the worl...
If you think catharsis is good, you are more likely to seek it out when you get pissed.
If you fail to believe you will procrastinate or become idealustic about how awesome you are at working hard and managing your time, you never develop a strategy for outmaneuvering your own weakness.
When you fear you will confirm a negative stereotype, it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy not because the stereotype is true, but because you can't stop worrying that you could become an example...
When you are making plans, your better angels point to the nourishing choices, but in the moment you go for what tastes good.
So the next time you are in a group of people trying to reach consensus, be the asshole. Every group needs one, and it might as well be you.
Failing often is the only way to ever get the things you want out of life.
As psychologist Bruce Hood writes in his book The Self Illusion, you have an origin story and a sense that you’ve traveled from youth to now along a linear path, with ups and downs that ultimately mad...
A long day of dealing with bullshit often leads to an evening of no-decision television ...
You don’t believe you are an average person, but you do believe everyone else is. This tendency, which springs from self-serving bias, is called the illusory superiority effect.