The Uncomfortable Reason You Keep Self-Sabotaging: 6 Secrets From Philosophy’s Most Honest Madman
y do we so frequently self-sabotage? The usual answers can’t be accurate. We're far too good at it for that. Too consistent. Some part of us must be quietly invested in staying stuck. But nobody will say that to our faces. Aaaaaaactually, come to think of it, I know a guy who would… If you saw Slavoj Žižek shuffling through an airport, muttering about ideology and wiping his nose, you wouldn’t say, “There goes someone with practical advice for living.”…
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How To Handle Conflict: 7 Secrets From History’s Master Strategist
rk conflict. Relationship conflict. Family conflict. Conflict is everywhere and I’ll be honest with you: I’m kinda tired of it. So what are we gonna do? Well, today we’re gonna get some help from what may seem like an unlikely source: Carl von Clausewitz. Yeah, the dead war guy. The 19th-century Prussian strategist who spent his time thinking about armies and violence, which sounds like it has nothing to do with you, a person whose most frequent combat scenarios involve…
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4 Secrets to Smarter Thinking
2005, Philip Tetlock did a study, “Expert Political Judgment”, where he basically asked, “Hey, what if we tested whether all these Very Important Experts™ were any good at predicting the future?” Surprise: they weren’t. He collected over 28,000 forecasts made by 284 political analysts, economists, foreign policy bigwigs, and all the usual loud-talking necktie people. What Tetlock found (and I’m condensing 20 years of depressing data here) is that the average talking head was terrible at predicting real-world outcomes.…
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This Is The Simplest Way To Make Your Life Awesome
love freedom. And so it is with a heavy heart and a full awareness that I am committing a kind of cultural treason that I report the following: Freedom is ruining everything. Not political freedom. Political freedom is wonderful. I am, and have always been, in favor of people being allowed to say what they think, go where they please, and make their own terrible decisions about diet, recreation, and spouse selection without interference from the government. What I'm…
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How To Deal With Difficult People At Work: 4 Secrets From Experts
ch workday we march into battle against the most fearsome foe imaginable: other people’s personalities. Every office contains exactly two types of people: People trying to do their jobs People bent on making #1 impossible. Most are low-level annoyances. There’s the Devout Scheduler who sets meetings the way Victorian doctors prescribed opium: generously, for every ailment, and with utter disregard for long-term consequences. We also have Beelzebub’s Barrister, that guy who always says, “I’m just playing devil’s advocate.” And then…
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New Neuroscience Reveals 5 Secrets That Will Make You Smarter
is real, folks. It’s a number that tells you how good someone is at puzzle-solving, logical reasoning, and making you feel inadequate at dinner parties. But here’s the rub: IQ isn’t everything. Greater education and intelligence don't necessarily lift you up; sometimes they just provide better tools for digging trenches. Check this out: “Intelligent and educated people are less likely to learn from their mistakes, for instance, or take advice from others. And when they do err, they are…
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This Is How To Deal With Negative Thoughts: 6 Secrets From Research
the theater of the mind, unwanted thoughts are the hecklers in the back row, throwing popcorn at the screen of your consciousness. Your brain, that squishy blob sitting in its dark skull-room is like those old jukeboxes in dive bars that play the same three songs on a loop. Except instead of "Don't Stop Believin'," it's "What if everyone's secretly laughing at you?" We’ve all had intrusive thoughts at one time or another: impostor syndrome, embarrassing memories, fears, anxieties,…
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This Is The Newest, Biggest Thing That Will Make Your Life Easier
until very recently, most of our experiences with AI boiled down to shouting "ALEXA, STOP!" AI means “artificial intelligence”? More like “Awkwardly Inept”, if you ask me. But things have changed... Enter ChatGPT, strutting onto the scene like a rock star. Suddenly, AI wasn't just a voice in a box that occasionally understood your mumblings; it was like having a chat with someone who'd actually read a book. Or, you know, all of them. How well could a cold,…
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