Tag: psychology
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Link: Try to Resist Misinterpreting the Marshmallow Test
If you’re poor in options in the present, you’re less likely to wait for long term profits. “Following this logic, multiple studies over the years have confirmed that people living in poverty or who experience chaotic futures tend to prefer the sure thing now over waiting for a larger reward that might never come.” Original…
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Link: From Pink Milk to Smart Questions, How to Be a Rebel Leader
“We underestimate how flattering it is to be asked for advice. By asking questions, we give others the opportunity to share their personal experience and wisdom, thus stroking their ego. Curiosity is a way of being rebellious in the world. Rebels fight their fears and are willing to push past the discomfort of showing others…
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Link: Nietzsche on Depression and the Rehabilitation of Hope
‘“The gray drizzle induced by depression,” William Styron wrote in his classic memoir of what depression is really like, “takes on the quality of physical pain.” In my own experience, the most withering aspect of depression is the way it erases, like physical illness does, the memory of wellness. The totality of the erasure sweeps…
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Link: Tolerating distraction
“The modern anxiety about distraction betrays a good deal about us. Insofar as we associate attention with power and control, it reflects our fears of losing both in an increasingly unpredictable cultural and natural climate. We also find ourselves living in an economy where we pay for cultural goods with our attention, so it makes…
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Link: How Culture Affects Depression
“[B]y virtue of prioritizing emotions and personal happiness, in contexts like the U.S., we are creating a discrepancy between how we feel and how we are supposed to feel… In western societies, we don’t see enough adaptive strategies like reappraisal: learning to tell yourself a different story that would eventually lead to different emotions.” Link…
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Can’t get enough of that computer in your pocket
Nomophobia (/’noʊ-moʊ-‘foʊ-biː-ə/; noh-moh-pho-bee-ah): Fear of being without one’s mobile phone. No-mobile-phobia, or nomophobia, is probably one of the great universals of the day. This newly minted word describes a real problem internationally, as we all grow ever more attached to the tiny devices that dominate our lives. The word appeared on both British and American…
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The little-known body language secrets
Even if folding your arms feels comfortable, resist the urge to do so if you want people to see you as open-minded and interested in what they have to say. That one’s the worst! I want to cross my arms all the time to relax but I know that with all the pop-psychology over the…
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The Psychology of Your Future Self and How Your Present Illusions Hinder Your Future Happiness
I wasn’t told this was an option: “we could be wearing paper hats and eating pistachio macaroons in the bathtub.” The Psychology of Your Future Self and How Your Present Illusions Hinder Your Future Happiness
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