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Mary Martin • 1 card
“Managed” Religion, which somehow needs to create co-dependency (“learned
helplessness”) among its members, preferred to emphasize “original sin” instead.
This has kept us united but disempowered in inferiority instead of empowered and
united by dignity—which is our only real future. The negative result, however, has
been the immense self doubt, guilt
contrast principle
Robert B. Cialdini • Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion
Implication-Based Learning (IBL). You've already been doing IBL your whole life, but you may not have had a distinction for it until now. IBL is the learning that takes place automatically when you're exposed to sensory data (like a human version of the machine-learning algorithms that are increasingly shaping our digital environment).
Jamie Smart • Results: Think Less. Achieve More
Simply becoming aware of the interpreter and the endless categories it creates through judgment frees you from being tied to the inevitability of these judgments. That is to say, when you become conscious of the interpreter, you are free to choose to no longer take its interpretations so seriously. In other words, when you realize that everyone's b
... See moreChris Niebauer • No Self, No Problem
Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

Conscious, System R thinking is rational, logical, and skeptical. It is constantly asking questions and seeking answers. It strives, often without much success, to control the words and actions initiated by System I. System R operates slowly and analytically. Its processing capacity is low, it makes considerable demands on memory, and it has a far
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