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Source: Carlo Cipolla, The Basic Law of Human Stupidity
Scott Galloway • The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Success
Patients in therapy all begin by protesting, “I want to be good.” If they cannot accomplish this, it is only because they are “inadequate,” can’t control themselves, are too anxious, or suffer from unconscious impulses. Being neurotic is being able to act badly without feeling responsible for what you do. The therapist must try to help the patient
... See moreThe lowest level of our personalities, which he calls “dispositional traits,” are the sorts of broad dimensions of personality that show themselves in many different situations and are fairly consistent from childhood through old age. These are traits such as threat sensitivity, novelty seeking, extraversion, and conscientiousness. These traits are
... See moreJonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
the connection between the amygdala and the PFC explains much of the individual differences in emotional regulation.
Steve Magness • Do Hard Things
Stereotypes matter because even so-called positive stereotypes limit us by falsely altering behavior.
Valerie Young • The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women: Why Capable People Suffer from the Impostor Syndrome and How to Thrive in Spite of It
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Dan Ariely • Dollars and Sense
California Institute of Technology’s John Hopfield
Howard Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
Antonio Damasio, a neuroscientist at the University of Southern California, has found that the absence of emotion—the actual clinical inability to experience emotion caused by lesions to an area of the brain called the VMPFC, the ventromedial prefrontal cortex—can cause people to go broke on a gambling task.
Maria Konnikova • The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
In his great work The Characters, Theophrastus sketched thirty types—from the penurious and the garrulous to the flatterer and the shamelessly greedy—and illustrated his character portraits with an astonishing level of detail.