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Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert
youtube.comIn the comments section of my kindergarten report card I’d been described as impulsive, possessive, and demanding. These are classic chimp traits and I’ve worked hard over the years to eradicate them. I felt that Harlow was maybe demonstrating the same tendencies without the same commitment to reform.
Karen Joy Fowler • We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
This is one of the most surprising things I learned as I began to study neuroscience: a mental event, such as fear, is not created by only one set of neurons. Instead, combinations of different neurons can create instances of fear. Neuroscientists call this principle degeneracy. Degeneracy means “many to one”: many combinations of neurons can produ
... See moreLisa Feldman Barrett • How Emotions Are Made
Simply put, it takes a really smart person to be maximally destructive, because otherwise nobody else will listen to him.
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Tribal affiliation turns off more brain cells than any other activity
Tim Ferriss • Legendary Investor Bill Gurley on Investing Rules, Finding Outliers, Insights from Jeff Bezos and Howard Marks, Must-Read Books, Creating True Competitive Advantages, Open-Source Strategies, Adapting Mental Models to New Realities, and More (#651) - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
The insatiable goals to acquire more, succeed conspicuously, and be as attractive as possible lead us to objectify one another, and even ourselves. When people see themselves as little more than their attractive bodies, jobs, or bank accounts, it brings great suffering…You become a heartless taskmaster to yourself, seeing yourself as nothing more
... See moreArthur C. Brooks • The Satisfaction Trap
👩🔬 Exploring Tools for Nervous System Regulation with Emotional Expression with Satori Clarke 👩🔬
youtube.comSource: Carlo Cipolla, The Basic Law of Human Stupidity