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On the other hand, this facility with abstract thought, coupled with the ability to collect ideas from other fields and even other dimensions, also accounts for the fact that most of the seminal thinkers in every discipline do this survival pattern.
Steven Kessler • The 5 Personality Patterns: Your Guide to Understanding Yourself and Others and Developing Emotional Maturity
Human life is not a competition in which everyone places somewhere between one to eight billion. That’s because each person has different capacities, aims, relationships, projects and identities. These are all relevant to deciding what a good life is for them.
- NYT magazine, The Ethicist, Kwame Anthony Appiah
No, my worry is that, you won’t put enough really excellent stuff into your brain. I’m talking about what you might call the “theory of maximum taste.” This theory is based on the idea that exposure to genius has the power to expand your consciousness. If you spend a lot of time with genius, your mind will end up bigger and broader than if you spen
... See morePsychologists used to associate scientific work exclusively with focused attention, while other, more floating kinds of attention were exclusively associated with creative work like art. We know today that we need both kinds of attention for art and science. It is not surprising, therefore, that this flexibility can be found among most, if not all,
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Adams, William Lee. “The dark side of creativity: Depression + anxiety x madness = genius?” CNN. 2014.
Brianna Wiest • 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
psychology is biological but cannot be reduced to biochemistry or neurobiology without losing what is important.
Steven Hayes • A Liberated Mind: The essential guide to ACT
Sam Harriss • Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
