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Rational Decisions Crave Emotions

30 Jan 2020 1 minute read 2 comments ReviewAndAnalysisChris

A billionaire tech investor, Yuri Milner, accompanied his daughter for an ice-cream at Tin Pot Creamery in Los Altos, California. Yours truly happened to be inside. The daughter got two flavors. The lady at the counter asked which scoop she'd like at...

7 Crucial Lessons People Often Learn Too Late in Life

29 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Dastan

1. If you want to "do what you love" you have to work three times as hard as anyone else.  2. Beneath anger is always fear.  3. Our everyday habits form our future selves 4. Your emotions take practice. You can practice humility, self awareness, as w...

7 Habits that Seem Lazy (but Actually Let You Get More Done)

27 Jan 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Dastan

Consider the person who stays late at the office every night, to show everyone what a “team player” he is. Except, this causes him to sleep less which makes him sluggish. He misses time spent with colleagues, who would have recommended him for projec...

E-Prime and the Structural Differential (General Semantics) [Useful conceptual heuristics and critical thinking devices series]

17 Jan 2020 8 minute read 0 comments rhyzom

This is from my series/collection of useful conceptual heuristics and tools for thinking (previously was a post giving a quick description of the Cynefin framework). This one concerns the perception and approaching of meaning (semantics), something t...

10 Mind Tricks to Master Self Discipline

15 Jan 2020 3 minute read 0 comments Dastan

1. Consistent Timing Set aside specific time constraints for one given activity. E.g. showering from 8-8:15. If you do this every day your brain and body will get accustomed to it and crave showering every time 8h comes around. Why? Because our brain...

Tomorrow

10 Jan 2020 4 minute read 2 comments acesontop

My back problems "have finally come to an end", because today I got the results from the magnetic resonance imaging that I went through on Monday, and although my spine and back is not perfect, we're not talking about a herniated disc though, accordi...

(UPDATED) The Results: Social Experiment - How much do you tip the authors on Publish0x?

6 Jan 2020 1 minute read 2 comments wonderman

  For those of you that haven't seen the original post explaining this "public experiment", please see here: https://www.publish0x.com/social-experiments/social-experiment-1-question-survey-how-much-do-you-tip-auth-xwylxv   I was just looking back at...

The Bartle test of gamer psychology and the Big 5 personality traits

6 Jan 2020 2 minute read 1 comment Scandum

The 2 dimensional Bartle test is one of the oldest online tests in existence, and recently a 3 dimensional Bartle test has become available, you can take it here if you're interested: The 3-D Bartle Test of Gamer Psychology It was forty years ago tha...

The Master and the Disciple (parable )🙇

4 Jan 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Soyunasantacruz

The master and the disciple   origen   This was a disciple who wanted to be the best, the most dedicated, outstanding, and enlightened of all his group. He dreamed of winning over his master whom he admired so much, and one day he sat down in front o...

Overcoming Egoic States of Consciousness (Part 2)

4 Jan 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Robert Stephens

We must develop a rigorous understanding of Ego and one’s True Self who, deep down inside is naturally blessed with the ability of looking after his/her own nature. The Trappist contemplative and writer, Thomas Merton describes the ego as our “spirit...