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The self-consistency fallacy
Would you want to watch the same play with the same actors repeating the same lines over and over again, with just some small variations in their tone each time? You’d probably get bored pretty...
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Stop looking for The One: The Inverted Pyramid of Life
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” Adults often as this question when chatting with a kid. Maybe it’s because the answer is often endearing (an astronaut!) or surprising (a YouTuber!), or...
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You Don’t Need to Choose
“I’ve decided to take it easy at work this year and focus on myself.” I’ve recently been hearing variations of this sentence over and over again. Magazines are publishing stories about “the end of...
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Self-Anthropology: Become your own anthropologist with personal field notes
When was the last time you stopped to truly observe your own life? Turning an anthropological lens on yourself might feel strange, but it can lead to invaluable insights, allowing you to uncover...
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Some hard truths about soft skills
For generations, hard skills have been prioritized over soft skills. Today, engineering and computer science education still places a strong emphasis on building technical expertise through math,...
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While waiting for the Zoom call to start, I took a few deep breaths. In a few minutes, I would get to interview one of my role models; someone who had changed millions of lives through his writing,...
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The Science of Learning to Let Go
Whether it’s quitting a job, breaking up with someone, or leaving behind a place, we all have at one point or another to learn the difficult art of letting go. Unfortunately, learning to let go is...
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Curiosity Attractors: The Diffuse Obsessions that Shape our Lives
We all have those recurring fascinations we just can’t seem to shake. You know the ones — those diffuse obsessions and latent creative projects that linger in the back of your mind, calling to you...
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The Curiosity Matrix: 9 Habits of Curious Minds
All healthy human babies and young children display curiosity, suggesting this is an innate human trait. Exploring our environment and babbling questions appear almost universal in early childhood...
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Rediscovering Ikigai: What We Got Wrong and How to Find Meaning in Life
I lived in Japan for seven months when I was younger. For all of the challenges I faced there as a woman and a foreigner, I still learned a lot from Japanese culture. Because Japan experienced a long...
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