Exposure to nature might help to reduce a psychological characteristic underlying authoritarianism
People who feel more connected to nature also tend to hold more egalitarian views, according to new research published in the journal Environment and Behavior. The study provides some preliminary…
Sunday Firesides: Become an Evangelist . . . for Faith in Humanity
Source Maybe you’re the religious type. Maybe you’re not. Either way, you should consider accepting a special commission: becoming an evangelist . . . for faith in humanity. It is…
Two brutal tests — can you pass them?
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/09/two-brutal-tests-can-you-pass-them.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=two-brutal-tests-can-you-pass-them We all give people “tests” when we meet them, whether we are consciously aware of it or not. Here are two of mine: 1. The chess test. When I…
真正厲害的人，都做到了狠、準、穩
http://www.thevalue101.com/article.php?id=89341 人一到群體中，智商就嚴重降低，為了獲得認同感，個體願意拋棄是非，用智商去換取那份讓人倍感安全的歸屬感。 這是《烏合之眾》中講到的一個觀點，大意是很多人為了隨大流，而主動放棄了個人的觀點，這看起來是把自己融入了另一個環境中，貌似是合群的表現。 但實際上並非如此，或者說看起來的合群只是表面上的和諧，如果一個人為了能獲得群體的好感，而放棄了個人的堅守和態度，不僅不是優秀，反而是軟弱的表現。 無獨有偶，在哈叔的《認知進化》中也提到了思維認知對個體的影響力，他指出一個人不合群的人，才會更優秀，因為他沒有時間去融入無用的圈子，反而把時間都用在了狠、準、穩來成長和打磨自己身上，這樣這些不合群的人就會越來越優秀。
The Last Dance with My Dad
Source Emily Ziff Griffin at The New Yorker: February, 1991. The first night on the ship, I wore a cobalt velvet jacket with a shawl collar, stonewashed jeans, and a…
The sound of silence…
Sylvia Furrer The “Trockener Steg” above Zermatt (Valais) is situated at around 3000 metres and always fascinates me with its archaic landscape of snow-covered mountains, glaciers, rocks and lakes.Worlds merge…
Moments of Magic
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