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Category Archives: Psychology
‘I Don’t Have The Bandwidth To Deal With Anne’
“I don’t have the bandwidth” for certain people is a wise approach. How can you reduce the amount of bandwidth people need to navigate me? Grok says: Reducing the “bandwidth” others need to navigate you involves making interactions smoother, clearer, … Continue reading
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Smart people ‘especially prone to tribalism, virtue signaling and self-deception’
Musa Al-Gharbi writes: We pay attention to, easily recall, and feel positive emotions towards things we deem interesting or useful. We dismiss, downplay, dump, and have negative emotional reactions to information that is threatening to our objectives or our self-image, … Continue reading
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Decoding The News (8-25-24)
01:00 Hate Comments About Gus Walz, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15713114:00 Tucker Carlson – The FULL Interview, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H1tjQ-RaZU15:30 What’s going on with Ken Brown aka Deep Left Jokl? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aALp15nKpUI26:00 Kamala Harris, LBJ & The Passage Of Power, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15714334:30 How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy: … Continue reading
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5 Reasons Why People DON’T Understand You
Much of my life I have felt misunderstood. These have not been periods of my life when I felt on the right track. For me, feeling misunderstood correlates with losing at life. The following explanations ring true. They match my … Continue reading
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If you hurt yourself, others will hurt you
Shakti Gawain wrote: If you judge and criticize yourself, other will judge and criticize you. If you hurt yourself, others will hurt you. If you lie to yourself, others will lie to you. If you are irresponsible to yourself, others … Continue reading
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The Art of Living Consciously: The Power of Awareness to Transform Everyday Life
Nathaniel Branden wrote: In my early forties, I decided I wanted to experience a form of body therapy known as structural integration (or, more popularly, “Rolfing,” after the originator of the method, Ida Rolf). This process involves deep massage and … Continue reading
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Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change (2011)
Here are some highlights from this 2011 book: * Police officers Gary Felice and Prince Jones were the first to respond to a house fire on De Leon Street in Tampa, Florida. When they arrived, they heard what every emergency … Continue reading
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Jewish Conversion And Assimilation (1-19-23)
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Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking
Jon Acuff writes in this 2021 book: * Roy F. Baumeister, Rozin’s collaborator, explained why in his book The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It : “There is no opposite of … Continue reading
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The Cynical Genius Illusion: Exploring and Debunking Lay Beliefs About Cynicism and Competence
From this 2019 paper: * Cross-cultural analyses showed that competent individuals held contingent attitudes and endorsed cynicism only if it was warranted in a given sociocultural environment. Less competent individuals embraced cynicism unconditionally, suggesting that—at low levels of competence—holding a … Continue reading
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