Big part of thinking well is paying attention to your expectations (tracking when your believes falsify). That’s why the practice of being attentive when you are surprise feels so productive.
Inaccessible stranger vs. known approachable person. When people know more about others, they think others know more about them. When participants learned about a stranger, they felt as if the stranger also knew them better, and they acted as if the stranger was more attuned to their actions. As a result participants were more honest around known strangers. Our sense of depends not only on what people know about us but also on what we know about them.
1% of the richest owns weird businesses like auto dealerships. 75% earns a lot of money by owning a business and only 25% by earning wages. If you earn 75k a year only doubling the earnings will move you higher on the list.
Happiness: nature, body of water, sex, marriage/partnership, NYC the least happy, High: Flagstaff, Hawaii
Ought statement can never be derived from is statement.
When you write you complete your ideas. If you don’t write at all you don’t even realize you have incomplete ideas. You have an illusion that all of your ideas are complete. Tags:
People with different political parties identities are three times less likely to follow each other on Twitter. Based on study with bots with the identical content but different political affiliations.
Believing truths and avoiding falsehoods are incompatible processes. First is believing things even though you never can be certain. Second is suspending judgment. Callard believes the Socratic method is the best way out of this. Do it like in the court room, where prosecution and defense role is to make the best effort to present cases for innocence and guilty.
It’s interesting that styles of for example ceramics changes every like hundred years (flowing trends just alike today) – Michał archeolog doing ground work on Mayan civilzation in Guatemala
Madison studied failed democracies of the past to create a more resilient model of US democracy. Today, USA is ultra polarized and social media feeds us information that we already agree with. Madison worked on amending cooling and anti-mob mechanisms into the constitution. However they were dismantled over time enabling current state of democracy.