“The Scientist’s clear mind sees a foggy world, full of complexity and nuance and messiness, the Zealot’s foggy mind shows them a clear, simple world, full of crisp lines and black-and-white distinctions.” WorldMindSimplePerspectiveEyesBlack And WhiteWorldviewNuance Book:What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies Source: What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies
“Purpose in general is for me to do something I have fun in doing. I want to be excited to wake up. I want to be excited to do my work. I want to feel like I'm playing when I'm doing my work. I'm very curious so I want to feel like a constant learner. I like having great conversations with interesting people [...]; I love creating; artistically creating; and it allows me to continually stay in excitable mode.” JobsPurposeWorkCareerJob SeekingWhich Way To GoWork LifeWhich WayYcombinator Author:Tim Urban
“...we’re a species that isn’t great at truth. We’re built to believe convenient delusions, not to be accurate.” ReasonTruthHumanitySocietyLogicDelusions Author:Tim Urban
“Selective kindness isn’t high-mindedness. The Higher Mind exhibits these traits all the time. He’s high-minded universally, as a general principle, and applies it to everyone equally. Selective kindness is a Primitive Mind trick that appears to be high-mindedness, if you’re not paying close enough attention. Remember, at first glance, ants seemed like nice people too. That’s why the litmus test of anyone’s true colors—the revealer of which mind is running the show in their head—is how they treat people outside their tribe. Both the Higher Mind and Primitive Mind tend to treat fellow tribesmen with kindness, so that tells you nothing—it’s when dealing with Them that the two minds diverge.” PoliticsSocietyHuman Behavior Book:The Story of Us Source: The Story of Us
“It’s when we feel too good that we run the risk of becoming overconfident, intellectually complacent, and set in our ways. It’s exactly when we think we have life all figured out that we end up losing our way.” ConfidenceIntellectCareer Book:How to Pick a Career Source: How to Pick a Career