This Mars in Cancer, I want you to take responsibility for your emotions. Not in the sense of "You better manage your feelings or else you might be punished!" but in the sense of "You might find or fight for the time, space, and esteem that you need to find the place where your responses matter."
Self-Distancing: What It Is and How You Can Use It to Make Better Decisions – Effectiviology
It’s hard to set your emotions aside when you’re faced with a difficult decision. This is problematic, since our emotions often cause us to make the wrong decision in important areas of life, including in our relationships, our finances, and our health.
The Secret to Emotional Freedom? Feel Everything
Why major life decisions should be approached with ‘epistemic humility’ | Psyche Videos
At a crossroads in life? No matter how much you deliberate, one unknowable remains: the person you will be on the other side
Refusing to Be the Victim – How to Adopt a “Player” Mindset at Work
You can’t expect others to fix your problems. When you take responsibility for making the best of any situation, you have the power to make things better.
Opinion | To Make the World Better, Think Small (Published 2016)
It is easy to become numb to suffering. Feeling empathy for individual victims can overcome the numbness.
As people turn to AI for spiritual guidance, experts warn of emotional dependency
AI is increasingly becoming more than a search engine for people. It can be a source of guidance on relationships, morality, grief, spirituality and the meaning of life. That shift is at the center of a new report.
Taming the Mammoth: Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People Think
We all care way too much what other people think of us. Here's why.
TBM 405: Hope, Context, and Control
This essay is about hope, fear, AI, and the tension between control and collective sensemaking.
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Conversations about sentience and emotions in #AI systems always remind me of Lisa Feldman Barrett’s wonderful book “How Emotions are Made”🧵https://t.co/uF2onQHwwz— Raf (@RafMBatista) August 30, 2026
The Highly Sensitive Person
The Highly Sensitive Person: Books, Information, Self-tests, Events and Research
Alice GG • Attention is all you have
The Tetris effect is one of psychology’s most easy to reproduce experiments.Simply spend a bit of time playing the eponymous game every day for a few weeks.A...
Radical Respect: How to Work Together Better by Kim Scott
What moves us in the wrong direction? Kim Scott offers a "toxonomy" that breaks down a problem th...
The empathy paradox
There’s an image of empathy we all know that is beautiful: the fullness of completely understanding someone else, the symbolic walk in shoes that are not one’s own. The knowledge that someone else can share a pain so acute that would otherwise seem unbearably solitary. It’s an image inherent to empathy’s definition, an image many believe in wholeheartedly. Several studies conducted by Stanford researchers alone suggest people are motivated to feel empathy, that empathy is highly associated with social desirability, that it is as beneficial as it is admired.
Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Malone Scott
From the time we learn to speak, we’re told that if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t sa...
"I can’t help but view Community and the State as two sides of the same coin: Apparitions of the mind construed in a desperate attempt to eliminate violence with the assumption that conflict can be controlled. -
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