Concepts
things like limerence, cognitive distortion
The IQ Test Was Born With a Warning Attached. We Ignored It.
On Alfred Binet, the test he built to help the children we were failing, and the eugenicist who crossed the Atlantic to corrupt it
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+3
Rachel Carson on the Intelligence of Wonder
From the 1965 Reader's Digest book: How to Live with Life.
Concepts
+5
What Closeness Is Made Of: The 36 Questions That Lead to Love
Arthur & Elaine Aron set out to manufacture intimacy in a laboratory. Then their method went viral.
Concepts
+4
The Ceremony Is the Cure: What the Rest of the World Knows That We Don't
On the cultural wisdom of honoring what we have no words for
Concepts
+4
There’s a Name for the Texture of Being You
There is a layer of your experience so personal it defeats language entirely. Analytic Philosophy knows its name.
Concepts
+3
Ntozake Shange Refused to Pathologize Herself. Here's What She Did Instead.
On mental illness, artistic form, and who gets to decide what's real
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+3
Change Your Life Using Design Thinking From IDEO.
What happens when you stop trying to fix yourself—and start prototyping your life instead?
Concepts
+2
Octavia Butler's Method for Reaching Impossible Goals
The sci-fi legend's practice of writing from the future
Concepts
+4
The Most Important Parenting Question You've Never Been Asked
The well-meaning behavior that harms children
Concepts
+4
Why Trying to Feel Safe Never Works: Winnicott on the Fear of Breakdown
D.W. Winnicott's unsettling theory about the catastrophe you're still waiting for
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+7
The Secret Life of Coping: The Private Strategies of an Anxious Person
From the Mixed-Up Files of Ms. Amanda J. Sternweiler
Concepts
+3
The Self-Awareness Paradox: Why 95% of Us Are Wrong About Ourselves
You're not as self-aware as you think (and neither am I)
Concepts
+4
The Overlooked Observation That Keeps Us Coming Back
Bluma Zeigarnik’s framework for designing focus and closure.
Concepts
+5
