Anything proscriptive: meditation, humming...
From the Mixed-Up Files of Ms. Amanda J. Sternweiler
Concepts
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How I Stopped Being Myself Long Enough to Get Better
Maladaptive Responses & Behaviors
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Why Our Doubts Say More About the World Than About Us
The Victorian parlour game that became a cultural mirror.
Small Delights
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Teaching our minds manners and etiquette.
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You're not as self-aware as you think (and neither am I)
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Bluma Zeigarnik’s framework for designing focus and closure.
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The Hidden Document I Return to When I Come Undone
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Crib sheet for the road
Why Smart, Well-Meaning Citizens Still Fall for Dangerous Leaders
Solomon Asch and the unbearable pull of agreement.
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Our brains have hidden systems. Here's how to use them...
The Subtle Patterns That Predict Divorce—According to the Psychologist Who Can Foresee It with 93.6% Accuracy
How Alfred Adler’s Individual Psychology Explains the Modern Self
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Why this and not that?
In the space between thinking and feeling
Richard Feynman’s Timeless Strategy
A primer on what's left unsaid
What neuroscience and attachment theory teach us about the exhausting vigilance that keeps love at bay
What you avoid asking might be what you need to know most.
John Sarno and the History of Psychosomatic Illness
On Fawning, in Response to the New York Article about Neil Gaiman
Why Confidence is a Practice, Not a Trait
Why Direct Experience Transcends Academic Knowledge
