Psychology Facts

23/09/2024

The Two Faces of Social Comparison

Social comparisons can steal your joy or inspire gratitude. There are evidence-based strategies to harness their power for personal growth.

03/03/2021

We are terrible at seeking evidence that challenges our own beliefs, but other people do us this favor, just as we are quite good at finding errors in other people's beliefs..

Jonathan Haidt- righteous mind - P 79

25/12/2020

Judge yourself by what you can accomplish not but what you don't have.

06/12/2020

... the ruling oligarchy can repeatedly blame all its failures on others, and divert attention to external threats -- either real or imagine.

Yuval Noah Harari - 21 Lessons for the 21st Century - P27

20/10/2020

"When faced with deficiencies... ignore your weaknesses and resist the temptation to be more like others"

Robert Greene- Mastery - p: 45

09/06/2020

Freedom essentially comes from adopting a generous spirit toward ourselves. By accepting people, by understanding and if possible even loving them for their human nature, we can liberate our minds from obsessive and petty emotions. We can stop reacting to everything people do and say. We can have some distance and stop ourselves from taking everything personally... when we feel generous toward people and ourselves.

Robert Greene - Law of Human Nature (Inspired by Anton Chekhov biography)

08/05/2020

Eric Blair AKA Goerge Orwell on confinement of the ignorant:

I have come to think that boredom is the worst of all trump's evils, worse than hunger and discomfort, worse than the constant feeling of being socially disgraced. It is a silly piece of cruelty to confine an ignorant man all the day with nothing to do; it is like chaining a dog in barrel. Only an educated man, who has consolations within himself, can endure confinement.

30/04/2020

‘’Joy’s soul lies in the doing’’

-Shakespeare-

18/04/2020

"Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."

Albert Einstein