In the beginning was the conclusion
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I wrote recently about Daniel Kahneman’s delineation of System One (automatic) and System Two (deliberative) thinking.
Fika Friday #20
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“Greater than the sum of its parts” by Rachel Naomi Remen
A temporary condition
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The wisdom traditions all talk about impermanence.
Paralympics
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Informed by his own disabilities (from birth and mid-life) …
Myth and reality
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Storyteller Kevin Kling says that, when he turns something into a story, it doesn’t control him anymore.
Growing from and toward
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The storyteller Kevin Kling notes that, when we are born with a loss …
Empirical thinking
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The large and powerful run a greater risk of presuming their own indispensability.
The hood
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In his memoir Born a Crime, Trevor Noah reflects on the nature of “the hood.”
Setting the bar
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A therapist friend of mine has a number of outstanding clients right now …
The availability heuristic
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The availability heuristic recognizes our tendency to think that what we see is all there is.