Psychology
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At twenty I thought independence meant needing no one, at thirty it means choosing carefully who I let need…
Leaning was for people who could not stand on their own.
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Psychology
What’s really driving the way people speak, react, and respond.
Psychology
Thought by Carl Jung: “The persona is a complicated system of relations between…
The tension is that we've turned the mask into a moral failing without asking what we'd lose if we stopped wearing it.
Psychology
Thought of the day from Carl Jung: the things that irritate us about other people can…
The line, in full, is this: "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Psychology
The reason some people apologize before they even speak isn’t low confidence —…
You have met this person, and there is a decent chance this person is you.
Psychology
The reason long marriages go quiet isn’t that love faded — it’s that two…
There is the silence of an empty room, and there is the silence of a room so lived-in and familiar that no one needs to narrate it.
Psychology
Research on influence shows that expert opinion is most likely to be ignored precisely…
The Direct Message: When the decision feels too consequential to get wrong, the mind produces exactly the confidence needed to get it wrong.
Psychology
The reason we feel guilty resting isn’t laziness — it’s that somewhere…
The social psychologist Devon Price calls the belief underneath it the Laziness Lie.
Psychology
The reason retired men often go quiet isn’t contentment — it’s that no one…
Here is a statistic that reframes a lot of quiet retired men.
Psychology
A nurse told me my scheduled surgery would be routine, and I realized routine is a word…
I am writing this in the last stretch of a pregnancy, with a delivery already on the calendar — a date circled, a time to arrive, a plan.
Psychology
NASA’s acting administrator called it ‘the closest we have ever come to…
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