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Reads tagged with “psychology”

Henry Miller on Writing and Life
Henry Miller on Writing and Life

“Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery.”

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Emotional Anatomy: Stunning Vintage Illustrations of Somatic Consciousness
Emotional Anatomy: Stunning Vintage Illustrations of Somatic Consciousness

Dissecting the pulsating accordion of existence.

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Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories and Why Uncertainty Is the Crucible of Creativity
Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories and Why Uncertainty Is the Crucible of Creativity

“The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.”

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The Daily Routines of Great Writers
The Daily Routines of Great Writers

“A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.”

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Eleanor Roosevelt on Happiness, Conformity, and Integrity
Eleanor Roosevelt on Happiness, Conformity, and Integrity

“When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.”

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Stendhal on the Seven Stages of Romance and Why We Fall Out of Love: Timeless Wisdom from 1822
Stendhal on the Seven Stages of Romance and Why We Fall Out of Love: Timeless Wisdom from 1822

“To love is to enjoy seeing, touching, and sensing with all the senses, as closely as possible, a lovable object which loves in return.”

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The Science of Your Brain on Alcohol, Animated
The Science of Your Brain on Alcohol, Animated

How your GABA receptors keep you gabbing while tipsy.

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Fiona Apple’s Stirring Handwritten Letter About Her Dying Dog
Fiona Apple’s Stirring Handwritten Letter About Her Dying Dog

“I wish we could also appreciate the time that lies right beside the end of time.”

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Geometrical Psychology: Mathematical Models of Consciousness by the 19th-Century Psychologist Benjamin Betts
Geometrical Psychology: Mathematical Models of Consciousness by the 19th-Century Psychologist Benjamin Betts

“Imagination receives the stream of Consciousness, and holds apart and compares the different experiences.”

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Are We Nearing the Maximum Capacity of the Human Brain?
Are We Nearing the Maximum Capacity of the Human Brain?

How “the cleverest organ in the known universe could suddenly become one of the dumbest.”

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