The Marginalian
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Reads tagged with “psychology”

The Science of Waiting and the Art of Delay
The Science of Waiting and the Art of Delay

Exploring the intersection of time and decision-making to shine a light on what it means to be human.

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Learned Optimism: Martin Seligman on Happiness, Depression, and the Meaningful Life
Learned Optimism: Martin Seligman on Happiness, Depression, and the Meaningful Life

What 25 years of research reveal about the cognitive skills of happiness and finding life’s greater purpose.

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Susan Sontag on Censorship and the Three Steps to Refuting Any Argument
Susan Sontag on Censorship and the Three Steps to Refuting Any Argument

“A just/ discriminating censorship is impossible.”

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Why Writers Write: George Orwell on the Four Universal Motives for Creative Work
Why Writers Write: George Orwell on the Four Universal Motives for Creative Work

“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery.”

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Sartre on Why “Being-in-the-World-Ness” is the Key to the Imagination
Sartre on Why “Being-in-the-World-Ness” is the Key to the Imagination

On the figure-ground relationship between the real and the irreal.

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Creative Legend George Lois on Ideas as the Product of Discovery, Not Creation
Creative Legend George Lois on Ideas as the Product of Discovery, Not Creation

How to cultivate the mental medley that sparks the alchemy of ideas.

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Nora Ephron on Women, Love, Happiness, Reading, Life, and Death
Nora Ephron on Women, Love, Happiness, Reading, Life, and Death

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”

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Limbic Revision and How Love Rewires the Brain
Limbic Revision and How Love Rewires the Brain

“Who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love.”

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Against Positive Thinking: Uncertainty as the Secret of Happiness
Against Positive Thinking: Uncertainty as the Secret of Happiness

Exploring the “negative path” to well-being.

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5 Things Every Presenter Should Know About People, Animated
5 Things Every Presenter Should Know About People, Animated

How to master the art of moving words that move people.

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