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Andy Rutledge: Creativity is not design. Creativity is bound by no laws, rules, or strictures... Design, on the other hand, is based entirely on math, psychology, human perception, and a host of rigid rules and laws that can be broken by only a highly skilled few.
Cognitive Dissonance: Stop Lying to Yourself - Uncommon Knowledge
"Interestingly, self justifications don't always have to put us in a positive light - just a consistent one. People with low self-esteem will be uncomfortable with evidence that puts them in a better light, and therefore cling to low self-evaluations by explaining away their successes. "
Depression's Evolutionary Roots: Scientific American
Two scientists suggest that depression is not a malfunction, but a mental adaptation that brings certain cognitive advantages
INTJ - Introverted Intuition with Thinking
Unfortunately, seemingly ambitious plans may go unfulfilled if the INTJ falls into the trap of being seduced by the intellectual accomplishment of the plan without ever getting to the actual hands-on accomplishment. Such a dilemma sets them up for self-criticism, which leads, in turn, to frustration and depression.
What Makes Us Happy? - The Atlantic (June 2009)
Is there a formula—some mix of love, work, and psychological adaptation—for a good life? For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have been examining this question, following 268 men who entered college in the late 1930s through war, career, marriage and divorce, parenthood and grandparenthood, and old age. Here, for the first time, a journalist gains access to the archive of one of the most comprehensive longitudinal studies in history. Its contents, as much literature as science, offer profound insight into the human condition—and into the brilliant, complex mind of the study’s longtime director, George Vaillant.
Carl Jung - Stages of Life
Something in us wishes to remain a child, to be unconscious or, at most, conscious only of the ego; to reject everything strange, or else subject it to our will; to do nothing, or else indulge our own craving for pleasure or power.\n\nThe nearer we approach to the middle of life, and the better we have succeeded in entrenching ourselves in our personal attitudes and social positions, the more it appears as if we had discovered the right course and the right ideals and principles of behaviour. For this reason we suppose them to be eternally valid, and make a virtue of unchangeably clinging to them.
If the cap fits, then obviously the local weirdo did it | Rod Liddle - Times Online
The Metropolitan police adopted a tried and trusted modus operandi when investigating the murder of Rachel Nickell: arrest the local weirdo and then stitch him up.
Mobbing and the Virginia Tech Massacre
The main reason for the inadequacies of the Massengill Report, and for simplistic attribution of Cho’s rampage to his allegedly evil character, is the human craving for scapegoats. The heaping of all blame for the troubles in a group on one or a few individuals, lets everybody else off the hook. Demonization and eventual elimination of the scapegoat symbolically cleanses the group as a whole, and strengthens the members’ solidarity with one another.
The Truth about the VT Shooting
In 2005, the English department at VT had targeted another student, Joe Newbury, reached a consensus that he was dangerous, and turned him over to campus police and mental-health authorities. The similarities between Newbury’s case and Cho’s are startling. This is his account.
How to Run a Con | Psychology Today Blogs
The key to a con is not that you trust the conman, but that he shows he trusts you. Conmen ply their trade by appearing fragile or needing help, by seeming vulnerable. Because of THOMAS (The Human Oxytocin Mediated Attachment System), the human brain makes us feel good when we help others--this is the basis for attachment to family and friends and cooperation with strangers. "I need your help" is a potent stimulus for action.
Two logical fallacies that we must avoid | Psychology Today Blogs
It is not possible to make either the naturalistic or the moralistic fallacy if scientists never talk about ought. Scientists – real scientists – do not draw moral conclusions and implications from the empirical observations they make, and they are not guided in their observations by moral and political principles. Real scientists only care about what is, and do not at all care about what ought to be.
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