— Farnam Street
Category: Psychology
Don’t depend on people unless you understand their motivations and you are confident that your interests align with theirs
— Sam Zell
What a human being has to do, strange as it sounds, a human being has to be taught to see the world. We don’t actually see reality very clearly if we are just left to our own devices. We entertain all kinds of wishful thinking.
— David M. Whalen
One of the fantastic conceits of the internet era is that everyone’s opinions are valuable
— Michael Green
The key is to choose to look away from the meanings we have been layering onto stimuli. Stop your reflexive response with awareness…
— Beau Lotto in Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently. “… as one can do when one is able to see the cause of a reflex. Someone bumps into you on the street. Your first automatic response could be: What an asshole! That is “A.” But just stop. Don’t go to A. Go to not-A. Perhaps
You have to realize, your thoughts are not really your own thoughts. They percolate in from other places and from other people
— Robert Shiller “Some people are more impressionable than others. But everyone is a product of the experiences they’ve had, the people they’ve met, the people they’ve observed, the people they’ve read about, and the people around them at any given moment who are shaping their behaviors in good, bad, and ugly ways. That alone